Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, its characters or anything Disney. This chapter is by far the most shocking. The second would be when Nairbix's wife is reveled. In this chapter, the last item needed for the plan will be acquired and Scarlet Rose will finally show her true face. Once that happens, your thoughts will race as you think about who her mother is. The next chapter will finally show you what you've been waiting for, what Nairbix will do to Ansem and their past.
Enjoy and prepared to have your minds blown.
It was at last the third day, in time it would still have that name to remember how bravely those who took place in it fought. All eight of the Warriors of Light were present at Radiant Garden, along with the Restoration Committee and their Creations and the soldiers. And they all had one thing in common, they were afraid. Luckily, the evacuation was a success and no civilian was in this world.
The Creations were leading the front lines with the swordsmen in front with archers behind ready to fire with their bows aimed to the sky. All that could be heard throughout the world, was the wind blowing in everyone's ears. But, soon the faint sound of marching could be heard along with roaring and battle cries/chants.
"I don't know about you," Riku said to Sora at the Bailey with their armor on and their helmets off. "But I'm actually scared for some reason."
"The way I see it, we all are." Sora said in a slight shaky voice. "But we will not lose to these creeps, light will always win against darkness!" Sora shouted to all the those that could hear him. The troops found their courage after hearing this question, and they would give their answer on the battle field.
"Here they come." Kairi whispered as she stood next her seven friends. The first members of the enemy's army appeared to be suits of armor designed to resemble purple frightening jesters with pale scary smiling faces and assorted weapons. Behind them were tall, sand colored skinny monsters with long legs and long arms and fingers made out of armor, even the heads were tall and in the shape of a hexagon cylinder with their triangular mouths at the bottom. They had no weapons but they smelt like danger even from the far distance. There were even monsters in the sky, they were human sized, green muscular monsters with giant wings and long sharp horns.
There were thousands upon thousands of these beasts at the True Keyblade Master's command. But these were not the most frightening of Nairbix's forces, no there were also the much larger monsters, fortunately there weren't any more than one each.
One was a giant, white, muscular sabretooth tiger with large black horns. Another was a giant hooded grim reaper with flaming eyes and a massive scythe made of ice. Another was a giant centipede-like-skeleton riddled with blades and fangs on its body, with a long wide head and multiple eyes with so many more monsters and demons, it would take days to describe them all. And of course, there were also the 630 genetic experiments as well.
"This is going to be very painful, isn't it?" Sora asked his friends as he began to sweat in fear.
"Your friends are with you, Sora." Aqua declared as she and the others readied their weapons.
"If we go down in this battle, then we will have gone down together." Terra said staring at the enemy.
"Move into the town. Kill the soldiers, but leave the Restoration Committee and the Keyblade wielders alive." Scarlet Rose ordered General and Catastrophe, they then left to spread the word. "Vengeance will soon be ours. And soon this world will finally know the pain we have felt." She said to herself with a wicked deranged look in her eyes, just like her father's. She then looked to her sister who began to speak.
"We have come too far to stop. I really do hope that they will understand." Elsa said softly.
"I'm going to do it today, Elsa." Scarlet Rose said with determination. "I am going to take off my eye patch, and show them who I really am."
"If you do that, then nothing will be the same as it was. Dad gave you that eye patch to protect you from them, if show them your real face then they will hunt you down and end you!" She shouted to reason with her little sister, Scarlet Rose walked over to Elsa and hugged her tightly.
"I can't hide my face anymore, sissy. Not when you all have shown you own to them." Scarlet Rose whispered in Elsa's ear, she then turned to look at the town in disgust and summoned her Keyblade. With an angry look in her eye, she shouted one word that started the battle at the top of her lungs. "FORWARD!" And so the enemy's forces charged at the town.
Once they saw the monsters come at them, the Creations released their energy condensed arrows with each one striking the clowns, but they did not falter, stop or go down. The soldiers saw this and took a chance, they ran out to meet the Clowns and Limbs head on only to be swatted away by the Limb's long arms killing them as they made contact to the rocks and walls.
"Fire at will!" Riku commanded the Creation archers, they obeyed and sent a volley of arrows only to be as effective as last time. The Skeleton Centipede was now scurrying across the battle field and sliced the poor soldiers who were in its path with its blade like limbs.
"Charge!" Sora cried to the two front rows of the Creations, they then sped to the enemy with great speed and began to clash with the Clowns. Leon and Cloud were trying to fend off the giant white tiger as it showed no mercy in its strikes to the two swordsmen. Sora and the others had made their way to the living districts to take out the aerial forces with their shotlock attacks. Beneath their feet, Elsa and Scarlet Rose appeared from a vortex of rose petals, Sora then jumped down from the roofs with Donald and Goofy at his side with their three weapons out like old times.
"So, you came to die with the old fool and all of your little friends." Scarlet Rose said in a mad taunting voice.
"No, we came here to end your father's insanity." Sora declared. Scarlet Rose's smile only grew.
"Fear, this world is rank with its smell." She said softly inhaling the air as to smell it. Darkness then began to swirl around her, from her back two purple wings with sharp feathers shot out startling the trio, her finger nails then began to grow longer and sharper and turned black as night. Her teeth began to change into razor sharp fangs and a long this black tail with a tip as sharp as her other new features.
"Terrifying isn't it?" She asked as she stretched out her wings to loosen them up. "I can only take on this form after absorbing large amounts of fear, quite frankly I can't remember the last time I used it."
"I only have one question for you." Sora stated, "Where is Nairbix?"
"Trade secret." Scarlet Rose and Elsa in sing-song voices, they then rushed up with their weapons and struck the three friends with all their might.
While The Battle of The Third Day was taking place, Nairbix was walking to a place he had not been to for so many years. The Mysterious Tower.
He was alone and had an unreadable look on his face, after a few moments he entered the tower and heard the faint voice of his Master singing as he was walking up to the old wizard's study.
"Our keys are watching us quietly. Guiding us through our deaths and our births, from humble home worlds to the stars beyond the worlds. Our keys carry us carefully, through the darkest nights and brightest days. To the worlds that are just and peaceful, so that we never lose our way. All our pain and suffering is swallowed up in their warm embrace. So knowingly and gently locks them all away. There will come a day I'm sure when I must heed their solemn calls and walk side by side with my old friends. Resting in the sea of stars."
"You know, I always admired that song and its meaning for fallen wielders of the Keyblade. But quite frankly, it never gave me any sense of peace." Nairbix said to Yen Sid as he stared out of a large star shaped window.
"I can't help but wonder, why didn't you make things easier and take it when you had the chance last time?" Yen Sid asked not looking at his old disciple.
"Well, you know me, I have reasons for everything I do. So then, are you going to make things easier and give it to me, or am I going to have to take it by force?" Nairbix asked with an outstretched hand.
"I am not as strong as I once was, and even if I was I would still lose a battle to you." Yen Sid stated gazing at the forever night sky of his home.
"Believe me when I say this, Master. I found that our battle was too painful to do a second time." Nairbix said sadly.
"Answer this one question for me, my dear student. Why did you just not come to me for help instead of going through all of this trouble? We could have helped you and your daughters, found the items in your place and taken care of Ansem, to save you from this suffering." After the old man had said this, Nairbix grew angry.
"I am not going to hide, while others fight my battles and fix my mistakes for me!" He shouted, Yen Sid only sighed at his pupil's outburst.
"Take it." Yen Sid said sadly, his hat then floated over to Nairbix's hands gently. Nairbix looked at the hat fondly with an ecstatic look on his face, he now had all of the necessary items and his victory was nearly complete. All he needed to do now was kill Ansem and find his wife. Of course the latter would come after his vengeance. He looked up to his former teacher in gratitude.
"Thank you, Master." Nairbix said as he bowed, he then made a Corridor of Darkness and departed for Radiant Garden after he dropped off the hat in the caves with Jumba who had finished the preparations for Nairbix when the time came.
Back in said world, the forces of the two VanSull sisters were achieving victory, the soldiers had all fallen to the demons and monsters and hardly any of them managed to even take down at least one of the enemy's forces. Many of the Creations were either destroyed or rendered damaged beyond repair and unable to fight. Though the Restoration Committee was doing well at keeping the larger enemies away from the town and had suffered no losses amongst their members.
As for the warriors of light, Aqua was fighting off Elsa for the fourth time, Mickey was against Riku and Ventus, while these fights were happening Sora fought Scarlet Rose as Kairi and Terra fended off General and Catastrophe.
"I say, that we finish our little skirmish once and for all, agreed?" Elsa asked as she clashed blades with Aqua.
"What, you don't like fighting me?" Aqua teased.
"Hardly, I just find these fights a bit redundant, don't you?" Elsa asked in a bored tone twirling one of her ice swords in the palm of her hand.
"Whatever you say, Jadis." Aqua said. Once she said that name, Elsa had stopped twirling her sword and looked at the Keyblade Master in furry with malice in her now dilated eyes.
"What did you call me?" The Ice Queen asked quietly with pure anger laced in her voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Would you rather like me to call you, The White Witch?" Aqua asked again. But it only made Elsa even angrier, she rushed up to the taunting master at full speed to silence her for what she had called the queen. And though she did not realize it, Elsa was fighting in the same style that Jadis used.
"Don't ever call me that name!" Elsa shrieked as she landed her attacks on Aqua relentlessly. Her magic began to take effect in the environment as well, the air was growing colder, frost was starting to form around their fight, and even ice was forming after each of Elsa's steps.
Over on the rooftops of the surrounding homes, Mickey was fighting two of his closest friends once again.
"What will it take to make you see that this is wrong?!" Ventus shouted as sent a volley of rainbow colored orbs at the mouse. But Mickey easily dodged all of them with his incredible agility, but Riku got behind him and struck his back with his Keyblade, or so he thought. Mickey had managed to swing his Keyblade to his back to deflect the sneak attack.
"Is this what you guys wanted, to terrorize an entire world and kill so many innocents?!" Riku shouted to his friend who still did not speak, however he did create a large barrier sphere that sent Riku and Ventus back several feet. Mickey then pressed his thumb and index finger to his lips and gave a loud whistle, both Scarlet Rose and Elsa looked to their uncle as they fought and heard his next outcry.
"To the castle! Retreat!" Scarlet Rose then flew over to her sister and picked her up to carry her to the castle with Mickey and the two experiments ahead of them, leaving the others behind and dumbfounded.
"What are they doing?" Terra asked. "They weren't even close to losing, so why retreat?"
"Hey, guys, do you hear that?" Ventus asked, but all everyone heard was nothing.
"I don't hear anything." Kairi informed.
"Exactly, we're in the middle of a battle against an army of demons and monsters and we hear nothing." Ventus replied in worry.
"I think we need to get to the castle." Sora said stating the obvious. They all ran as fast as they could to meet up with their foes.
"I wonder what they're going to do." Kairi said to Aqua as they were running.
"It may be possible that they've found Ansem and are about to kill him." Aqua suggested.
"Hey, did you guys notice something?" Sora asked. "This whole time, we didn't see any sign of Nairbix or Jumba at all."
"Yeah, you're right! If they were here then they would've been fighting along with Mickey and the girls!" Ventus exclaimed.
"Well, if they aren't here, then where are they?" Riku asked.
"Wait, do you remember what Nairbix said back at Disney Castle?" Sora asked.
"You mean before or after he mopped the floor with us?" Donald asked dryly.
"After, remember what he said when he came out with the Corner Stone of Light? He said that they only needed one more item." Sora reminded.
"Do ya mean what I think ya mean?" Goofy asked nervously.
"Nairbix didn't show up because…" Kairi began.
"Because he went to go get the last item he needed!" Donald shouted.
"This whole battle was a set up!" Aqua shouted, "He had Mickey and his daughters lead the attack on the town so he could get whatever it was he needed."
"He used this whole fight to weaken the town's defenses, so that when he got here there would be nothing left to get in his way from killing Ansem!" Goofy explained. Riku then stopped and gasped, everyone then turned to him to see what the matter was.
"What is it?" Terra asked on edge.
"He's coming, right now." Riku said to them all.
"What?!" Donald squawked.
"That's why they retreated, they went to wait for Nairbix to show up, and maybe even bring out Ansem to make things easier." Aqua realized, and with that they all ran faster.
In the courtyard at the base of the castle, Scarlet Rose, Elsa and Mickey were eagerly awaiting Nairbix's arrival. Scarlet Rose was no longer in her demon form as she paced in anxiety as Elsa was standing patiently with Mickey at her side, not a minute too soon Nairbix arrived through a Corridor with a smirk of success on his face.
"It's ours." He said, his daughters then rushed up to hug him in gladness from the news. "Now then, one last thing to do, and then we can finally get her back, heheheh." Nairbix chuckled darkly, he then made his way to the castle doors but was stopped by the yelling of the meddlesome pests he had been dealing with.
"Nairbix stop!" Aqua shouted. "Don't do it!" She said as she and everyone else pointed their weapons at him. But Nairbix only smirked at them with madness, they could even see that it looked like green fire was wreathing out of the sides of his slit-like pupils. He raised his hand above his head and quickly brought it down to his chest increasing the gravity on them all, and bring them to the ground. He walked over to Sora and looked down at him with a wicked smirk, he noticed that Scarlet Rose was in Sora's field of vision so he looked to her.
"Do it." He said. She then gave her father a nod and did what she had planned to do, she reached for her eye patch and pulled it off. The first thing to change were her eyes, no longer purple with slit like pupils, they became as blue as an ocean with a regular human pupil.
Then, it was her hair that changed, it had changed both in length and in color, it was now shorter than before, it reached a little past her neck and was no longer curly. It was actually spiked at the end of each lock of hair and stayed out of her face. But the biggest surprise was the change in color, no longer as black as night like her father's, it was now scarlet red.
"I have now destroyed you, Sora." Nairbix chuckled evilly. But Sora could only look at Scarlet Rose in utter shock. He then said one word that none of them could believe even after they all witnessed this transformation.
"Kairi?"