Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, its characters or anything Disney. Just Nairbix. AU will be at the end of the chapter.
It made no sense! How could Scarlet Rose look like Kairi? It seemed that Nairbix was able to tell what Sora was thinking, so he looked at the Kairi next to Sora on the ground and snapped his fingers. In an instant, Kairi vanished in a breeze of darkness, just like Nairbix's copy did when it was trapped inside Goofy's attack at Disney Castle. Nairbix then crouched down to Sora and began to speak.
"I told you that technique comes in handy, didn't I?" He asked, "I also told you that I would destroy you, and now I have with this shocking truth. It is true, Sora. Kairi is my daughter, and she's been Scarlet Rose the whole time ever since you came across her when she was gathering the sand back at Destiny Islands. Don't think less of her please, she only did those things because I told her to. I'm not proud of what I've made my children do these past few weeks." Nairbix said honestly. Sora said nothing, he was still in complete and utter shock.
"Don't hold anything against the others either. If you all must resent someone, resent me, this is all my doing. And I truly am sorry for all of the trouble I've caused, one day if any of you have families of your own, you will understand that there is nothing you won't do for them." He said earnestly, he then got up to continue his way to Ansem the Wise's imminent death.
"Nairbix." Aqua groaned under the great weight on her body. "Killing Ansem won't bring back your wife."
Nairbix turned to look at her with a slightly puzzled look on his face. "Obviously, but he's going to die anyway."
"I know that her death has hurt you, but Ansem's death won't solve anything." Aqua struggled to say, but Nairbix looked at her in surprise. He then began to shake his head and chuckle while lowering his head and putting his fists on his waist.
"Is that what Yen Sid told you, that my wife is dead?" He asked looking at her with an amused raised eyebrow, Aqua looked at him confused and speechless. "He lied to you, Aqua. She is very much alive, I have been positive of that since I was reunited with my lovely daughters. Allow me to tell you a story before I complete my vengeance. In my youth as an apprentice I stumbled upon this world, at the time I had a little habit of sneaking off from the tower to explore other worlds." Nairbix began gazing at the world around him in nostalgia.
"When I came here, I found it to be so beautiful but the beauty of this world was nothing compared to what I saw not too later. I saw in a garden of rose bushes, the most beautiful thing I had ever laid my eyes on, a young girl with curly red hair in a green dress watering the roses as she hummed a song with her lovely voice. I had the desire to meet this girl, to talk to her or at the very least see her beauty up close, I walked over to her and after hours of getting to know each other we became friends." He said wistfully.
"Over the years of my training our friendship grew, as well as my feelings for her. But I had my duties as a Keyblade Master at the time and had to watch over the other worlds. Later on as we grew older, a great war broke out in the far reaches of the galaxies, we both had a strong sense of justice. Mine as a master and her own as a Princess of Heart, oh by the way a little thing about being one of those, it's actually an inheritance. As soon as one has a child, the title is no longer theirs and it will only be given to the next female in her bloodline no matter how many generations it takes. Continuing, we both fought as Generals on the side of those who fought for peace, but after a few years of fighting we had won the war and lost so many friends. It was unbearable so we grew apart in our grief, after that I went to Narnia and I'm sure you all know what happened next. I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl to call my own." He said as he walked over and kissed Elsa's temple.
"Nearly two years later, I was reunited with my best friend and we forgot all of our sorrows and finally came clean with our feelings for each other. A year later we were married and another year after that we were once again blessed with another child. Kairi, our little scarlet rose." He said fondly as he kissed Kairi's head while pacing around them all.
"During our early years of marriage I had discovered something one day on a visit to the in-laws. During my wife's youth, she was used as a test subject for research, or to be more precise her uncle's research." He growled in disgust at the memories. "So naturally, we made sure never to come anywhere near this place again. But her uncle had found us years later, so he took my wife and our children, it took me almost six months until I found them and as soon as we made our way out, her uncle neutralized my magic and made my family bleed to death in my arms."
"But wouldn't you know it? It was all an illusion that we had all seen caused by my wife's deranged uncle. And that uncle is none other than…" Nairbix said in angry playful voice with an outstretched arm as he turned around to see an old man with orange eyes, long faded platinum blonde hair and a beard. He also was wearing a long white buttoned up lab coat a crimson red scarf wrapped around his neck.
"Ansem the Wise."
"Hello, Nairbix, you're looking well." Ansem said calmly.
"Oh, I'll look even better after I kill you." Nairbix replied madly, but Ansem ignored him.
"Ah, Elsa and Kairi how long it has been. Oh, Kairi you look so much like-" Ansem started before Nairbix picked him up by the throat.
"How dare you speak to my daughters, how dare you even think about saying my wife's name to them after everything you have done to us." Nairbix said with venom in his voice, he then dropped the old man as he clutched his throat.
"You know, I enjoyed watching you die a first time, I think I'll enjoy it even more a second time." Kairi said glaring at her great uncle in resentment. In the distance, the horns and cries of all the demons and monsters grew, then, several of the green demons dropped down the Restoration Committee bounded in chains.
"You summoned your army?" Ansem asked in disbelief.
"Oh, I wouldn't dream of letting any of them miss this. They want to see you dead just like the rest of us." Nairbix explained.
"And yet I don't see Jumba anywhere." Ansem countered.
"He'll be missing your execution, unfortunately." Elsa sneered.
"But we most certainly won't." Kairi added as she kicked the man while he was down.
"Enough, Kairi. We don't want his senses to be too dulled when the pain of death takes him, do we?" Nairbix asked, he then grabbed Ansem's scarf and dragged him to the ledge to see all of Nairbix's army eagerly awaiting the scientist's death.
"On this day, we have brought pain to this world!" Nairbix shouted to his army who cheered and yelled at the sight of their master's foe. "Ten years ago, we lost so much because of this pathetic witless worm! Too long has this man gone unpunished for his crimes! Too long have my loved ones been plagued with the nightmares brought upon by him and have felt pain and agony without any one of their kin to console and comfort them!" Nairbix announced, he then looked at Ansem and whispered in his ear.
"Look at how far we have come, Ansem. It's been so many, many years since we met and look at where we are now. You know what the funny thing is? The funny thing is, is that this isn't even the climax of this little story. You didn't even make it that far in this tale even with all your wisdom." He then looked to Mickey and called him over with a jerk of the head, the little mouse walked over with an angry look at Ansem the Wise with a four foot long metal steak, and he handed it to his brother.
Nairbix twirled the steak in his hand and jammed it into the stone railing in front of him, he then pulled out several pieces of paper that were sticking out of Ansem's coat pocket. He began to read this Ansem Report quickly before he looked to his monstrosities.
"I now give you one of Ansem the Wise's reports, written by the coward himself." Nairbix said before he began to read the report. "To my shame, I have brought unbearable sadness and agony to the family of my own beloved niece and herself. When she was a child, I had the foolish thought of using her as a test subject to further my research. And after she had found love, I not only took her but her children as well to continue the work I now know leads to only unanswerable questions. I brought upon only suffering and anguish to my own kin, and to a man I had the utmost respect for, only to abandon my work to pursue revenge against my apprentices." Now all of the demons, monsters and experiments were roaring in anger.
"I have no right to have the title "Wise", for I cannot even look this great man in the eye and say that I am sorry to him. And I cannot even say it to the strong woman who I loved as my own, or even their children!" Nairbix shouted in anger as he threw the remaining pages he already read through into the air.
"For ten years, my family and I have suffered because of this man and his godforsaken research!" Nairbix shouted as he summoned his Keyblade and brought it above his head to cleave off Ansem's. "No longer." He finished and brought down the Keyblade severing Ansem's head, before he did this, Sora and the others closed their eyes to avoid seeing the gruesome sight. Nairbix picked up his foe's head by its hair and shouted to his forces, "MY VICTORY IS COMPLETE!"
The demons and monster cheered at the sight of Nairbix killing Ansem and then mounting his head on the steak. Nairbix then walked over Sora and his friends and knocked them all out, but he saved Sora for last. He swung his foot back and said two words to the young Keyblade Master.
"Lights out." He swung his foot to Sora's face and everything went dark.
There you have it. Ansem has been killed, his past with Nairbix has been revealed and Scarlet Rose has let everyone know that she is actually Kairi.
For the record, no, I did not come up with that one out of nowhere like I did with Terra and Rapunzel. This was the key detail since I came up with this story. I wanted to see a fic that involved Kairi's parents and when I couldn't find one, I wrote one myself. In case you are confused with the change in her Keyblade, she simply switched the keychains. Oh, and I based Nairbix reading the report off of Bane reading Gordon's letter from The Dark Knight Rises, you may want to imagine Nairbix using the same tone that Bane used as well.
And since you now know that she did not inherit her father's hair color, you now get to guess as to which redhead Disney has rights over is her mother.
The next chapter will have something that some of you have probably been expecting, the fight between Nairbix VanSull and the Guardians of Light and how all of the items that they've been collecting will work together.
Stay tuned.