Chosen of Sky and Twilight
MP:Thanks to Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep for reviewing! I can't promise any other quick updates but I hope this chapter is to your liking.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN KH
7/13/09 I found a continuity blooper I made and I now have fixed it.
Chapter 23: Abandon All Hope All Who Enter Here...
They arrived at Traverse Town with a feeling of foreboding hanging over their heads. Sora could almost feel the tension.
"Here." Said Cloud handing Sora something as he talking to Leon and his friends, Cloud having shown up after betraying Hades; it was a new key chain.
"Thank you." Said Sora solemnly accepting the gift and attaching it to the key blade changing it's form.
"Never lose sight of your light." Said Cloud before strolling out, ever the enigma.
"You ready there Sora?" But Sora's mind was worlds away as he felt his conscious pulled into a large library in it an older woman with Kairi's eyes talked to a little girl.
"Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it. They wanted to keep it for themselves. And darkness was born in their hearts. The darkness spread, swallowing the light and many people's hearts. It covered everything, and the world disappeared. But small fragments of light survived...in the hearts of children. With these fragments of light, children rebuilt the lost world. It's the world we live in now. But the true light sleeps, deep within the darkness. That's why the worlds are still scattered, divided from each other. But someday, a door to the innermost darkness will open. And the true light will return. So, listen, child. Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light to guide you. Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you. Your heart will shine with its power and push the darkness away. Do you understand, Kairi?"
"Kairi!" Sora yelled but it was to no avail, to them he was a ghost.
"SORA!" yelled Donald pulling the young keybearer out of his daze.
"Sorry, I just spaced for a moment." said Sora. "Let's go set Riku free."
Nami stood panting before Maleficent,
"You didn't even use a ship to get here. My, what a foolish choice, depending on darkness too much might cost you your heart." said the tall sorceress. Kairi floating in strange container behind Nami and along the walls were seven maidens held by dark coils, asleep and looking uneasy.
"How did you silence the goody two shoes brigade?" asked Nami.
"I took their hearts away, that's how. When a princess of heart loses her heart she doesn't fade like any of us mere mortals because the heart of one of the maidens is 100% pure. No darkness means no heartless will form and they will be left comatose not unlike Kairi." said the sorceress.
"You've put them all in a state like Kairi's? How will that help her in the long run?" asked Nami. Maleficent laughed. A roar shook the castle they were in.
"You shall see child. It seems we have a castaway. Though his world perished, his heart did not. When we took the princess from his castle, he apparently followed her here through sheer force of will. But fear not. No harm will come to you. He is no match for your power." The dark fairy chuckled.
"Of course not!" said Nami cockily. "I could beat that second rate Keybearer with my eyes shut." Nami left as a heartless came in with a paper message.
'Attempts to control even a weakened boy are proving in effective. Conclusion; terminate the boy or turn him into a heartless.'
"Blast that stupid keybearer for awaking his powers so far ahead of what my plans needed. Blast him to hell!" the dark fairy swore. She threw the crumpled report to the side and saw she had accidentally killed the messenger out of anger. No remorse came but anger for losing her composure.'I need to be composed when I finally achieve my goal.' She thought as she regained her poise and her calm. Soon it would all fall like she wanted it to. Soon she would have everything.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrived in the new world on top of an ice flow. There was water flowing upwards to Sora's amazement, and he could feel something warm inside of him.'I know this place!' he thought. 'But how?'
"Sora! We have to get to Riku!" said Donald snapping Sora out of his daze.
"Yeah, let's go." Sora as he summoned the keyblade to combat the heartless forming left and right on the floating chunks of ice, which were flat on top strangely enough. Donald and Goofy following suit behind him destroying heartless in a flurry of spells and attacks. They kept climbing and arrived at the top to see Nami standing in front of a large hulking form with a tattered purple cape. Beneath the cape was the tip of a brown tail and Sora could see the backs of rather wolf like paws.
"No ship, no help from the heartless…How the heck did you get here?" said Nami inspecting her nails. The form growled in a voice halfway between human and animal,
"I simply believed. Nothing more to it. When our world fell into darkness, Belle was taken from me. I vowed I would find her again no matter what the cost. I believed I would find her. So, here I am. She must be here. I will have her back!" he yelled. Nami sneered and used her evil wing shaped blade before slashing him in the side unprovoked.
"Hey! That was low, even for you!" said Sora
."You think that's low wait until I do THIS! Go home, and while you're at it, hand over the key blade!" Nami said gesturing as dark energy tugged on the blade stealing it from Sora.
"How can this be?" said Sora in shock.
"It's simple; the keyblade rejected your weak heart for my more powerful one. No go home and play hero elsewhere. You're too weak to save Kairi." said Nami walking away. Donald said,
"We have to follow that key. Goofy, Come on!" They began to leave as Sora fell to his knees in despair. Donald looked back and said,
"Sora, sorry." Sora didn't know how long he sat feeling like he'd just had his heart ripped out. He heard shuffling and looked up to see the wounded Beast, for lack of a better name, was moving."Hey! You're still hurt, don't move or you'll only get hurt worse." said Sora genuinely worried for the Beast, he stood up and helped support the beast.
"Why... Why did you...you come here? I came to fight for Belle. And though I am on my own, I will fight. I won't leave without her. That's why I'm here." Said the Beast this inspired Sora. He searched around for something to use as a weapon, but found nothing, but he still knew he had his magic and his heart and those were as good of weapons as any.
"Me too. I'm here for someone very important to me. I'll be darned if I give up now!" said Sora standing straighter than he had been before.
"Cura!" he yelled as the green light surged from his hands healing the Beast's wounds.
"Thank you." The Beast said as they caught a platform up to the main castle. They destroyed the heartless that swarmed to them Sora providing cover with his spells as the Beast slashed many with his claws. They reached the doors and they were locked. Sora suddenly had a flash back of two children running through the castle, he watched them run over to the edge and call a lift down. He shook his head and ran in the direction they had gone. He could have sword he was one of those two kids, but that was impossible! He'd spent his whole life in Twilight Town up until he moved to the islands. He ran to the crystal and waved a hand over it making it come to life. The Beast didn't comment. He rode the lift down and was startled to be walking on what looked like water. Sora ran over to where he saw the phantom children run and leapt into a bubble without hesitation. It took them into a place where Sora heard pounding and yells. He saw a switch on the side and released it. He saw Riku fall out and he looked around bewildered until his eyes landed on Sora. He launched himself at the shorter boy hugging him before realizing what he was doing and broke way.
"Man am I glad to see you." said Riku. His clothing was slightly dirty and there were a few tears here and there, other than that he only looked slightly thin.
"What did they do to you?" asked Sora.
"They kept trying to possess me, I think." Said Riku. "But I wouldn't let the darkness win, which frustrated that stupid witch and that blue haired &|+#. So they threw me in here and dragged a bunch of girls including Alice and Jasmine up the stairs."
"We need to save them too. This is my friend. They took someone important to him, so I'm helping him find her." Said Sora.
"Where are Donald and Goofy?" asked Riku. Sora's face fell as he said,
"They ditched me once Nami used some dark energy to steal my keyblade." Said Sora fighting to keep the sadness out of his voice.
"Those jerks! We go all this way and they switch sides so easily!" Riku yelled. "All because she took the keyblade?"
"Yeah, they said they had to follow the key. So they ditched me. Beast convinced me to keep going." Said Sora.
"The way to unlock the gates is this way. I watched Nami go about locking the gates from my cell several times when she thought I was unconscious." said Riku.
They followed Riku through the maze and he nodded on they rode a platform up to a final switch. Riku used his key blade to unlock this switch and pressed it and motioned for them to follow him back through the maze.
"How did you get here in the first place?" asked Riku.
"I had the strangest flashback ever. I saw two little kids come here and I think one of them was me. But we've been on Twilight Island or the Destiny Islands, our whole lives, right?" said Sora.
"Weird." Said Riku, "But you know, I feel like I know this place too, like I was here one when I was really little. And I can almost remember my old man. He was tall, skinny, and had the same hair and eyes as I did. But he seemed fearful for some reason, he almost was afraid to touch me."
"I wish I could remember my dad." Said Sora.
"No time for wishing for what we can't change, let's go!" said Riku.
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MP: I will finish this story one way or another. If it means cutting out Chain of memories or Two for that matter I will do it for I will not kill another story. I will make a decision by the time I finish up the next few chapters if I will go through my planned CoM Arc and my KH2 arc.
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