Chosen of Sky and Twilight
MP:Ok new chapter
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN KH
Chapter 24: Of Hearts and Keyblades
With Maleficent, In the room with the princesses Maleficent turns to face the wall and yells
"O purest of hearts! Reveal to me the Keyhole!" with that six streams of light shoot from all six girls and connect shooting forwards.
At the same time Riku, Sora, and Beast, after fighting their way through with claws, keyblade, and magic were about to enter the from doors"Be on your guard. They're close, I can feel it. Are you ready for them?" said Beast. Sora and Riku nodded. They burst through the front doors to see Nami, Donald, and Goofy were there."Hey look! Sora found Riku!" said Goofy.
"Riku?" said Nami in shock. Riku had yet to summon his keyblade, and turn into Ryx, so he stood there glaring at Nami, Donald, and Goofy. Beast looked over and saw something.
"Belle?" he said before running through a door only to have it shut behind him.
"I knew you were mean, but I never knew you were that cruel, Nami." said Sora figuring out it was a trick.
"His heart, like yours, is weak. That's why the keyblade rejected you." Nami said. "Just surrender now or the darkness will destroy you!" she said as she took on her battle form from Halloween Town. (See Chapter 21)
"No matter what you do to me, my heart will live on through my friends." Said Sora defiantly.
"Fine see if friendship can handle this!" she said throwing up a barrier throwing Riku off to the side.
"SORA!" he yelled summoning his key and switching forms before attacking the barrier. Nami smirked and sent another attack at Sora who was prepared to cast Aero whenever he heard it THUNK! against metal. Sora opened the eyes, he discovered he had closed, and saw Goofy blocking the attack.
"Sora aint goin' anywhere." Said Goofy.
"You betray your King?" asked Nami.
"Not on your life but I'm not gonna betray Sora either. 'cause he's become one of my best buddies after all we've been through together! See ya later Donald! Could you tell the King I'm really sorry?" said Goofy calling over to the avian sorcerer.
"Hold on Goofy! We'll tell him together!" said Donald also ditching Nami.
"So how are you going to fight me? You don't even have the key blade anymore." said Nami sneering and inspecting said weapon.
"I don't need the keyblade. I have a more powerful weapon anyway. My heart." Said Sora.
"Why do we keep coming back to this heart thing, your heart was weak enough for me to make the keyblade reject you. What makes you think that pathetic thing is a weapon?" Nami said as annoyance colored her tone. "And use a different answer this time; you're sounding like a cliché video game character."
"You joke about video games at a time like this?" said Ryx incredulously from outside the barrier as he kept pounding away. The ones inside couldn't hear Riku so his comment fell on deaf ears.
"Although my heart may be weak, it's not alone. It's grown with each new experience, and it's found a home with all the friends I've made. I've become a part of their heart just as they've become a part of mine. And if they think of me now and then...if they don't forget me...then our hearts will be one. I don't need a weapon. My friends are my power!" said Sora as Nami lost her grip on the Keyblade it reappeared in a flash of lights in Sora's right hand. Nami knew when she was outnumbered, but her pride made her summon her own evil blade.
"Bring it, losers, and see your precious 'Heart Power' fail!" she yelled.
She charged at Sora who dodged backwards and threw a fira spell at her. She countered with a blizara spell of her own neutralizing the magic. Sora then knew a magical duel would be a bad idea. He and Goofy both charged her Sora landing several hits with Ars Arcanum while Goofy nailed her with his shield Donald cast Thundara on her only to have her cast Aero and reduce the damage.
"BAHHHAHH!" Donald squawked in frustration. He then primarily healed Sora and Goofy throughout the course of the battle while blocking attacks from Nami when she slipped through. Sora managed to get a major blow in forcing her to lose her battle form and revert to her usual attire and hair style. She glared at them before running away.
Nami ran down the halls and muttered,
"Why did I loose to that loser!"
"Because the heart that is strong and true shall wield the Keyblade." Said a voice and she saw it was Ansem.
"Are you saying loser's heart was stronger than mine? Cause that's not possible." Said Nami.
"It was for that instant but you can get even more power." Said Ansem.
"I'm listening." Said Nami.
"Open yourself to darkness, become darkness itself and your power will know no bounds. Then you'll be able to destroy that keybearer and his partner." said the man.
"No. I won't destroy Riku! He's just misguided is all." said Nami "And I can do it without darkness."
"What made you think you had a choice!" said Ansem before it surged forwards into Nami.
"So how do we get through this door?" asked Sora as they looked at a lock in the shape of the heartless emblem. They had found a library and the Beast who had looked around the room in hopes Belle would be there. They explored a strange futuristic room that the plaque on the wall read 'Lift Stop' and saw it was a dead end. Well a dead end with a potion hidden away but a dead end none the less. They explored the main hall further and found this door.
"Maybe we've got to find pieces that fit the door?" said Goofy.
"Goofy, you're a genius!" said Sora.
"Let's split up around the room and look for the pieces." said Ryx as he became Riku.
"Ok." Said Sora as Donald 'Bahh'ed and Goofy nodded.
Ten Minutes later…
"Nothing what so ever." muttered Sora as he leaned next to a statue on the second floor, he shifted his whole weight on it and it moved over and he heard something click as the fountain in the lobby began to flow.
'That means there are other triggers for things, but what?' wondered Sora as he pushed on all the statures on the second floor. He knocked the pots off a statue having the others rush to his location.
"Sorry, I just, oh." He said as the statue sunk into the ground the water sounding louder. "I figured the statues must do something after I moved one and it activated the fountain." Said Sora.
"Hey! There's something floating in the water!" said Goofy. In it were two pink shapes that looked like they belonged in the door.
"Look for other trigger things." Said Riku. Sora knocked over more pots on the second floor looking for triggers under them, and saw oddly colored plates after he destroyed the pots a chest appeared and he opened it to reveal green piece that looked like a fleur de lis. Donald found stones with lightning bolts on them.
"Hey look at this!" he said. Riku looked at it puzzled before something dawned in him and he zapped the stone with Thundara. He and Donald moved around the second floor zapping the stones until the flame in the center stopped burning revealing something black was revealed. Riku leapt across to that and picked it up, it was the final piece of the emblem.
"Let's go!" said Sora as the door opened.
More fighting through the castle and several dizzying heights and flights of stairs later. They were resting at another point in the rest stop.
"Who, would, want, suck, a tiring, layout?"asked Sora panting.
"Well, there, uh Riku, how do you know where you're going.
"It's a villain thing. They'll be in the highest room of the tallest tower." Said Riku shrugging.
"Where'd you learn that?" squawked Donald.
"I read it in a book once." Said Riku as he shrugged.
"Why does that sound so familiar?" mused Sora listening to Riku and Donald talk.
"Hyuck, uh, maybe it was in a movie?" said Goofy. The pair just shrugged.
Maleficent was pacing in the Grand Hall angrily. Something just wasn't right. She triple checked her notes. She had all the seven princesses of heart. That should have been enough to open the keyhole, yet still it remained incomplete. Then again it might have been Princess Kairi causing the problems. That princess was one she'd feared would be hard to find and the girl practically fell into her lap! Ansem the Wise had been her uncle and when he vanished it was easy from Maleficent to take over. Kairi had been hidden from her as Ansem's only heir and the people's hopes to dethrone Maleficent.
'The Fools! Placing their hopes in a stupid little girl.' She sneered. Kairi had lost her heart but her powers should have not remained dormant as they had. Or should they have. Foot steps startled her out of her thoughts.
"So the path has emerged at last." Said Nami, her voice echoing eerily. Her young apprentice had undone gone an overhaul since she had last been seen. Her blue hair had lightening to an ice blue color that seemed white in the wrong light lengthening to her mid-calf, her skin darkened to a deep brown, her eyes turning a coppery orange color. She wore a white gown with long sleeves that had a large open section cut out of the chest revealing a large section her now larger breasts and a heartless insignia. There were slits up the sides of the dress revealing black leggings.
"I see you chose to possess her instead m'lord." Said Maleficent.
"I am finding this female form quite, pleasurable." Said the Ansem Nami. Maleficent continued,
"The path to darkness has appeared." Said Maleficent.
"If you open the gate, the heartless will overrun this word." Ansem Nami said.
"What do I care? The darkness has no sway over me. Rather I will use it to conquer the worlds." Said Maleficent.
"Such confidence." Sneered Ansem Nami materializing a dark keyblade. Maleficent gasped.
"Oh! Impossible. It must be her." Said Maleficent pointing to Kairi.
"Yes. Without her heart the keyhole will not work." Said Ansem Nami.
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MP: Ok I have actually a few more chapters already written and have completed Hollow Bastion, so expect them up with a couple days space between them because I'm evil.
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