Chosen of Sky and Twilight
Disclaimer: Doesn't own KH! Don't own Simple and Clean either.
This marks the end of the KH1 arc of this story. This is a longer chapter than most. Features Simple and Clean by Hikaru Utada as a play-for-enhancement-feature.
Chapter 29: Simple and Clean
They arrived at the strange place and Sora walked smack into an invisible wall.
"Follow those heartless." Said Nami.
"After all, you'd know." Riku snarked before becoming Ryx.
"Enough! You two fought on the way here, you are not going to do that while we're trying to take down a megalomaniac." Sora snapped.
"Sorry!" Ryx and Nami said before they pressed on through the strange terrain. Soon they were on sand so white it looked like snow, and the whole way, they were up to their armpits in heartless.
"So where are we going?" asked Ryx.
"To the bottom of this whole world." Said Nami.
"Why?" asked Ryx.
"Because that's where the darkness reeks the most." Said Nami trying not to snap.
They reached the first of many columns with a pillar of light in each of them.
"Only way forward is through there I guess." Said Donald after inspecting the beam.
"Ladies first." Ryx said nudging Nami forwards.
"How cute." Nami replied before entering the beam. Sora followed and was in, Wonder Land?
"How did they get a piece of Wonderland, whoa, look out!" said Sora and he pulled Nami out of the path of an attack.
"Well, Sora, whenever they were attacking worlds they were stealing their hearts. Each world you locked you restored only part of their hearts which is why they still had heartless in them." Said Nami as they eliminated all the heartless. The room glowed and they were on the next platform.
It went this way until they reached a strange red beam. It was a strange corridor that none of them recognized.
"Look at this on the screen: "Ones born of the heart and darkness, devoid of hearts ravage all worlds and bring desolation. Seize our hearts and consummate the great heart. All hearts to be one, one heart to encompass all. Progeny of darkness come back to eternal darkness. For the heart's light shall unseal. Seven hearts, one key hole, one key to the door. The door of darkness tied by two keys. The door of darkness to see light. None shall pass but shadows returning to darkness. Ones born of the heart and darkness, hunger for every heart until the dark door opens."
"Gramps used to read this to me and Lea whenever he'd baby sit us when we were little. Now it makes chilling sense. Riku and I have to seal the door to darkness." Said Sora.
"And we've got to go, this place is dissolving!" Nami said. They barely made it back out the door whenever the beam vanished revealing what looked like an uninviting vortex in the center.
"Let me guess, we go there?" Ryx said pointing to it.
"Yes, the darkness is almost gagging me at this point." Nami said holding her breath.
"Let's go!" said Goofy jumping in.
"Goofy! Wait UP!" said Donald also jumping. The three humans looked to one another before jumping in. They found themselves flying in a world that had a giant demon surrounded by a vortex within sight.
"Chernabog!" Nami said paling.
"What's that?" Sora asked.
"Lord of the dead." Said Nami. "But he's supposed to be a myth."
"So are we." Said Ryx blocking flying debris with his keyblade.
"The head!" Donald said before Goofy, Nami, and Ryx surged forwards. Sora hung back with Donald casting spells for cover and healing the others.
"Goofy! Quit wasting your potions!" Donald yelled over the roar of the battle.
"Sorry-WAGH!" he said as he was hit by a large blue fist.
"GOOFY!" Donald yelled, "CURAGA!" the dog was back and fighting in no time flat. Donald and Sora were both out of mp so they flew in and began to rain blows down upon the giant demon with the others, avoiding his attacks until he was gone.
"We just took down Chernabog." Said Nami in disbelief.
"Yeah, and your point is?" said Ryx.
"Let's press onwards." Said Sora.
"Let's heal up first." Said Donald pulling out their last tent. They handed out potions.
"Again when we say not to waste potions we mean it, Goofy." Said Donald.
"Garwsh, Donald, you don't have to be mean about it." Said Goofy.
"Equipment good?" Sora asked.
"Yep." Said Ryx.
"Yes." Said Nami.
"Ok, take one each of you." Said Sora passing out his summon stones. Nami got Dumbo, Riku got Mushu, Donald got Bambi, and Goofy didn't get one because his mp was too low to support a summon. Sora kept Simba. On their way here the summons had come in handy.
"From here on out, no matter what we see, we're going to defeat Ansem and end this." said Ryx.
"No matter what." Sora agreed in chorus with the others.
Then Sora heard the Mysterious Voice again say,
'This is your last rest, you ready?' He reached for a familiar pair of pink doors and opened them to find, Island and Twilight Town Sunset station merged together.
That's whenever Sora heard Ansem's voice say to him the day Twilight Destiny fell under.
"This world has been connected. You understand so little. A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing." As he said this things began disappearing. Then Ansem appeared.
"All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came." He said, "You see Darkness is the heart's true essence!"
"You're wrong about that!" said Sora, "The heart may be weak. And sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!"
"So you've come this far and still you understand nothing!"
Ansem summoned a freaky ghoul and the final, marathon of an ending battle began. Luckily for our heroes and one maybe-villain, Ansem and his 'pet' had a predictable move set so it was easy for our intrepid heartless slayers to get beat on the 'Diabolic Duo.' All was not roses, for Sora and Nami collided a few times and this ended up in a dog pile that was disastrous for Ryx and Goofy, because they'd usually end up underneath everyone. Yet, the battle was going smoothly until Ansem's limbs began fighting him.
There was an explosion of unholy black light blinding Sora and Ryx temporarily. When it cleared, they were in a strange alcove where the club house had once been, and in it was another Dark Side, just like the one they'd failed to defeat and protect Twilight Destiny from at the beginning of their adventure.
"Aim for the body part nearest!" Ryx yelled and Sora nodded taking its left hand while Ryx took the right. Between the two of them, they not only defeated Dark Side but managed not to get too badly bloodied up while doing it. Then Ansem appeared in his/her Nami form as he tossed the mangled body of Shade on the ground.
"Pitiful half-breed couldn't take me so I improvised." The Ansem possessed Nami sneered, "This foolish girl was even easier to take over the second time."
"Let her go!" Ryx yelled.
"Yeah! She might be an evil blue witch but you're the very definition of cruel and unusual." Sora said.
"She can't hear you where she is, for she now belongs to the darkness as you will soon!" Ansem said before she resummoned her guardian and this time Ryx and Sora were forced to fight her alone. It required more cooperation on the parts of the two keybearers but they managed to fall into a dodging and attacking-the-living-day-lights-out-of-Ansem routine rather quickly. They had, after all, been fighting together throughout their whole adventure.
"How are we going to save her?" asked Sora during the battle.
"Defeat this buffoon and hope to God that she doesn't die whenever we do so." Said Ryx
"Pay attention!" Ansem snapped annoyed that the two keybearers dared not pay attention to him.
"Moody, is it that time of the month?" Ryx quipped before getting caught by a stray energy attack from Ansem.
"You must have hit a nerve." Said Sora dryly as Ryx pealed himself off of a wall in the hollowed out mountain they were fighting in.
Then Ansem vanished again but the ground turned into a pool of darkness engulfing everything. Sora opened his eyes in a black yet light space.
"What the #$%^ did you do you?" Ryx demanded.
"Where are we?" Sora asked as he noticed he, Donald, and Goofy were flying.
"Behold the endless abyss! Within lies the heart of all worlds: Kingdom
Hearts!" Ansem said and Sora noticed a large pair of white doors. Ansem continued her monologue. "Look as hard as you are able. You'll not find even the smallest glimmer of light. From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours. DARKNESS CONQUERS ALLWORLDS!"
Ansem was floating attached to this simply monstrous behemoth of a heartless that looked like only its mother, if it had one, would love it. With her last statement Ansem waved a hand and Donald, Goofy, and Ryx were sucked into portals leaving Sora alone.
"Come on Sora, you're not giving up that easy! I thought you were tougher than that at least." Said a voice Sora hadn't heard since he was five: his father Satoshi. With that Sora summoned his Oathkeeper keyblade and charged Ansem. The lasers didn't help but Sora managed to wise up quickly and cast an Aero to prevent unnecessary damage. Once again, strangely enough to Sora, Ansem fell into a predictable pattern. But hey; if it meant being able to defeat Ansem, Sora wasn't going to complain.
"Why won't you stay down!" Sora gritted out angrily as he blocked another attack from Ansem. "This is the fourth time I've had to fight you in the span of twenty-four hours for pity's sake."
"I'm nothing if not persistent, little boy." Ansem said viciously slashing at Sora with her double bladed lance. Sora blocked all but one hit to his side. Sora could feel the last several battles getting to him, if he didn't defeat Ansem soon, he'd collapse from exhaustion.
'I'm already to the hearing things phase. After all, I heard my dad.' Sora thought as he finally subdued Ansem for the fourth time but the villain went into stasis leaving Sora to beat the snot out of the heartless she was tethered too. By doing this he was led to a portal and he entered it.
"Thank goodness, I need some help here!" said Ryx's voice as he rejoined and they destroyed the core keeping the pocket dimension open.
Sora floated back and let Ryx take on another portal without him; he took this time to drink some elixirs and a few potions to get back to full strength. Sora then joined him and the newly freed Goofy in attacking another portion of the massive heartless and entered the portal with the others to free Donald. They finally took down yet another section whenever Sora felt cold steel bit into his back deeply and they found out Ansem was back in action. Donald used Curaga on Sora to heal the worst of the injury and the final portion of the battle for light and the heart of all worlds was underway.
With more favorable odds the quartet was quickly making progress on an increasingly desperate Ansem. She blew them back and sneered at them,
"It is futile. The Keyblade alone cannot seal the door to darkness." She reached a gloved hand towards the white doors,
"Kingdom Hearts! Fill me with the power of darkness..." with that the doors cracked open and a foul purple mist began to leak out.
"Supreme Darkness." Ansem said in relief. Sora could feel something similar to the keyblade but over ten times as powerful behind the mist in King Hearts.
"I'm afraid you're wrong. I know now, without a doubt, King Hearts is light!" Sora said placing a hand on his heart and gesturing outwards with a sweep. And as if cue by the brunette bright white light over took the mist and engulfed Ansem.
"Light? But Why..." Ansem said before the light destroyed her.
Sora and crew landed on the stone platform and raced towards the doors. Ryx peaked inside.
"Holy crap! There's like fifty Dark Sides in there and growing!" With that they frantically began to shove the doors shut. It was slow going until a pair of hands appears on the inside.
"You boys need a hand?" Nami asked from inside the doors.
"Watch-out?" Sora said as he saw a heartless about to attack Nami but then it and many others are eliminated by someone else with a key blade. A someone else with very distinctive round ears and a tail.
"Your Majesty!!" Donald and Goofy yell in shock.
"Sora, Ryx. Let's close this door for good!" King Mickey said holding his blade aloft.
"You two, close it quick!" Donald ordered.
"But-,"Sora said looking over at an equally hesitant Ryx.
"Don't worry. There's always a door to the light!" Mickey said.
"It's ok, you can trust King Mickey." Said Goofy.
"AHH!" Nami screamed. This caused Ryx to slip through.
"RYX!" Sora yelled.
"Do it, we'll be fine!" Ryx said as he fought heartless.
Sora nodded and backed up before holding his keyblade directly in front of himself gather light and stars at the tip, the energy causing his clothing to be blown around by an invisible wind. King Mickey was doing likewise on his side of the door. Simultaneously, beams of light shoot off their keyblades and soon Kingdom Hearts was no more.
(Cue Simple and Clean by Hikaru Utada- Don't own this)
Sora looked around to see Kairi on a piece of floating ground and he ran over to her.
"Kairi." He said.
"Is this real?" she asked looking around.
"Yeah." Sora said reaching for her hand. Then their pieces of ground began to move.
"Kairi, I'm always with you in your heart!" Sora said.
"Of course you are, and I'm going with you!" Kairi said getting a head start and leaping into Sora's arms leaving Walt alone on the land attaching to the piece Kairi had been on.
"We'll be back, we promise." Said Kairi. Once all the worlds were restored in a magnificent reverse meteor shower they were in the in-between world.
"Now what?" asked Donald.
"We-," Sora began before his eyes rolled up into his head and he collapsed.
"SORA!" Kairi yelled catching him.
"What's wrong with him?" Goofy asked.
"I can't feel his heart, it's like he's not here." Said Kairi alarmed.
In the World that Never Was, Roxas the Nobody awoke for the first time.
MP: R&R. Constructive critics Welcome!