A/N: Here is part two of the chapter you guys, and next after this shall be the finale, wow after a couple of months, I'm gonna cry!
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On with the story!
Chapter 41: Tot altus itaque mugio SECUI DUOS (so many highs and lows, part two)
A strange beast with horns walked around the assembly room of a certain witch, smelling the air for a moment. Massive paws walked down the hall, their claws tapping against the surface, creating a light click-click noise whichever way it went. Its looks were like a mixture between a lion and a wolf, with two horns on the front of its head; they arched outward like a stag. One yellow eye and one turquoise eye stared at the objects all around the room. It noticed that there were seven humans that were asleep, floating with a sort of black aura all around them, and a machine that was suppose to gather some sort of energy. 'Flowers…' the beast thought shaking its body, the silver colored fur moved slightly, dusting itself off. It could smell the scent of sweet flowers, and that was his mission, to find the one who smelled of those sweet flowers.
It noticed a raven that was eyeing it strangely, and before the bird had a chance the beast pounced on it. 'Here birdie, BIRDIE!' it growled pinning the animal between two of its clawed 'fingers' so to speak. The bird squawked and the beast noticed that it smelled like Heartless. 'But it's not one… Maybe it has an owner that does know where the girl is at…' the beast thought picking the bird by the wing, with its fangs. 'It tastes like one too; dang this thing flew the coop…' it found itself walking down the old ruins.
'Vieh what the hell are you doing?' a somewhat forgotten voice popped into its head.
'Ah it's 'we' long time no talk, right? Haha… I found your little flower, she's somewhere around her, and Master will be pleased and soon he'll come here, once I give him a signal…'
'That last part didn't rhyme…' Riku could be heard laughing at the beast and the animal growled, terrifying the bird in its mouth.
'Yeah well I'd like to see you try, you stinking human… Besides I'm not here to amuse you! I'm here to work, you damn little thing you.' The raven was cawing, but the beast growled again to keep it from giving away its position. 'I'm close…' it thought making its way to a familiar scent, but it wasn't from the one he was looking for, instead it was a witch. 'Great… Ignis said to get rid of those that weren't the Atrum Procer…'
A couple of feet away
'Silver fur?' the girl thought trying to make sure it wasn't a trick of the mind. 'It smells like sea-salt ice-cream…' she thought breathing in the scent.
'Hey be careful, I don't want a repeat of last time…' Amaterasu's inner voice managed to provide some words of 'encouraging' wisdom.
'You're not the one who gets their ass kicked…' she retorted and shook her head.
'Yeah well I have to live in YOUR body…' the inner voice said, hissing for a moment at the girl's carelessness. Amaterasu laughed, the inner voice held some truth.
'I never thought a Heartless like you would care…' with that she walked forward looking around trying to figure out where the scent came from.
There was a loud and terrifying scream that sent her whole Heartless like sense a twitter. The scent of blood was stronger than ever, just enough to get her eyes to turn yellow. No rage, just thirsting out to taste the warm crimson substance. Her yellow eyes looked around, mixing sea-salt with the scent of blood and it felt so strange to her now. A flash of silver streaked right past her, and she found the source of the scream. There on the floor of another chamber room lay a mess of black and green. Red liquid seeped into the cracks of the old ruin, yellow eyes that once held evil seemed to fade away. A black cape seemed to be torn to shreds mixed with more crimson. The crimson ribbons the girl once wanted to produce were on the floor, slowly flowing down the way towards her feet.
Maleficent, the once well known mistress of evil, was now concentrated to something of unspeakable manner. Amaterasu looked at the fading yellow eyes, and the scent of sea-salt filled the room for a moment. 'So our killer is the sea-salt perfumed fiend… What fun…' she thought sarcastically. Again she still couldn't help but smile watching the witch's fate right before her very eyes. 'That thing must be strong to kill her like that… It probably ripped her insides to shreds…' this was her dark side talking, and the girl laughed for a second or two, taking a moment to let it all sink in. The raven was shrieking and cawing madly at the sight of it all, and the girl sighed. "Be a good birdie and leave…" Amaterasu said trying to get it to leave the room.
The beast stopped for a moment its delicate silver lined ears picking up the sound of what it could only describe as 'her', the flower. It growled for a moment and watched the end of the hallway to try and catch the person that walked down the corridor of the area. The yellow eyed figure stopped staring back at the turquoise and yellow eyed beast.
"You're the one that smells of sea-salt?" the figure asked, noticing the crimson stain across the silver fur. Vieh growled for a moment noticing the scent belonged to the figure down the hallway.
'Don't hurt her…' Riku warned the beast in control.
'You'd better tell her that, I mean she might not even remember you… She's got yellow eyes…' the beast noticed that Amaterasu was walking closer and closer to it. Vieh growled trying to get her to back off, but it wasn't working.
"What's your name?" she asked, as softly as she could. Amaterasu wasn't afraid of the animal, but still she knew that she should be cautious. Her hand was held out, and the beast growled again, hoping that the human would get the message to leave.
'She's not going to; I mean she loves things that look like a dog…' Riku could be heard snickering within the mind frame of the animal.
'You mean like you?' the beast responded, and then decided to give a hoarse laugh. Vieh growled again, but he stopped feeling a soothing hand on the top of his head.
"So you're the one that did Maleficent in, I'm impressed, I've been wanting to get rid of her for a while, I guess you beat me to it, little thing…" for a moment yellows eyes stared back at the two colored eyes, and she felt a smile creep up on her. "You have his eye…" she said, the beast feeling another pat on its head, "and you smell like him too…" she said feeling some remorse in her voice. Amaterasu stared at the silver fur, that covered the creature, and she sighed. "Yeah… you even have the same fur color, silver, just like his hair…" she chuckled, and her yellow eyes flickered again for a moment, the scent of blood staining her nose. She looked back at her hand noticing it was stained with the dark crimson substance, and wiped it on the wall of the crumbling hideout.
'She's strange, really strange…'the beast thought sitting down for a moment eyeing her. 'Well he knows that she is here, and he'll come in a while, until then I guess I'm going to have to get acquainted…' the beast thought rubbing against the leg of the girl known as 'Amaterasu' or the Atrum Procer.
"I really wish you could talk…" Amaterasu said leaning against the wall of the hallway, she slumped down at stared again at the yellow and turquoise eyes.
The beast yawned, showing off its sharp fangs and pink tongue, the scent of sea-salt was stronger than ever. 'I don't mind using the girl as a pillow though…' Vieh thought resting his head on the girl's lap.
'HEY!' Vieh could hear Riku growl somewhere in his mind now.
'Relax human…' Vieh thought closing his eyes as Amaterasu stroked the top of his head. The girl sighed and felt her heart stop beating for a moment. 'He's here… I can feel it…' she thought feeling her eyes widen. No doubt Lightning could feel it, and she was probably coming this way.
The Dark Master
Ignis felt relieved of having Riku preoccupied with the beast known as Vieh. For now he was able to move freely, for only a little while, and soon Vieh would come back and be forced back within the body of the Dark Master. There was nothing else he could do now but just wait for Vieh to bring the girl. 'Riku won't let his beast do anything though, I haven't broken him yet…' Ignis thought feeling some displeasure of it all. He sighed heavily and waited, resting against the stone column of the area. He watched the Princesses of Heart, and how the dark aura just seemed to hover about their body. They were asleep, no doubt waiting for his return, and to finally give back the power he once held within his grasp.
In the distance he noticed that a silver tinted beast was trailing blood as it walked along the hallway into this certain room. Ignis followed Vied with his amber eyes, and noted that a girl was resting on the back of the creature, and a woman with blonde hair accompanied them, she eyed Vieh with her blue eyes for a moment. The blonde haired woman picked up the girl, and the beast growled at the sudden action, but Ignis just looked at Vieh so he was forced to stand down, and finally sitting next to the woman. Amaterasu opened her eyes and noticed that she was looking down at the floor; blood stained the ground and her hand.
"Lightning?" she felt her body touch the ground, and looked up at the familiar crimson fabric, the scarf. The blue eyed Heartless nodded, and the girl felt relieved for a moment, she looked back at Vieh, and for a moment she saw Riku take the place of the beast. 'Riku?' she thought. Amaterasu sighed for a moment and stood up, and the girl looked back up noticing those dreaded amber eyes, and the white goatee, the tanned skin, the aged look, and the senses running through her body, it was him. Her heart stopped beating, and her eyes went wide. 'After all these years…' the girl thought. She could feel her body shake, her insides were screaming and her heart was starting to rip apart.
"Atrum Vinco of the Vesica of Keys…" those words seemed to fall so graciously from her lips, but fear was addressed at the mention of the title, and the Atrum Vinco was pleased.
Sora and the others
"HIYA!" Yuffie watched as Yomigami blocked Sora's attack, sending the brunette backwards into the wall of a nearby area. Yomigami's eyes flickered with a yellow tinge, and Sora braced himself, watching a flying chakram coming straight at him. 'REFLECT!' the boy thought sending the thunder filled weapon back to where it came from. The boy pushed himself off quickly and tried another attack. He ran forward letting Ultima weapon drag across the Heartless stained floor, casting Firaga, as he let the flames consume the weapon. Yomigami couldn't stand the immense heat, so he jumped back, avoiding the flames that shot out. Sora smirked and sent his Keyblade forward again, but Yomigami blocked it with both of his chakram's and a dark aura began to engulf the two identical weapons.
Sora felt a strong wind whip around him and he tried his best to block the parry of attacks, metallic weapons pounding against the Keyblade, that was held in a certain stance to give defense.
"Come on Sora, what's wrong?!" Yomigami said taunting him, noticing that Sora inched farther and farther away from him. Sora maneuvered quickly spinning around to the left side, and connected his Keyblade with the chakram, to keep Yomigami from moving for a moment. Yomigami didn't have time to recover, and Sora's gloved hand took hold of the razor sharp chakram that was within his grasp.
"Thundaga!" he cried out sending a shockwave of electricity through the metallic weapon, and into the body of his opponent. Both of the guys were sent flying backwards at the force of the attack, feeling the surge of energy jump out at them. Yomigami's eyes went back to their normal shade of a dark purple tint of some sort, and Sora struggled to sit up, feeling an open wound on his left hand.
"Damn… Yomigami…" Sora said panting for a moment, and he noticed that his Keyblade was nowhere within sight, it had gone back to its keychain form, hanging on the loop of the side of his long, black fabricated shorts. The older girl's brother lazily sat up feeling strands of his hair sit up. Nanaki sat up with Yuffie and sighed for a moment.
"Are you two all right?" Yuffie asked worriedly, she noticed several bruises on Yomigami, and Sora's wound on his left hand. Yomigami nodded and looked back at Sora who stared down at the ground for a moment.
"I thought for a moment that…" he flinched a bit as Yuffie lightly touched his arm, "…that you were going to use Anti-form…" he said, and Sora looked back up at him for a split second. Yuffie muttered something along the lines of 'Curaga' on the two people.
"I'm saving that for him…" Sora said clenching his fist tightly.
Back to Roxas
"So Naminé is sleeping?" Marlene asked, watching the blond haired teenage girl rest against the beige bed sheets. Roxas nodded, and felt a pair of brown eyes just gawk at him for a moment. He looked back at Marlene, who seemed to understand what he was feeling. "She'll wake up, you'll see." The dark brown haired girl said trying to lighten up the mood of the crestfallen boy. Roxas held up a rather weak smile, but the girl passed it off as a genuine one. "You know, she is really beautiful," the girl said noticing the angelic face of the female Nobody and Roxas felt the blood rush to his cheek's he was blushing for a moment. 'Ha! You're blushing Roxas!' Sora's voice echoed all the way through the hallway of his mind, teasing him to just about no end.
"Yeah… She really is beautiful," Roxas said breathlessly thing back to the times when Sora and Kairi were together.
"How long do you think this will last?" the blue eyed teen asked the angelic figure. She turned around, wisps of blonde hair lightly touching her cheeks; Naminé pushed the wayward strands out of and view, and put her hands together, fingertips touching fingertips, lost in thought for a moment. Roxas looked at her for a moment as she thought. He found it curious the way she would think, with her fingertips, that was her trademark stance all right.
Naminé put her hands down, arms resting on her lap, as she leaned forward in her brown wooden chair. The walls before them seemed distorted with stars covering the ceiling. This was another training room from which was created of Master Yen Sid.
"I don't know, Roxas…" Naminé answered truthfully, looking up at one of the stars, they twinkled when any small fragment of light came into the room. "But I know this won't last long…"
"I wish it would," he said fidgeting with the rings that were on his fingers. He heard Naminé chuckle for a moment and he felt something strum within what he felt was his 'heart'. 'Why do I feel like this when I'm with her? Do I love her? Can I even love her? Do I even have the 'heart' to love her?' Roxas thought looking up at the same star that caught Naminé's attention. "Nobodies aren't suppose to feel, right?"
"Uhn…" Naminé nodded absentmindedly and caught herself, looking back at Roxas confused for a moment, her finger tips lightly touching her lips for a moment. "Why?" she asked in that soft tone of hers.
"Something just crossed my mind," Roxas said brushing off the question. He laughed and found light blue eyes stare back at him with the same expression he held within his soul, 'heartless'.
"It's going to end pretty soon Roxas," she said, and Roxas watched her lips pronounce the last syllable of his name. He sighed for a moment and found his eyes wander to the tip of his shoes.
"It never does last long…" he said feeling a strange light surround the two of them. In their disappearance two other individuals seemed to appear, and took their place on where they sat before. Kairi looked back at catch a final glimpse of Roxas, and soon she found Sora's eyes stare back at her…
"What are you thinking about, Roxas?" Marlene's voice broke his thoughts, and he blinked for a moment. He looked around, staring at where he was at now, and then looked down to find Marlene's confused gaze upon him.
"The good times we've had," Roxas said taking a hold of Naminé hand. It felt lukewarm now, since Aerith had been treating her for the past couple of hours. Marlene placed her small hand on top of the boy's hand to try and share her comfort with him.
"We're gonna have plenty of good times when she wakes up." She said and for once Roxas was able to smile at her.
'But for how long?' he thought gripping Naminé's hand for second or two.
Outside Aerith and Cloud had left Marlene and Roxas alone with Naminé for a while. The boy by the name of Denzel stayed close to Aerith, and at one point he accidentally called her 'mother', but Aerith was use to it for some reason, but the thought of her being a mother made her cheeks turn a light shade of pink. Cloud blinked for a moment, and rested against the side of the gummi ship. 'This is what we're reduced too, just to take refugee in a place where the worlds get left behind, just great…' he thought looking into the distance. He could see Zack, Tifa and the others talking about something, but he didn't really want to bother making contact with them, especially if Sephiroth was there.
"Don't let him get to you, besides…" Aerith's green eyes looked back at Cloud, watching his brow scrunch up together for a moment, "a little certain somebody told me that he helped you," she said poking the side of his shoulder. His blue eyes dodged the intent gaze she placed on him, and she had got him cornered. 'That was only once, what difference does it make if he helped me or not?' he thought looking away from her, 'You guys use to be friends…' his conscience finally shined in on him, 'it was all his fault, she almost got hurt, and I didn't want to remember that day…'
"I can't… Not when he almost hurt you…" Cloud said softly, and Aerith watched the concerned features etched all over his face. He heard Aerith say something along the lines of 'is that why?' and Cloud knew that to her it sounded a bit childish. "I wanted to keep you safe, but I couldn't… He almost hurt you, and…" Aerith leaned against the side of the gummi ship and Cloud watched her for a moment.
"That was a long time ago, Cloud," she said meaning every word of it all. "He's apologized countless of times for that. If it hadn't been for him, you probably wouldn't even be standing here next to me right now, Zack told me what happened," Aerith said. 'I really should thank him for taking care of him that day…' the flower maiden made a mental note of it. "Anyway…" she stopped noticing that Denzel was tugging at her arm. "What is it, Denzel?" she asked.
"Marlene's calling for you," he said softly pointing to the gummi ship.
Several weeks later, two to be exact
Rinoa sighed and let her head rest gently on the make shift pillow she liked to call Squall. The brown haired man grunted as Rinoa placed her whole weight on him, and he had trouble sitting up. "Sora really wants to attack the Dark Master," she said holding some concern for the boy. Rinoa found a pair of blue eyes staring at her from the mess of brown hair, and she frowned for a moment noticing that Leon was trying to say 'so what about it?' "I mean, come on Squall. He can't do this by himself, Sora's going to get himself killed!"
"He's got friends beside him, you know what," he said looking back at Rinoa for a moment. "Sora will be just fine, besides we'd all probably get in the way somehow. The best we can do is fight off the Heartless and clear a path for him, you know that." And Rinoa didn't really seem too pleased about it. "With that…" Squall began to sit up from the makeshift couch they were resting on, "we should start getting ready…" Rinoa sighed and looked back at Squall as he made his way through the other door of the ship.
"Sora's letting his emotions get the best of him…" Rinoa said fixing her hair. She wasn't even able to enjoy napping anymore since Sora ordered them to go to Sunset Horizon. The weather was nothing like Radiant Garden, and the desert humidity was murdering her hair, but at a time like this, her hair was the least of her worries.
Yomigami and Yuffie were outside trying to see anything useful for a hideout of some sort. So far the only thing they found was an abandoned warehouse, and when Yuffie stepped into it Heartless started to crawl out from the shadows, it had taken a while with just Yomigami and the ninja but they cleared the area, a bit bruised and tired but no casualties on their part.
"Don't EVER do anything like that again," Yomigami said feeling out of breath for now. "That was reckless; you act like a kid…" and Yuffie glared at him putting her foot down, rather the correct term was slamming her foot down on his.
"Now that was acting like a kid…" she said smiling in victory, but Yomigami just glared at her. "I was kidding, come on, Yuki…" she said calling him by his nickname, and Yomigami scoffed.
"That's the last time I'm saving your ass…" the teen said looking back at Yuffie for a moment, "we should probably tell Leon and the others that we've found a hideout now…"
Leon and Aerith noticed that Yuffie was running like crazy, "Hey you guys! Check out what we found!" she yelled across the area trying to catch the attention of everyone else. Cloud pushed himself of the side of the gummi ship and looked at Yuffie as she stopped running, and pointed to the warehouse in the distance. Reno and Rude stopped their game of 'Speed' and placed the cards down on the table. The red head looked at the shuriken wielding ninja, and wondered why the heck she was yelling. Rude pointed in the direction of the old warehouse, and Reno found his 'light bulb' turn on. Zack and Sephiroth watched the warehouse in the distance, and the spiky black hared man walked forward, and the other one just waited for directions for now. Cid stuck his head out of his gummi ship, and looked at the warehouse, grinning. Shera peered out for a moment and sighed in relief.
Tifa and Reeve looked at Leon for a moment, and Leon gave out the orders to move out. "Where?" Rinoa's voice came from outside the ship, and Reno looked up watching the woman for a moment.
"The two lovebirds over there found a hideout," Reno said pointing to the warehouse with an 'ace'. " Leon's giving the signal to move out… we should probably tell that Sora kid…"
Rinoa looked back up and noticed that the other door was closed, 'He's still sleeping, poor kid he's tired from all that training, he's pushing himself too far…' she thought.
"I'll tell him," Zack said offering his services. Rinoa nodded and Reno and Rude cleared the table and placed it back within the black and blue gummi ship.
"Thanks, Zack," Rinoa said giving a warm smile to the raven hared man.
"Ah, it's no problem…" he said waving back as he walked up the stairs and knocked on the closed door, "Hey Sora, come on kid time to wake up…" he said knocking once again. "SOOORRRAAAA….!" He said louder this time, and sighed when the door didn't open. Zack fiddled with the lock, using a little piece of a paper clip he found on the floor and forced the lock open.
Sora was sleeping peacefully on the floor, snoring lightly. 'He looks like Cloud when he's asleep…' he thought thinking back to his good friend. He noticed that the blonde hared girl was slowly waking up from her slumber, and Zack froze. 'Wait… What's she doing in here?! I thought she was in the infirmary part of the ship… Oh man…' he noticed that Naminé rubbed her eyes for a moment and looked groggily in Zack's direction. "Mornin' Zack…" the Nobody said yawning for a moment, "Za…ck… ZACK!?"
"…my tots…" Sora said mumbling something in his sleep as he jerked himself awake hearing Naminé yell. "It's about time…" Zack said sighing for a moment. "Sora we've found a good hideout and I came here to wake you up… But what I didn't know was that you had a visitor so…"
"What?!" Sora's brain finally woke up. "No, no, no, you got it all wrong!" the Keyblade's 'Chosen One' shook his head. "It's not like that! Roxas, Naminé and me stayed up talking…"
"Talking?" Zack raised an eyebrow. "And where is Roxas?" he looked around for the other blonde Nobody. Sora blinked for a moment looking around the room as well.
"Here…" Roxas appeared in back of Zack, with a toothbrush in his mouth. "Who the hell was screaming like a banshee?" Zack and Sora pointed to Naminé and she felt her face get a bit hot.
Amaterasu and the others
"It's been two weeks since there was that strange light in the sky…" Amaterasu said looking back at Ignis. The Dark Master said nothing, leaving Amaterasu to deduce what he was trying to get at, but it was no use. "I've sent a couple of Heartless there, by the warehouse near that area, but so far not one of them have come back…" she noted that Ignis nodded for a moment. 'Riku's fighting pretty hard… He's got him all worked up, just even speaking would make him lose control of his body…' she thought for a moment and sighed. Vieh had gone back into the mind of where ever he came from, so she was all alone, Lightning was off scouting the area.
"Atrum Procer…" Amaterasu looked back and noticed that Ignis' appearance changed. 'Is this some sort of sick joke?!' she thought noticing the familiar figure come into view. The silver hair was the only thing catching her eye. 'He looks like him, but yet he's not…' Riku's image was right before her eyes, but the voice was completely different from the boy she knew. "Send out more of them…" he said in a commanding tone.
"More of them?" she asked wildly, tightening her fist. "I just sent about a good 345 Heartless to that God forsaken warehouse, I can't do that right now!" Amaterasu felt something like a sort of pressure around her throat. 'Shit…' she thought. Amaterasu raised her arm, in order to get the pressure to subside, and with that she gave her final response. "All right…" she said noticing that Ignis smiled, it made her insides twist, watching Riku's body under that control. 'I can't take it… It makes me feel sick inside…'
Don't worry about it, we'll see each other again soon, I promise…
'I haven't heard that voice in a while… Am I going mental…?' she thought for a moment and shook her head. She growled for a moment and walked back to the open window that gave her a view of the over looking area. She could see the warehouse just a couple of kilometers away, and she outstretched her hand, watching a purple and black aura cover her hand. 'To the warehouse…' she thought dimly, watching something lightly cover the warehouse for a moment. "You happy now?" she asked sourly, looking back Ignis.
"Don't take that tone with me…" he said eyeing her cautiously. 'This is just like Terra all over again…' Ignis thought sourly and looked away for a moment. Amaterasu just shrugged the threat and walked back down the hallway. 'Kingdom Hearts… it needs more rage…' he thought watching the Atrum Procer walk away.
The Heartless
The female Heartless pulled back, avoiding the Keyblade by barely an inch. 'If he gets me I'm a goner for sure!' the Heartless thought jumping back again, and reflecting an attack back at the Keyblade wielder. The Keyblade wielder panted for a moment, raising his weapon high in the air, and Lightning took the chance to cast a Thundaga, knocking the wielder off balance. 'Now!' she thought pulling the trigger, three shots rang out, and with that the brunette was knocked on the ground. Lightning panted for a moment letting the oxygen travel through her lungs, enrich her blood, and relax her muscles. The boy wasn't dead, but he was merely stunned. She looked back quickly watching several pairs of yellow eyes rush past her and onto the crowd of on comers. A shuriken zipped through the air, and Lightning reappeared to the side, panting for a moment. 'All right time for me to leave…' she thought noticing several weapons come into view.
"Hold it right there!" Someone yelled, and Lightning had no choice but the block the attack. She noticed a pair of blue eyes look at her. It was Roxas, and he did everything he could to knock her down. Lightning was too fast for him, and she appeared in back of him, knocking him out like a piece of cake. Roxas disappeared from sight, and Lightning took the chance to force a dark portal to come into shape. She retreated, and before long the sound of feet caught up to her ears, she knew she wasn't alone.
Leon and the others
Reno pulled back using his Electro-rod, and stunning nearby Heartless with ease. Rude and Tifa went back to back throwing, kicking, and punching Heartless left and right. Leon, Cloud, Sephiroth and Zack, each with their own weapon of choice dismantling Heartless left and right, bodies went flying through the air as Nanaki and Umbra came into view ferociously letting the poor Heartless have it, casting magic and using what nature gave them. Yuffie jumped back as Yomigami threw one of his chakram into a Heartless and let it combust before her very eyes. "I thought you weren't going to save my ass…?" Yomigami looked back at the ninja for a moment, as she threw her giant shuriken at an oncoming Heartless. "Don't think, just do…" Yomigami said taking his weapon back into his hand and rushing past Heartless, fatally nicking the ones that came close to him.
Rinoa and Aerith were guarding the two children, Marlene and Denzel, casting attack spells like no tomorrow. Shelke and Vincent stood by them, the girl with the EM sabers ran past the Heartless, wounding the ones that came into contact with her weapon. Vincent felt his body twist into a shape, his red cloak encompassing him, and out emerged a beat by the name of Galian Beast. Shelke watched him for a moment and noticed that a dark ball of energy shot out from his clawed hand, and knocked down several Heartless.
Leon brought his Gunblade, pulling the trigger at the right moment sending a shockwave on the body of the Heartless that connected with the weapon, it flew back. Cloud spilt his sword into two, akimbo style, spinning his swords as quick as he could, trying to end the battle as quickly as he could. Zack brought his Buster Sword high into the air, and when he slammed down, the ground shook around him, with such force, sending a powerful gust of wind, dealing heavy damage to the surrounding Heartless. Sephiroth on the other hand didn't seem to waste that much time with his sword, with a simple flick of the wrist, he way his arm moved so quick and deadly, the Masamune did all the work for him, easily slicing into the flesh of the Heartless.
"Where's Naminé?" Aerith asked loudly, after casting a Thundaga spell. "I thought she was with Roxas…" Rinoa said throwing her boomerang like weapon towards a Heartless. "Sora's not here either…" Shelke said as she finished dealing a fatal blow to the back of a Heartless.
"Where the hell are they?" Leon asked, taking out his rage onto the nearby Heartless.
"Not here…!" Reeve said pulling the trigger on the automatic handgun he had at his disposal. Cid took his spear, impaling one of the Heartless and tossing over into a crowd, knocking several enemies down. Cid looked up and noticed an aircraft hovering over them. 'Shera…' he thought hearing the earsplitting sound of a bomb go off in the distance.
With Amaterasu and the others
The little Heartless that sat on Amaterasu's lap squirmed a bit and looked off into the distance, its yellow orbs watching one part of the wall cautiously. 'She's back…' Amaterasu thought thinking back to her favorite Heartless. 'At least now it's not going to be so lonely…' she thought smiling for a moment, and the Heartless looked at a black spot that appeared to grow in size, it soon produced a human looking body from the other side of it. The girl patted the Heartless on the head to stay put, and her dark brown eyes looked at the portal for a moment noticing the crimson scarf. "We've got visitors…" Lightning said eyeing Amaterasu for a moment, and looked back at the portal. "Let them come," Amaterasu said pulling out Way to Night and she stuck her weapon into the ground. "We can take them on…"
The first to tread out of the portal was someone with blonde hair, and Amaterasu felt a growl emit from her voice. 'Darn… I can't ignore this now…' she thought letting her Heartless self take a small hold of her stance. "Hey look!" Naminé voice called out, pointing to an abandoned Keyblade. "It looks like Riku's…" her voice trailed away as Roxas and Sora started to walk around. "Someone's here…" Roxas said. He felt some sort of pressure in the air. The girl, the humanoid Heartless, and the small pureblood Heartless were hidden by one of the ruined archways of the room. '… Ventus…' the girl thought, letting her Heartless like entity take control for a moment. Lightning gripped the shoulder of the girl, and Amaterasu's eyes went back to normal, the yellow tinge was erased for now.
"Ventus…!" the girl spoke out from her hiding spot. Both Roxas and Sora looked at one another, and then off in the distance from where the voice came from. Naminé looked at the shadows from the corners of the ruin, she couldn't really tell if something was moving or not. A pureblood Heartless walked out from the ruin, and walked along in a straight path, stopping about 15 feet away from the three Keyblade wielding individuals. Sora brought out his Keyblade, when he felt something put pressure on his body. Roxas jumped back and noticed that where Sora stood, the small radius around his feet was being sucked in by the darkness.
"Sora!" Roxas called out alarmed as he tried to pull Sora out of there. Naminé joined in, and as they both tried to help Sora from the portal, they failed to notice that the abandoned Keyblade had disappeared. Lightning looked back at Amaterasu as she growled, gripping the Keyblade till her knuckles were almost white. 'She's losing it now…' Lightning thought, feeling something called 'remorse'. The darkness just kept Sora from moving, and the two Nobodies still tried desperately to pry their friend out, the little pureblood Heartless on the other hand just watched them for a moment, and looked back at the ruined archway.
Ignis Xehanort
'She isn't back yet…' Riku's words kept floating around in his mind, and the Dark Master couldn't take the voices running through the sanctuary of his mind. Ignis thought that sending Riku into the darkest part of his mind, his heart, would be enough to keep him busy, trying to break him, but Riku did the exact opposite. Ignis knew that his first mistake was finding the Dark Princess so quickly, and it gave Riku hope, that maybe, just maybe everything would be all right. 'Why isn't she back yet?' Riku's voice floated around again. Ignis sighed for a moment staring out at the land called Sunset Horizon. Heartless were dispatched moments ago towards a capital by the name of 'Elusion-Ilusion' and Ignis knew that the invasion over there was doing fairly well. 'Someone's here…' the Dark Master thought feeling a set a new presences within the area.
Riku stared up again at the infinite darkness that surrounded his whole presence, the sounds of several growls came and went, bringing Vieh in and out of focus from his own mind. "There's more…" the silver hared teen said softly to himself feeling the presence of several other people come within the area. He gripped his hand for a moment, feeling something shoot up from his arm, it felt hot. "I can't get out of here…" Riku said, his turquoise eyes scanning for any glimpse of light, but he didn't find anything. "I promised I'd give this back to you, Amaterasu…" he said referring to her musical device, "and I might not be able to…" he gave a forced laugh for no apparent reason. "Am I really going to be stuck in here forever?"
"Riku…" he looked back at the dark brown eyes, her lips produced a small smile, and he could feel his heart skip a beat. Just having her call his name like that, it made him want to melt all the more. She wrapped her arms around him, sighing heavily. "This… This is really real…" she said half laughing for a moment. "I'm not dreaming…" Riku nuzzled against her, taking in the sweet scent of flowers, and Amaterasu looked up at the silver locks of hair for a moment. "You have no idea…" she said shyly, watching the soft turquoise eyes for a moment, "how much I love you…" she said afraid to say it out loud.
"I think I do…" Riku said feeling a smirk form, and he kissed the side of her cheek, and she felt like she was melting. "You know, I really thought you weren't going to say it…" he said letting his lips come into contact with hers, taking in the warmth that she had now. 'She says she's darkness, but she's wrong, she's light… she's my light…' the silver hared teen thought feeling her hand touch his cheek. She kissed him back, and slowly parted for a moment, opening her eyes slowly. There was a smile he hadn't seen in a long time, "see I was right, you look beautiful when you smile…" he said feeling a peck on his cheek.
"Yeah well… Keep that smile in your memory… for me… when…" she felt Riku hug her, and she paused for a moment, hugging him back. "When I can't remember…" Amaterasu said letting the last words fall into a whisper.
Riku sighed remembering that day, it had been weeks ago, and now when he was finally within a good range of her but he wasn't able to do anything. Ignis didn't want any interference between him, and his plan to get Kingdom Hearts. Riku could feel her presence, but for some reason it wasn't like the stinging sensation he felt in his heart, rather just like a sort of pressure. "Something's happening…" he said to himself hearing Ignis' voice. 'Looks like they're no match for her…' he thought proudly to himself. 'She'll buy us more time then,' Ignis' was chuckling to himself.
With the heir, Versus
Versus felt his body hit the wall with such force that the wall started to crumble underneath him, and he had no time to react now. He grunted trying to heave himself up from the force of the attack. He could see blue visors zip past him, his soldiers were doing everything they could to protect the capital. 'No doubt the same things are happening in my other countries…' he thought finally mustering some strength to push the debris off of him. He could see winged Heartless fly over head, and he jumped back as one of them threw energy balls. The dark blue hared man regained his composure and with a swift motion he picked up the sword that laid on the ground, and his eyes turned to a fine crimson color, 'we'll fight even after sunset…' he thought pushing himself off of the top of the debris, and jabbing his weapon into the chest of a Heartless.
These types of Heartless were called Invisible. They were pureblood Heartless that wielded large swords. They were also winged pureblood types that were capable of moving quickly and freely through the air. Besides their sword they were able to attack with their wings, and their tails. The Invisible wasted no time in attacking quickly, as their blows were often strong enough to knock out someone, and defeat them. It was something that Versus remembered while he came across old text books when he was younger. Versus blocked an oncoming blade that was coming downward, and pushed it off with ease.
The sound of bullets filled the area as the blue visor soldiers pulled the trigger, letting the bullets penetrate the flesh of the dark beings. Several Darkball Heartless screeched in pain feeling the bullet enter their flesh. With that the Darkballs jerked to the side getting ready to attack. Versus growled for a moment, and several spears materialized at his side. The soldiers continued to attack at the approaching Heartless, but the numbers of people fighting for the cause, was deteriorating. 'They're unpredictable…' Versus thought charging forward, 'which means I'll just have to be faster…' with his mind he commanded one spear to move suddenly to the right, and it slammed against several Darkballs. His sword was brought up, and it swiftly sliced through several of the round shaped Heartless.
"Versus!" a female soldier ran through the crowd, jumping over Heartless as they were hitting the ground. Gunshots were bursting through the area, and several soldiers were being knocked down by Heartless. The female soldier brought her sword and with a swift and powerful upwards motion, she neatly cut the Heartless in her way. Versus looked back for a brief second and noticed the female battle armor. His swords came crashing down on another Heartless and before long the ground began to shake. A loud and earsplitting roar was heard several miles away. "Behemoths…" the female soldier said, that was the reason she came over to the heir in the first place. "They've broken through the defense within the city limits… I don't think…"
Versus point two fingers in an opposite direction and two spears moved in that direction, with un seen force, and jabbed their pointy edges within two Heartless that were going to sneak up on him. He noted that the female soldier's visor was cracked in half, exposing her human face. It was darkened by dirt, and scratches on her cheek. "We have to evacuate… lord…" she said watching as several soldiers stopped to reload, trying at the same time to dodge attacks. "We've already led some citizens to the higher parts, where the forest starts…"
Versus looked back noticing his men were falling like flies. Two soldiers were hurled back by Darkballs as the round Heartless head butted the two figures, there metallic armor created a heavy screeching noise as they skidded across the floor. The heir growled for a moment sending more spears to do his bidding. "We'll stay here…" Versus said moving forward, with his sword at his side, "you just concentrate on the ones that are up there…" He performed a Gravity spell keeping some Invisibles and Darkballs from moving while the spears did what they had to do. What he didn't notice was a Wyvern that was coming at full force as it did a nose dive, the soldier called his name out to warn him, but all that the heir saw was a blur of crimson red.
Roxas and the others
Amaterasu was pushed back by Roxas as she had gone and tapped into her 'berserk' mode, known as the Anti-form that Sora used. Naminé was in charge of keeping Sora safe, by all means necessary through spells, while Roxas was in charge of blocking all attacks that Amaterasu wanted to inflict on the brunette boy. The yellow eyes stared menacingly at the duel wielding blond, and she ran forward, Roxas didn't have enough time to move his Keyblades down, and the Heartless zipped to the right, avoiding the blades by a spilt second. Roxas turned around, and for him everything seemed to move slowly, with that he felt something hit his gut, and it sent him flying backwards.
"Roxas!" Naminé called out watching the blond male Nobody pick himself up from the floor. Oblivion and Oathkeeper were next to his body, and he panted looking back at the yellow eyes of the attacker. 'So then this is her…' he thought and he could hear Sora's voice pop into his head. 'Focus buddy…' Sora's voice warned him as the girl rushed forward with lightning speed. Roxas rolled to the right, narrowly missing a clawed hand that was about to stab him in the gut. 'AH!' the Nobody thought watching the yellow eyes of the Anti-form, 'is she trying to…?!' Roxas picked himself up and dodged another attack as the claws came from the side. He called out to his two Keyblades and as Amaterasu was about to deal a fatal blow he braced for impact, with a burst of light his weapons appeared and blocked the clawed hand.
The girl jumped back and noticed that Sora still wasn't moving. 'Right for the kill…' the thoughts whispered into her head. 'No, Ignis said NOT to kill him…' it was Amaterasu's sanity trying to fight off her own darkness. 'Then what's the point of opening Kingdom Hearts if the brat is still alive?' Amaterasu spun to the right, narrowly avoiding the Keyblade by the name of Oblivion. 'How the hell should I know what Ignis is thinking?!' Amaterasu responded noticing that she had Roxas pinned to the floor now. Both edged of the Keyblades were being pushed back by the girl's Anti-form. Roxas tried his best to keep a good distance between himself and the anti-form human, but it was no use, he struggled under the strength the girl found within the darkness. Scratches adorned the sides if his face, and there were cuts on the sides of his arms from the pressure of the dark aura's as they passed by him.
Amaterasu pulled herself back and looked at Naminé and Sora, they hadn't moved at all during the attack on Roxas. 'She's protecting him…' the other voice said and the girl moved forward with swift speed, and Naminé placed a strong 'Reflect' spell, keeping the yellow eyed girl preoccupied. 'I can't move him…' the blonde Nobody thought looking back at Sora; he held a look of worry within his eyes. "I'm trying…" Naminé whispered watching as Roxas jumped forward, with both Keyblades ready to strike. The girl didn't bother to turn around, and in the blink of an eye she already had Roxas by the throat. Roxas flailed about trying to kick her grasp away, but it was no use, the claws seemed to slowly make their way into his flesh little by little.
With her other hand the reflective spell shattered, and Naminé blocked a parry of attacks aimed at Sora. Roxas was flung back towards the two people, knocking Naminé down in the process as she caught Sora's Nobody. Amaterasu rushed in noticing that Sora was left unprotected and the two Nobodies frantically picked themselves up and ran forward. 'We're not going to make it!' they both thought noticing Amaterasu was seconds ahead of them. Sora tried to move again, but still no luck, the portal had him glued to the ground. He braced himself with his Keyblade, knowing that he was going to get hurt. There was no way he could fight back like this. 'This is gonna hurt!' he thought, knowing that he was going to get hit. Sora closed his eyes, and waited for that pain, but nothing happened. He opened one eye and noticed that someone was holding Amaterasu back. "That's enough!" the figure yelled pulling the girl away from Sora. With that the black portal disappeared, and Sora was able to move back a bit.
"So…ra…" he heard Amaterasu's voice as she struggled to articulate his name under the various roars and growl from her dark sided nature. One clawed hand was frantically reaching for him, and Sora's eyes widened. The figure holding her back reassured him that nothing would happen. Roxas and Naminé finally made it to Sora's side, and Roxas rubbed his neck for a moment, blood was smeared on to the side of his neck, and on his hand. They looked back as the darkness started to leave the girl's body, strands of black and purple seemed to melt off of her skin, and soon the brown skinned girl was revealed to them, her dark brown eyes gazed up at them. "Sora?" she asked feeling out of breath, and quickly Lightning released the grip on the Atrum Procer.
R i k u
"Vieh shut the hell up!" I yelled back at the yellow eyed creature, the beast growled for a moment but then it sat back down. Quiet for now, but I don't think it's going to last. I remember hearing Amaterasu mouth off to Ignis that much I heard. I mean it was funny, but somehow I knew that something had happened to her after she said that, because something in my heart snapped. Also there are three new energies around here, and they seem really familiar, but I can't really make them out.
I still haven't found a way out of here, and I'm staring to get annoyed by it all. Now I know how Vieh feels when he isn't outside, to think I'd understand how an animal feels, but ut est vita as Amaterasu would say. I've been waking around this dark room for who knows how long, and still I haven't been able to find anything worth noting. I think Amaterasu left a while ago, but I don't know where she is, and Lightning is with her, that much I know. 'Where is she at?' I thought, but Ignis didn't give me answer. 'I know you can hear me…' he knew I was impatient at this point. 'Fine be that way…' what was the point of even trying to communicate with the enemy, but still he's the only one who has contact with the outside world, so I have to be nice to some degree.
I looked up hearing something in the distance, it was a voice, but it was distorted. Other than that nothing interesting happened, and so with that I heard static ringing in my ears again.
Amaterasu sat down on a wooden chair, she was looking over at the ruins from neighboring areas. She looked back at Ignis for a moment and the Dark Master avoided her gaze for a moment. "You carry their eyes sometimes…" Ignis said growling for a moment. Amaterasu tilted her head for a second trying to figure out what he meant by that. "Don't pretend you don't know about them…" he said harshly and she laughed for a moment looking away, probably rolling her eyes in annoyance.
"Anyway, Ignis…" she said coldly with the same edge the Dark Master carried at times. "What do you want to do with Sora? You want him dead?"
"We still need him," Ignis said his amber eyes watching the Atrum Procer for a moment. Her eyes held out the question 'why' and he was more than glad to answer her reason. "For the simple fact that he needs to complete Kingdom Hearts, each heart that is released by the Keyblade creates Kingdom Hearts, it's as simple as that…" he said in a sort of 'as a matter of fact' tone. Amaterasu nodded understanding his reason for keeping the Keyblade's Chosen One alive. "I should've really thanked Maleficent and the others who sent more Heartless into the other countless worlds, thanks to them the 'sacred moon' is almost complete."
Amaterasu looked away from the Dark Master for a moment feeling some hit her heart a bit. It was beating very slowly whenever he was within a good radius. Ignis sat back in his chair watching the little Dark Princess for a moment and he smirked, he knew why she was acting like that, and it gave him all the more pleasure of torturing both the girl and the boy. "I have to thank you as well Amaterasu," Ignis said in a light chuckle, "some of this wouldn't have been possible without you, sending some of the Heartless down to that warehouse… And especially I want to commemorate the action you took by giving Riku the sphere…"
"That's enough!" Amaterasu said gripping the edge of the windowsill, she gritted her teeth trying to block out that small action. It was something she didn't want to remember. 'It's all my fault he's like this… And I played into the hands of destiny, she wanted me to repeat history…' she thought looking down at her hand, it still gripped the windowsill. The girl felt remorse for doing that action, but in the heat of the moment she thought she was doing something good for all of them. 'I really hope they aren't mad at me…' she thought desperately knowing that somehow only several people weren't mad at her.
I sighed for a moment looking at the pained look of the girl I came to know and love. It pained me watching her like that, and Ignis wasn't making her feel better at all. I'm not mad at her, I'm mad at myself for sitting on that damn chair from the 'Room of Sleep'. History really did repeat itself this time, and I just hope that Sora can give this a good ending.
'Hey what about her?' I haven't heard that voice in a while, and I knew who it was, it was Vieh, my personal companion.
"What about her?" I asked hearing the beast growl from the shadows.
'Just thought you'd include her in your whole, Sora will help us thing…' Vieh said whining for a moment.
"In case you haven't noticed she's not really up to it, you saw her…" I said hugging my knees for a moment.
'Last time I checked I saw her walking around and smiling with that Heartless, what was her name…? Ah, yes Lightning…' it said sounding proud that it remembered that fact. I looked down at what I thought were my shoes, it was true she did have Lightning to keep her upbeat, but I mean, she's human I doubt she's going to be acting like that, she may be able to hide her emotions underneath a smile, but I know she's lying to herself, and she knows that too. 'Hey what happened to the older one, the one that got his ass kicked by her? What did they call him…? Oh, Xehanort, where is he?' the beast growled for a moment and the click-click sounds could be heard as his claws traversed across the dark room. 'Can't smell him, you think he's with him?'
"Wouldn't doubt it…" I said looking up at what I thought was the ceiling. I just really want to get out of this hell hole. I looked at the front area, and noticed a pair of yellow eyes staring at me, I could feel a strange toothy smile directed at me. "What are you laughing about, dog?" I asked hearing Vieh clear his throat, and then the sound of grunts came rushing into my ear.
'Be nice boy, I'm trying to escape from here too you know, now I'M stuck with YOU. Just wonderful, an entity doesn't have time to waste with the likes of things like you. Or share the same body with a Heartless that's disgusting in itself… Ah but if you've noticed when he walks out there's a small light off to the side, a bright white light, something pleasing to your eyes…' Vieh said, and the sound of weight colliding with the ground was heard.
"Then what haven't you tried?" I asked feeling a bit strange, I mean talking to this thing.
'Have you been listening to anything I've told you?' Vieh sighed heavily, and slumped to the floor again, I think. 'I'm part of you, I've always been a part of you, heck I only came out recently because it was easy to spilt…'
"A part of me?" I asked angrily.
'Figment of your imagination turned into a reality, of some sick and twisted sort…' Vieh said laughing loudly for a moment.
A m a t e r a s u
I opened my eyes once more and noticed two blonde haired people and a familiar face. 'Sora…' I thought as I sat up and the people flinched back, their bodies were a bit tense, I could feel it. I felt something rub against me and noticed it was the Heartless from earlier. "Hey…" I whispered to it softly, and it purred. I looked back at Sora for a moment, and I could tell that something had happened earlier. "Sora…" I began to speak softly. "…hey…" I said sounding a bit weak.
"Ammi…" his voice sounded a bit remorseful, I don't know why though. He has nothing to be upset about. "Where is he?" he asked. He seemed a bit angry now. "Don't lie I know you know where he is…"
"Who?" I asked standing up, but Lightning told me to sit back down, and I felt a bit woozy. Sora growled for a moment and sat down, and the other two people sat down next to Sora. "Oh!" it finally clicked in my head. "You're talking about Ignis!" I said smiling for a moment. "That old fart he's WAAYYYY up ahead, this is just the entrance area." I said pointing them in the right direction.
The little Heartless sat next to me, and it growled smelling Sora's scent and I chuckled for a second, noticing the look in Sora's eye. "You have every right to be mad at me…"I said looking down at him, and I sighed for a bit feeling my heart stop beating for a while, I hate that feeling. "I gave him the sphere… so this is my entire fault, and I'm sorry…" I said putting my head down. "Guess I didn't do a good job at keeping him safe," I said forcing myself to laugh. "I'm sorry… About what happened to Kairi," I said noticing that Sora gripped his fist closed, trying not to hit anything, "it's not your fault…"
"You want me to say it's yours?" he asked bitterly looking at me with this sort of rage burning in his blue eyes. 'I know how you feel…' I thought looking away from him for a moment.
"It'd make me feel a bit better if you said yes…" I said forcing a smile on my lips.
"Then it is…" he said, sounding serious for a moment.
"Sora!" Naminé said scolding him, "it isn't her fault and you now it!"
"I gave him the sphere, I carried out the order to kidnap Kairi, I sent out Heartless almost all over to the other worlds, I was in charge of kidnapping the other Princess of Hearts, it was my responsibility to find the next Dark Master, how can you say it isn't my fault!?" I asked furiously shaking my head. I felt Lightning ret her hand on my shoulder in a comforting sort of token. Naminé and Roxas looked down for a moment and I guess I was right. 'This was my fault…' I thought sighing heavily letting it sink in.
"Since it's your fault then help me fix it." I heard Sora say, and Lightning let out a small chuckle. I heard the little Heartless next to me hiss something.
"The capital?" I asked looking back at the yellow eyes of the Heartless. It was a Green Requiem that was next to me, and I chuckled forgetting how small they were. "Something's up in the capital… Hey Lightning do me a favor, go and checkout Elusion-Ilusion." Lightning nodded and went through a dark portal.
"What's up with Elusion-Ilusion?" Sora asked looking at me, narrowing his eyes for a moment. I shrugged for a bit not really knowing the answer to the question myself.
"So then, off to visit Ignis, Ventus?" I asked looking at Roxas and at Sora, they didn't seemed pleased with that name.
"I'd like it better if you didn't call me that ok…?" he asked trying to sound as polite as he could.
"Then this means you want me to help you?" I asked grinning.
"You're the only one who knows where he is…" Sora said shrugging for a moment and looked back to Naminé and Roxas.
"He's been expecting you; no doubt our fight gave away our location." I said fidgeting with my hair for a moment. "He's going to have all the reason to dispose of me now…" I said standing up, and dismissing the Green Requiem from its position.
Elusion-Ilusion
"Is this where the distress signal came from, Shelke?" Reeve asked as the gummi ship by the name of Shera hovered over the land. Shelke Rui nodded her blue eyes scanning the radar for any signs of an energy source of some sort. "Keep looking, we've got to find the direct area from where it came from…" he said concerned about the ruined look of the area. "There are multiple signals…" Shelke said projecting the screen to the other board within the conference room of the ship.
On the ground the others were dispatched fighting alongside the remaining soldiers from the Elusion-Ilusion area. Cloud and several soldiers took charge and knocked down a Behemoth, knocking the black horn clearly off the top of its head. Reno and Zack fought off Invisibles and Wyverns that were zipping about on rooftops, electricity and metal colliding with bodies, and the Heartless were dropping and disappearing like flies, and dying like them as well. Sephiroth rushed forward, his wing fluttering in the distance as he used his speed decapitating Heartless left and right as they drew close. Aerith and Rinoa fought off the Heartless like monkey by the name of Powerwild, avoiding close combat with them, and letting them taste the heat from the Firaga spells relentlessly.
"Final Heaven!" Tifa called out her attack gathering strength from her fist and plowing through a crowd of Heartless. In their wake a small explosion of some sort knocked them over and they disappeared in a puff of black smoke.
A female soldier appeared next to Rude as he used his fists to communicate with the Heartless, and the female soldier used her sword to slice enemies left and right. They were both protecting a man who was knocked unconscious by a Wyvern during a previous fight. The number of Heartless seemed to die down a bit while Vincent was in his 'chaos' mode. The demon form blasted Heartless left and right, using his claws and feet to knock them down on the ground. Nanaki used Sled Fang shooting himself swiftly through his enemies and letting them fall down to the ground. Chakrams and a huge shuriken zipped past opponents slicing the flesh of whatever it connected with. Yomigami and Yuffie were fighting alongside one another using everything they had to make the Heartless fall.
Before long the battle was starting to die down and action was soon becoming a thing of the past. The Heartless were starting to disappear now, thanks to these 'saviors' as the soldiers call them. Up within the ship named Shera, the female figure by the name of Shelke sighed and noticed that the signals were starting to fade away. 'They did their job correctly…' she thought feeling happy as she noticed Vincent Valentine go back to his original form. Denzel and Marlene were upstairs with her watching the battle from the bigger screen besides Shelke Rui. "Did they win?" Denzel asked feeling Marlene grip his hand. Shelke turned around and looked at the two children. "We are for right now," she said in that same normal manner of hers.
"We're gonna land." Cid's voice could be heard over the intercom as the gummi ship started to descend and the children could see the ground get closer and closer. Reeve walked up towards the cockpit of the gummi ship and looked at the view of the capital. 'It's almost beyond repair…' he thought noticing the district crumbling. 'Almost as bad as what happened in Midgar…' he thought sighing for a moment.
Lightning sighed for a moment and looked back at the soldiers she had just helped out. 'That Green Requiem knew about the invasion…' the female Heartless thought growling for a moment. 'What does Ignis plan to do? Get more hearts?' she thought to herself, she came into contact with several other people who were huddling up besides the fallen person. 'Versus?' she cautiously walked over and noticed that Versus was the one who had fallen down. He sat up roughly, shaking some of the dirt off of his shoulders and muttered something. "Thank you," he said his dark eyes looking at everyone who was around him. "Lightning…" he said softly noticing the Heartless with the crimson scarf, and for once her heart was beating like a human.
Back with Sora and the others
A silver coated beast lunged forward knocking both Roxas and Sora down to the ground, and each boy struggled to keep his face from being chewed off. Naminé came from behind and let her Keyblade slam into the back of the silver beast and it howled in pain, moving back. Amaterasu ran forward and spun her Keyblade around letting it connect with on leg of the silver horned beast. Vieh let out a howl of pain and snapped its jaws at Amaterasu and who ever came close enough to the beast. It charged towards Roxas as he tried to stand up, and he was pinned against the cobblestone wall. Roxas stared into he eyes of the yellow and turquoise beast. Sora rushed to help his Nobody and knocked the beast down letting Anti-Form take over this time.
Vieh growled sensing the scent of Heartless in the air, and it caught Sora's yellow eyes, and black coated body. Sora raised his claws and Vieh braced himself feeling sharp razor claws scratched the side of his ribs and Vieh caught Sora's arm in his mouth thrashing about to cause damage to the 'chosen one'. Roxas and Naminé sent out spells hitting the beast dead on in the face, and it let go of Sora and he sprinted forward knocking the beast into the air. Amaterasu threw her Keyblade in to the air letting it collide with the back of the beast, and it let out a deafening cry. For a moment Amaterasu saw Riku's pained image over the beast and her eyes widened again. 'Is it you?' she thought capturing her Keyblade.
"You guys go on ahead!" Amaterasu said holding the beast back as had it's fangs locked onto her Keyblade. "Just go straight, you'll find him right there!" she said pushing the beast back. "Run!" she said noticing that Naminé and Roxas weren't moving, "get going!" she yelled angrily and Sora withdrew to his human form and they quickly left. The beast growled and ceased its attacks, and rubbed its horns against the wall. 'It's preoccupied with something…' she thought noticing that it purposely hit a wall.
'Don't hurt her!' Riku's voice was plaguing the beast to no end and as a result it was starting to lean against the walls. 'Shut up, Riku!' the beast responded growling again and again. It stopped and Amaterasu noticed that it picked up its ears to catch something that the human ear couldn't detect. 'Bye, Amaterasu…' both Vieh and Riku said looking back at the girl for a second; all that was left was a trace of a silver blur before it faded.
Finally the moment Sora had dreamed of for months, he was face to face with Ignis. 'Finally I'll let the old man have it…' Sora thought gripping Ultima Weapon tightly, white knuckles showing that he was ready to attack with everything he had. Roxas stood next to him with both of his Keyblades, and Naminé stood off to the side, with her Keyblade ready at hand. Ignis felt something twang within his mind upon gazing at the Keyblade in Naminé's ownership. 'Aqua…' it was the only name he could think about. It had been her second Keyblade. Ignis out stretched his hand Sora pulled his arms back trying not to let the unseen force suck his Keyblade.
Roxas felt his body jerk forward and Roxas knew he had to withdraw. In a strange blue aura he was gone, and Sora's image was replaced with Roxas as he gripped the Keyblade tightly. 'Just like Ventus…' he thought smirking for a moment, and Ignis pulled out a Keyblade that seemed strong, it was a mixture of black and red, and it seemed to be a bit worn out, noticing the aged looked of the weapon. Ignis moved forward, and a soldier dressed in black appeared before them and the soldier with the black faceguard ran forward.
Amaterasu ran down the hallway feeling the pressure around her change. 'Please don't die you guys… Please…' she thought finally running through the archway into the room. Her dark brown eyes started to scan the area but she didn't see anyone. There was a loud crashing sound and Amaterasu hid behind one of the pillars, she was able to easily hide amongst the shadows. 'Benefits for having colored skin…' her dark side said sensing that Ignis was around her.
"Roxas!" she heard Naminé call out in a terrified tone, and Amaterasu decided to come out of hiding. The black soldier held Roxas by his neck, and Amaterasu rushed forward feeling her inner dark side tap in. At that point she felt something hit her in the side and she skidded across the room, her Keyblade falling right beside her. The girl opened her eyes groggily to notice that Ignis was right in front of her. "And you're just like Terra at times." She made out the dusted boots her wore and the black pants.
Naminé ran towards Ignis with her weapon ready to strike, and Ignis sensed it with no ease. With a Keyblade of his own he swiftly pretended to elbow the female Nobody, but used his weapon to thrust her back, and she feel for the trap. Roxas collided with the pillar of a nearby structure and he groan in pain feeling something shoot up from his arm. It was bleeding. 'Curaga!' Naminé thought letting a healing light touch all but Ignis. The black soldier ran towards Amaterasu and she growled jumping back and throwing her Keyblade, and he blocked it, 'Too easy to read…' she thought sending Dark Firaga towards the Heartless dressed in armor. In a cloud of smoke the Heartless moved quickly and instead went back to Roxas and the blonde male Nobody let out a pained yell feeling the Keyblade plunge into his shoulder.
Ignis was nowhere to be seen, and Amaterasu knew where he was stationed at now. 'He's where the Princesses are at…' she thought looking down at the other hallway at that moment. 'He's going to open up Kingdom Hearts soon…' Everything seemed to pause for a while and their attention was directed towards the hallway, a shockwave was spreading through the land, an aura of black and purple seemed to be clearly visible as the wave knocked them all down. It ran through the whole country of Sunset Horizon. 'He's gone…' Amaterasu thought picking herself up, and the soldier dressed in black was no where to be seen. Everything was starting to crumble. 'The Princesses!' Amaterasu thought running forward, failing to hear Naminé call after her.
A/N: You know what to do one review please!
I don't know if I should post an epilouge once I post the other chapter up, but I guess it'll come down to the reviews for this chapter!
Random fact: Inspiratons of the day when writing this was the band Paramore, Cinematic Orchestra, Amber Pacific, and Linkin Park. Also not to mention a strange dream involving the last section titled up 'Back with Sora and the others'. That's all for right now!
Wait more, umm I don't know whether to title the finale in Latin or in another language. Suggestions would be nice!