A/N: Thank you for your patience. I was supposed to do this a month ago, but a trip to Wisconsin without computer or any form of internet made finishing this a little difficult. I also had a lot of trouble with how to end this. First, there will be people who want a happy ending (if a story like this can really have something like that) and there'll be people who'll want an ending that fits with earlier chapters. So I've decided two endings. I hope one of them will be to your liking.
Well, thank you for all of your support and I hope I have brought a little entertainment into your lives. Please, I ask you to review and let me know how I did. Thank you again everyone!
Riku hovered above Sora, or what used to be his best friend, his own eyes filled with sadness and pity. Rage soon replaced sadness as crimson glistened from its fangs. This beast was no longer his friend; Sora was just as dead as the others they lay about, their hearts absent from them. This heartless, monster, shell, would feel that seething rage and the non existing shards of his old friend would feel his mercy.
Reaching down to free his keyblade from his flesh, Riku stopped when something slammed into his side, causing him to fall over onto the floor. Kairi now stood above Riku, tears cascading down her cheeks. Her emotional confusion and distress was obvious on her face. Riku pulled himself up from the ground, in pain and far from pleased. Knowing what Riku was going to do, Kairi stretched her arms out wide, standing between the two.
"Kairi! Move aside!" Riku yelled, not willing to deal with such nonsense. When the young woman held her ground, Riku grabbed her roughly by the shoulder and pushed her out of his way. The silver-haired boy reached down once more and grabbed the hilt of his blade. With swift movement, Riku jerked the keyblade free from Sora's body, his blood pouring onto the carpet, the dried blood burned from the blade falling lightly like red snowflakes sank into the fluid. The beast gave a small whimper and tried to stand, but it was too weak and collapsed back into a bleeding pile.
Riku placed the tip against where Sora's heart once was and raise his blade to strike. He would make it quick. He thrust the sword downwards but had but only a second to stop his actions when Kairi yet again jumped in front of him, throwing his arms around the black mass, sobbing. Another second and she would have had his keyblade between her eyes. Though, the fact that she was holding the thing that had brutally murdered their close friends and was feral as any animal made him feel his almost mistake would not have been a problem.
It seemed to go so slow, the events seemingly dragging on for hours, but the reality was only a few seconds.
Kairi could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she stared at Riku from below. He poised his keyblade at Sora's heart. Her whole body ran cold at the thought, that Sora would be dead. She couldn't, wouldn't accept it. She loved him, loved Sora with everything, and she knew deep down he was still in there somewhere. If he could be saved, they'd never know if Riku kept going. It seemed to go so slow, the events seemingly dragging on for hours, but the reality was only a few seconds. She couldn't think, everything was happening so fast, and found her body moving on its own, clumsily hurrying across the floor to Sora, her arms taking hold of his icy black body.
She feared Riku more than she could ever fear Sora as the Keyblade almost pierced her, stopping and touching the bridge of her nose. She would rather let him take her life than Sora's. Scared she held onto tighter, a small whimper came from Sora's mouth and it began to twitching madly under her grasp.
"sora." Kairi's words came out as a soft, pained whisper. "i love you."
There was a sudden burst of life, flickering first between Kairi and the Heartless, when it rapidly grew, swallowing up the room and near blinding the two teenagers. Riku was forced to drop his keyblade and cover his eyes, the light burning them. Through the cracks, after a moment or so, the light then began to dull and flicker out. Slowly removing his hands, he saw that Kairi had moved backwards from where the light had begun, looking confused and terrified. Both looked at the dying light that surrounded the non-moving figure of Sora. The ink blank of his skin was growing lighter, to dark grey, to white, the color slowly returning. Spiky hard black turned to soft carmel and the glow of gold began to morph into a strange green.
Riku stood dumbfounded as Kairi ran back across to Sora, who was clutching his shoulder and trying to move. He could no longer smell the overwhelming stench of darkness from him, as if it was burned away from him. But then again, he remembered Kairi was a Princess of Heart, she was the few in all the world that could restore.
"Sora! You're okay," Kairi smiled, holding Sora's face in her hands, but the boy did not smile back in return, the taste of blood stained on his tongue. Tears streamed down from emerald turned ocean blue eyes as memory returned. He tried to hold it back, but vomit slipped through his finger onto Kairi's skirt. He could still taste his friends in his mouth and the crushing guilt and pain in his chest. He gripped Kairi back, burying his face in the crook of her next, weeping and screaming until his voice was hoarse.
There was nothing that Sora could have possible wanted more than to have had the now discarded Way to Dawn pierce his destroyed heart.
A/N: Okay maybe it's not the most ideal happy ending, after all, near everyone's dead and such, but hey not bad compared to what could happen. If you are interested in seeing a different ending, go to the next chapter.
Thank you for waiting so long on this. I had work in Wisconsin without the luxury of internet and I just started college. Anyway thank you so much and please review, tell me what you thought!