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Chapter 4 The Broken Seal
Entering the Crack felt weird. Sora and the others were compressed on all angles and their physical beings contorted as they traveled through the Crack. They didn't know how long they were in the Crack, but it felt like Time itself was moving both faster and slower at the same moment. When they arrived at the other side of the Crack, they were in a black, blank realm. All around the realm were many Cracks, like the realm was like broken glass.
"Where are we?" asked Sora. "The Realm of Darkness?"
"This isn't the Realm of Darkness." said Riku. "This place has an entirely different feel to it."
"But there is something here." said Mickey. "I can feel it. It…it feels really scary."
They started walking, looking for answers. In a short while, they saw a blinding bright light. The kneeled down and summoned their weapons. The snuck their way closer and saw that Maleficent was talking to a being wrapped in a tattered, singed red cloak. Behind them was the source of the light.
It was a pillar of Light, and it extended far above everyone else. Sora could just make out swords made out of Light inside of the pillar. Surrounding the pillar at its base were seven crystal statues, three were women and four were men. The statues of the men had their eyes open and the women had their eyes closed. They were all nude, but crystal billowed around them to cover nearly everything. The crystal statues were blue and white, while some had different colored crystal for their hair, like pink and silver.
In the innermost part of the pillar, there was another crystal statue, in the image of an eight winged angel. However this one was the complete opposite of the other seven. The statue was covered in chains of Light. It was made of black, dark purple and crimson crystal. Its face was in its hands, as if it were weeping. A weeping angel.
"Maleficent, did you destroy the Keyblade Wielder?" asked the being in the red cloak.
"I didn't lower myself to fight Sora and his friends." said Maleficent. "I allowed the Heartless to finish him off."
"Do you honestly believe the Heartless will be able to defeat that boy?" asked the cloaked being. He waved his hands around, revealing that he was covered in bandages. The light from the pillar revealed that his skin was grey and decayed. "From what you have told me about him, he has been capable of defeating countless."
"Sora is powerful, but without his friends he is nothing, Mumm-Ra." said the witch. She looked up, and Sora did the same. He saw that there were three spheres of Darkness. He could just barely make out the outline of a person in one. "What of the boy?"
"He still resists." said Mumm-Ra. "No matter the torture we put him through, he holds on to his Heart. The boy is stronger than I have thought."
"How is he keeping hold of his Heart?" asked Maleficent.
"He keeps talking about a person named Luffy." Mumm-Ra said. "I wish I knew where this Luffy's World was, so I can bring him here and choke the life out of him in front of the boy."
At this statement, the person in one of the spheres struggled against whatever was binding him. As he struggled, black electricity covered the sphere. Sora could hear a muffled scream come from the sphere. Sora gritted his teeth, wanting to help whoever was in there. He began to crawl closer to the pillar, and the others followed.
"Ha ha ha." laughed Mumm-Ra. "Struggle all you want, you will never escape your fate."
"Quite dawdling." said a powerful dark and sinister voice that reverberated in in their heads.
"Master!" yelled Maleficent and Mumm-Ra at the same time. They bowed before the black statue.
"The alignment is at its apex." The voice said. "My prison is at its weakest, and all of my Fragments are together again. It's time for the spell, and my freedom."
"Yes my Lord." said Mumm-Ra. "Are you ready, my dear?"
"More than ready." said Maleficent.
"By the way," started the voice, "Get rid of that Keyblade Wielder NOW!"
"Keyblade-" started Maleficent. She turned around and saw Sora. "YOU!"
"That's the Keyblade Wielder!?" yelled Mumm-Ra. He fired off bolts of purple energy from his at the warriors of Light. Sora and the others jumped out of the way.
"Thunder, light, and lightning strike!" Maleficent spelled. She pointed her staff and fired off lighting. Sora used Reflega to absorb the spell, but the spell destroyed the shield.
"AH!" yelled Sora as he was blown away. Donald and Goofy rushed over to help Sora. Riku and King Mickey went after Maleficent and Mumm-Ra.
Mickey fired several small fireballs from his Keyblade at Maleficent. She put up a barrier to protect herself. Maleficent then released more lightning and fireballs of her own at Mickey. Mickey flipped out of the way.
"Stand still you little rat!" screamed Maleficent. "Into sleep you fall forever!"
Maleficent created an area of effect for her spell of slumber. Mickey jumped over Maleficent and shot several Pearls. Maleficent countered by sending dark energy at the Pearls. The Light and Dark energies collided causing an explosion. Maleficent teleported away at the last second while Mickey was thrown away from the pillar from the force of the explosion.
Riku swung his sword at Mumm-Ra, but the mummy dodged each swipe of the Keyblade. Mumm-Ra covered his hand in energy and grabbed Riku. Intense pain filled Riku's entire body. Mumm-Ra began laughing intensely, enjoying Riku's pain. As he was laughing, a powerful blast of Light hit him.
"ARGH!" screamed Mumm-Ra. He let go of Riku and ran a distance away.
"Are you alright Riku?" asked Sora. Donald and Goofy came up next to the two Keyblade Wielders.
"Yea, I'm fine." lied Riku. He felt like his insides were on fire.
"Let's get rid of these guys." said Donald. "Blizzaga!"
A large chunk of ice was blasted out of his Donald's wand and shot out at Mumm-Ra. Mumm-Ra scowled and shot a wave of dark energy at the ice. The ice was destroyed instantly and the energy went straight towards Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Riku. The just barely dodged the attack and the beam hit the pillar. The pillar was unaffected by the attack.
"You really think your magic is as powerful as mine?!" asked Mumm-Ra. "You have no idea who you're dealing with! Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, the Ever Living!"
Smoke and purple electricity blew around Mumm-Ra, hiding him from sight. When the smoke cleared, it was revealed that Mumm-Ra had indeed transformed. He was much taller now, with demonic wings adorned on his back. He was physically imposing and his skin, once hidden under his bandages, was now revealed to be charred-gray and decayed. He was wearing gold armor with blue accents a piece of gold armor on his chest that is emblazoned with an entwined serpent insignia. On his hip was black, stone like sheath with several gemstones in it. He drew a sword that had a jewel embedded in the hilt that looked like a red cat's eye.
"Take this!" screamed Mumm-Ra as he released energy from his mouth like a cannon. Sora, Riku, and Donald crossed their weapons and used Reflega. The powerful defensive spell was able to with stand the might of the attack.
"I don't have time for this." said the voice. The black statue glowed in a demonic black aura and a wave of energy exploded from it. Sensing the energy, Mumm-Ra flew into the air and picked up Maleficent. As the warriors of Light questioned why Mumm-Ra and Maleficent were fleeing, they were hit by the pulse of dark energy and thrown away from the pillar. "Do it! PERFORM THE SPELL NOW!"
"As you command my Lord!" yelled Mumm-Ra. He flew down and placed Maleficent on the ground. He then waved his hand and summoned many Heartless. Shadow, Invisibles, Bit Snipers, Dark Balls, Novashadows, and Mega Shadows formed around the warriors of Light.
"Maleficent, don't!" yelled Mickey as he swiped the Heartless away. "You have no idea what you're doing!"
"Of course I know what I'm doing you foolish King." said Maleficent. "I'm obtaining ultimate power! Are you ready, Mumm-Ra?"
"As I'll ever be." said Mumm-Ra. While Sora and the others fought off the Heartless, trying to get to the two spell casters, Maleficent and Mumm-Ra became covered in Darkness. The two of them began speaking at the same time, in an ancient language.
"O magnum numina, qua invocavérimus te! Magistri vincula rumpere et temperet Cor pristinum! Libera Tenebras et Silentium casum!"
The entire realm began shaking violently. Smoke-like Darkness expelled from the black statue. The chains visibly loosened, and the swords and pillar dimmed. Then weird text appeared out of thin air, surrounding and circling the black statue in three long chains of words. It also appeared around the pillar and the three black spheres. The text appeared to as ancient as the spell Maleficent and Mumm-Ra said. Energy began to pulse rapidly from the black statue like a heartbeat, as did the three spheres as if they were resonating.
"NO!" screamed Sora and the rest of the warriors. "Donald, Goofy! Let's use the Trinity!"
"Okay!" said Donald and Goofy. The focused all of their power into spheres of pure magic and sent them to Sora. He gathered the magic into his Keyblade, causing it to glow. He then jumped towards the Heartless and plunged his Keyblade into the ground, creating a large trigram. The trigram then exploded into a wave of energy that destroyed most of the Heartless.
"We can't let them have all the fun Mickey!" said Riku.
"You're right Riku." said Mickey. They got back to back and started spinning.
"Holy Burst!" yelled Riku and the King. White sparkles, that one could say looked like stardust, and spheres of Light shot out of their Keyblades that plowed through the Heartless.
As the Heartless were being destroyed demonic, black lightning fired out of the statue and hit one of the spheres. A loud, ear piercing scream was clearly heard. The sphere was slowly dragged into the pillar, condensing is size. What it was screaming was clearly heard.
"No! Not like this! I don't want to become whole like this!"
"Chaos, you belong to me." said the dark voice. The chains of light became even looser and dimmed. "Alucard, become one with me."
Another bolt of black lightning struck another sphere. There wasn't a body in it, but a skull. This sphere was absorbed as well. The chains, pillar, and swords dimmed even more until they were just a dull light. The air was getting heavier to breath. The Darkness that the statue was expelling was fighting against the pillar, wanting out.
"Caeruleus…" started the voice. "It is time for you to fulfill your destiny."
"I won't let that happen!" said Sora, firing a laser from his Keyblade that stopped the black lighting to hit the sphere. He started running as fast as he could. A pinwheel-like vortex filled with dark magic flew past Sora and blocked his path.
"You're not stopping us Sora." said Maleficent. She raised her staff in the air and it began to glow in a pale green light. "Meteors of Heaven, unleash thy fury!"
A barrage of meteors descended upon Sora. He dodged as many as he could, but Sora ended up tripping. Before a meteor landed on him it was countered by a shield and a large chunk of ice. Donald and Goofy helped Sora up.
"Stop that last sphere Sora." said Donald. "We'll handle Maleficent."
"Good luck Sora." said Goofy.
"Thanks you guys." Sora said. He started running again and jumped as high as he could.
"No you don't!" screamed Mumm-Ra. He was flying with his sword in hand. Sora was unable to get out of the way in midair, so Mumm-Ra swiped his sword. Sora was about to block when Riku and King Mickey parried Mumm-Ra's blade. "Out of my way!"
"Not a chance!" yelled Mickey.
"Sora, get to the sphere!" said Riku. Sora nodded and jumped on Riku's back and launched himself on to the sphere.
Sora shot another beam from his Keyblade that deflected another black lightning bolt. Looking down Sora saw that there was indeed a person in the sphere. He could only make out that it was a teenager tied in chains. Using his opportunity Sora bashed the sphere with his Keyblade. It took several slams for the sphere to even start cracking.
"Don't worry!" said Sora. "I'll save you! Triple Firaga! Triple Plasma!"
Sora shot out three balls of fire and lighting magic. The sphere cracked more, but it didn't break through. The newest Keyblade Master then rammed his Keyblade straight through the sphere, creating an opening. Sora reached down and sliced the chains apart. As the teenager slumped due to his chains falling Sora grabbed him and took him out of his confinement. Once they landed on the ground, Sora laid the teenager on the ground.
"Curaga!" yelled Sora as he raised his Keyblade over the teen. With a green light enveloping the two of them, the teen started coughing.
The first thing that Sora noticed was that he was wearing a trench coat that greatly resembled the cloak of Organization XIII, yet it was greatly tattered. Actually, all of his clothes were ripped and tattered. He was wearing a sleeveless black tunic with gold detailing. Some light weight chain mail was visible. His pants were also black, and were burned into shorts. His hair was spiky and as black as the statue in the pillar. His face was tan and covered in scratches that weren't being healed by the cure spell. When he opened his eyes, sora saw that they were as blue as his, but they were slowly becoming black.1
"Who-who are you?" the teenager struggled to ask. His voice was really hoarse.
"I'm Sora. You?" asked Sora. The teen's eyes looked as if they were hunting for the answer.
"Caeruleus." The teen said.
"NO!" the statue screamed. "He is mine!"
The Heartless formed around Sora and Caeruleus. Darksides, Dark Thorns and many others took shaped and attacked. Sora created a barrier that only gave them a few seconds. After a few more attacks from the Heartless broke through the shield. Sora raised his Keyblade to attack, but Caeruleus attacked the Heartless first.
"Intervallum Barrage!" cried out Caeruleus. He stood up and his hands glowed in a red energy. He released his attack and sent out countless beams of red energy that destroyed the Heartless. After his attack Caeruleus fell to his knees. "Urgh…I need more time to recover."
"Here, use this elixir." said Sora. He handed Caeruleus a small, rounded gold jar adorned with stars. "It'll make you feel better."
Caeruleus took the elixir, but didn't know what to do with it. Sora took it back, uncapped it, and tossed it over Caeruleus head. It burst into a faint gold dust and fell on Caeruleus. Instantly he felt better, but his scratches weren't healed.
"Sora, we need to get out of here." said Caeruleus. Already he sounded better. "I need to get back to Luffy."
"Who's Luffy?" asked Sora.
"My brother and my captain." Caeruleus said. "He's back in my World."
"So you know about other Worlds." said Sora. His eyes went wide. "On your right!"
Sora moved Caeruleus out of the way and fired off a Megaflare at a Dark Thorn. In a large fiery explosion that nearly blinded them, the Dark Thorn was turned to ash. Caeruleus was shocked at Sora's power.
"Way cool Sora." said Caeruleus. He saw Shadows and Novashadows forming. "Excuse me."
Caeruleus held out his hands and Darkness flowed into them. The Darkness formed a flower. The Heartless ran at Sora and Caeruleus, but Caeruleus released his attack.
"Black Lotus- Petal Barrage!" Caeruleus yelled. He released his flower of Darkness and many razor sharp petals blasted out, slicing apart many Heartless.
"Whoa." said a wide eyed Sora.
"I've had enough of this." said the voice from the black statue. "Die warrior of the Light!"
A black stream of energy erupted from the statue. Sora went to make a barrier again, but Caeruleus pushed him out of the way. The energy struck Caeruleus and he screamed. His scream as the worst Sora has every heard in his entire life. The energy then began to drag Caeruleus towards the black statue.
"Caeruleus!" yelled Sora. He ran and jumped at Caeruleus, only grabbing his hands. Sora dug his feet in what was considered ground and fought the pulling with all his might.
"Sora!" cried out Caeruleus. "Please don't let go!"
"I won't!" promised Sora. Sora looked into Caeruleus's eyes and saw that they were completely black now. They then had a blue pulse, and then returned to being black. "I won't let that thing have you! I swear on my life!"
"Sora, please protect him!" yelled Caeruleus.
"Protect who?!" asked Sora.
"You will not deny me my freedom you insignificant Keyblade Wielder!" yelled the statue's voice, interrupting Caeruleus's answer. The statue gave off another pulse of energy that went straight through Caeruleus and into Sora. Sora felt such an intense pain that he wasn't sure if it lasted a few seconds or a few hours. But the attack fulfilled its purpose as Sora let go of Caeruleus.
"SORA!" screamed Caeruleus as he was absorbed into the statue.2
At the exact moment Caeruleus was fully absorbed, the black statue of the eight winged angel blew up. The explosion was of pure Darkness. It was more like a contained hurricane, whirling around faster and faster. Black lighting, fire, ice, water, and earth flowed within the explosion. There were remnants of the chains, and swords of Light, but they faded far too quickly. The only thing keeping the Darkness contained were the seven other crystal statues.
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" laughed Maleficent and Mumm-Ra together. Riku, King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy were on the ground, lying in defeat. They just stared at the dark tempest of evil.
"You FAILED Sora!" yelled Maleficent with glee.
"Our Master is free!" screamed Mumm-Ra with joy.
"Lord Unicron is free!" They yelled together in victory.
1. This is Caeruleus, the main character from my first story and the first chapter of the Darkness Saga. The title of that story is The Darkness Saga: One Piece. I recommend you read that story as it is the first chapter of this series.
2. Cue music! I planned this story to have music played along at certain parts. This part will have the music Das Omen by E Nomine. Here's a link: watch?v=NRlUBgkWp-U