Glad I got this out before things got too hectic! Hope you like it!
Shout outs to
TerraKH: I based my chapter off of your vision for it. Thank you for unintentionally helping me getting this released sooner than expected!
xXellesmeraXx: I made it more dramatic like this because she thinks One kidnapped Sora and she if Kairi sees Sora with One in her castle, it will 'confirm' her suspicion. Sorry I confused you!
DogTagsgirl: Don't worry about it! It's totally okay! And thank you! P.S. Xion does mention Roxas once in this chapter! Did that for you!
TWI1IGHTMA3TER: I know LOL! And sorry for making you burst! I hope I made the chapter good enough for you and all my other readers!
So, presenting for the first and only time, Chapter 20!
Kairi glared at One with such hatred, even she stepped away from the pretty red-head. Kairi then walked over to her and summoned Destiny's Embrace. Wary of her, One summoned Oath Binder and held it in front of her. The Princess of Heart's hands were clenched so tightly that her knuckles turned white. No one had ever seen her, this angry.
"Why did you kidnap Sora?" Kairi snarled as she held her keyblade towards One's chest. But the Watcher just tried to reason with her.
"I never kidnapped him," One stated calmly and coolly, "I asked him if he could come with me, and he agreed to. I was trying to help train him to fight against Xehanort!"
Kairi scoffed at her answer. "Do you expect me to believe that Sora would trust you before his friends to help him? You might've caused his heart to be like this in the first place!" With a cry of anger, Kairi launched herself at One, keyblade outstretched and ready. But the Watcher appeared to resent attacking the red head.
But still, One raised her weapon to block her assailant's attack. She pushed Kairi to the side with a whip of Oath Binder. Again, the Watcher tried to reason with Sora-Xehanort's friend.
"Yes, it was my fault Sora ended up the way he is," One spoke with guilt practically dripping from her words. Kairi allowed herself to gain a smirk for only a second, and then it disappeared. One continued,
"But I never placed Xehanort's heart inside him. I just arrived their seconds after the mistake happened. I've never forgiven myself since. But I promise you, it was never an intention to hurt him!" One admitted. Xion stood in silence, knowing it wasn't her place to speak. But Sora-Xehanort was standing in shock. But one thing he knew was that One never wanted to hurt him.
But before he could intervene, the girls' fight resumed once again. Kairi was on the offensive, repeatedly whacking her keyblade upon One's. One was trying to refrain from using too much of her strength, as not to hurt the red head.
One never made an aggressive attack. When Kairi struck, she parried. When the Princess lunged, she leapt out of the way. When the red head stabbed, One just swiftly veered in the opposite direction. Kairi seemed to notice this, when she snarled,
"Why don't you fight back you coward!"
One, keeping her cool, stopped defending herself. Oath Binder dissipated from site as the Watcher released the keyblade. One extended her hand in both defeat and friendship. She spoke with a soft tone.
"I don't hurt a friend," she said kindly.
But Kairi, unsure, raised her keyblade again. It was then Sora-Xehanort decided that enough was enough. He gently pushed Destiny's Embrace down to the floor. A small signature Sora grin and he said with happiness.
"It's good to see you Kairi." The girl was flustered that Sora-Xehanort approached her in this way. Xion was giggling, as it was funny to see a girl fight with someone ten times her strength, then be afraid of the person they were trying to 'save'. But this made her think of Roxas. Sadness overwhelmed Xion for a brief moment. She whispered Roxas' name as she remembered that she made him hurt her. But she shook the memories away. Memories like that would bind her once again. She turned her attention back to the two Destiny Island inhabitants.
"I thought she had taken you against your will!" she cried out as she wrapped her arms around Sora-Xehanort. He, in turn smiling, returned it. Just for a brief moment, they were back to Castle Oblivion, where Kairi had just found him for the first time in close to two years.
Just like back then, a tiny tear slid down her eye, while she whispered so only Sora-Xehanort could hear. "This is real." Sora –Xehanort closed his eyes and remembered being with her at the Organization's old stronghold. The smell of the sea in her hair, the tenderness in her ocean blue eyes. It seemed that they both could live in that moment for all of eternity. But alas, it could not be.
Xion spoke for the first time in a long while. "So, what do we do to defeat Xehanort?" Two sets of eyes looked at her with confusion. All three of them didn't know what to do. They all turned to One, but saw her dawn herself in keyblade armor.
It was the color of morning mist. Swirling patterns of deeper colors like red and blue laced through the protecting equipment like veins. On her back she wore a helmet with two dragon-like horns sticking from the top. Her eyes were hidden in the sunglasses in the helmet. She tossed two different sets of keyblade armor to Sora-Xehanort and Kairi.
"The plan is…" One began with confidence, "We have Xehanort betray his New Organization Thirteen. Then we help fight for his heart. For if we free his heart, everyone else's will soon follow."
I hope this was good enough! Writing out this chapter was the most difficult one!
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