A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome back to the hopeful second to last chapter of Sora's story, because if it isn't, I'm probably going to end up throwing my CoM Manga Book out the window and cry.
But first…
Auraheart: Yep. Though Penelope was taken by force, she didn't abandon him like Donald and Goofy.
Adonis1218: I never thought of it that way. That could've happened, now that I think about it. Thank you.
Guest: Whoa there. There's a possibility that MIGHT happen in the chapter, but you'll just have to see.
Silent Searcher: Thanks. Despite Sora is a nice person, he kind of deserved it. I also like the nickname flame/fire head too. We'll see Riku in the next chapter.
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Here's the hopeful second to last chapter of Sora's story
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Chapter 7: Sora's Story Pt. 4
As Sora found himself on Destiny Islands, Penelope, who decided to enter through the door this time, found herself there too. She had nothing to do at the moment, so she decided to follow Sora quietly.
Jiminy was looking around. "Is this your island, Sora?"
"Yeah." He answered. "This is where I made my most precious memories."
"Really? Then we might find Naminé here." Jiminy guessed, as it would make some sense.
Then Sora proceeded to apologize to Jiminy. "Sorry Jiminy. I shouldn't have dragged you here. This isn't your problem."
Man, did Jiminy Cricket look surprised. "Not my problem? Sora… We're friends, aren't we? We'll go to our graves together!" Jiminy replied to Sora.
This made Sora think, "Whoa! That's some serious friendship!"
"I bet Donald and Goofy are coming here as we speak." Jiminy told Sora.
"…We'll see."
Sora then proceeded to search for Naminé until at some point; he ended up finding...Riku?
And he was holding up a log for the raft. "What're you doing out here all by yourself?" He asked Sora.
"Riku!" Sora then made an awkward look, remembering what Riku (we all know who it really was.) said to him earlier. "If you're gonna try and stop me, then you're no friend of mine."
However, Riku looked confused before asking, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Jiminy whispered to him, "Sora…maybe this is the Riku of your memories."
"R-Right…" Sora stuttered, still confusing the memory version of Riku.
"Now you're talking to yourself. Is this one of your weird new games? You're such a baby, Sora." Sora was taken aback before continuing to stutter, saying, "Sh-Shut up!"
It gave Sora a bit of nostalgia before he suddenly saw a red-haired girl running and he had no clue who she was.
"Are you all right? You need to pull yourself together, Sora. How are you gonna take care of her, acting like that?"
Sora was in surprise, thinking, "Who was that? It wasn't Naminé…"
"Her?" Sora asked Riku. Penelope face palmed at her friend's stupidity.
Then it suddenly shook and there was suddenly a storm like the one that resulted in Destiny Island's destruction. The memory version of Riku told Sora he was going to check on the raft before he left.
And then…he saw Naminé. Penelope did too, but that was all she needed to see, just to clarify everything.
"Naminé." Sora said with a smile on his face.
"Sora. Thank you. You came for me." Naminé said to Sora.
Basically, what happened upstairs is that Marluxia and Larxene were celebrating, and when they went up to find Axel and Naminé…le gasp!
They found out Axel was a traitor. And man was Larxene pissed.
Meanwhile…Axel has found Repliku in the hall. "Yo. What's up?" Axel asked him.
"I'm gonna protect Naminé. I won't let anyone near her." Repliku answered, still obsessed with protecting Naminé.
Axel pointed upwards, telling Repliku, "She's not in that room anymore. Right about now, she's probably with Sora."
A red explanation mark appeared over Repliku's head as he was in shock.
"Y'know what? You oughta ask Naminé which memory's the real one. Yours or Sora's. That question must be killing you."
Repliku stared at the Star Charm before he went up to go and find Naminé.
Axel began adjusting something that looked like a walkie-talkie mumbling "Let's see…" before laughing and saying, "It's no easy job, moving everything along behind the scenes. I'm interested to see how you'll handle this. Hmm, Sora?"
Back with Sora, Penelope and Naminé, Penelope watched as Sora spoke to her.
"Naminé…it's really you. I've been through so much just to see you." Sora took out the charm, which still looked like half of Naminé's and half of Kairi's to Penelope.
"I…I should apologize, Naminé. I kept you waiting for so long." Sora told her, holding the charm out to her and scratching his head in embarrassment. "I'm sorry."
Naminé began crying. "That's okay."
Sora went into panic. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm sorry I…"
Penelope shook her head. "Don't you understand yet, Sora? I just needed to see to figure out everything."
Naminé looked at Penelope and smiled before wiping her tears off and focusing on Sora again. "No…its not you. I'm the one who needs to apologize."
It got confusing when there was a crying Naminé by Sora and one who was speaking to him. Penelope didn't find it weird at all.
"I'm not supposed to be in this picture, and your friend knows that."
"Huh? What?" Sora asked in surprise upon seeing two.
"What's this?" Jiminy asked in shock.
"I'm not really in your heart." Suddenly, they appeared in the secret place, with Naminé by the door. "Think Sora. Remember who it is you really care about."
He saw that red-haired girl again and suddenly light burst from the door and Sora asked, "What was that?"
That was when he saw the charm go back to normal and when Sora was the door open, he cried, "Naminé!" before running through it. Penelope sighed before going after him and they found themselves in yet another white hall.
When he saw Naminé yet again, she had a hand on her left arm. "She's the girl in your heart. Not me." Naminé told Sora.
"…Who is she? If she's so special to me…why can't I remember?" Sora asked.
"Because…"
Then Riku came in and said, "Now it all makes sense. Sora…you lost all your real memories. So you tried to steal our memories instead.*"
Riku took Kairi's charm and Sora yelled, "Hey! Give that back!"
"You tried to trick me with this piece of junk. So I'm gonna…" HE WAS GOING TO BREAK THE CHARM.
Penelope was suddenly reminded of when Riku took her two times. (She knew this wasn't the same Riku. Her James Bond work)
And she began twitching. Naminé and Sora looked horrified at Riku and Naminé yelled, "NO! STOP!"
And then he stopped and fell over.
And Sora started freaking out. "Riku? What's wrong? Riku? Riku!" He said as he tried to check on him.
Then they heard Larxene's voice. "Oh, poor baby." Penelope hid in the shadows and Larxene appeared, with a hand on Naminé's shoulder.
"She broke his heart. More like smashed it, really. You're such a vicious little girl, aren't you, Naminé?"
Oh Larxene, such a hypocrite, you are? Either way, you confused Sora.
"Smashed…his heart? Did Naminé do this?" Sora thought to himself in confusion.
Then Larxene began laughing at Sora before saying in hysterics, "Oh wow, the look on your face! Aww…I thought you told him everything. But you haven't told him the best part!"
Naminé was still quiet, and Larxene went back over to Naminé, whispering in her ear, "Oh, I get it. You don't want Sora to hate you. What do they call that? The fair heart of a maiden?"
Having her Naminé's hair between her fingers, she continued with, "Well…that makes me want to stomp all over it."
"I'm really starting to hate this bitch a lot more than I should." Penelope mumbled.
The light spirit appeared by her and sighed. "I don't blame you. What will you do about this, Guardian?"
"I'm gonna kick her ass, that's what!" Penelope answered, before realizing the light spirit looked slightly different.
"Why do you look more solid?" The light spirit stared at her before looking at herself.
At the moment, she appeared with fair skin, long brown hair, green eyes, had a tiara and was wearing her white, gold and silver armor.
"It's the reason I was gone. I'm not fully solid though. I am unable to move my body from where I'm resting."
Penelope raised an eyebrow at her. "Just where are you resting?"
"In front of what I have to protect. If Ansem was able to open the Door to Darkness to get to Kingdom Hearts, I would've awoken and become active in order to stop him. In fact, I got sealed where the true light sleeps a long time ago."
Penelope just realized something. "What?! So you mean…"
"Yes. You understand now, Guardian." The light spirit told her.
In their conversation, Larxene was getting to the point where she revealed that Riku wasn't Riku, but it was Repliku.
She also mentioned that she had removed the links in Sora's memory.
And as Larxene was talking about Repliku and Sora fighting, Naminé brought up something very important.
"But what about that other girl?" She asked.
"What." Larxene asked.
"There was another person in the castle besides Sora and another. I should've been able to change hers like Sora's, but I couldn't." Naminé explained.
"What? Why didn't you say anything! She can ruin everything. But that doesn't matter now. She's not here." Larxene said before going back to what she was saying before to Sora.
"What was I saying…Right. Everything you've been so desperate to find was a lie." Larxene told Sora.
"…A lie?"
Penelope frowned. Despite she could make and objection, in reality, she had a point.
"Oh don't look at me like that. You're giving me chills." Larxene told Sora.
Then she summoned her knives. "Don't worry. Just be a good boy. And soon, you'll forget all about it."
Penelope's eyes widened. "Light spirit, is it possible for me to go GoldenEye 007 with this?"
"What is it with you and James Bond? Just wait." The light spirit told her.
Really. That was the worst advice to give.
Penelope watched as Sora got shocked to death and when Naminé tried to help, she was thrown aside. And then Sora went to defend Naminé despite learning the truth.
So, when Donald and Goofy came in and helped, Penelope watched Larxene get her butt kicked (I'm not going into depth. I'm sorry.) and then water got sprinkled onto her from the Double Magic Sprinkler from the Trinity Attack of Sora, Donald and Goofy.
"What? Is this…water?!" Oh, Larxene, you shouldn't have left your knives out.
Penelope got this huge grin on her face. "No! Wait! NOT NOW!" She cried as electricity began to zap her. "I can't….get wet! NO!"
Penelope appeared from the shadows on accident when Larxene exploded as she yelled, "YEAH YOU SADISTIC B****! NEVER MIX LIGHTING AND WATER!"
Everyone stared at her and Penelope frowned. Then the light spirit smacked her.
"I am so, so sorry. I think I was enjoying her death a bit too much." Penelope apologized.
"Penelope? Where'd you come from? Never mind. You're probably a figment of my memory this time." Sora said to her.
Donald was still in Goofy's shield and her told either Goofy or Sora to carry him since he was barefoot and didn't want to get shocked while Penelope was pissed from Sora's remark.
"Let's go check on Riku before there's another death." The light spirit suggested.
"NO, WE ARE…"
Penelope was pulled down with the light spirit as Sora, Donald and Goofy learned the situation.
And man, were Donald and Goofy shocked…
…well, mostly Donald. "WHAT?! ARE YOU FOR REAL…?!" Donald asked Naminé.
After the fear of being unable to get their memories back was revealed, Naminé told them another way.
However, it involved going to the top floor and battling Marluxia, whom Naminé said was evil (yep. The villain we can't take seriously), and then she apologized before Sora cheered her up and pretty much told her they'd defeat Druaga…
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Its Marluxia. Not Druaga. Sorry. Top floors and top floors of towers.
However, Penelope went back to check on Naminé, only to see Marluxia…
"Aha. There you are." And thus…
Ki was taken away to the top of the tower by Druaga!
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DAMMIT. Err… Marluxia recaptured Naminé and took her to the top floor once again.
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A/N: This took a while.
I couldn't help but reference Tower of Druaga. If you didn't know, its an older arcade game.
It is about a guy named Gilgamesh (Gil), who has to climb up the Tower of Druaga in order to save the Priestess Ki from the evil demon Druaga.
I also apologize again, though I have no excuse in ways for this being late.
Again.
So, please review if you'd like, please do not flame, and tell me how I can improve as an author.
I will see you all in the next chapter.
Ciao!