Kingdom Hearts: Last Battle Chapter 38: 35: Otherworld, a kingdom hearts fanfic

Chapter Thirty Five: Otherworld

The Black Knight, Roy and I fell until we hit something within a dark realm; the Black Knight and I landed on our feet, but Roy landed flat on his face, then got up. It was hazy and hard to see...

"You know where you are," I heard Xehanort call out. "Here, deep within the Realm of Darkness, lies Kingdom Hearts. Within this infinite abyss there is no light save the light you carry within your hearts."

The haze cleared, and I could see a massive Heartless ship. It must have been the size of a fully-functional Gummi Ship... it was massive beyond belief.

"Welcome to the Otherworld."

Roy and the Black Knight fell into the dark haze, but using the light of my heart I managed to fly. I stared up at what could only be the bridge, certain Xehanort's Heartless was staring back.

I flew at the ship, slicing at Darkside Heartless that guarded the hangar bays. After entering I beat down a few Darksides, then began running through the halls, slaying Heartless along the way. After dashing through the halls, I realized I was lost, then ran around looking for a map.

After securing a glowing map, I began to feel weary... keeping Way to the Dawn empowered as Dawn became harder.

"This is a Heartless ship..." I muttered to myself, dismissing Dawn. "There's no light here, so it'll be tough to hang onto myself."

After finding the map, I zoomed through the dark pink and purple ship, looking for the elevator that was supposed to take me up to another elevator through which I could get to the bridge. After running though hallways for a long time, I managed to find one, though a Behemoth was guarding it. I summoned Dawn and cut it down, then dismissed Dawn.

"It's getting tough to materialize light abilities," I muttered, punching the button. After a short elevator ride, I arrived on the 5th floor, where to my surprise Roy was busy cutting down Neoshadows. After helping him, Roy sheathed his Judgment Blade.

"I thought you fell into the darkness," I said to Roy. "How'd you get in here?"

He pointed to a huge hole in the wall, then dusted off his hair.

"I kinda flew in," he said. "So... where you headed?"

"To the bridge," I said. "Gotta end this."

"Let's go, then!" he shouted. I ran off, and he followed my lead. After getting through more Heartless, we reached the second elevator.

"So... we gotta take out the shield generators guarding the bridge, too," Roy said, panting.

"Shield generators?" I asked.

"Of course. The bridge is protected by seven shield generators, each guarded by a clone of Xemnas'," he said.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I took out a couple before you arrived. I had just been on my way to an elevator when I was ambushed by Heartless," he said.

"So that leaves five left," I muttered. The elevator dinged open, and we went seperate ways to find the shield generators.

After looking through a couple of rooms, I came upon one of the power generators. It had a creepy face on it and was, as Roy said, guarded by a Xemnas clone. I quickly cut it down, then sliced apart the shield generator. It exploded, then I ran back into the halls to find another.

After a few more minutes of running, I found another room with a sheild generator. I made quick work of both the Xemnas clone and the sheild generator, then went back to searching for another generator.

I found it, but the Black Knight was already tearing apart the shield generator. I ran up to him.

"How'd you get back?" I asked.

The Black Knight shook his head, then ran out of the room. I chased him until we got to the second set of elevators, where Roy was already waiting.

"I see our armored freind is still alive," Roy said smartly.

The Black Knight looked at Roy for a moment, nodded his head, then ran into the elevator. Roy and I followed, tackling a few Heartless along the way.

We silently rode the elevator up. The Black Knight balanced himself on his massive sword, while I dismissed Dawn until we made it to the top. After explosively attacking the Heartless, the only thing that stood in our way to the bridge was Xemnas... the real Xemnas.

"Stand down," Xemnas commanded, pointing at the Black Knight. The Black Knight shook his head, after which Xemnas attacked him. Roy parried Xemnas' second blow with an Aerial Blade of his own.

"Get going! We'll deal with him!" Roy shouted. I nodded, then ran off toward the bridge doors. They wooshed open, allowing me to quickly dash through and up to Xehanort's Heartless, whose back was turned to me.

"It's over," I said solemnly, pointing Dawn at Xehanort's Heartless.

"It's never over... not until I claim the power of Kingdom Hearts and destroy the light," he said, turning around. "You see... without the light, the darkness has no meaning, and thus there is no conflict."

"We can solve the differences between darkness and light!" I shouted, striking at him. Xehanort's Heartless again summoned a double-bladed Soul Eater.

I felt calm at that moment.

We began to strike and parry at breakneck speeds, even as the room behind us rumbled. I whirled Dawn around and made a strike, but it was countered by a whirling block by Xehanort's Heartless. I dodged the counterstrike, ducking and attacking his shins, which was successful. I then struck him in the face, knocking him back, though Xehanort's Heartless recovered in midair.

I jumped into the air, striking at him, but was thrown back by the force of a blow. I fell to the ground after hitting a wall, then looked up to block an incoming attack. I swept at his feet with my feet, knocking Xehanort's Heartless off-balance, then drove Dawn down on him.

I was blocked by his polearm's midsection. He tossed my blade up, then recovered. I dashed at his new, further away position, sending out Light Firagas along the way. He countered them all with a whirl of his polearm, then shot them back at me as Dark Firagas. We stood down for a momemt, exhausted, then resumed out breakneck speed battle.

I pushed into his polearm, splitting it in half with light energy. He was still a formidable opponent; he used the two Soul Eaters to hammer strike me consecutively. I eventually knocked one from his hand, then pushed the other to the ground, stepping on it.

"It's over now!" I shouted. I whacked him in the head, which caused him to disappear in a puff of black smoke.

Roy and the Black Knight came running into the room.

"Is it over?" Roy asked.

"No... not yet," I muttered. "If it were, this ship would have been blown to smithereens."

I jumped out of the ship through a window broken during our fight. Roy followd, using aura to levitate, while the Black Knight began running though more hallways.

After making it across the bow of the ship, we saw why: Xehanort's Heartless... no, the complete Xehanort... was now attached to the ship, tethered on by a bundle of wires. His eyes... were completely yellow...

"You know what to do," I said to Roy. He nodded as the Black Knight ran out near Xehanort's position, now flying as well.

"Let's go!" I shouted. We made an all-out offensive against Xehanort, who blasted us with Dark Firagas, Aerial Blades, and a host of other abilities. After a massive magical blast, I was able to get at him again; Roy and the Black Knight had been blown back, though after a sonic scream the two were at my side again, tearing into Xehanort. After minutes of exhausting battle, he finally began to despair.

"I will find the answer one day," Xehanort said, slumping over. "I will never... be a memory."

He disappeared into a blast of darkness... I was sure he was dead. His massive Heartless ship imploded, finally bringing it to an end.