Chapter Fourty Two: Enter the Vorpal Bunny!

Sora, the White Knight and I rushed out of the monorail train. We weren't instantly greeted with 'death gods,' but instead a dark and empty ground just before a walled fortress. It was surrounded by a huge concrete wall, topped with barbed wire, including several watchtowers.

Moments after we stepped out, an alarm blared. Dozens upon dozens of black-robed guards, like the ones I'd seen at Hollow Bastion, swarmed out of two very large gates.

"Get ready," Sora said, summoning his Keyblade. The White Knight drew his sword, and I summoned my Keyblade as well. That instant, hundreds of white-cloaked warriors ran out of the train and waited. Sora took a few steps forward.

"Everyone! I know this is the reality you know, but it isn't what was meant to be!" Sora shouted. "Someone from Organization XIII messed with time, and this is how things ended up! If we've got a chance to fix everything, though, I'm willing to risk everything to set things right! So everyone that likes the way things are, stand back! Everyone else, let's go!!!"

Sora's speech was met with thunderous shouts, all enthusiastic.

The White Knight brandished his sword.

I gulped, then gathered my courage.

"PHOTON BATTALION, MOVE OUT!!!" Sora shouted, charging into the coming line of death gods. Everyone... the White Knight... myself... and the hundreds of soldiers of the Photon Battalion charged at the death gods.

It was a bloody battle, to say the least.

I darted around, slaying the death gods with several strokes each. I hated blood... but I...

I didn't have a choice; I had to accept that I was a soldier in a guerrilla war now, but more importantly, I was a big piece in a puzzle... known as time.

After what seemed like hours, I stood, exhausted, on a bloody battlefield. Thousands of dead bodies littered the ground; more black than white. My Keyblade, stained with blood, was dismissed.

"So... that's just the first step," I muttered, very out of breath. I trudged towards the gate, following Sora, the White Knight, and a few other surviving soldiers of the Photon Battalion.

"I guess... they weren't as tough as you said," I gasped.

"No... I've just been fighting them for a very long time," Sora replied.

I looked over at the White Knight, who was unscathed.

I expected as much from someone with invincible armor...

We went through the huge doors, slaying a few more death gods that waited. The inner area was mostly fenced off; there was only a straight path leading to another closed door. After forcing it open, we were confronted...

With a white rabbit. Bones were scattered about its area, and the harmless rabbit began hopping about.

"Hah! That's the best he can do?" I laughed. "Some Dark Lord."

"You shall never pass my strongest champion!" I heard someone shout. I looked up to see a balcony, where a black cape turned in movement.

"His strongest champion? What is this, a joke?" I laughed again.

"You," Sora said, pointing to one of the Photon Battalion. "Take care of this pathetic excuse for an opponent."

The soldier moved forward, but before anyone could blink, the rabbit jumped at him and decapitated him. With that, we all rushed the rabbit, but it began a frenzied attack, jumping from person to person and decapitating them with its razor bite. Sora and I ran back after all of the remaining soldiers had been killed, but the White Knight remained to do battle with the rabbit. Someone shouted again...

"I told you nobody could ever take out my Vorpal Bunny!" I heard the Dark Lord shout. He turned around again, and though the White Knight was unscathed by the Vorpal Bunny's attacks, he was ineffective in battling such a small and agile opponent.

After a couple of minutes of getting nowhere, I sighed.

"How sad," I muttered. "Taken down by a rabbit."

"Blizzaga!"

I turned around to see a beautiful woman with long, raven-colored hair and emerald green eyes dressed in a skimpy black dress... I also gotta admit... she was... that is... eh... um... 'well developed,' if you catch my drift...

Man, Serenity got HOT!!!

"What? You're still alive?" Sora asked, waving his arm.

"You just left me there," Serenity said, stomping her quarterstaff on the ground. "I was only knocked out..."

"Why've you been hiding all this time?" Sora asked.

"No reason," she said. "I just didn't feel like joining your little militant group, that's all."

She looked at the White Knight, who was still pointlessly struggling against the Vorpal Bunny.

"Is that...?" she asked.

"Yeah..." Sora muttered.

"What? You guys know who that Knight is?" I asked. "I thought nobody knew."

"You lied to him?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah... he didn't even know about the Black Knight, so he shouldn't know who the White Knight is," Sora answered.

"Wait. You know who the White Knight is?" I asked.

"I'd tell you... but..." Sora began.

"Organization XIII's Number XIV... Oryx, the Black Knight."