Kingdom Hearts: Last Battle Chapter 63: 57: Everything into the Dark, a kingdom hearts fanfic

Chapter Fifty Seven: Everything into the Dark

I opened my eyes after the dark wave flowed toward me. Amy's castle was in ruins, but she herself was still there.

My friends will help me! Our light will illuminate this pitch-black void!

Everyone ran up to me.

"Whoa! What's going on?" Sora asked.

"Amy's getting desperate," I muttered. "She sees our light is stronger than the infinite darkness."

"So... what now?" he asked.

Amy laughed maniacally, then warped over to us.

"Now... you will be consumed by the endless void!" she shouted, raising her right arm. A swirling vortex appeared behind her, consuming all the rubble. The strong winds began to pull us in.

"Now die!" Amy shouted, and the wind picked up. I could feel my feet slipping...

"We'll never die! Not as long as a glimmer of light exists!" I shouted, throwing my arms out. I used my aura to create a pink dome barrier, which was shielding us from the void.

It takes... a lot of aura. Fortunately, my aura is unlimited... but it also takes a lot of stamina...

"Guys! I won't be able to keep this up for very long. There's only one way you guys can stand winds of this magnitude!" I yelled at them.

"Right!" Sora said. A flash of light later, and everyone but Riku and Sora had disappeared. Riku looked like he was in his Dark Form... with the funny clothes and all. Sora... seemed different...

His clothes were like his old clothes... the clothes he wore on his first quest, but golden...

I couldn't keep the barrier up any longer, but now that we were all at our maximum strength...

The pink barrier dissolved, leaving me braced to keep my footing.

"You guys know what to do!" I shouted, barely audible over the ripping winds. We all dashed out, attemting a simple slice with our swords. Sora and Riku's hits were blocked by barriers of darkness, knocking them back. I missed entirely, not taking the wind into account, and nearly fell into the void. It took a massive outburst of aura to stop me from falling into the abyss, and I rocketed forward.

I managed to get a couple of shallow slices in, but nothing major. I skidded, landing by Sora.

"It's not enough! We can't beat her like this!" Sora yelled over the razor winds.

"No... we can!" I shouted. "There's something we're doing wrong, though..."

I dashed at Amy again, who had now turned on a sort of darkness perma-guard. Even though I diffused my Judgment Blade into its component parts, furiously attacking, fusing, attacking, and diffusing, nothing got through. Neither did Riku's lightning-fast flurry of strokes, and Sora's power hits didn't fare any better. We landed near the void, using all of our energy to keep from being sucked in.

"We have to fight with our hearts!" I shouted, springing forward with a massive burst of aura. I put some of my spirit... my heart... into that stroke. It broke through the dark perma-guard, cutting off one of Amy's fingers. She howled, getting a dangerous look in her eyes...

"I was going to wait for the void to consume you, but it looks like it won't be that easy!" Amy shouted. "Now... time to die!"

I could feel darkness welling up under me. I barely managed to dash to the side before a massive flare of darkness erupted, nearly erasing the ground beneath it. I looked up at Amy. There was something different about her now...

She's given herself over to the darkness. Now we're fighting a mindless puppet.

I dashed from side to side, narrowly dodging dark flares. I eventually got close enough to do a diving aerial slash, but Amy... no, the akuma... blocked it with her bare hands.

"What...?" I gasped. "Damn you!"

The akuma threw me back, but I managed to skid to a stop before being thrown into the void. I couldn't see where Riku and Sora were now, but I spotted them a second later.

I smirked to myself.

I dashed forward again, once again dodging disintegrating dark flares. Just before I jumped up for the diving aerial slash, Sora and Riku grabbed her arms, holding the akuma back while I dove straight down on her. The akuma was cleaved in two, but disintegrated into glimmers of darkness.

"Is it over?" Riku asked.

"No... not yet," I muttered as the ground beneath us suddenly disappeared, as did the void. After a few seconds, a bright flash of light shone in front of us. Someone... or something... appeared in front of us. It was entirely wrapped in darkness, but the darkness was odd... it was like a flame.

I am the darkness. The True Light shall be extinguished... all life destroyed.

Those words rang through my mind as a massive flare of fire and darkness blasted behind it. With that, we were cast into the celestial plane. Stars dotted the black sky, and a red-orange planet was nearby. A blue star burned a bit away, and a few other planets were around.

"This is it, guys," I told them. "The endgame. It's all or nothing. We have two options: restore the True Light or die trying!"