A/N alright, chapter 8...still no reviews, but hey, that's okay. I just enjoy writing and like see people reading what I write. Just please, give me a little bit of feedback in the form of a review. Even if you don't have an account, you can still leave an review.
DISCLAIMER me and the lawyers have reached a temporary truce. I say that I don't own KH, and they don't bomb the crap out of my foxhole. Right now though, I'm building a nuke to hit them with.
Matt quickly jumped out of the way as a sphere of darkness crashed into the ground in front of him. Lily jumped out of the smoke and slashed at Heather. Heather quickly raised her Keyblade and blocked the attack. A second later a flash suddenly appeared. Heather spun around swinging her Keyblade wildly. When the flash died, she had several cuts all over her body. "Very impressive King Mickey" she said to the mouse in front of her.
"He doesn't really need a bodyguard, does he?" Lily asked Matt.
"Nope, if any thing he needs to guard his guards" Matt replied. Heather shot a sphere of darkness at Mickey, who raised his Keyblade. A sphere of light shot through the sphere of darkness destroying it. Mickey then charged at Heather and slashed at her. She blocked his attack, but the next second Mickey was above her slashing down. Heather barely raised her Keyblade in time to block that attack, but was then hit hard in the back.
"Gah" Heather cried out as she grabbed her back in pain.
"Now, will you give up yet?" Mickey asked as he placed his Keyblade on the ground.
"I can't" Heather said. Her voice seemed a little different. "They're making me fight, they're controlling me. Please, help me" she begged. Everyone looked at her in shock
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Matt asked confused.
"They're making me do this. I don't want to do this to people. I never have, but they control my body and make me. Please, save me!" Heather begged.
"I KNEW IT!" Lily shouted. Mickey and Matt both looked at her. "She was my friend on our world. She seemed a little...off. Now I know why" Lily explained.
"But, knowing this, can we really go all out on her? I mean, now we know she is just a victim. If we continue like this, we run the risk of killing her" Matt explained. Lily had an expression of horror on her face.
"If it comes to that, please, kill me. Death would be a better fate than what I'm going through now" Heather told them.
"Well, if we use the proper amount of light and dark we could save her, but we only use the light, and Riku's darkness is too strong" Mickey said. "We may not have a choice" he said sadly.
"NO, I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT! SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND!" Lily shouted.
"Heather may not be my best friend, but I refuse to kill another human" Matt said.
"Sometimes, Matt, Lily, we have to do things we don't want to do in war" Mickey told them.
"If there is an option we haven't tried, they I'll try it. I REFUSE to take a human life" Matt growled. "Heartless, fine, human Nobodies or Reformed, fine, Husks, fine. But a human, that's asking too much" he said firmly.
"Please, if you know of a way to help me, then do it! I can feel it, they're going to start again. Then you won't have a choice but to kill me" Heather said as she grabbed her head.
"Just hold on a minute Heather, please, we'll find a way" Lily said saddly. "Come on Your Majesty, there has to be someway!" Lily pleaded.
"Without Riku, I'm afraid not" Mickey said just as sadly.
"If we give up on saving someone so easily, then as far as I'm concerned, we're no different than our enemies" Matt said. Mickey opened his mouth to say something, but Matt cut him off. "I won't give up, even if you do, I'll never give up" Matt said. Suddenly his Keyblade began to glow brightly. It then separated into the Broken Balance Keyblade before shattering. "Oh yeah, now this, THIS, is what I'm talking about!" Matt shouted. In his hand was a katana. One half of the blade was white, while the other half was black. The sheath was also half white and half black, with a wave dividing the two halves. Heather let out a large scream and everyone looked at her.
"Guess who's back" Heather said, her voice darker. Matt put his katana into the sheath.
"Yeah, we know. But guess what, you wont be controlling her for much longer" Matt said as he made the sheathe parallel to the ground.
"Sorry, but it's just like Mickey said. The only way to free Heather is to use the perfect amount of light and darkness, and with the three of you, light overpowers all of you" Heather said as she began to laugh evilly. "Lily, you'll never see your friend again" she said as she laughed even harder.
"Enough. I know just the way to free Heather" Matt said. A large amount of energy gathered in his sword.
"What are you doing, that much power will kill Heather, not save her!" Lily shouted.
"Just trust him. He wouldn't kill anyone on purpose" Mickey assured.
"Come on, let's see this amazing plan of yours!" Heather shouted as she charged at Matt. Her Keyblade dragging on the ground behind her. She slashed upward as hard as she could. The shock wave knocked everyone except for Matt onto the ground.
"Hidden Technique: Pure Soul Blade" Matt shouted as he slashed his sword out of his sheath. The dull part of the blade collided with Heather's side. All of the magic that had been built up into the blade released itself into Heather. Heather fell to her stomach screaming out in pain. After several minutes of screaming, she stopped.
"Is she, okay?" Lily asked. Heather slowly got up.
"Thank you" she said, her voice normal again.
"HEATHER!" Lily shouted as she pounced on Heather and pulled her into a hug.
"Ugh" Heather cried out when Lily tackled her to the ground.
"I thought, you were gone" Lily cried into her shoulder.
"Okay, I missed you too, but this is a little bit much" Heather said. Lily got up.
"Yeah, and we have to go help out Sora and the others before the Freesouls beat them" Matt commented.
"Come on guys" Mickey shouted while waving his hand.
"Mind if I come with you?" Heather asked.
"Why?" Lily asked.
"I feel that if I'm going to begin to forgive myself, then I ought to help out the people I was forced to hurt" Heather explained.
"Good enough reason, come on, we need to hurry" Matt said. Lily and Heather both looked at each other and nodded. They then both ran off. Unknown to the group, there was another man standing quite a ways away.
"Master must be informed of this" he said as he vanished.
/\/\WITH SORA AND THE OTHERS/\/\
Sora quickly cut through one of the Freesouls in front of him. He spun around quickly and sliced one that was coming up from behind him. A large fire erupted as Donald was quaking loudly. Goofy was in front of the duck protecting him since his shield couldn't harm the Freesouls. "You know, I hate fighting these things" Riku commented from beside Sora. Riku raised his hand and fired out a dark fireball.
"The only reason for that is because you don't like using your magic" Kairi commented from the other side of Sora.
"Can you really blame me? I'm trying to get away from using the darkness" Riku pointed out.
"How about you stop talking, and start blasting?" Roxas asked as he shot two fireballs into the group of Freesouls.
"I agree with Roxas, stop talking, start casting" Naminé said as a wave of light shot out of her Keyblade destroying several Freesouls.
"Did someone say blasting?" a voice asked. Suddenly a massive wave of fire engulfed the Freesouls. A fireball then landed several feet away taking out several more Freesouls. Mulan came running back and on her shoulder was a small red dragon with smoke coming out of it nose. "You know, this had better be good. I was having a good time" Mushu said.
"Just the usual. Saving your world and all the others" Sora commented.
"Well, that's good enough I guess" Mushu said before he launched another fireball into the group. Just then an orb of darkness followed up by an orb of light cut swiftly through the Freesouls. Next, several meteors came and took out another large chunk of the Freesouls. The next thing everyone knew, someone was running through the Freesouls cutting them up left and right with ease.
"Looked like you guys could use some help" Matt said as he stopped next to Sora.
"Hey, you have one of those weapons too?" Sora asked looking at Matt's katana.
"Yeah, its a little bit different than yours though" Matt said.
"Come on, introduce new weapons later, kill Freesouls now" Heather shouted. Everyone looked over at her in shock.
"Let's just say, its a long story" Matt said.
"We'll explain it on the ship, I promise" Lily told the group.
"Sure hope there's a good reason" Riku mumbled to himself. Suddenly, all of the Freesouls looked up. Everyone followed their gaze. On top of the castle was a massive shape. None of its features could be made out though.
"HAHA, this is very interesting. Heather is free now, and now you have weapons to defeat Freesouls. This is getting very interesting. Now though, how about we play by my rules?" a deep voice boomed.
"Okay Heather, explain, who is that?" Matt asked.
"In the organization I worked for there are several Overheads. One is a Heartless, one is a Nobody, there are two Reformed, one Freesoul, one Husk, and now with me gone, two humans. I'm not sure of their names since they never said them near me, but I know that that voice belongs to the Heartless Overhead" Heather explained. Just then five shadows appeared on the ground. Out of each a huge Heartless emerged. They stood around six and a half feet tall and had huge muscles. In one hand they had a massive chain, and in the other was a large ax. Their heads looked like dogs heads, but the rest of the body didn't.
"HAHA, let see how you deal with my little pets. Meet the Death Reapers" the Heartless boomed. All five of the Death Reapers then began to charge at the Keybearers at a surprising speed.
"Donald, slow them down, wont ya" Mickey said.
"As you say Your Majesty" Donald said as he raised his staff above his head. "Thunaja" Donald cried out. Suddenly a massive black cloud appeared over the battle field. A second later a storm of nothing but lightning bolts rained down on the Heartless for around a minute. When the spell ended, all of the Death Reapers were still standing. They then began their charge towards the Keybearers again.
"Gwarsh, these guys are tough" Goofy pointed out.
"WE KNOW THAT!!" Donald shouted angrily. When they got close enough, the first Death Reaper lashed out with its chain at Sora. Sora raised his sword to block it, but the chain wrapped around the sword. The Death Reapers lifted Sora off the ground and slammed him back down several times.
"Enough" Matt said as he charged towards the Heartless. The Heartless slammed down his ax. Matt side stepped and quickly slashed both of the Death Reapers legs. The Death Reaper acted as though nothing had happed. "Well, this isn't good" Matt commented. The Death Reapers ax found its mark and slammed hard into Matt. Matt flew through the air and landed near the rest of the group.
"Man, you got beat bad" Riku commented.
"Their strong. They make some of the Reformed we fought seem like Shadow Heartless" Matt commented. Sora slowly got up off the ground.
"All right, new plan. Any one have one?" Sora asked the group.
"I do" Heather told the group. Everyone except for Matt, Mickey and Lily looked at her skeptically.
"Why should we trust you?" Naminé asked.
"Yeah, you attacked us, tried to destroy several worlds. That doesn't really scream trustworthy person to me" Roxas added in.
"Listen, I know all of that stuff. But please, just trust me" Heather pleaded.
"I will, you know that" Lily told Heather.
"Yeah, thanks. I'm trying to earn everyone else's trust, not my best friends" Heather told Lily. "So, will you trust me?" Heather asked. Everyone looked at each other and nodded their heads. "Thank you" Heather told the group. "Okay, I want Kairi, Naminé, and Donald to unleash a combined magic spell against all of them. While the spell is going on, the rest of us goes in there and starts bashing them" Heather explained.
"How will that help" Riku asked.
"Simple. These things aren't invincible, they just have a high regeneration rate. If we constantly damage them with spells and with physical attacks, we should be able to negate that and destroy them" Heather explained.
"I'm good with that. Sounds logical to me" Matt said. Everyone else nodded. Kairi, Naminé, and Donald all got ready.
"Okay, now, cast the spells" Heather told the three magic users. They all nodded their heads.
"Thunaja" they all shouted at the same time. As soon as the thunder bolts started to hit the Death Reapers, the rest of the group ran in and started slashing the Death Reapers. When the spell ended, all of the Death Reapers were gone.
"Nice plan there Heather" Mickey commented.
"Thank you Your Majesty" Heather said.
"Hey, aren't we forgetting about that large Heartless?" Mulan asked. Everyone quickly got ready for battle again. They all looked up at where he had been just a few minutes ago.
"Where did he go?" Kairi asked the group. No one said a thing.
"HAHA, you actually beat the Death Reapers. Unfortunately for you, I'm not as weak as those things" the voice boomed from all around them. A second later, the Heartless Overhead appeared in front of the group. "Now, prepare to know darkness like you've never seen before!" he boomed in his deep voice. Sora ran at him first, but ran into an invisible force field. The Overhead a second later had Sora's neck in his hand. Sora was trying to breath, but nothing was coming.
"SORA!" Kairi shouted. She ran at the Overhead ready to smash her Keyblade down, only to run into the same force field. He then shot out his other hand and had Kairi in his grasp now.
"Hold on guys!" Mickey shouted. Mickey a second later was in front of the Overhead. He then lunged out a third arm, but Mickey quickly dodged it. He then shot an orb of light out of his Keyblade. The Overhead let out a massive roar and the orb vanished and knocked Mickey far away.
"HAHA, if this is all the power you can muster, you have no chance against us" he shouted as he threw Sora and Kairi away with ease. Both of them had lost consciousness.
"YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!" Matt shouted. Matt then made a circle in the air in front of him. A green clock appeared in front of him and underneath the Overhead. Matt slashed at each position of the clock. He then disappeared and reappeared at each position around the Overhead. When the one at twelve o'clock charged, he was also stopped by the barrier. Each of the others met with the same fate. "CHRONO SLASH!" Matt shouted as he appeared above the Heartless. It looked up and let out a large laugh. He then caught Matt in the middle of his attack. Matt looked shocked that his most powerful attack had just been stopped so easily. Suddenly a large amount of darkness shot into Matt, and he screamed in pain. The Overhead then threw Matt across. Matt landed next to Sora and Kairi also unconsciousness.
"This guy is too strong" Riku said, truly afraid of what stood in front of him.
"He's stopped Sora, Kairi, Mickey, and Matt's strongest attack" Roxas said in equal shock.
"HAHA, your not worth killing yet. So enjoy my gift of life for now. Who ever said a Heartless doesn't have a heart. HAHA" the Heartless laughed. He then revealed his fourth arm. In each of his hands was a large dark orb. He threw them at the remainder of the group. They all exploded, and the whole group was sent flying in different directions. Everyone one of them was knocked out.
A/N that was just a peek at what the Overheads can do. As you can see, the Keybearers are going to have a hard time with this group. Please review.