T: Here's the sixth chapter of my story, mostly serious through this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or the characters that belong to it. I only own the story, and my characters.
4 years later...
All was peaceful in the world of Radiant Garden, the people lived happy lives, and markets were bustling with people looking to buy gifts. Among these stood a young girl of 12, she had brown hair that was tied with a ribbon and let down in a braid, no one could tell but in her blood was the power of an ancient race known as the Cetra. Her name was Aerith Gainsborough.
"Aerith! Wait up!" Aerith turned around to see her friend Cloud Strife catching up holding what looked like a billion bags.
"Is it necessary to have all this stuff?" Cloud asked with a tired voice.
"YES!!" Aerith answered in a split second.
"Why? Who are all these gifts for?"
"Friends, family and remember its Kairi's birthday." Aerith replied with a stern look upon her face.
"Oh yeah...He-he I nearly forgot." Cloud replied looking sheepish.
"sigh you're hopeless." The two friends started laughing.
Meanwhile in the royal castle of Radiant Garden, Ansem the Wise was in a meeting room. This meeting was unlike others, they usually consisted of crime rates, birth rates, the city's security and other such things. But today, they were discussing their world's fate.
"Are you sure about this?" Ansem replied with great worry in his voice.
"Yes my lord. Our satellites have detected their movement from the Beta-Zeta region of space, they have been moving at a speed of 2 light years per day." Replies the worlds army general.
"2 light years a DAY!! THATS IMPOSSIBLE! No craft possess the technology to achieve this!!" Xehanort yelled with shock clearly in his voice.
"It's true professor. Our team has determined that their technology is years ahead of ours, something that would take 300 generations worth at the least to rival."
"Are they friendly or do they pose a threat to us?" Asked one of the senior members of the council.
"...We are unsure sir. But regardless we have calculated they will enter our solar system in 3 days."
"Three days? Is that all the time we have?" Ansem replied.
He had experienced many situations, but dealing with what could be aliens from another part of the universe or any other force in a matter of days worried him.
"Our team using our "All seeing" telescope we did manage to catch a glimpse of one of the forces space vessels."
"Show it on the main screen." Ansem replied with a serious tone.
A screen appeared from behind the wall and showed numerous charts.
"This is what we have been able to make of it."
The general flicked through some of the options until it got to a picture that revealed a space craft that at first didn't look big at all.
"This photo was taken at a distance of 6 light years. Our team has then created a rough 3d model of how it would like." The general then showed on the hologram projector in the middle of the room what the ship looked like from a closer inspection.
The ship was enormous; considering it was a hologram it nearly fit the entire room. The council members could only gasp and stare on at this apparent war vessel.
"We have determined that this would be their standard battleships, their ships are designed to look a lot a dragon, as you can tell from the front part of the ship. The most notable thing we have noticed is the cannon that rests upon its back."
The hologram zoomed in on the giant cannon resting on the ships back; it was one of those kinds of cannons that looked like it could destroy a city.
"These cannons seem to be directly linked to the ships power core, using its energy to deliver a highly devastating blast." The army general replied in his serious tone.
"How do you know this?" Xehanort replied in a curious tone.
"Our scientists have been able to use this model to examine the ships layout and locate any weaknesses in the hull, should the worst happen." The general replied with a small smirk, it wasn't often you get to prove a point to one of Ansem's best apprentices.
"My lord, either way I recommend we mobilise the army to be ready for the worst." Answered one of the council members.
He's right. I can't just wait for them to make the first move; we need to be ready for anything whether they are peaceful or aggressive.
"Very well, assemble the soldiers and prepare the Radiant Garden defence system for anything." Ansem replied
"Very well my-"
BOOM
An explosion could be heard and the screams of the people as well.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" asked one of the elder council members.
Several of the council members got up, this included Ansem, Xehanort and the army general.
Outside everyone was panicking and screaming as one of the villages that lay outside of Radiant Garden was replaced with a huge explosion that could easily be seen from anywhere, it extended into the sky.
A young Cloud was holding Aerith in his arms as she was terrified of the explosion that had just destroyed her grandparent's village, she cried and cried whilst Cloud tried to cheer her up.
"Don't worry Aerith, everything will be fine. I'm sure your grandparents escaped unharmed." Although Cloud didn't believe it himself, how could anyone survive an explosion like that?
Aerith only continued to cry whilst mumbling 'Why?' again and again.
Meanwhile Ansem and the others had seen the explosion from the castle balcony, which gave a view of all the villages surrounding Radiant Garden.
"What could do such a thing?" Ansem asked with horror.
"ANSEM! ABOVE!!" The general yelled as the sky darkened and a laser beam pierced the clouds and descended upon another village. The noise from the laser was one that could deafen someone; the laser gave off what could be best described as a wailing scream before colliding with the second village.
Upon impact at first a blue smoke surrounded the village, before a bright light came flying down towards the village erupting in a fiery explosion as the village was completely destroyed and another huge explosion filled the sky.
Ansem could only look on in horror, a second village had been destroyed, all the people who had done no wrong, were gone. Taken by this mysterious light that descended from the heavens.
"...Oh...my god." Was all that left the generals mouth as he too was shocked at the devastation caused.
Ansem looked above to where the laser had come from and there was something that struck pure terror in his heart. The very same ship that the general had shown him and the other council members was floating above the destroyed villages.
It was indeed bigger than the hologram version, the ship was as black as the night, it bore the head of a dragon on the front, and the eyes of it glowed with an eerie green. It possessed a fair amount of smaller cannons that could easily take down a fleet of star fighters, the huge cannon on the back of the ship was pointing straight at the sky, Ansem knew then that the laser that destroyed the village and most likely the first village came from that ship.
The next thing that happened was that speakers were deployed on the front of the ship, the occupants of this war vessel then spoke.
"People of Radiant Garden! Hear us well! We have come for the princess of heart that lives among you!! Deliver us the girl, and your world, the towns and cities will be spared, resist, and we will level all your cities, we will burn this world until it remains a barren waste. We will slaughter all your people, and hunt down any that escape, we will take your sons and daughters as slaves for our people." The voice from within the ship was harsh, cold and ruthless.
"I speak now to your leader, Ansem the Wise! In three days our armada will arrive and by then you better have the young princess ready for us. If you refuse to co-operate, our threat shall be put to action without mercy. If you are as wise as your name suggests, you will comply!" Ansem couldn't believe it; these –things- were willing to destroy an entire planet and its population, just to take one girl.
"You have three days. Don't make the wrong choice." The speakers on board the ship disappeared and the ship turned around and flew into the dark reaches of space.
Ansem had now been sitting in his study for the last four hours, he was scared. Scared of those things that destroyed two villages and now threatened to destroy the world he worked so hard to protect.
He was faced with two options:
1. Turn over the princess of heart to these creatures, and hope they don't destroy anymore towns.
2. Refuse, and doom him and his people to certain death and have their children as slaves.
He couldn't think, 38 years of ruling and never had he had such dangerous options to work with.
"Uncle Ansem?" Ansem turned his head to his niece; she had short red hair and was wearing a small white dress.
"Are you okay?" The young girl asked with concern in her voice.
"I'm all right Kairi. Just a lot's on my mind." Ansem replied to his 4 year old niece with a small smile and patted her on the head.
Kairi smiled at her uncle and gave him hug.
"Don't worry about those nasty aliens. I'll take care of them." Kairi replied whilst standing in a heroic pose.
Ansem chuckled at the sight of his young niece being brave in a situation like this. How he wished he could relive moments like that.
"Go on Kairi, I'm sure your mothers worried about you." Ansem asked whilst trying to hold back the tears building up in his eyes.
"Okay. Bye-bye Uncle Ansem." Kairi gave her uncle a kiss on the cheek before leaving the room.
How can I give up my own niece to these monsters, how would my sister take it?
What am I supposed to do?
T: There you go, hope it was good. Oh and since there isn't any facts saying Kairi is Ansem's niece I decided to make them related.
T: Next update, sometime soon