T: I have returned! Sorry for the long wait loyal readers, unless you have just found this then it won't concern you as much. The reason for the long update was that a few weeks ago, my laptop and other things were stolen, my story including. But thankfully I found a backup of my story, it was missing chapter 11 but a quick copy and paste from that chapter never hurt. But now I've a brand new laptop (which rocks!) and my inspiration has returned. So enjoy the longest chapter in the entire story.
Disclaimer: you know it, I don't own Kingdom hearts or anything else par the story, that's mine. Everything else belongs to Disney and Square-enix.
The battle outside was getting fiercer by the minute, endless Wraiths kept converging upon the entrance of the Castle.
Some of the turrets at the front of the castle were now concentrated at the waves of Heartless that were flying towards the castle. Mickey's Keyblade was stained in the blood of Heartless, he was experienced with fighting creatures, but never had he faced such Heartless before, he was tiring, the Wraith were too fast.
The general saw Mickey being overrun by the Heartless and ordered two of the war machines to cover him as he shot the Wraith that were slowly surrounding Mickey.
Mickey saw the Wraith being destroyed and turned to see three battle machines firing at the Wraith that would have killed him. Mickey gave a small smile at the general before using an Elixir on himself and continued to fight.
The soldiers of Radiant Garden were putting up a valiant fight; it looked as if they could hold off the Heartless. The Wraiths remaining tried different tactics but were met with failure as bullets and Mickey's blade ended their lives.
Everything was going well, until a loud monstrous roar could be heard. All the troops and Wraith paused for a second as several buildings were destroyed, in the buildings place stood the shadow of a fiercer opponent. These creatures stood at a height of 25ft, they were grotesque, saliva at their mouths with sharp pointed teeth. On their backs were two massive railguns adorned with the same symbol Orion's armour had.
"What the hell is that!?" The general had never seen any creature like these before.
The Ravagers had now joined the fight, Mickey was staring at these monsters, he had seen many monsters during his adventures, but never had he never seen anything like this before either.
The Heartless stomped toward Mickey and the soldiers before they were met with a volley of bullets and magic from Mickey. All of the bullets just bounced off the Ravagers skin, they didn't even slow it down.
Mickey jumped out of the way before he got crushed by the monster. He jumped up onto its back which caused the monster to stop and turn to see the small mouse holding onto one of the machine parts on it. The Ravager tried to shake Mickey off it, Mickey was holding on tightly before he leapt off the machine and dived at the beast with his Keyblade.
Mickey pierced the Ravagers skin with the Star Seeker, as the blade pierced the Ravager's skin; it gave off a loud deafening scream of pain. Mickey then jumped and with the Keyblade, slashed one of the machine parts that were sticking out of its skin. The machine part exploded and the Ravager howled loudly as its life support systems were starting to overheat. Mickey quickly avoided the explosion and jumped on the Ravager's head and stabbed its right eye with the Star Seeker.
Mickey hopped off the Ravager as it was holding its hand over the spot that was once its eye, Mickey then pointed the Keyblade at the Ravager's head again and from the tip began to charge up a shot of pure light at the Heartless. The Keyblade started vibrate a little as more energy began to be generated by the Keyblade, then when it reached full power Mickey shot a blast of light at the Ravager's head.
The beast looked up to see the energy ball head straight toward, upon impact the head of the Ravager erupted in a fiery explosion. Dark blood was spilled over the ground as the body slowly fell with large thud. The ground shook as Mickey and the general looked at the fallen monster, the troops were still holding off the Wraith's during all this.
"I must admit your Majesty, you've got some skill." The general never would have thought that Mickey could take down a giant monster like that.
As Mickey was about to reply, another Ravager appeared from further down a street, it was charging at them extremely fast for its size. As Mickey was about to fight it, he sensed a large amount of Darkness from the castle basement, and he thought for a second he could hear Ansem's voice.
Oh no! Ansem!!
Orion looked out over what was once the city of Radiant Garden; the once proud city had been reduced to a fiery ruin with bullet fire coming from the remaining troops and turrets. He had to admit, he was impressed, this was the longest any city had stood against their assault.
Hmph, they're doing well. They've managed to hold out for 2 hours, this is a new record. But this has gone on long enough, time to end this pitiful resistance!
"Give word to the Banishing Ray control room; tell them to commence charging the main cannon." Orion loved seeing the Banishing Ray's destructive blasts, nothing in the universe remained after being hit by this.
One of the pilots began to issue the orders to the control room of the great cannon.
"They want to know what is to be the main target." The pilot turned to Orion.
"...Radiant Garden's castle. Let it feel the strength of the Banishing Ray!" Orion pointed at the castle.
The pilot issued the order to the control room. Orion was slowly starting to chuckle, which ended up breaking into a loud laughter.
"My lord, his majesty wants to speak with you." The same pilot informed Orion, he was a bit scared of Orion's mad laughter.
"Patch him through immediately." Orion ceased his laughter and was back to normal.
The main screen turned on to reveal the king sitting in his throne, beside him were two of the elite warriors of their people. These warriors were some of the best fighters on their world next to Orion and the king and as a result, were the kings royal bodyguards.
"Lord Orion, I would like to know the progress of the mission." The king's voice rang through the speakers.
"Your Majesty, the people of this world have refused to co-operate and we are commencing the assault on their main city. I must admit, they are putting up a valiant fight, foolish of them to resist, but I admire how long they have lasted against us." Orion spoke, kneeling on his knee.
"They are resisting? Well, it's not often we are resisted. Continue with the assault, but make sure you capture the princess of heart alive! Understand?" The king sounded both impressed and annoyed at the news Orion told them.
"Yes your Majesty, it will be done." Orion spoke before the king vanished from screen.
Mickey looked toward the castle sensing his friend in trouble, he couldn't ignore the feeling something bad happened. He wanted to go in and find him but he couldn't leave the general and his troops alone, they were having a hard time taking down the Ravagers. They managed to destroy 7 Ravagers, but they had lost a quarter of the infantry that remained and majority of the battle machines had fallen to them.
"Mickey what's wrong?" The general saw that Mickey was standing in the same place for a couple of minutes staring at the castle.
"I think, Ansem's in trouble." Mickey had a worried look on his face.
"Go your Majesty, find him and get him to safety."
"WHAT!? I can't leave you here, what about those monsters?" Mickey couldn't believe the general's words.
"We can handle them, besides I'm worried about him too. Now go!" The general shot several Wraith that tried to sneak up him and continued to shoot the Heartless that tried to get to the entrance.
Mickey hesitated for a moment before running up the stairs and opening the door of Radiant Garden's castle. The general looked back for a second before returning to shoot the remaining Heartless.
Mickey ran through the castle corridors, up flights of stairs as fast as he could. His destination was Ansem's study, he just had to be there, and Mickey doubted he would stay on the balcony where the Heartless could get him.
After several minutes of running through the halls of the castle he finally got to Ansem's study. Mickey barged in through the door to see if Ansem was anywhere, he couldn't find any sign of his friend.
"ANSEM!" Mickey yelled out for his friend, but only silence greeted him.
He then saw a passage way into Ansem's computer room and without hesitation ran along the pathway into his computer room. When he got to the computer room he noticed a door that wasn't open the last time he came here.
After climbing down the newly revealed stairs, he saw an opening into the basement, Mickey had checked every single room on the way here, and this was the only one remaining. He took a breath and started to run down the pathway into the basement.
Hold on Ansem, I'm coming.
Outside the battle was getting fiercer, another two quarters of the infantry remained and they had lost two more battle machines leaving them with 5, including the general. The Ravagers were a fierce opponent, their disintegrators made short work of the infantry and the battle machines could only take two hits at best from their railguns.
The general and the remaining forces were now at the steps, fighting off the seemingly endless wave of Heartless. The troop's morale was slipping, they took longer to reload their weapons and during this time Wraith would fly down and try to grab them.
The general and the remaining battle machines were at the front of the troops, shielding them from the remaining Heartless with their reinforced armour. The sky was now dark and fire and smoke was all that could be seen past the Heartless.
The Wraith's numbers were considerably lesser but they remained as deadly none the less, a few Ravagers remained while the rest were deploying their railguns to shoot down the turrets and the cannons.
"Stay strong men! We can still win this!" The general attempted to keep the remaining soldiers strong and courageous, but the odds didn't look to be in their favour.
Then general saw something he wasn't expecting, the Zodiark's 'head' started to open up, what was in it's mouth was a giant cannon that started to emerge out of the ships 'mouth'. The remaining cannons concentrated their fire on the Zodiark, but like all the other times, the shots only seemed to do light damage on it due to the advanced shielding on the Zodiark.
The cannon then began to charge up, energy was rippling all over the front of the cannon as it seemed to absorb energy into the cannon. A giant ball of energy was forming at the front of the cannon, the light from the cannon was bright enough to help the Zodiark stand out amongst the darkness of the night.
"Dear god...help us..." The general looked horrified at the sight.
Then the cannon fired with a loud sound that shattered any remaining windows and other fragile items. The beam shot through the air towards the castle and upon impact gave off a loud explosion coupled with a bright light from it.
The beam had nearly destroyed the entire castle, pieces of rubble started to fall on the ground, crushing anything that was underneath. Some of the remaining cannons were destroyed from the rubble and the remaining turrets had been destroyed due to the Banishing Ray.
"The king! Ansem!! I hope they're all okay, although I doubt anything could survive that." The general was stunned to see the once great castle reduced to a mere ruin after that blast.
"GENERAL!!" The general turned to see the remaining Wraith doing something strange.
What are they doing?
The Wraith began to merge together, the thing they were creating was large, after several minutes the Wraith had formed a column of themselves that look a lot like giant snake. It even had a mouth and eyes, at this the foot soldiers froze, while the battle machines focused their fire on the 'snake'.
The giant Heartless slowly moved backwards at first, slithering over the buildings. After it had moved back a bit it faced the entrance to the castle, it hissed loudly before opening its mouth to reveal thousands of Wraith moving amongst each other, it was preparing to lunge at the entrance.
The general knew this was it, he had failed to protect his world, but instead of waiting for the end, he fired all his weapons at the monstrous Heartless. The troops seeing this, felt a bit more courageous, they all fired upon the monster before it lunged forward at great speed, destroying everything in its path.
When it came to the troops, the Wraith split apart and dived at the remaining forces, they tore the foot soldiers to shreds and obliterated the battle machines with ease. Now the entrance was unguarded, the Wraith flew towards the entrance and burst through the doors.
Mickey had been running through corridors and what seemed to be endless spiral staircases for hours. He felt the shock of the blast that had destroyed the castle; he figured that he would need to find an alternate way out once he found Ansem, if he found him. Then as he was wandering through the bottom floor, he saw a door slowly cracked open.
He drew out his Keyblade and peeked through the door, he saw nothing, the room was pitch black. The Keyblade was now radiating a powerful light, indicating that there was a heavy amount of darkness in the room.
He slowly opened the door and was shocked at what he saw, on the floor were bodies. They were all in lab coats; Mickey went closer to one of the bodies and saw that they were lying on their face.
Mickey shook the person's shoulders trying to get a response, when he got none he slowly turned them over to see their face.
"AH!" Mickey jumped back a bit. What he saw wasn't the prettiest of sites.
The body was Xehanort, his skin was pale, and his face was thin and covered in wrinkles. His eyes were nearly out of their sockets and his mouth seemed to have been stretched wider than was humanly possible. Mickey could nearly throw up at the sight, he looked and saw another body.
This was Ienzo, he too had a similar expression. Mickey was now scared, he couldn't see Ansem anywhere.
What happened in here!? Where's Ansem!?
Mickey was breathing heavy, his head darted round corner to corner looking for any sign of his friend or the culprit that did this.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? A lost mouse that has stumbled somewhere it shouldn't have." The disembodied voice sounded like something that would send shivers up even the bravest of people.
Mickey looked for the source of the voice; he had never been a big fan of disembodied voices. He then paused at what he saw; two red eyes were floating in a portal. They were staring right at Mickey, if he could see its face; it would be smiling evilly at him.
"Who are you!?" Mickey was now pointing his Keyblade at the floating eyes.
"Hmmm...hmmmm. That will be revealed all in good time, but for now, you should be more concerned with the princess of heart." The eyes disappeared and the room returned to normal, the darkness was gone.
Mickey was silent, he continued to stare at the place where the eyes were a moment ago. He didn't understand the words the voice said, but he knew without a doubt that this voice belonged to something of great evil.
Then Mickey recalled what the eyes said before disappearing.
What did it mean by 'you should be more concerned with the princess of heart'? I need to find Kairi fast!
Kairi was at the main altar in the castle, it was lay below the surface. The ex-summoner was there along with several guards who swore to fight to protect her.
"Come on Kairi, call forth the 'Holy Guardian'. You can do it." The summoner tried to get Kairi focused on summoning forth 'The Holy Guardian'. But she was too worried about Ansem.
"Where's Uncle Ansem? Where is he?" Kairi was worried about her uncle after they felt a large quake from above.
"...He's fine Kairi, but you must concentrate. Call forth 'The Holy Guardian'."
Kairi tried to summon it several times now but nothing happened, a small light would appear but would quickly disappear.
Then the doors leading to the altar started to move slightly, something was hitting the doors from the outside. The guards got into position to fire upon whatever came through the doors.
"Come on Kairi!" The ex-summoner was now worried that Ansem was wrong, what if Kairi couldn't call forth 'The Holy Guardian'.
The doors then flew open killing several guards from the impact, the Wraith flew into the Altar with such speed. The guards didn't last long against the sheer numbers and speed of the Wraith, the guards took defensive positions, back against each other so that the Wraith couldn't flank them. They managed to take a few down but due to the Wraith's speed, the soldiers were picked off one by one. Some of the soldiers had become Neo Shadows and were attacking the remaining soldiers.
The Neo Shadows leapt on the guards, tearing out their beating hearts and consuming, the bodies stained the ground temporarily, the ex-summoner was unleashing multiple spells at the enemies. Fire, Blizzard and Thunder were launched upon all the Heartless, many of the Wraith and Neo Shadows were burned to a crisp or frozen on the spot.
Kairi stared in horror as she saw all the guardsmen being brutally killed.
The ex-summoner tried to protect Kairi as bet he could, he kept yelling to her to summon 'The Holy Guardian' but his words fell on deaf ears, and during this small time one of the Wraith impaled him on its tale. It brought him up to its head and took a large bite out of his head; it then threw his body to the ground.
All of the Wraith and remaining Neo Shadows surrounded Kairi, staring at her with malicious intent. Kairi then held the materia in her hands and began to pray like Ansem said to. As she spoke the materia started to change from red to a heavenly blue. The light from the materia seemed to be burning the Heartless's skin as light blue flames covered their skins.
Then a shockwave of holy light erupted from the materia, destroying every single Heartless in the room. Then a beam of light shot up through the ceiling and the floors of the ruined castle. Kairi had succeeded in summoning forth 'The Holy Guardian'.
Orion looked from the bridge of Zodiark at the ruined city of Radiant Garden, fire surrounded the once great city, the castle had been reduced to a mere image of its former glory.
Orion smiled at his triumph, now it was only a matter of time before the Wraith brought the princess of heart to him and they would return to their homeworld.
Hmph. Nice try Radiant Garden, but you ultimately failed in the end. We always get what we wa- WHAT!?
Orion could see a small light in the castle ruins, it the grew brighter and brighter till a beam shot into the air and cleared the clouds from Radiant Garden. The beam was pure blue and let off a couple of shockwaves before disappearing. From the castle sprouted two giant angelic wings, these wings belonged to 'The Holy Guardian', he had arrived at last.
Orion looked at the giant angel wings the castle had 'grown', at first he was shocked, but was quickly replaced with anger. He knew what this meant, this wasn't the first time he had seen these wings.
ALEXANDER!? Those scum's secret weapon is the Holy Guardian Alexander? HA! They're just full of surprises, I hoped never to see those cursed things again!
The armada's crew were shocked, most of them had never seen anything like this before. They didn't know what to do.
"My lord...what do we do?"
Orion was glaring at the wings that were now fully spread, they covered the horizon beyond and shone with a pure light.
"DESTROY THAT CASTLE NOW!!" Orion wanted to destroy it quickly.
The Zodiark and the remaining battleships unleashed all their weaponry on the castle, the wings quickly covered the castle, shielding it from the lasers and missiles that came from the armada. Upon contact with the wings, the lasers and missiles exploded harmlessly in blue light.
Then the wings moved back to reveal what looked like a giant fortress standing above the castle. It was gigantic, it loomed over the castle, its shadow had covered everything. The Zodiark looked pathetic in the presence of Alexander.
Orion was now slightly scared due to the fact that all of their weaponry hadn't harmed Alexander in the slightest. But they still had one more weapon they could use.
"Fire the Banishing Ray now!!" Orion yelled to pilots
"We can't, it hasn't cooled down yet." One of the pilots informed Orion.
Then Alexander's wings began to glow with a purifying light, it was charging up it's own attack. The armada were now powerless to stop it and they were sitting ducks, they had overheated their weaponry and converted all the ships energy to the weapons.
The wings of Alexander then glowed blue quickly before firing millions of holy missiles at the fleet, they destroyed all the remaining Heartless outside and flew straight at the fleet. The shields did very little to stop the missiles Alexander had unleashed, one by one the battleships were destroyed, frigates were decimated and a few battleships fell to the ground in a fiery explosion. The Zodiark's shields fell quickly and was now being pulverised by the millions of missiles.
"We're taking heavy damage!" The pilots tried to keep the ship under control but were failing.
"Get us out of here now!!" Orion knew it was better to retreat than stay here.
The Zodiark then vanished in a flash of green light, it had escaped with serious damage that would take a long time to repair. Alexander stood over Radiant Garden, looking at what had become of this world. He sensed to see if there were any survivors.
He felt the presence of a Keyblade wielder and a princess of heart, he could sense the princess close by and could tell that she had summoned him forth to help. He looked down to see Kairi lying on the ground unconscious.
Young one, you shall be blessed with my power. May it help you in times of need.
Alexander then disappeared in a flash of light which kept the shape of a sphere. It flew down and went into Kairi's heart, she had been blessed by 'The Holy Guardian'.
Mickey had seen everything, he saw Alexander appear and destroy the fleet with ease. His mouth was open, he was in awe at the power Alexander possessed. He then quickly climbed over the rubble and found the altar, he saw Kairi on the ground.
"Kairi!" Mickey rushed over to Kairi's side and checked to see if she was alive.
His fears were put at ease when he felt her heart beat and felt her breath on his hand. He smiled quickly before noticing something intriguing, in Kairi's hand was a Keyblade.
He had seen books on the many forms of Keyblade's that existed and he had never seen this one before. It looked similar to the Oathkeeper Keyblade except for a few changes, the hilt was made of Alexander's angel wings, the blade part was longer giving it a good reach and had a sharper hook, the keychain on it resembled Alexander.
Mickey was even more surprised at this now; this Keyblade hadn't been documented in any books.
I can't believe Kairi has been given a Keyblade, and I've never heard of a summon creature blessing it's summoner with weapons, especially a Keyblade.
King Mickey then picked up Kairi and went to look for his gummi ship that he landed several miles away from Radiant Garden. After an hour of walking he found his ship on the mountain he landed on.
Before he left, he took one last look at Radiant Garden, he felt sorry for all the people who died today. Plus he didn't know what happened to Ansem, although he knew to expect the worse. He then heard Kairi stir, she sat up and looked at him.
"King Mickey? W-where's uncle Ansem? Where is everyone?" Kairi sounded worried at her uncle's absence.
"..Kairi, there's a chance that he made it out. But I don't know where he is. But we need to leave Radiant Garden; it's not safe here anymore." Mickey gave Kairi a hug as heard her start to cry. He gently rubbed her back to make her calm down.
But, who do I take her to now?
T: There you have it, I hope it was worth the wait. The next chapter will be uploaded soon, sometime today or tommorow.
T: Stay tuned.