T: Here's the next chapter, fighting and humour in this chapter. Hope you enjoy the chapter, some more Sokai as well.
Kairi looked at the armoured figure, she was slightly scared and drew out her Keyblade; this thing knew she was a princess of Kairi looked at the armoured figure, she was slightly scared and drew out her Keyblade; this thing knew she was a princess of heart. The knight looked at the other two for a brief second before laughing. This had gotten Sora and Riku angry.
"What's so funny?" Riku didn't like this person's attitude.
"I thought that the princess here would be guarded by elite warriors, not some silly teenagers." The knight chuckled a bit more.
"Hmph, well we've taken out villains that have threatened to steal our hearts and tried to conquer the universe, for mere 'teenagers', and we saved the worlds from being consumed by the darkness!" Sora didn't like the idea of being referred to as a simple teenager.
"Hmm-Hmmm. If you say so." The knight drew out his sword, it materialised in Oblivions style, Sora would have been able to recognise it anywhere.
"Let's see if you can fight as good as you boast." The knight then rushed toward Sora and Riku.
They jumped back a bit leading him from Kairi who was trying to get the courage to fight this new foe, but she couldn't, she felt so helpless as she saw Sora and Riku attacking the knight who easily blocked their attacks and sent them flying all over the place. The knight seemed to fight like an angered demon, his strikes were hard and fast, he was only using one hand as well. He would block and then counter, he jumped over one of Riku's attacks and kicked him in the face, Riku flew back a bit before recovering and standing up. Sora rushed in and landed heavy strikes on the knight, he managed to get a crack in his armour.
At this the knight looked at the crack in his armour, it had been years since a crack stained his armour. He looked up at Sora and gave a small chuckle and applause.
"Hmm, you're pretty good. But now the fun is over, prepare yourself!"
The knight then began to hit with faster strikes and had thrown in some magic spells. Sora managed to reflect most of them while Riku used his Dark Shield spell. They then looked at each other and nodded, they both charged at him and started to attack, they were using their limit attack. They managed to get a few hits on him with the combo, but when they went to use 'All's end', the knight sent forth two giant fireballs and stopped the attack.
Kairi could only stare at this, she tried to move but something seemed to restrict her, freezing her to the spot. Sora and Riku tried a different tactic. Sora attacked from the front getting the knights attention while Riku rushed in from behind him readying for a strong attack on his head. Sora's diversion seemed to be working until Riku was a few centimetres from the knight; the knight had quickly turned around and grabbed Riku by the head. He held him in the air for a brief moment before slamming him hard into the ground. After this he kicked Sora in the gut, which sent him flying into the shack. Sora grunted trying to get back up, but the recent attack had winded him, plus it didn't help he hadn't fought for a while. The knight then slowly approached Kairi who was glaring at him.
"Princess, you will come with me now!" The knight went over to Kairi.
She tried to swing toward him, but he merely grabbed the blade and threw it into the ocean. He grabbed her by her hair and started to drag her along the sand. Sora managed to get up and rushed toward the knight. He threw Kairi away and grabbed Sora by the throat. He was tightening his grip on his throat, behind his helmet he was smirking.
"Pathetic...you are so pathetic. How could you save anyone." The knight threw Sora away and started to chant strange words.
Sora being driven with determination used Curaga and began to run at the knight. The knight made a grabbing motion with his hand at Sora's chest, Sora dropped to the ground, his heart felt like it was being torn out. Around the knights hand was dark energy, he was using one of the powers he learned looking for the princess.
"I guess you're wondering, what the pain is you're feeling? I'll tell you. The pain you're feeling is the pain when someone is about to have their heart torn out of their body." Sora was on the floor with his hands covering his heart, he could feel it being forced out of place.
"Stop it!! You're hurting him!!" Kairi had gotten back up when she saw Sora being killed.
"That's the idea..." The knight focused more energy into his hand.
Kairi could feel herself getting angrier at the knight; at this a heavenly aura appeared around her. The knight looked at Kairi; if one could see his face he would have a confused look.
"What are you doing?" He sounded a bit worried when her eyes seemed to glow a light blue.
Then a huge shockwave came from Kairi which sent the knight flying into the wall, the blast was of pure light. When the knight got on his feet, he could feel his energy slipping and his skin felt like it was on fire. He noticed that a pair of heavenly wings were behind her, her hair blew with an otherworldly wind and her eyes were a bright blue, the heavenly aura remained around her.
"Argh...Holy? So...it looks like...you're power has awakened." He was glaring through his helmet at her. Kairi was getting ready to send forth another shockwave when the knight teleported away, his voice echoed on the winds
"I will let you run free for now...but know this princess. We know where you are now, and the next time we meet, you, and your friends will not be so lucky the next time". Kairi then collapsed on the ground.
"Kairi!" Sora tried as hard as he could to stand and run over to her.
He went up to her and tried to shake her a bit, he felt her breathing on his fingers. He gave a small smile of relief, she was okay. It was during this he noticed how much Kairi had grown up over the year, he liked it how she let her hair grow a little longer, he was quite drawn to her face, she looked awfully cute when she was asleep.
"Snap out of it lover boy." Sora turned his head to Riku who had managed to stand up and give a cocky smile.
Sora blushed at Riku's comment, he felt Kairi stirring. She opened her eyes to see Sora above her; she gave a weak smile before rubbing her head with her hand.
"What happened? Where's that guy gone?" Kairi looked around to see no sign of him.
"Looks like he left, I wonder why he didn't kill us when he had the chance." Riku had managed to get to where they were.
The trio then began to think briefly on this knight, they knew for sure that he was evil and that he possessed formidable fighting skills. Sora had faced many enemies in his adventures, but this knight was by the hardest of them all, he admitted he was more of a challenge than even Sephiroth.
"Wait, how did that thing know Kairi was a princess?" Sora looked at Riku to see if he would know.
"How should I know? But I say we get to Disney Castle first, Mickey might know more about them." Riku hoped that Mickey would be able to tell them more of this new foe.
But what he saw right now made him smile, Kairi was staring at Sora with a loving expression, Sora turned down to see Kairi's face and couldn't help but stare at her too. Riku smiled to himself and decided to leave the two love birds alone, until he remembered a vital detail.
"Um guys, how do we get to Disney Castle?" At this Sora and Kairi snapped out of their little trance and looked at Riku with questionable looks.
"Ummm..."
"I think I know someone who could." Sora and Riku turned their attention to Kairi.
"CHICKENS!!" Elena was in the midst of having a shower until the water changed to chickens coming out of the shower head.
"Yes...my children have returned..." Reno had his power drunken face on again as the chicken army was once again flooding the house. Choco was dealing with the vast amount of chickens while Rude was rigging the Dark Chicken God statue to blow with no chance of coming back. Tseng had fallen under the number of chickens and Elena was trying to get rid of the chickens on her body.
"Hurryeth up!" Choco had dealt with this annoying chicken army just about everyday since Kairi left.
"I'm trying!!" Rude was tampering with a new bomb he made specifically for this event.
That was until a chicken appeared to his left holding a 40ft magnum.
"Do you feel lucky...punk?" The chicken spoke in a Clint Eastwood voice.
Rude picked up the chicken and ate it in one bite, he returned to setting the bomb to blow the second he pushed the detonate button.
"It's ready!" He and Choco leapt into the air and detonated the dreaded chicken statue.
The statue blew in a huge explosion, the chickens vanished in a 'poof' cloud and Reno lost his powers. He fell to the ground cursing them for destroying the statue. Then three teenagers walked in seeing blood and feathers all over the house, Sora and Riku stared at the house, as for Kairi she simply smiled.
"Hello again guys." Everyone turned to see Kairi at the front door.
"Kairi?" Tseng who had resurrected himself stood up and looked at Kairi with a shocked face.
"Hello again." Kairi said with a smile on her face.
"How've you been, when was the last time I saw you?" Tseng gave Kairi a hug before everyone started to ask her how she was.
They sat for several hours conversing about old times, Kairi had almost forgotten about Reno and Choco thanks to Rufus, which resulted in Choco adding Rufus's name to his 'kill first' list. She introduced them to Sora and Riku and told them about their journey a year ago. They then began to tell them that they needed to get to Disney Castle and fast.
"We'll take you there. Come on, we'll take the Turkmobile." Reno indicated to the giant gummi ship parked in their back garden.
"It's okay; I can pilot a gummi ship quite well." Sora didn't like the idea of Reno piloting it, until a gun in the shape of a chicken was pointed at his crotch.
"I said...get in!" Reno looked like he was a person you wouldn't want to anger.
They all boarded the gummi ship and took off towards Disney Castle. A new journey had begun, and this would be their hardest one yet.
It was the second day on board the Turkmobile, the Turks would usually do what they would do best and Riku decided to sleep most of the way there. Kairi was walking down the halls of the gummi ship, she had never been in one and always wondered what it would be like to travel through space. As she walked down the halls her mind was swimming with questions about her feelings for Sora.
What's up with me? Every time I see him, I can't take my eyes off him. Before I always had a small crush on him but...It feels like it has become something different...something nicer.
As she was thinking she bumped into someone, as she looked up she saw Sora looking at her as well.
"S-sorry Kairi, I didn't see you there." Sora gave a small smile as he scratched the back of his head.
"It's okay, I should have been looking where I was going." Kairi returned the smile, she could feel a blush staining her cheeks.
The two just looked at each other for several minutes before, one of them spoke breaking the awkward silence.
"Hey Sora?"
"Hmm?" "Could you...show me how to fight?" Sora's expression changed from calm to a shocked one.
"Fight? Why?"
"Back on the islands, I felt helpless as I saw you and Riku fighting that knight. I don't want to be like that again!" She looked at him with a serious expression.
"Please, teach me how to fight." She looked at him with puppy dog eyes. Sora could feel his stomach flip and his heartbeat increase as he looked at Kairi's face, he couldn't resist.
"Umm, okay. But it's tiring work."
"I don't mind." The two smiled at each other before walking down to the training room. Little did they know that Riku had watched the whole event.
Hmm, hmm. Go Sora! I knew he had it in him, now he just he needs to say how he feels for her and everything will be well. He then after waiting a few minutes decided to follow them to find out if everything would go well.
T: There we are, hope you are liking the story so far since I haven't had much feedback apart from SunflowerWielder who has given me feedback on all of my chapters.
T: Anyway stay tuned for the next chapter.