CHAPTER 15
Beyond the beaten path
Lies the uncertain ending,
For some or for all
"YOU WORTHLESSS LITTLE WORM!!!" Redd shouted as she sent wave after wave of spears and unmanned weapons at Sora. Sora moved in and out of the spears while knocking the daggers that flew at his face. Redd swept her arm in front of her, four velvet nightmares appeared and opened fire as Sora burst through her forest of blades.
"DEFENCE!" Sora shouted hearing the sound of a trigger being pulled. The bullets were merely absorbed into the panels or bounced off. Sneering, Redd raised her hand and set a burst of red light at Sora. Sora moved to the side as the red light hit the ground next to him, leaving an hole where his body was.
"Let's up the stakes!" Redd shouted to Sora. "And what to do you want to do?" Sora shouted back. "Let's have some more breathing room." Redd said, her scepter glowing a brighter red before covering the ball room in it's red light.
Sora shield his eyes trying to look through the over whelming light trying to see what would come for him. Sora opened his eyes when he felt a light breeze blow by him. "What" Sora looked around a valley surrounded by small mountains, the sky looked like the chess broader desert. Sora looked at the red kingdom hearts above the small mountains in front of him. Standing on top of the mountain was Redd looking at Sora with a smile plastered on her sharp a evil face. Redd raised her hand into the red Kingdom hearts above her.
Redd's scepter stayed glowing it's light not as bright has it had been. "How about I introduce you to my 'other' Nobody?" Redd shouted to Sora as he readied he keyblade glaring at the woman. "WHAT WAS THAT" Sora shouted to the woman. Redd sent a stream of black roses and vines at Sora. Sora jumped back ready for the vines to fallow him only to see them sink into the ground and form a black pool. The black pool rose into a portal and opened like a veil showing a hooded figure.
"What?" Sora looked at the figure of some one from the organization. "It has been a long time Sora." The organization member said. "Who are you? I killed all the Organization XIII members!" Sora shouted gripping his keyblade harder.
"oh… you did for most of them but we have a way of coming back. Just like Axel and Roxas came back, and so did Xemnas." The male organization member said as he flipped his hood back, a few rose petals falling out as he did so. "I am Marluxia, Organization XIII member XI, The Graceful Assassin." Marluxia said kissing a rose he made. The rose burst into petals and changed into a pink scythe, "Let us dance" Marluxia said sending a black wave at Sora.
Sora jumped to the side avoiding the narrow black blade. Marluxia sunk into a black pool at his feet. Sora looked around him before he felt the darkness come from behind. Sora jumped backwards as the Graceful Assassins appeared behind him and slashed where his body had been seconds.
"Come one can't you hit me." Sora said as he slashed his keyblade down only to have Marluxia disappear again. Sora felt the darkness come form his right, read for Marluxia, Sora was ready to block when he felt the scythe slashed up his back.
"Ahh" Sora shouted as the blade cut through his skin and he was hurled into the air, Marluxia took the chance and jumped at Sora slashing before disappearing and appearing at different directions each time. Soon Sora's body was covered in cuts and rose petals, Redd smiled as she watched her Nobody cut the defenseless keybearer, she made a throne grown behind her, She sat making a glass of wine as she heard Sora hit the ground.
"OH come now. I wanted more of a show from you Sora." Redd said her voice reverberating in the empty Valley. Marluxia sent a wave of black thrones and rose petals at Sora's fallen body. Sora pushed off the ground and flung himself over the wave of thrones, Sora twisted his body in midair and landed behind Marluxia and sent a burst of light at Marluxia, sending the Nobody into the mountain in front of him.
Sora sent a blast of ice balls at Marluxia as he tried to pull out of the stone. Marluxia was stabbed into the wall. Black blood pooled out of Marluxia's mouth and body. "How, when?" Marluxia tried to move, but Sora appeared in front to him and stabbed his keyblade into Marluxia. With a burst of light Marluxia was sent through the mountain.
"Marluxia you idiot." Redd said under her breath. Snapping her fingered she transported the bloody Marluxia back to the point where he had appeared. "Try HARDER!!!" Redd shouted as she pointed her scepter at Marluxia and sent a beam of light at Marluxia.
"AHHHHH!!!!" Marluxia shouted as his body turned silver and his height grew a little. He now worn silver close his face was changed into a woman downed in silver with a hood that looked like a red skull.
She had Marluxia's scythe in his hand but red tipped wings and has the yellows eyes of a Heartless. "NOW SILVER MAIDEN!!!" Redd shouted standing, her scepter glowed as THE Maidens body glowed the same color. "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!" Redd screamed and the Maiden glided forward. Sora drank his elixir as Redd did her transformation of Marluxia.
The Maiden slashed a moved with a speed that made Marluxia warp look slow. Sora could barely avoid the stabbing and slicing of the scythe, a few cuts appeared on Sora even though he had avoid the scythe completely.
"DAMN" Sora said slashing at The Maiden, The woman merely glided backwards and moved past the keyblade with such ease that it did not even look like Sora was moving. Sora sent and burst of Light at the Maiden and pushed the silver woman back. Sora huffed as the maiden looked unscathed by his attack. The Maiden, slashed her scythe sending a burst of black blades at Sora.
"DEFENSE!!" Sora shouted looking at the army of black blades flying at him. The clear prism slowly cracked as the blades it the sphere one by one. The Maiden continued to slashed at the cracking prism around Sora. Sora used his keyblade to set up a smaller barrier around him. The shattered as The Maiden sent one last horizontal slash, Sora was pushed back as the wall shattered and the slash pushed into Sora. Sora's smaller barrier protected Sora, but could not stop the attack, Sora was pushed back far back until he slashed the black wave away.
"This is so mush fun" Redd said clapping. Sora growled and sent an orb of fire at Redd. The fireball grew in size at it near Redd. The silver Maiden jumped in the fireballs path and waved it's wings forward and destroyed the fireball in a gust of wind. "Oh, that was brave of you to try and attack me directly but I am saving my self for last." Redd said looking at Sora. The silver Maiden opened her claw like hand and opened a portal of black and red and sent the spears of black and red spike at Sora.
Sora warped from the end of the attack and appeared at the Maidens side, Sora continually slashed at the silver woman. His keyblade was glowing with each hit, Sora whorled around in the air and pulling the Maiden towards him before he slashed downwards and sent the woman into the earth below.
The ground crushed and shattered as the maiden's body collide with the earth. The Maiden slowly stood out of the ruble as Sora landed on the ground. The Maidens silver body was bleeding black and her clothes were ripped, her wings fanned out before she gave a screamed that Ripped through the air.
Portals opened from her moved and all round her body, the black and red strips twisted towards Sora. Sora glared as he warped past the first stripes as the collide where his body was and disappeared, Sora continued to warp until he had to his reflect and deflect some of the strips and some moved around the barrier before the panels and moved out and burst in light.
The last strip flew past Sora's cheek, leaving a cut be for it faded.
*Redd's Library*
Tira's body was covered in shadows, her ring blade now had black fire emitting around it, her eyes had turned blacker than any Heartless. Tifa ready herself waiting for the now floating woman to attack, Tira smiled her Arsenal Drossel flipped in front of her. "Did you know that a person is at their most radiant right before they DIE!!!!" Tira shouted her hands thrusting forward into the ring. Darkness filled the ring before a murder of black crows flew out at Tifa.
Tifa's hands glowed before she slammed her fist into the ground, burst of her energy shot from the ground and into the blackness of crows. The birds burst into flames and vanished, in second the birds where gone. Before the smoke could clear and whirling sound caught Tifa attention, but the sound did not come form the smoke but from behind.
Tifa whirled around, kicking the flying ring blade. "DIE!!!" Tira shouted coming from above. Tifa looked up to see the claws and daggers approached her. Tifa's leg glowed a bight yellow before she jumped up and meet Tira half way. "YOU FIRST!!" Tifa said twisting her body and slamming her light covered legs to Tira's stomach. The light sharpened and became pointed as it contacted Tira's skin. Tifa spread her legs apart as she and Tira fell, the light sliced Tira in half. Tifa landed among the broken wood and torn books. "DAMN YOU" Tira shouted the top half of her body slowly turning to ash.
"That was fun" Tifa said knelling down as she pulled an exliar out of her pocket before chugging the drink and smashing the glass of her wounds.
The doors shook, Tifa readied herself, the doors smashed open to show Card soldiers and neo shadows flooding in. "Know for some relaxing." Tifa slicing the Neo shadows as they jumped at her, in two.
*Redd's Garden*
Sloth sent a wave of water tentacles at Roxas, the blonde slashed at the tentacles, Axel moved at Sloth's solid body. Sloth turned her arm into liquid and smashed axel against the wall with a blast of water, before sloth could encase his body in her water, Axel burst his body in flames and sent his chakrams at Sloth.
The chakrams where slapped out of Sloth path as she solidated her arm and slashed them past her. To busy with Axel Sloth had not noticed that she had let Roxas sneak up behind her, Roxas slashed down, ready to cut Sloth heart in half.
As Roxas cut through the slash he did not hear the cracking sound like before nor did he feel the crystal under Oblivion. Roxas was hurled at Axel as Sloth's cut half turned into water a wrapped around him.
"WHAT!?" Roxas shouted standing up and looked at the Nobody. Sloth made herself solid before she raised her hand "Are you looking for this?" Sloth asked as she held up the crystal heart. "HOW" Axel started but stopped when the woman swallowed the heart.
"I can turn by body to water and can rearrange this to suit my purpose." Sloth said smiling at the gaping mouths. "That just means we're going have to cut you into tiny little pieces and find the heart in you chunks of flesh." Roxas said sending his towers at Sloth. The white beams cut Sloth's arms off. As the pieces of flesh flew behind Sloth, they melted into water and curled into each other.
They two disks of water whirled at Roxas, Roxas jumped over the petty attack. Axel hurled his chakrams, manipulating the chakrams around Sloth. Before Sloth could make new arms for herself Axel's chakrams imbedded themselves into her body and burst into flames. Sloth body melt as the chakrams burst into flames. The pool of liquid slithered to the fountain behind her.
As the liquid melt into the fountain the center piece spurting water was mashed.
*Redd's ballroom hall*
Riku slashed his Way to Dawn in to Xemans one last time, the Nobody let out a scream as his last light left his heart. his body hit the marble floor hard. Riku jumped back as Donald cured him, "What?" Riku asked as he watched Xemnas' body hit the ground still in on piece, not fading like Lusts. "Hmm" The Cat wondered looking at the scene unfold.
In the basement of the castle the seven princesses glowed and gave their power to the heart that they were keeping safe.
Xemnas picked himself up and looked at Riku, his body burst into black flames. His tanned skin melting away and silver hair faded with it, replaced by a pale skin and blue hair. "Hello Riku. It has been to long" The new Nobody said looking at Riku with a smile plastered on his face his deep blue eyes showing a black spark. "ZEXION!?" Riku snarled as he looked at the Cloaked Schemer.
Zexion sweep his hand in front of him, his Lexicon appearing before him in a burst of black. "Tell your Queen that I am great full that she gave me Xemans' body." Zexion said, looking at the Cat his dull eyes glowing on his face.
"DAMN YOU!!" The Cat hissed. He lunged at Zexion his claws bared. Zexion jumped back before the Cat could reach him and hurled his Lexicon at the Cat. The book burst, it pages seemed endless, each piece of paper combined together to make a giant cone. The Cat jumped over the cone with ease and moved to Zexion.
Zexion summoned another book and summoned the mass of pages around him. Some the pages rolled into themselves making needles with sharp edges, the others stayed close to Zexion while he made another book.
The Cat jumped back avoiding some of the paper needles. "Come on" Riku shouted to Donald and Goofy. Riku jumped in front of the Cat as the next set of needles were sent at them. "WALL!" Riku shouted summoning his barrier deflecting the needles.
"Move" The Cat said pushing Riku to the side avoiding a stream of pages flying behind them. The paper cone that Zexion had made before turned into a stream and flew to its master. "FIRAGA!" Donald shouted sending a fire ball at Zexion.
"Damn it" Zexion said as his wall of paper turned to ashes. "Fire beats paper!" Donald shouted sending another fire ball at Zexion before he could make another wall. Zexion's smirk turned into a smile. "WRITE!" Zexion shouted opening the book in front of the fire ball's path. The fire ball collided with the book, but nothing happened to the book.
"WHAT!!??" Donald screamed as his fire ball had no effect. Donald watched as the blank page the Lexicon opened to began writing on itself with a drawing added. The lexicon turned back to Zexion, "I have learned countless magic spells but not that one" Zexion said smiling at his newest addition to his collection.
"Read" Zexion said turning the book to face Donald again. Donald fire ball was hurled back at him only Zexion was a blue flame. "BLIZZAGA!" Donald shouted, now making the blue fire and blue ice ball, flying back to Zexion. "Read, chapter 10 fire" Zexion said his Lexicon sending a blast of fire at the ice ball and Donald.
Before Donald could say anything, Goofy jumped in the front of the fire and blocking it. "REFELCT!" Donald screamed covering him a Goofy in a prism, the stream of fire was absorbed into the walls. "GO!" Donald said waving his Save the Queen at Zexion, the panels flying at Zexion.
"Oh, it seems you learned a new trick." Zexion said covering his face, the pages made a wall between him and the panels, the clear disks hit the wall of paper before imploding. After the smoke cleared Zexion smiled at his wall still standing. "HAH" Riku shouted sending a wave of blue fire balls at Zexion. "Read Riku" Zexion said his sending Lexicon it's own black fire balls collides with Riku's and burst and flying towards him.
"Recite" Zexion said this time his Lexicon's pages flew out and each page turned into a soul eater and flew towards Riku.
"WALL" Riku shouted stopping the Soul Eaters from reaching him. The Cat moved behind the attacks and waited until he was behind Zexion and pounced. Zexion smiled a turned to see his real target move, he raised his hand as if telling someone to stop. The pages around him changed into spikes and stabbed at the Cat. Before the pages could reach his heart the Cat slashed at Zexion open face, leaving fours slashes on his face.
The spikes stopped as Zexion stumbled backwards, the attack throwing him off balance. He looked at his hand covered in black blood. "Nice try" Zexion said grabbing a sheet of paper, the page turned into a lance as he touched it. Zexion rammed the lance into the Cat's heart, with grace a pose "I guess your Queen won't have a King or a Guard, the best kind of Queen to kill." Zexion said into the Cat's ear as his heart left his body.
"Now back to my other toys" Zexion said, retracting the paper spikes and sending them at Riku.
*Redd's Ballroom*
As the Silver Maiden swung her pink scythe at Sora's neck, it stopped, the tip of the scythe just grazing Sora's sweat covered neck. In fact everything stopped, the wind, the sky, even the glow of Kingdom Hearts. Redd's eyes were hidden under her long hair.
Sora looked at the Silver Maiden, expecting it to move an inch, it seemed only him and Redd were the only thing moving. Sora jumped away from the Silver Maiden statue, popping open an elixir and poured it over himself, his Ultima and Oblivion appearing at his back again and his white glow returning. Redd dropped her specter, but stopped halfway to the floor, Sora could see Redd's lips moving, but no words were spoken, Redd's movements turned sluggish, she looked drunk and pained by some invisible force that only she could feel and see.
"No" Sora finally heard the red Queen's voice, Redd's eyes were wide and frantic, she raised her arms clawing at the sky. Sora fallowed her wide eyes, he saw the lone heart that floated to the red Queendom Hearts.
'Redd' The Cat's voice whispered only to Redd. "Don't leave me!" Redd said louder as she felt and heard the warm voice. 'I am sorry that I can't be your king but I will be your kingdom then.' The Cat's voice said fading.
"NOOO, YOU PROMISED ME!!!!" Redd screamed, tears falling, she fell to her knees and hugged herself. As her tears fell time resumed in her world, the Silver Maiden continued her swing where Sora had been, and her scepter hit the dirt. "AHHHHHHH!!!!" Redd screamed, making Sora's light flicker like a candle in the wind.
"I was making everything right, EVERYONE would have been HAPPY!!!" Redd screamed standing, her head hung, she raised her hand and her scepter flew to her palm. Redd looked up and wiped her tears away and , she then back handed the silver maiden. Even though the maiden was far away she fell like she had been hit by the hand. Before the maiden feel she faded into wisps, the black wisps flying back to Redd. "ROSSO!" Redd shouted standing erect and proud again.
*Redd's Dining Room*
Rosso stopped her firing at Cloud. "Hmph, our time here together is done, I hope we meet again little boy." Rosso said as she clipped her Red Tide to her back. "GET BACK HERE!!" Cloud shouted jumping at her. Rosso's hands glowed crimson before she jumped away from the slash and waved her arms sending six red disks at Cloud.
Cloud's buster blade glowed in blue flames before he hurled the blue flames at the red disks. As the two attacks meet they sent out a burst of white light. Rosso disappeared in a burst of red as the white light dimmed.
When the light was gone Cloud saw the last of Rosso's escape fade. "Damn it" Cloud said agitated that he lost his victim. Cloud turned to the unconscious man next to him, Leon looked like he was asleep. He watched the black sin on his lion fall off and turn into wisps.
Cloud as much as he wanted to carry his Leon bridal style had to settle with carrying him on his shoulder, he tightened his grip on Leon and his Buster blade when he heard the double doors shake. The doors burst open to show a hoard of Card Soldiers, Nobodies and Heartless move into the dining room.
Cloud smiled at the puppets ready to fight "Good, I can let my anger out on you" Cloud said as Neo Shadows and Dusks jumped at him, The Card Soldiers firing their AD-52s.
*Redd's Ballroom*
"Rosso" Redd said turning to her counter part. "Unite" They both said combing together. Redd's hair turned wavy and her long rose dress turned into thrones and melded together. The black and Redd thrones moved around her body making a battle suit. Sora noticed the similarity to the one Riku wore when he was younger and controlled by Ansem, only Redd's had some of her man eating roses, thrones and made to fit a woman.
"Now we have are real fight" Redd said sending a ray of light from her scepter at her Queendom Hearts. Queendom Heart glowed brighter as a keyblade appeared in her hand. Red snapped her figures and summoned the cradle that she placed Akemi in the white roses still on it. "Now you will see my true power" Redd said aiming he rose covered keyblade at Akemi. "NO!" Sora shouted flying as fast a he could trying to reach the white crib not caring that Redd held a keyblade.
Redd sent another ray of light, this time from her new keyblade, Sora flew in the path of the light. He used both of his keyblade to make his own ray. As the beams hit, Sora's light was pushed back. "How weak" Redd said smiling, and turned her key sending burst through her path of red. The burst pushed Sora's light, Sora blocked with his two keyblades, the red ray pushed him back into the crib, but Sora stood his ground.
"I WON'T LET YOU, HURT BY BABY!!!" Sora shouted pushing the light away. Sora fell to one knee, exhausted "How beautiful" Redd said her voice dripping with sarcasm. Redd stabbed the end of her scepter into the air opening a white a red swirling portal sending a wave of black and red strips at Sora. "REFLECT!" Sora shouted sending a prism around and Akemi.
As the strips hit the panels and the panel shattered, Sora knocked away the stray strips that flew at Akemi. "You can't even help your self" Redd said smiling walking on air over the cliff across from her. "You can't even help him" Redd said smiling wickedly pointing her keyblade at Sora again.
"Now my kingdom will be complete with the key bearer and his SON" Redd said turning her keyblade, sending the red light at Sora. Sora prepared for the attack held up his keys again ready to not be moved away.
As the red light hit Sora's key, a cracking nose filled the air. Redd stopped her attack and looked up at her Queendom Hearts, half of her Queendom was torn in half, one red the other white. "WHAT, MY QUEENDOM?!" Redd looked at Sora to see the key bearer glow white like the other half of her Queendom Hearts. Sora looked at his white closes lined with black patterns.
"Kingdom Hearts" Sora said looking at the white half of the moon. "NO!" Redd shouted sending a wave of black spears at Sora. Sora raised his hand; every single keyblade Sora had received on his journeys surrounded him, the black spears shattered before they could reach his body.
Sora turned to Akemi and picked up his child and gave him a hug before he teleported the child away. "WHERE DID YOU SEND HIM" Redd said her body shaking with anger. "To Merlin's where he will be safe and away from you" Sora said grabbing Oblivion and Ultima again his others keyblades still around him.
"Well, this is unfair" Redd said jumping away from Sora as he sent Lady Luck, Sleeping Lion and Fenrir at Redd. "How about we even this out" Redd said hitting away Two across and Bond of Flame as they went whirling towards her. Redd slammed her scepter and her keyblade together over her head. The clash sent a burst of light covering the sky above them. The red clouds took shape into a thousand black keyblades each one as real as the other.
"Well I guess the Queen must have her way" Sora said smirking at Redd. "At least I don't need all my weapons to protect me." Redd said gesturing to the keyblades floating around Sora. "Insurance" Sora said appearing in front of Redd in a burst of light.
*Redd's ballroom hall*
Zexion's lexicon flipped opened, it stopped showing Zexion an attack. "I have other business to attend my toys. So, I will have to leave" Zexion said his pages disappearing in a burst of blue fire. Zexion smiled at Riku and Sora's 'pets', his lexicon still opened to the paper for only his eyes to see.
"LIKE HELL YOU DO!!" Riku shouted, send a shower of black flames at Zexion. "Oh Riku, I thought you would have shown me a new trick" Zexion said smiling as he tore out three pages of his lexicon at threw them at the fire. The pages turned black before turning into the black flames that Riku hurled at Zexion, the flames collided in a burst of fire and smoke.
As the smoke cleared Riku could not see Zexion. "Where did he go?" Donald asked looking around the ball room, waiting for the cloaked schemer to attack. "Over here" Zexion said standing in front of the doors to the ballroom. "You" Riku started before he turned around to see a flurry of pages fly at them. Goofy jumped in front of the curled paper needles, the needles disappeared before they could hit the floor.
"I have a friend to share with you all." Zexion said his lexicon hovering in front of him. "I do hope you play nice" Zexion said the Nobody symbols glowed white on the book before it burst apart and cocooned itself in a black sphere. "Have fun" Zexion said disappearing into the ballroom.
*Castle hallway*
Cloud slashed and stabbed as many Heartless, Nobodies and Card men he could reach. Cloud separated his Buster blade and was holing his tow blades when he noticed that the Heartless were moving towards Leon rather than him. "NO YOU DON'T"!!!" Cloud shouted as he stabbed his blade into the Neo Shadows sliding past him.
Cloud turned to attack the Nobodies and Card men when they were cut in two. Cloud looked behind him as the Cards and Heartless burst into flames. "CLOUD!" he heard someone shout, "Over here" Cloud yelled as the smoke and remains of darkness lifted. A giant Moggle stood in the voices place.
"ah… Yuna?" Cloud asked as the Moggle pooped it's head off, "Yay!" Yuna said smiling at him. "Don't ask" She said as he opened his mouth as he say as a giant Cait and Tomberry came form his back. Cloud smiled at them, not saying anything "Yeah, yeah. Laugh while you can." The Cait Rikku said crossing her arms.
"Laugh and I'll hurt you." The Tomberry Paine said waving her Cactur plushie threateningly at Cloud. "Whatever" Cloud said turning to Yuna, her Moggle head still in her hands. "Have you found anyone else?" Cloud asked worried. "NO" Yuna sighed, "How's Leon!?" She asked as she say the man on the ground his back against the wall.
"I don't know. Rosso had him covered in darkness and was using him like a puppet." Cloud said putting his Buster blade back into one and lifted Leon gentle onto his shoulder. "Hold on" Yuna said as she put her Moggle head back on.
"I got you" She said thrusting her arms in front of her and purple lights covered everyone. Cloud felt the lights heal him the moment he heard Yuna say the words.
"Lets look for the others" Cloud said running with the Gullwings as they continued through the hall.
*Redd's Garden*
"I think we need some help here Rox's" Axel said creating a wall of fire around him a Roxas as Sloth sent a barricaded of water spears at them. "I'll give you some time just get Yojimbo" Axel said running past the walls of fire. "AXEL" Roxas shouted as he past the wall. "Damn it, stupid pyro" Roxas said slamming his keys into the ground and turned them.
A symbol appeared at his feet, and the warrior appeared behind Roxas. "Fight!" Roxas said to Yojimbo as he sent his light beams around him cutting the wall of fire apart. Roxas watched Axel jumping as sending his chakrams at Sloth as she stood where the fountain was and created tentacles around her.
Yojimbo pointed his hand at her and Daigoro jumped at her. The lion-dog slammed into her solid body, "Damn" Sloth said as she was pushed over her fountain. The water tentacles fell to the floor. Yojimbo sent daggers into her body, before sloth could melt Roxas sent a sphere of ice at Sloth encasing her in ice still solid.
Some of Red's rose bushes crawled to the ice block and hacked at it with their teeth, trying to chisel Sloth out. Axel sent his chakrams on fire and hurled them at the bushed burning them to ashes. "YOJIMBO!" Roxas shouted as all the bushes around them started to crawl towards them.
Yojimbo raised his fingers and stabbed them into the ground, forcing the black hole to open, he pulled out his Zanmato. He dragger the bladed as he ran toward the ice block and slashed the block vertically three times. Zanmato disappeared as he unshed his other sword and sent a burst of smoke a slashes at the bushes.
The ice covering Sloth shattered, Roxas, Axel and Yojimbo had finished pushing most of the bushes way when they turned to her kneeling body. "Do you really think that I was so we-" Sloth stopped as she heard a cracking sound. "No" She said quietly.
"NO!" Sloth shouted as she summoned a scepter and hurled it a Roxas. Before Roxas could move Axel jumped in the way of the spear but before he could defend himself Yojimbo stood in from of him. The tip of the scepter was at Axels throat.
Sloth's body melted into a black pool as three red light left her body. Yojimbo fell to one knee as he and Daigoro disappeared into the half moon above them. Roxas turned to Axel with a weary smile. "That went well?" Roxas asked with a smile plastered on his face now. "Yay… maybe not" Axel said as some remaining bushes came at them with Heartless, Nobodies and Card soldiers in tow.
Roxas crossed he keys over him and sent his light spinning around him. Axel jumped into the batch that Roxas' attack would not be able to reach. Axel sent his chakrams spinning around him as he sent towers of fires spinning around him. Roxas jumped above Axel spinning his Keys, sending a spray of blue orbs over the garden. In seconds the garden was bare, only the dirt left.
"That was all well and good." Roxas said kneeling next to Axel. "Yup" Axel said shaking a little. Heartless slowly crawled out of the dirt, before either of them could move to attack or defend against the Heartless disappeared into nothing as gunshots ring out in the garden.
"CURAGA!" Riku shouted in as she ran over in her thief outfit. "Are you guys all right?" Yuna asked jumping over to him, her guns out and ready for more Heartless, fallowed by Paine and Cloud. "Ya, WHAT HAPPED TO LEON!?" Roxas asked looking at the man Cloud had over his shoulder. "He's alright. We have to find the others." Cloud said before he heard the sound of an explosion across the garden. A Large heartless had been thrown through the wall. Tifa Stood on the Heartless before it disappeared. "HEY GUYS" She shouted as she ran to them across the garden. "Is everyone o, what happed to Squall??" Tifa asked looking at the young man.
"He's fine we have to find everyone else and get out of dodge." Yuna said before she fired at some Nobodies as they materialized. "They went to the ballroom." Tifa said looking at the direction of the ballroom. "How do you know?" Paine asked as she turned into her Dark Knight and sent a wave of darkness at the surrounding Heartless. "The Aeons, I heard them before they left." Tifa said before running in that direction. "Move it" Cloud shouted fallowing Tifa.
*Redd's ballroom hall*
The black Sphere slowly took shape a figure bowing. As the blackness turned to color, the figure had black wavy hair. "It has been so long since I could breath again." The figure said wearing a black shirt and pants. "I am Verrici." The figure called Verrici said bowing again, his read eyes glowing with excitement. "Out of my WAY!!!" Riku shouted, send a burst of fire at Verrici.
Verrici back ripped open to show black wings, the wings covered his body, stopping the black fire. "I want to play" Verrici said his wings melting around him, the liquid wrapped around his body, the liquid covered all of him saving his head. "OUT OF THE WAY!!!" Donald shouted rise his staff sending a burst a lighting raining on Verrici.
Verrici narrowed his eyes as the lighting hit him. "Fine" Verrici said. "I will get out of your way" Verrici said falling backwards. As his back touched the ground he was swallowed by his shadow. "Now we can play" Verrici said standing behind them. Before they could turn Verrici hurled a burst of black arrows at them. They trio was hurled at the door, the arrows leaving their skin burning were they had hit. "No, fun" Verrici said his black feet turning into paws and his hands into claws.
Verrici kicked forward before he was pushed back as Goofy slammed his shield into him. "Cure" Donald said healing the burns. Riku jumped over Goofy, he slammed his key into the ground sending a wave at Verrici. Before Verrici could defend, the wave struck him down his body. "HAAA!!" Verrici screamed, before he could even move, "BLIZZAGA" Donald shouted sending ten ice spears into his body.
"Riku, go on a head." Goofy said standing in front of Riku, as the ice disappeared out of Verrici. "NO" Verrici shouted his body Floating b3efore a wave a darkness moved under him. The darkness moved passed the trio and to the door, the darkness locked it closed. "I won't let you leave ME!" Verrici shouted; Riku could see that he was being controlled with illusions of his past, the nobodies symbols covering his eyes glowed white.
"If we can, let's not kill him" Riku said looking at the figure. "WHAT?!?" Donald and Goofy said looking at him like he fell of the planets. "Why?" Donald said as Verrici straightened himself, Goofy hurled his shield at Verrici knocking him into the hallways doors. "He is being controlled, if Sora could kill Zexion then made this guy will get control of himself. Look at his eyes it's not his fault that he is attacking us, he thinks were something or someone else." Riku said running past them.
"He right, Donald" Goofy said looked at his eyes and catching up to Riku. "FINE!" Donald said pushing
*Redd's Ballroom*
"Looks like this will take a while" Redd said looking at the glowing boy. Redd's scepter glowed bright red before she hurled the light, the light separated and parted, looking like red fireflies. "Enjoy" Redd said as the fireflies flew at Sora, as the black keyblades fallowed the lights.
"Damn" Sora said as the lights and keys near, he grabbed Oblivion and Ultima. "DEFEND!" Sora shouted just as the lights and keys neared him. The magic panels pushed the lights back at the black key before they exploded into smoke. Redd tightened her grip on her key, the smoke covering Sora. "That was fun wasn't it" Redd said spinning around her key meeting Sora's half way. Her scepter glowed again, she sent a burst of rose petals from her scepter. The petals striking at Sora, he glided back as the knife like petals pierced his skin.
Sora's keys whorled around him, knocking the petals away. "Why don't you just DIE!!" Redd shouted more petals emanating form her body. Redd and Sora stopped and looked up to see a black light cut between the red and white light covering Kingdom Hearts. "WHO DARES" Redd said turning to look at the point where the black beam was coming from. Sora gasped as he saw the black cloak of the organization.
Zexion held his book up to kingdom Hearts, 'Yes this will bring him back, I will bring my Nocturne back' Zexion thought as his lexicon emanated the black light. He turned to see a burst of Redd light. Zexion raised his hand creating a paper wall between him and the light before it could touch him.
"Took you long enough to notice me." Zexion called to Redd, he made copies of himself, his clones fanning out, around the book. "DAMN YOU!!!" Redd said sending them of light from her key at Zexion. Zexion glided out of the way, expecting his clones to stand the blast only to see them and his lexicon disappear. "I thought Riku killed you" Sora said appearing behind Zexion before he sent his keys into Zexion's back. As the keys entered his back his body turned to paper.
"Well I thought you would have gotten rid of Redd for me, before I got here." Zexion said, across form Sora before his hand glowing purple before he thrust it at Sora. Purple Arrows burst form his and the spray heading directly for Sora. Sora flew into the air before the arrows could touch him. Before he could relax he was hit by and large boulder, Zexion turned to see his before he got hit. Redd raised he Key to Kingdom Hearts as the boulders hit her target. 'Cat' She thought as he sent a wave of rose petals from her body into the black keys. "STRIKE!!" Redd shouted sending the black and red clouds at Sora and Zexion.
Sora cut the boulder before he could hit the wall of stone and Zexion's burst apart with black fire. Sora heard the keys and petals fly at him, he grabbed his Kingdom key and pointed his own light at kingdom hearts, his keys scattered into the oncoming cloud. Zexion ripped out one of his pages, making his body glow blue before he flew into the air. His hands glowed a clear blue as he neared Redd. "What!?" Redd said before Zexion sent two orbs at her. "Damn" Redd said as the orbs hung in front of her before they exploded.
The Keys and rose petals fallowing Zexion dropped to the ground as he flew up, he turned to see Sora's Keys slice at him. Before he could shift five of the keys cut him. Sora turned to the stone wall behind him as it turned into a hand and swat him to the ground, his keys appearing behind him to act as a cushion.
Redd's back burst open to show blood read bat wings "Know time to get rid of the bug then onto the pest." Redd said flying at Zexion. Zexion heard the wings, he opened two lexicons, one turned into a twisted spear and the other burst into smaller blue orbs encircling his body. Zexion sent tow of the orbs at Redd, as she sent a wave of rose petals at him. The pushed passed the orbed to slash her key into Zexion only to be stopped by his twisted spear.
"I promise to kill you this time" Zexion said slashing Redd away as her scepter neared him. "Just like I killed your little kitty cat." Zexion said smiling as Redd's eyes grew. "You…you killed, you killed Cat" She said he body shook. "yup" Zexion said flying back as he sent all of his orbs at her. "I will make you SUFFER!!!" Redd shouted summoning black spears at him, the spears cutting through his orbs. Zexion twirled his spear around knocking the black spear away.
Redd thrust her scepter at Zexion, sending a white orb at him. Zexion slashed at the sphere at the white orb, only to be absorbed into the whiteness.
~*~
Zexion opened his eyes to see the sea blue room that he had spent many days and nights in. "Zexion" a voice said at Zexion's side. "Demyx!?" Zexion said the name that he had screamed many nights over. "Come back to sleep Zex. I am exhausted from pounding you into the bed" Demyx said snuggling into Zexion's up right side.
"Demyx" Zexion said turning to his love. "That's my name" Demyx said. "With all the times you have creamed it, I hoe you would know it". Demyx said, smiling as Zexion laid down and moved into his chest. "I love you Zexion" Demyx said kissing the top of his head.
~*~
Redd stood of the floating body of Zexion encased in the white sphere, drowning in his illusions. "By order of the Queen." Redd said raising her scepter of Zexion's throat.
~*~
"I love you too, Demyx" Zexion said as Demyx trailed kisses over his face. Tears slowly came out of his eyes slowly, nearing his lips.
~*~
"OFF WITH YOU HEAD!!!" Redd shouted stabbing her scepter into Zexion's neck. She ripped her scepter out of his neck, sending his body falling to the ground. His body disappeared into nothing as before either part touched the ground.
"Now" Redd said turning to look at Sora as he sent a stream of light from his key at Kingdom hearts. "For you" Redd said flicking her wrists, sending a burst of black spears at Sora. "Right" Sora said as his keyblades spun around him, knocking the spears away.
Redd waved her arm sending a burst of rose petals at Sora, Sora jumped away tying to avoid the small petals only to be pushed forward as a large boulder ran into his back. "LIKE I'M GOIJNG TO GIVE THAT SENTENCE SO QUICKLY!!!!" Redd shouted sending the boulder and Sora into the opposite wall.
The wall shattered into pieces as a burst of light emptied from Sora. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!" Sora shouted flying at Redd; he fired a wave of Ice spears at her. "I deserve what is RIGHTLY mine!" Redd shouted sending a wave of rose petals and rose covered tentacles at him.
*Redd's ballroom hall*
Verrici dropped to the floor his body shaking as the white Nobody symbol enveloped his body. The door to the ballroom vanished as the entrance door burst open. Cloud and everyone was standing in the doorway as they watched the body fall to the floor.
"RIKU!!" Everyone shouted as they ran to the figure and they meet him half way. "He's fading, help him quick!" Riku shouted turning to look at them. "Here" Yuna said shifting to her white mage outfit and covering them all in a white light, sowing all the wounds closed and rejuvenating the magic spell.
"Where's Redd and Sora!" Tifa said looking around the ballroom. "He's in there!" Donald said point to the ballroom doors. "WAIT!" Riku shouted as everyone moved to the doors. "If Sora need help then he would ask for it. I know, I want to be there to help him, but we could be doing more harm then good." Riku said hiding his eyes under his hair. "Riku's right" Paine said standing next to him. "Yup!" Rikku said bouncing over to him. "We should see if we can do anything for Leon and be ready for who ever comes out of those doors." Yuna said help Leon off of Cloud's shoulders.
"You mean when Sora comes out of those doors Cloud said smiling at her. "Right" Yuna said as she started to heal Leon.
Just then the doors opened with a creek. Everyone turned to the figure standing in the door way.
*Redd's Ballroom*
"ENOUGH!!" Sora shouted sending a burst of light at Redd, who knocked it way like it was a bug. Sora appeared next to her and slashed at her with all his keys, sending Redd into her stone thrown and smashing it as her body touched it. "LIKE YOU CAN KILL ME. A HUMAN!!" Redd shouted sending black key, red orbs, spears everything in her arsenals at Sora.
"I can't allow you to miss use the light, EVEN IF YOU ARE HUMAN!!" Sora shouted his keys and body growing brighter as Kingdom Hearts shined on him. "I WILL PROTECT EVERYONE!" Sora shouted grabbing his Kingdom key. He flew into the wave on energy and weapons flying to Redd.
"NO!!" Redd shouted summoning her key as she hurled her spear at Sora as he cut through her weapons light nothing. The scepter hit it's mark stabbing itself into Sora's right shoulder, "DIE!!!!!!!!!!" Redd screamed as she slashed he key at Sora as all of his surrounded her and thrust.
"This… isn't right. I am … I am the…real queen…the true ruler of Queendoum…hearts." Red said as see bleed the keys disappearing and let her body fall. "Cat" Was the last coherent word that Sora heard before he fell to one knee. Redd's scepter disappeared from his shoulder and she had hit her mark slashing her key into his side leaving a large gash.
His Kingdom key stayed in his hand as he stood and walked to the door. All the magic had been drained form his body but he still had enough strength to hobble to the door. "Everyone, Riku, Akemi, I am coming home." Sora said as he pushed the door s open into with a blinding light.
*Redd's ballroom hall*
Just then the doors opened with a creek. Everyone turned to the figure standing in the door way.
"SORA" They all shouted running to the bleeding keyblader, "CURE" Everyone shouted they neared and Riku reached there before everyone else and held to fragile man in his arms. "Riku" Sora said smiling before he fell asleep. Riku was about to respond before the castle shook with a roar. "It's falling apart." Cloud shouted slashing some boulders away as they fell near Leon.
"Everyone!" They heard master Yen Sid's voice reverberate throughout the hall. "Find the nearest mirror, we can the call you back through it, hurry the castle is falling." Yen Sid said as his voice faded. "Mirror, mirror where the firckafrac is a MIRROR!!" Rikku shouted as she looked around the ballroom and trying to find a mirror. "Over there" Yuna shouted as she ran to the large mirror.
"HURRY BEFORE IT get's crushed!!" Cloud shouted as he picked Leon up and ran to the mirror with them. "YEN SID!" Yuna shouted as she fired at the falling roof that was about to hit the mirror. "QUICKLY OPEN IT" Tifa shouted as she jumped up and kicked the boulders out of the way. The mirror shined a bright white, and showed them the dressing room of the good fairies.
"HURRY!" All three fairies shouted as they helped them trough the mirror. Just as Riku entered with as the last of them he turned to see Verrici slowly limp to them. "WAIT Riku shouted a Yen Sid was about to close it. "HURRY!" Riku shouted. "YOU CAN Make IT!" Donald shouted as Verrici ran faster avoid the large amounts of rubble. "Your almost there" Goofy yelled as he Donald and Riku reached there arms out to him.
A large spear hit Verrici it the back before he fell a few feet away from them. "NOW!" Riku, Donald and Goofy shouted as they reached in and pulled him in as the mirror closed with a crack.
"Well." Yuna said as she pulled the spear out of Verrici's back. "That was fun" Rikku said as she and Tifa fell to the ground in a slump. "I am never going to your house if this is what it's like 24/7" Cloud said sitting down with Leon sleeping in his arms. "Agreed" Yuna and Paine said helping Verrici to the chairs in the room. "Here" Fauna said handing Akemi to Riku and the still sleeping Sora.
Riku thought that everything was okay, that is until Akemi turned the terrible two's.