The Door to Happiness
The Youths made it back from their fight in Destiny Island, just as they had arrived back from Earth in the same way, but the Doors were beginning to disappear and the space in the centre of Aranse was losing its uniqueness just as the Doors of the Heart were disappearing as well. The Door to Happiness was glowing a bright yellow hue and as the youths began to enter, Aranse then yelled out, "I'd be careful this time around my young warriors. The Viraltroopers are sensing their weakness in the Doors of the heart and won't give up without a fight." Alan then nodded and replied, "We wouldn't expect them to go easy on us." Yet before they went in though, they explained what they had heard on Destiny Island. Aranse then replied, "This is a most grave time indeed. We'll have to talk about this later unfortunately when we have more information. Right now you have a door to unlock." They nodded and then entered the door. Even as they entered inside the Door to Happiness, Alan and Nadia could clearly hear their master grunting a tiny bit over their enthusiasm. As Alan and Nadia travelled inside their next door to their next target, they noticed it was different than the previous Doors of the Heart with a seal in a tank, and a bull in a farm pen. This time they found themselves inside a cage with a lion. The creature was yellow in colour like many lions, its mane was long and bushy, and the cat had a killer instinct within his dark orange eyes.
Alan noticed the heart was on its back and he told Nadia, "We'd better make this one quick just like we did with the bull in the Door to Anger. Lions are notorious for their strength and pouncing." Nadia nodded and asked, "But what if it's just like last time though? It might not be easy to zap him you know." Alan nodded and said, "But we also need a plan of how to tame this wild cat. It's not just going come to us and act all nice and friendly." The lion roared and went to sleep. Alan then got embarrassed and just collapsed on the ground disappointed in himself with Nadia slightly giggling at this display of failure. He then said in a harsher tone, "Fine, laugh it up. I'd like to see how you feel when you try and come up with something and things don't go the way you plan." Nadia then said, "I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the lion. He's sleeping like he doesn't have a care in the world. He doesn't really feel like fighting." Alan then said, "That's impossible though. Look at that mark. It even is stated in my journal that once a creature has been captured by the Viraltrooper virus, they are forever cursed and turned into one of those creatures. They don't have sympathy Nadia, or perhaps you forgot what they did to our world just a week ago."
Nadia then said, "Well excuse me for thinking with my heart instead of plain dumb common sense." Then the lion roared with great tenacity. Alan then said, "Look, I'm sorry for arguing. I guess we're all a little fuelled up and ready to go." Nadia then jumped over Alan and slid underneath the cat and grabbed onto its tail. Then Alan kept zapping at the cat's mouth, yet it just made it mad rather than weak. The lion soon charged after Alan at lightning speed and almost clawed him. Even when Alan zapped him to slow him down, the cat kept going with Nadia holding onto its tail the whole time. Nadia then yelled getting swung around left and right vigourously, "Can you hurry and zap the heart please? I think I'm getting sick." Alan then looked around seeing he couldn't jump over the creature because he would just pounce on him and all the other ways around him were blocked. Alan was cornered. He then stared directly at the lion's eyes. He then said, "That's it!!" Alan then zapped the lion's eyes temporarily blinding him and then together Alan and Nadia, who pulled herself together from queeziness, jumped on its back and zapped the heart . It blew itself into the sky and both of the young warriors pointed their keyblades towards the massive heart. As they zapped it, and the lion disappeared, so too did the cage disappear and the place began to collapse. Alan and Nadia rushed out quickly and as the Door to Happiness closed and disappeared, that same massive heart they saw begin to grow appeared again, this time even bigger than before. It was only missing a simple quarter of its mass now.
Aranse then began to speak as he saw this event once more. "It won't be long now children." Alan then asked, "What do you mean?" "I mean that soon, the Doors of the Heart will all be gone. Soon enough there will be a giant heart making up all of the great emotions a being can feel and that power will have to be tamed somehow." Nadia then asked as he said this, "How do suppose then we should do it?" Aranse hummed a little bit and then replied, "There may yet be a way. I have heard the world, Radiant Garden, keepers of light and justice, a world surrounded by kind, pure people and creatures of all sorts of beauty, have a special magic similar to the Nightelves you met on Azeroth. It may be able to help seal that kind of power and control this giant heart." Alan looked at his keyblade and as he stared at it for a long time, Nadia then asked, "Is there a problem?" Alan then said, "I've been thinking. What if the keyblade has the power to do it? We've unlocked so many hearts by now it could be a our best bet." Aranse then began again, "My child, I must admit I'm impressed with your power. I'm stunned really at how much you both have accomplished, but this giant heart we see is completing itself with the powers from the Doors of the Heart. You would possibly kill yourselves trying to seal off such great power. If you disappear, then who shall protect the worlds in their hour of need?"Alan then replied, "It may sound bleak and maybe it is. It's just a thought I guess." Aranse then replied, "There may yet be a way to do this of what you speak, but it involves a complicated process." Nadia then asked, "What is it? Whatever it is, we'll take it head on." Aranse then replied, "In order to do this, you'd have to gather up three major potions in Radiant Garden, and even then who knows if they'll even give them to you." Alan then replied, "We'll just have to try Aranse. We'll see you later!!" As Alan pressed the yellow button to leave, Aranse then thought to himself, "They'll need to be powerful. Otherwise the darkness will consume them. I'm sure of it."
(The plot thickens. To briefly sum up, Alan and Nadia need to pass some certain tests for the next few chapters. I'll explain more on that as they travel from world to world. More to come.)
(Next Time: Crossroads.)
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