The Red Desert
Alan and Nadia soon found themselves in a giant desert like wasteland. I resembled that of the American West back on earth, but the land seemed a lot different. There was browner like clouds in the sky, there was no cactei, or any sign of life for that matter on this world at all. There was also more gigantic rock like pillars as well extending straight into the sky as it seemed. Even as Alan and Nadia kept walking in this harsh wasteland, they soon came upon a huge flat part of ground and decided they would head there to gain some rest. As Alan sat down to rest his poor aching feet, Nadia looked straight to the north to calm her senses. She then asked, "Alan, do you think we'll ever just be able to be normal again?" Alan was shining his Kingdom Key at the time and said in response, "I don't know. I mean, after everything we've been through, I don't even think such a thing exists anymore. Let's face it. We have a job to do. We have to stop Obeion at all costs, before he can even take over one single world, assuming he hasn't done so already."
Nadia being inquisitive turned to look upon the boy cleaning his keyblade and with her hands clenched together as a sign of hope asked, "But how? Obeion's very clever and powerful. There's no way he'll just randomly come down to face a couple of 'pests' waltzing in on his plans." Alan put his keyblade into his back pack and then he looked up Nadia and smiled. He said, "The way I look it we have to lure Obeion down here somehow. If we can get him good and distracted then perhaps we can make him lose enough energy so we can finish him off and end this once and for all. That'll make him think twice before trying any aspirations of domination." Nadia then asked, "You have something in mind?" As Alan smiled when she asked this, he stared out amongst the great caverns of the giant red coloured desert where there were a variety of the last remaining Viraltroopers anywhere in the universe at all. Nadia nodded as she looked to where he was looking at and summoned her keyblade to her side in its pink radiance. Alan grabbed his Kingdom Key and they headed off. Alan then thought to himself as he did so, 'Such a nice place to rest, considering it is a desert. I ought to give it a name since no other person lives here. I shall call it, 'The Place of Gathering'.' (That's right, this is Sunset Horizons for those that just got it in a flash.)
As they rushed down into a large valley, they spotted a series of different twist and turns amongst the desert, and as such the Viraltroopers were using this very place as a refuge from the constant battles the Knights of the Realm placed them into. Yet Alan and Nadia slashed through a whole whopper amount of them. One slash, then two and then three. One by one, Viraltrooper after Viraltrooper, they all began to fall like flies from a flyswatter. It was a long two hours that passed by, and Alan and Nadia destroyed over 200,000 Viraltroopers. Yet they seemed to keep on multiplying and getting even stronger. Both Alan and Nadia collapsed from their hard work exhausted and panting feverously as Alan said, "There's too many of them. I just don't get it. We've killed the lot of them before and they should all be terminated by now." Nadia then stared at the sky and noticed something transparent beginning to form in the sky. It was huge, heart shaped and white. Yet it was missing a bottom piece that made the pointed tip of a heart. Nadia then gasped as she said, "That's it. The Door to Fear. It hasn't been unlocked yet. Maybe this world's heart is that of the Doors to the Heart."
Alan shook his head as he said, "But that's impossible. Otherwise if that were true we would have seen the sky turn dark or something. They've always done that when the heart of a world is present, regardless if it's transparent or not. It must be some sort of witchcraft." Nadia rolled her eyes in sarcasm as she then said, "So what do you suppose it is then smarty-pants?" Alan then looked around the large chasms of the canyon they were in and discovered a giant black widow Viraltrooper with a heart symbol glowing on its back as he grinned at Nadia and pointing towards it. Nadia then said, "Okay, fine. You were right. Can we please just go and do what we do best then?" Alan nodded as he said, "Let's do it." Together in confidence they rushed off and slashed at the giant black widow ferociously. Yet the monster just spat out some webbing from its torso and got Nadia in a tangled up cocoon. Alan heard her say, "Help me!! Alan!" Then reacting as quickly as he could, jumped on top of the black widow and stabbed all of its eyes blinding it. He then opened up Nadia's cocoon and then together once more slashed at the black widow at its legs and as it collapsed they zapped its heart symbol on its torso and the heart of the world appeared. They then zapped it and as it unlocked it disappeared into a giant black hole that created a Black Twister Viraltrooper and it blew away to the east side of the caverns and the world itself. Yet before they could act, They instantly disappeared from the world as they headed off to meet Aranse at random and as they arrived in the dark abyss, they met Aranse who had his arms crossed and serious.
Alan then said, "So it's time I take it?" Aranse nodded as he said, "It's time for you to take on the Door to Fear Alan. It is the last Door to the Heart that the Knights of the Realm created and the last to be unlocked." Nadia then said, "But there's another Viraltrooper back on the Red Desert that has the Heart of the World." Alan then asked, "Red Desert?" "What? I thought since no one was going to give it a name I thought I would call it that.", Nadia responded. "I was going to call it, the Place of Gathering.", Alan responded. Yet before a heated argument could ensue, Aranse yelled, "Enough!! We must get this door unlocked before Obeion can find us out. Otherwise Dire ramifications could happen should he find out about our plans." Nadia nodded as she then said, "Take me back to the Red Desert." "Place of Gathering!", Alan said. Yet Aranse raised his hand as a sign of enough is enough and with that Nadia was transported by Aranse back to the Red Desert. Alan then headed for the Door to Fear as Aranse said, "Be very careful how you deal with your darkness boy." Alan shocked at this said, "I don't have darkness. I just have some things I don't agree on with Nadia." "Yet that is was darkness manifests itself in. It can something as simple as a disagreement that can often lead a person to the path they choose. Obeion did so under his own choices and it cost him a lot of things. I don't want the same to happen to you." Alan nodded as he entered into the Door to Fear, unbeknownst that soon hereon in there would be a choice that he'd have to make when he would return to the Red Desert.
(There you have it. Once again, Alan and Nadia are in the heat of another conflict, but this time in a way involves themselves and Obeion. I know my chapter was a little short, but in this case it wasn't as significant as the other chapters of my story and there's a lot more important stuff to be had in my other chapters. Anyways, in the same way I see this being the case with KH BBS since Terra will have his own conflicts to deal with as will Aqua and Ven. The last paragraph basically sums up the next few chapters and the last few as well in my story. I won't be giving too much away so I will end it at that for today. There's more to come so stay tuned.)
(Next Time: The Door to Fear.)
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