Return to the Rulius Court
Alan and Nadia awoke from their horrid defeat at the hands of Obeion finding themselves back in a familiar place. It was the same Rulius Court Ruins that they had been to before, all destroyed and covered in clutter on an arid asteroid in space. Nadia looking at her dress noticed a tear near her left hip and said, "Oh no. That'll take hours to hem and thread together. Like I didn't have enough trouble trying to fight off a bunch of weird knights who were tricked by a psychopath and all…" Then Nadia noticed Alan sit down on a piece of rubble and cover his face in utter shame. He remembered move for move he pulled out against Obeion and held his keyblade in place as he laid his head down on the handle of it sobbing and all. Nadia walked towards the troubled youth and sat down next to him. He noticed Nadia, but didn't look up at her.
Nadia felt his pain like all lovers do when they are in dark times. She rubbed his left shoulder and said, "It wasn't your fault. You never knew that Obeion would be using Tyrannil to get what he wanted." Alan then lifted his head up to Nadia's gaze and said, "sniff…If it isn't my fault, how come Obeion has our keyblades and the powers of a god then? Let's face it Nadia. The universe counted on me and you to save the day, but in the end I failed to do my part. I let everyone down." Nadia looked away for a brief moment and then thought, "Poor guy…he can't keep doing this to himself. It's not good for his health." She then stood up and said, "Are we just going to let him get away with this then?" Alan sighed and looked out into space as Nadia said this and she said, "I can't believe you Alan. You of all people I never would thought would give up, but I still don't believe it. Are you going to let Tyra, Pyraine and Tyrannil's efforts to help us get wasted? What about Aranse? What would he say about all this?" Alan sobbed as he said with a trickle of tears in his eyes, "He'd be ashamed of me is all."
Nadia was a little frustrated, but she still felt his pain and then rubbed his back as she said, "He'd be proud of you. You've already done so much for everyone. What about back in Azeroth, when the Burning Legion was about to get the Well of Eternity's powers, who stopped them?" Alan sniffed some mucus in his nose and said, "We did." "Who ran to protect me from the Viraltroopers when I couldn't back in Edmonton?", Nadia asked. "I did.", Alan said as he began to lose the sorrow befalling him. Then Nadia asked, "Who's going to go and beat Obeion to a grumbling pulp?" Alan stood up as he pointed his keyblade into the skies of space and said, "I am!!" Nadia smiled as he said swinging his keyblade back and forth left to right in confidence. He looked at Nadia and smiled at her and then hugged her tightly as he said, "Thanks Nadia. I don't know what I'd do without you. I'm amazed you're still here with me right here right now." He let go of the girl and she then said as he did so, "I love you Alan. No matter what happens I always will be here beside you. Wherever we go, whatever comes our way…I want to be with you." Then a giant thirty foot tall black replica of Obeion appeared before them and grabbed Nadia as she screamed for Alan.
He yelled as this happened, "Hang on Nadia!! I'm coming!!" The Obeion replica recreated the Rulius Court as it once was with magic and brought it back to its former likeliness. The beings of each planet were also brought back to life and sent back to their planets of origin as the black Obeion replica climbed the Rulius court up its forty foot tower basin up to the top (sort of similar to that of King Kong I know, but you guys get the idea). As the monster stood at the top, holding Nadia in its clutches, and tied up at the top of the tower, it jumped down to the asteroid causing the earth to shake as it did so. Alan then thought, 'Oh no what do I do? Without my Kingdom Key I don't have any means of destroying this guy at all. I knew this was all my fault all along.' Then from out of nowhere in the midst of space, Aranse called out for Alan. He said, "I can't believe you'd say that about yourself my boy." "Aranse?", Alan asked. "That's right boy. Even though I am not physically here to talk to you, I can still communicate telepathically. Now listen to me. Obeion has this power only through help. Tyrannil couldn't defeat him and thus had been forced to grant Obeion the desires he had in mind. Thus he can wield the keyblade because of Tyrannil's sorcery. I personally have distracted the big imbecile long enough for Tyrannil to undo the magic he had given the brute. Also those keyblades are connected to each of the four realms of the universe: Light, Darkness, Nothingness and Inbetween. They can never disappear from you because you two are heroes and have strong hearts. That is something Obeion will never have. Now go and rescue the girl. She needs you, the universe needs you.", Aranse said before finally fading away like he did before.
Alan summoned his keyblade as quickly as he could and rushed towards the giant menace as it smashed the ground around it to create more earthquakes and to trip up Alan. Alan then lanced his keyblade towards the Obeion replica's heart, but the beast threw him to the ground and slashed at his tree bark beige suit, yet just before it the Obeion replica sent down its arms to crush Alan, he quickly rolled out of the way and zapped the ground around the replica to cause some sparks to go off and cause a fire. Luckily this asteroid had a flint covered surface and when a spark did happen, the entire asteroid began to light blaze on fire. Alan zapped a huge of the rock so as the cause a crack and that way the entire asteroid didn't go and burst into flame all at once. The Obeion replica charged towards Alan and grabbed hold of him before he could even flinch and smacked him across the ground as Nadia yelled all tied up at the top of the Rulius Court, "Alan!!" Hearing her cries made him begin to glow and the 'Love Shield' was once again summoned for a desperate ploy of rescue. He used his keyblade to slice at the Obeion replica's waist to which it felt an extreme amount of pain. Alan then thought to himself as he concentrated his energy into the Kingdom Key, 'I've come this far, I've met a girl that I love, I have great friends from far and wide across the entire universe, and I have a master that respects me. Obeion, you just made your first and last mistake!!' Then Alan slashed at the Obeion replica with supreme power in his midst and destroyed it.
Moments later after untying Nadia from the ropes holding her, he said looking up towards the sky, "Nothing more we can do here. This world is safe now. Now the Eternal Beyond is where we got to go now." Nadia then in an odd way said, "But I thought you didn't want to go fight Obeion because you said it was your fault?" Alan smiled and laughed it off as he said to her, "I guess I have been letting my passions get the best of me haven't I? Well you can rest assured Nadia. I'm a changed man now. Obeion's going to have a little surprise when he gets to the Eternal Beyond that's for sure. Let's get moving. No doubt he probably knows we're on our way to fight him." Nadia nodded as Alan pressed the button on watch to get going and headed off to the Eternal Beyond, a world where stars never shine on and where it is out of reach by almost being in the universe itself.
(I got this sort of idea near the end from the idea that Terra in KH BBS is using darkness to help his friends and is constantly conflicted with doing his duty and achieving his goals. Other than that tidbit, I really haven't much to say except that the ending will be both a sad type of ending and a happy type of ending as well. More to come so stay tuned.)
(Next Time: The Eternal Beyond-Act 1: The Battle of 1,000,000,000 Viraltroopers.)