THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS CHAPTER 5
Sora, Kairi, Riku, The King, Donald and Goofy all gathered round Master Yen Sid's table, nervously awaiting the news of their predicament. Kairi and Sora were holding hands tightly as if they'd never let go. Riku was twiddling his thumbs nervously. The King, Donald and Goofy were all smiling happily as if this was standard everyday protocol for them. Master Yen Sid cleared his throat:
"Greetings to you all. I have seen the fate of Destiny Islands. It is regrettable, but nothing can be done. Now, you are the world's only defence against the forces of Darkness. This part of the predicament can be remedied, but in time. The Heartless have gained a massive boost in power, and people have been spotted wearing cloaks of the late organization XIII. No stars have vanished yet, but I have sensed massive power levels, even bigger than that Vegeta fellows, and dark, darker than Maleficent's and, and dark, darker than Maleficent's and The Organization's Aura's combined. Right now, we have not the strength or numbers to defeat these powers, but I believe there is a solution to our problems. I presume you've heard the story of Azrael, correct?"
Everyone with the exception of The King took a step back in shock. "Wak! We have to fight him?" Donald exclaimed which only made everyone more nervous.
Master Yen Sid cleared his throat for silence. "Do not worry, Azrael is still in his prison to this day, but I believe we should release him from the eternal chains of his own power. I believe he will fight with us, and help us defeat The Forces of Darkness."
Everyone stood completely still, their brains trying to process the information: Master Yen Sid wanted to free a seemingly invincible creature from stories, that supposedly angels couldn't stop from ravaging the worlds and slaughtering billions of innocent souls?
"What's your Logic?"
"Pardon, Riku?" Master Yen Sid said, puzzled.
Riku repeated himself. "Well, if you want to free something that powerful, then there has to be something good in it for us, right? And if you want to free something that evil, then we must be in some pretty deep crap right? My only question is why will he fight with us? Do we have something of use or value to him? Was he once a defender of light or something?"
"All good questions Riku and I will do my best to answer them. Yes, we have much to gain from him. He was imprisoned before The Great Forgetting, so he will know how to get you all to unlock your true potential as Keyblade Wielder. And in case he is really evil-"
"what do you mean by that?"
"I mean that I found some information that states that he once fought off the Forces of Evil, so it seems he was probably possessed and forced to harm all those people. In the case that he is evil though, I have his weapon sealed away, where no one can find it, especially him. And yes, we are in "pretty deep crap," at this point he is probably our only hope, for you to stay alive long enough to learn the stages of the keyblade wielder. There is another reason for me wanting to summon him. As you know, there were Wielder's of The Keyblade before you. Now, the generation of Keyblader's before you had to fight a terrible adversary, and none came out unscathed. One was banished to the realm of darkness, one lost control of his body to the darkness, and the other's heart was broken and forced to join with another's heart. Now before they all were sentenced to their horrible fates, we believe that they achieved the first level of The Keyblade Master. If we can at least free them then we will have more keyblade wielders for our cause, and be able to learn the first stage of Keyblade Master without Azrael's help. Only problem is, one is trapped in darkness and one consumed by it, and when we free them, we'll need Azrael's help to free them. Now, his prison is at the bottom floor of this tower: only problem is, his captors booby-trapped the place in case anyone tried to free him, so everyone be careful. Sora, please step forward."
Sora stepped forward, "Yes Master Yen Sid?"
"forgive me."
"For what, Sir?"
Master Yen Sid, for the first time in decades, summoned his Keyblade: when you first saw it, it looked just like a larger version of The Star Seeker, but when you looked closely, this Keyblade was different: it had a sparkling blue-purple hue all around it, while the keychain looked just like his hat. The teeth of the keyblade consisted of a floating circle that had a crescent moon just like the Star Seeker, but making it a complete circle were eight floating stars, and in the middle of the Keyblade was a shimmering sun, that seemingly glittered even when no lamp was lit in the room. Sorcerer's Might. He lifted it above his head, twirled it once, and with a flourish stabbed Sora in the heart.
SOMEWHERE IN THE MYSTERIOUS TOWER
A seemingly comatose man was sitting in a dark room, not even moving a muscle. But to this man's eyes, he wasn't in some cell. He was on a stain-glass pillar seemingly rising out of endless darkness, fighting off the darkness of his own heart, or rather, the darkness that had become his heart.
Xehanort.
A hunched-over old man with power beyond belief. They clashed for decades, Xehanort seeming to play with the man, never truly fighting, only toying with him. It was as if the heart was completely his, and the man was just an intruder.
"QUAKE!"
But not for long.
He could feel Xehanort's power slipping, and his old strength returning. He was feeling like the man he was 12 years ago, and loving every minute of it.
"METEOR!"
His heart was becoming his again, and Xehanort was getting the boot.
"ZANETZUKEN!"
Xehanort laughed, "You're getting stronger boy, but I'm far from defeated."
The man dropped to one knee, nursing his wounds. "My name is Terra." He said, with a determined look on his face "and this is my heart!" a giant burst of darkness shot from his hand, completely enveloping Xehanort.
"You're a fool," Xehanort growled. "as long as you have such untameable darkness in your heart, I reign supreme!"
Xehanort teleported behind Terra, raising his keyblade for a downward strike. Terra twirled around and slammed the flat of the blade into Xehanort's side, causing him to scream in agony.
"This isn't over yet, boy!"
"keep telling yourself that old man!" they rushed towards each other, Keyblades drawn.
SORCERER'S LOFT
Sora was falling.
Falling deeper into a pit of never-ending darkness.
He wondered how long he was going to fall before he got to his station that represented his heart. He felt himself slowing down, finally, he thought, touching down lightly on the stained glass. "Ok let's see, I got stabbed by Master Yen Sid, and now I'm in my heart so... now what?"
"I come out."
Sora spun around, Keyblade raised. "Who's there?" he yelled to... no one. "Wait what?"
"Behind you."
Sora spun around again, and what he saw he could not believe. "Roxas? But how? You were-"
"close, but not quite. I'm Ventus, but you can call me Ven. You probably won't remember me, but when you were four years old, my heart was fading. Then I heard a voice, your voice, and you offered to join hearts until mine mended, even though we had never met, so I wouldn't die. But then I got really hurt, and my heart couldn't take it anymore, and shattered. All the little parts of my heart eventually found their way back to you, but my heart was severely broken, and it took 10 years for my heart to complete itself, and that's what let you wield The Keyblade. But then Riku called the Keyblade, your heart wasn't strong enough to wield it again, because the keyblade responded to my heart, not yours. Then when you realized the true strength of heart, your heart became worthy of The Keyblade, and my heart and yours combined easily brought the Keyblade back to you. Also when you perform a drive, you use my keyblade as well as your own, and you won't be able to dual wield for a while. Every Keybearer has two Keyblades, but the second doesn't come out for a while. Now the reason Master Yen Sid stabbed your heart was to unlock mine. Mow when this happens, you are going to experience more pain than all your battles combined, and you may get stuck in a coma. The problem is, my body is far away in a world you know named Castle Oblivion. You probably won't wake up until I make it here. Are you ready?"
"I'm ready for anything." Sora said confidently.
And then the station shattered.
SORCERER'S LOFT
Sora screamed in agony.
It felt like his heart was ripping at the core.
"Ventus's heart must be too deeply bound to Sora! We must stop their hearts from separating!" Master Yen Sid yelled, while everyone one stood in horror at the sight of Sora's writhing on the ground in pain. Everyone quickly snapped out of it and rushed to Sora's aid.
Too late.
A pink heart slowly rose out of Sora's chest, higher and higher until it reached a window, and then flew into space, probably to Ventus's sleeping body somewhere.
Everyone kept their eyes on where the heart had left, not sure what had just happened.
"WAAK! Sora!" everyone looked to Sora, to find he had disappeared.
"what happened, where's Sora?" Kairi asked, panicking slightly.
"well garsh Kairi, I think he's a heartless by now." Goofy said worriedly. "last time he took someone else's heart from his body he turned into a heartless didn't he? So I bet'cha he's somewhere in the tower, trying to find somebody's heart to feed on."
"if I had known this would've happened I would have found some other means of retrieving Ventus's heart." Yen Sid said worriedly, "This has made a difficult situation even more difficult. How did you change him back the last time this occurred?"
"I gave him a hug," Kairi said, sniffling.
"well a hug isn't going to get him back this time." A raspy voice growled.
Everyone looked up at the ceiling and saw Sora, or at least it looked like him, but had yellow eyes and tentacles of darkness.
"anti!" Donald screamed, brandishing his staff.
"yes, it's me, and now that I'm in control," he laughed menacingly. "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO HELL!"
Anti jumped down and shot a dagger of darkness at Goofy. Goofy blocked with his shield just in time, and threw it at Anti so fast it seemed like a blur. Anti grabbed it, laughing, until he saw that it was still spinning, and was taking him with it. Anti was spun around for 30 seconds before returning to Goofy's hand and leaving Anti very disoriented. Riku took the opening and shot at Anti, The Way To Dawn slashing at him three times before Anti wrapped a tentacle around Riku and threw him against the wall, Riku quickly got up, but this time Anti was ready. As Riku charged again, he was met by Anti's waving tentacles. They shot at him like spears, and Riku barely had enough time to roll out of the way before they came at him again Riku readied his keyblade behind his head. "Wind raid!" he yelled throwing his keyblade at the tentacles. Anti smiled and the tentacles moved easily out of harm's way. "Close, but no cigar!" he taunted, waiting for Riku's next move. He yelped in surprise when the keyblade changed directions and sliced through three tentacles, then coming straight for his face. It hit him in the face, sending him reeling back to the wall, he rubbed his forehead gingerly, "you wanna play dirty? Fine, we'll play dirty. ZANETZUKEN!" and for a second, all the lights went out. When the lights came on, Riku was in a corner, totally out of commission. Anti smiled menacingly, "So, Who's next?"