Sora's Revelation!
A/N- Hey guys. The Sora arc is coming to a close, and we'll soon be in a bunch of different worlds and have the old characters back again, which will hopefully give the story a kick start. But we've still got a couple of chapters left and we have the end of the poll to complete. Then we'll know whether the gang goes to Domino City for Yugioh season 0. Or, will they go to the FMA world. We'll wait and see. So far, it's 50/50.
Sora…you're not supposed to be exist! Those were Namine's words. Sora couldn't stop thinking about them. He had been close to learning about himself. Too close, he now realised. Curiosity killed the cat. And now, it was about to kill him. Sora now realised he didn't want to know anything more. He was happy being ignorant and not knowing the truth about him and this place. But he could never forget Namine's words…
"Are you listening to me, Sora?" Hayner asked him, waving a hand in front of his open eyes, to make sure he was still alive.
Sora batted away the hand. "I'm fine. Sorry…just dozing!"
Hayner looked content, but annoyed with the brunette's answer.
"We were just talking about how we've only got two days of summer left." Olette helped him.
"But we're in the same class at school. We'll see each other then." That idea seemed to stun everyone. Then they burst out laughing, at the other's reaction.
"You're right." Pence said. "For some reason, the whole idea of school seems to have slipped all of our minds."
Sora's expression suddenly went cold. Why should it of? It was an easy enough of a concept to understand or even just remember.
When everyone else had gone, Olette cornered Sora, in the usual spot. "What's wrong?" She asked. "Ever since the struggle tournament…no ever since this week started, you've been acting funny."
Sora gave her a shrug, in reply. "I don't know. Maybe I've been replaced by an alien. Or maybe you're just a robot and this whole town is fake, just like in one of those movies."
Olette gave him an expression that told him what she thought of his sarcasm. "It's a shame those are going to be the last words you ever speak to me with." She said, coldly, turning on the spot and flipping her hair for the mean girl effect.
Sora cracked a grin. Too bad it didn't suit her. "Shut up." He called back. He heard her laughing, as she walked out.
Namine finished colouring in her drawing, with a final gold flick of her crayon. It wasn't exactly the colour of Sora's hair, but it was close. The picture detailed of four friends eating a type of blue coloured ice-cream. "It can't happen Namine…no matter how much you wish it." Namine looked up into Sasuke's amber eyes.
"I know, Sasuke. But still…I want there to at least be a small memory that these events happened. He knew them when he was part of the Organization. Their hearts were connected. Under different circumstances, they really could've been the best of friends."
Sasuke nodded. "I'm aware Namine. I know it's not fair. That none of them would've wished a life of lies on another, even if it meant saving their own…Speaking of which, are the preparations complete?"
Namine nodded, smiling sadly. "Yes. We're going to see him again today. Have you made up your mind on what to do?"
Sasuke sighed. "You sound like Diz. What about you? Are you going to join with them or watch from afar."
Namine hesitated. She had been thinking, and although she desperately wanted to be with Roxas. Just seeing him and making sure he was all right was the best plan of action for now.
"I'm going with Kakashi. We're going to get together with King Mickey and start preparing for the future. Maybe I'll come and see Roxas some time. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll wait for this whole thing to be over."
Sasuke nodded, thoughtfully. "Sounds like you've made up your mind. I suppose I should too." Sasuke left through a corridor of darkness, leaving Namine to hang up what was most probably going to be her final picture.
"Hey guys! I've got ice-cream." Sora said, walking into the usual spot carrying a plastic bag, which contained four bars of sea-salt ice-cream. The rest of the gang didn't move. They continued to talk to each other. Sora frowned. "Hey! Don't you guys want ice-cream?" He asked, putting on a pout. Still nothing. Sora started to feel anxious.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Sora said, reaching out a hand to put on Hayner's shoulder. It passed right through Hayner!
Sora gasped and then stared at his hand. It looked normal. Completely fine. He looked over at Hayner, and the others, who also looked completely normal. Completely unfazed. Sora looked at them, as if they were ghosts, but what if he was the ghost. Sora couldn't touch anything in their hideout. Probably anything in the world. He was the ghost. It was everyone else who were the normal ones.
The gang turned to face Sora. He looked at them and started to cry, he held out his arms half-expecting things to go back to normal and someone to give him a hug, but they just walked right through him. Each one of them. He felt nothing, as they passed. Sora shuddered. This was worse than being a ghost!
He dropped the bag of ice-cream and hung his head. His salty tears dripped off his nose, and into the bag at his feet. "It was all fake!"
Sora turned on the spot, eyeing a tall man with red hair, which spiked backwards. "Axel…" That was his name, as Sora remembered.
Axel gave an approving smirk. "You memorised it. And faster than last time too."
Sora mouthed the words. 'last time?' Axel suddenly frowned.
"Last time. Sora…what I've told you is true. You were part of something called Organization XIII. However, you realised that the organization was corrupt. You left. A man named Diz wiped your memories and placed you here. In this fake little world. And I was sent to either take you back or leave you here to Diz's mercy. Since the former failed and I have no reason to comply with the latter, I have no choice but to force Diz to give you your memories back and we can leave the Organization together."
Sora frowned, unsure of himself. He rattled his brain looking for information. "All I can think of…Naruto, Roxas and Sakura… Their lives…you were in Castle Oblivion!" Sora looked up, his eyes glowing with this memory.
Axel nodded. "That's right. I was sent to Castle Oblivion to make sure the traitors of the Organization were eliminated. Seems kinda redundant now…still those guys were all dicks, so no heavy loses."
Sora bit his lip. The ability to tell whether or not this guy was lying had activated. Sora could tell that every word that came out of his mouth was true, however…there was something here. Something wrong. And he needed to find out what it was.
"Axel…?" The red head acknowledged the use of his own name.
"Yeah?"
"I'm going to get my memories back. But something tells me I shouldn't trust you to get them. You're…you won't give me them all back will you?"
Axel opened his mouth to speak, but Sora looked him in the eyes and he closed his mouth. Sora nodded. He had been right. There was more to this story, than what he had been told.
Axel sighed and shook his head. "You're too smart for your own good Sora." He said, menacingly. His chakrams appeared in his hands, and three dusks appeared behind Sora. They jumped him and Axel threw his weapons.
"Rotation!" Sora cried, as a blue sphere enclosed around him, acting as a shield. The Nobodies were disintegrated, as they came into contact with the chakra barrier. Axel's twin weapons found their way back into his hands.
Sora shook his head and looked at Sora with an angry look in his eyes. "You're an idiot!" He roared, as he readied himself to throw his chakrams at Sora again. Then he froze.
Sora gave the statue a quizzical look. It was just like when Namine had come to him.
"Sora. Time's up." A deep commanding voice said in his head. Not his conscious. He thought, as he tried to concentrate on the voice. He had a pretty good idea who it was.
"Diz…" Sora breathed, his voice neutral. Just saying the name, not sure what to make of the mysterious person, who was supposed to be calling the shots here.
"Very good Sora." Diz said, approvingly, from wherever he was hiding. "Come to the mansion." He commanded, and with that his voice faded away.
Sora considered what to do. He wanted to get his memories back and he didn't want to stay here, when Axel could wake up at any moment. However, he still felt afraid of what could happen. He analogised his situation to that of a person who knew he was about to die, but still felt that tiny bit of fear, feeling unsure of himself.
In the end, he left the usual spot and went to the mansion.
Axel's paralysis ended shortly after Sora's department. "Damn…" He said to himself. "Sora is just as stubborn as ever. Even without his memories…but I need to stop him. He can't join with those Key Wielders." Axel said, jumping up, his eyes shinning with ambition. His soul burning with the aid of his new goal.
"Eight trigrams! Sixty-four palms!" Sora said, launching himself upwards and taking care of a bunch of Dusks, with his own fists. He then continued his speed and found himself at the gate of the mansion. One problem. There was a huge lock on the gate.
Sora grinded his teeth. "Why call me here and keep the door locked?" He cried at no one in particular.
"Please excuse our inhospitality." A voice behind him said. The voice belonged to the one, who had introduced himself as Ansem.
He held a Keyblade in his hands. The blade resembled Sasuke's Keyblade; Soul Eater. However this blade was straight, it had an angelic and a demonic styled handle and a decorative silver wing on the blade.
He pointed the blade at the lock and a beam of light made it disappear, then Ansem turned and Sora saw a huge number of Nobodies. Not just Dusks, but other kinds, which went by the name of Creeper and Dancer.
Ansem gave Sora a push, through the open gates and went right through the mass numbers of lesser Nobodies.
Inside of the mansion, it was a wreck. There were lesser nobodies inside as well. Sora called on his KeyKunai and set to work on them, slicing them and destroying them one by one. He investigated the gardens out back and the rooms, that he could get into on the ground floor of the mansion, and then he went upstairs.
The first room he went into looked like a library. There were several book cases around the room and a huge table in the middle. On the table was a sketchpad and a drawing was left unfinished upon it. The drawing was a design of some sort of crest. Three circles were the main component. One circle had a little star inside. The other had a small X shaped picture inside. The last circle was left blank.
There was a pencil right next to the sketchpad, but Sora couldn't think on how to finish the picture. He decided to go into the room across the hall. With a start, he realised, just as he was about to go in, that this must be the white room, that Namine was seen in. Would she be here now?
"Namine?" Sora asked, peeking around the room. Nobody there.
Sora took the opportunity of Namine's absence to look at the pictures stuck up on the walls.
He was attracted to the picture that he saw the last time he was here. The one of four people dressed in black. The one that showed him, Axel, Ansem and the last one who was completely unrecognisable to him.
Eventually, he tore himself away from that picture and looked at others. He saw a vast amount of pictures, which detailed Namine dancing with Roxas. For some reason, they filled him with a warmish glow.
Then he saw one that showed himself, Hayner, Pence and Olette atop of the clock tower and eating ice-cream. Sora's eyes dimmed, as they did when he was upset. He moved on to the next and his heart almost stopped.
The next picture was three individual ones stuck together to tell a story. A brunette was walking in a dark place. A red head tries to stop him, but fails and then the brunette is knocked out by a man, with two faces.
Sora walked through Dark City, with a strange feeling about him. He was determined to find Roxas, Naruto and Sakura and join with them. After all, that had been his last wishes. He had just had to deal with Saix. Xemnas wouldn't be very happy when he learnt of the beating of his right-hand man. Still it had to be done, Sora just had to make sure he didn't run into any one of the Organization, before he was able to rejoin with everyone.
"You've already decided then." Sora sighed. So much for that, when Axel was around. Then again, he supposed his best friend would have come to stop him.
Sora turned to face Axel. "I can't forgive them. After what they did. After what they plan to do. Axel, you should come with me. You'd be good friends with them. They are after all me and…him." Sora said, struggling to remember the name of the friend he had just been forced to eliminate.
Axel's expression remained angry. "You'll never get that far! If you turn on the Organization they'll destroy you!" Axel cried.
Sora didn't cringe under Axel's shouts and glares. He turned his back on his friend, ready to leave. "No one will miss me." He said, knowing that Nobodies didn't have emotions. They couldn't miss him.
Still Axel was hurt. Somehow. It was like after meeting Sora, he had grown a heart. "That's not true!" He called after his friend. "I'd miss you!"
"Namine? Why choose now to give me back my memories. All of them…well except of those of…him."
Sora turned on Namine, who was standing by the door, looking expectant. She gave him a small smile and shrug combo. "…It just felt like the right time. And trust me, you don't want to know about Eli."
Sora nodded, for whatever reason. He took a seat, in which Namine had sat the last time they had met. He remembered almost everything about himself now. He knew why he was here, although he didn't like being used in such a way. He also knew why Axel was the way he was. Sora felt glad, that he had decided to leave the Organization also. But it seemed like his dream of the four being friends would never come true.
"Namine!" Two large streams of data, portals to get into this virtual world, opened up at both sides of Namine. She gasped as two figures came out. One Diz. The other Kakashi. Both looked pissed. Kakashi grabbed Namine and disappeared.
"Oi!" Sora shouted at Diz, who was the only other one in the room. "What was that for?"
Diz regarded him with a look that made Sora feel like garbage. "She had done too much. We were hoping you wouldn't have your memories."
"Why?" Sora cried. "I want to join with the three, but what you've done…I'm wondering if what Eli told me was a lie? Maybe I won't exist anymore!"
Diz shook his head and looked at Sora, his expression showing nothing. "I don't understand…that shouldn't be!"
"Diz you idiot!" Namine screamed, coming out of a corridor of darkness. Her face was angry and she was directing that anger at Diz.
"Namine…how long have you been able to create a corridor?" Diz asked, eyeing her in a new light.
Namine waved the question off. "I told you we wouldn't have to do it this way! You never listened to me, because you didn't understand that I wanted this more than you! I love Roxas! And that means I love part of Sora, as well! You don't believe that Nobodies can feel, but me and Sora can!"
Namine started breathing heavily. The power it took to execute a successful corridor of darkness and then straight after give Diz the telling off he deserved.
Diz chuckled. "You've been holding in your true thoughts of me since we met, haven't you? Well…I'm afraid I still don't see Nobodies as creatures that shouldn't exist. Same as heartless. Come Namine. If Sora wants to follow us he can, or we can always just force him." Diz chuckled again, as anger started to boil inside of Sora.
He made a grab for Diz's coat, but missed. Diz was already back through Namine's corridor of darkness along with her. And he hadn't told her if he was going to disappear or not.
Sora made his way into the library again. This time he made sure to complete the drawing on the table, realising it to be a message from Namine. He had to complete it.
He filled it a drawing of the leaf insignia. It was what Naruto's headband showed. The drawing, the table and part of the floor all glowed, as the drawing was finished. It disappeared, revealing a hidden stairway.
There was a door beneath him. He walked down the stairs and through it, finding himself in a room where there was a huge computer system and a machine set up.
Sora locked on to the machine. He remembered something. He had been sent to the virtual Twilight Town, after Ansem had beaten him.
"So what'll happen to him?" Ansem asked, actually seeming concerned. Diz shrugged, as he moved his way towards his computer system. He started tapping on his keyboard. "I'll have no choice but to hold him here until Namine is finished. This way his pursuers can't find him. I've also had Namine redo Sora's memories; to give him a completely different personality. That way the dusks will have problems finding him as well."
Ansem seemed to be deep in thought. He turned away, just before saying "Poor thing." To himself, rather than anyone else.
Suddenly Sora felt only rage. He had been given a fake personality? Just to make sure he would go back to the Key Wielders? Why were they so horrible? Was it just because they knew nothing about Nobodies? …Or was is something more?
Sora looked for a way to vent his feelings. He felt his KeyKunai plea to be used. He looked at the computer system. It was fake. Virtual. Destroying it wouldn't have any effect on the real one.
He plunged the KeyKunai into the machine, countless times, making sure all of the screens were smashed. All of the keyboards broken. Made sure that it could never be salvaged, even by the best mechanic and scientists in the worlds! "Rasengan!" He said, and putting in onto his enlarged kunai for the extra effect. Parts of the machine went flying around the room.
I entered the next room and found… "Axel." I said, acknowledging. Axel looked at me, surprise flashed across his face and then he went cold and serious.
"You actually do remember me now? Don't you?" He asked, his voice remaining level, trying to keep his anger all bottled up inside.
I now realised Namine's true intentions for returning my memories. I would have to thank her. Axel, despite having good intentions, would ruin everything. "I'm not going with you Axel. Don't even ask. You need to realise that they are the only ones that can do this. That can take down the Organization. You've met them. You know what they're like. I wish you would go with them, instead of thinking that anything could ever be the same!"
Axel looked stunned. He wasn't used to me being this way. I was usually so happy and carefree. But all that changed when I found out the Organization's true intentions. "I can't let you go Sora. Even if I have to knock you out I will not let you leave me!"
The room filled with flames. Surrounding the two of us. The floor became a field of hot magma. Now I was stunned. I had never seen Axel use his powers to such a level before. Not even with Eli. He really does care for me.
"Too bad I'm not in the mood." I told him. I reached inside myself and brought out the power that was bottled up inside. The power that Naruto had given me. The power of the Nine-tailed fox!
A body began to grow around his own. Sora started to feel the pain he suspected would happen, but he was in control. The Nine tails' chakra formed outside of his own body, like a second skin. Only four tails grew out his end. Sora was too afraid to use all nine of the tails, even though the beast was apparently tame. A black mask appeared on his face. His eyes looked like little white holes. (A/N- I want to make it known that Sora is not undergoing the same transformation Naruto did, when his own blood was used. This is different as Kyubbi was tamed by Naruto and Hinata in the first series.)
"Nine tailed Fox: Twister!" Sora cried out, and let loose a powerful current of wind using his four tails.
This was going to be a heated battle!
(A/N- Next Time- Sora's last stand! The power of a Nobody!
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