Madness and Darkness
After taking a beating at the hands of Xehanort, the black blood inside Sora was activated which caused the boy to fall into madness, but thanks to that now it was Sora the one who was giving a beating to Xehanort.
Sora walked stumbled towards Xehanort, doing strange and unpredictable movements. Xehanort attacked with his Keyblade, but Sora ducked and got behind him and when the silver-haired boy turned, Sora hit him with a hard backhand. Xehanort recovered from the blow and tried to hit Sora again, he made a horizontal slash with his sword quickly, but Sora leaned back and dodged the attack. Xehanort was unprotected so Sora rested his hands on the floor to take impulse and then he kicked Xehanort with a great force.
Xehanort could cover himself from the kick, but even so he still received a lot of damage. It was as if Sora's body was covered with steel. The dark Keyblade wielder teleported in front of Sora and hit him on the stomach with his Keyblade, when the sword hit the Sora's body, you could hear sound like two metal bars clashing. Sora looked at Xehanort and smiled in a sinister way, he began to laugh again, as if the blows didn't hurt him or simply because he didn't care about them. Sora grabbed Xehanort's Keyblade and pulled to bring Xehanort closer and the he sent him flying backwards with a kick. Now Xehanort's Keyblade was in Sora's hand.
"Your Keyblade is cool, you know?" Sora said in a childish way as he watched Xehanort's Keyblade closely. "However, I prefer mine so you can have this one."
The spiky boy grabbed the sword's keychain and threw the Keyblade to its wielder with an incredible speed that before Xehanort could react, he had his own weapon stuck in his torso. The silver-haired teen grabbed his Keyblade and took it out his body while Sora continued laughing.
"Ouch, did that hurt?" the crazy boy bantered. Xehanort just looked at Sora with an expression that was between disbelief and intrigue, he couldn't believe that after defeating Sora so easily now the boy was as if nothing had happened and fought a very strange way, as if all the fear was gone from his body.
Xehanort began to prepare a Blizzard spell to try to immobilize Sora; however the brown-haired boy also prepared something to counter his spell. Sora's Keyblade started to glow with fire and then all that fire concentrated at the tip of the sword. Xehanort look dumbfounded at Sora since he knew the spell he was going to use.
"Burn!" said Sora with a happy tone and then a huge fire explosion covered the whole area. If Sora was sane, he wouldn't have used Mega Flare but now he wasn't a person who thinks before acting. The explosion destroyed a small part of the academy's façade so Kid would have started to scold Sora for destroying the perfect symmetry of Shibusen, but he and the others were more focused on covering from the spell which, fortunately, only hurt Xehanort.
"What kind of fight is this?" said Kilik.
"Sora is winning now," said Ox, "but he seems so different and his battle style is very weird."
"It is similar to when we fought against Crona, right?" said Soul looking at Maka who just nodded.
"The reason why Sora was losing is because he was fighting Xehanort and trying to resist the black blood at the same time," said Stein, "however Xehanort's dark techniques had an effect on the black blood and Sora ended up giving in."
Mega Flare was one of the most powerful spells so Xehanort was seriously damaged by receiving the attack at such close range, but he could still continue fighting. He stood up and then transformed his sword into a whip again and did the same as before, but this time Sora had much more strength so it was Xehanort the one who was beaten to the ground repeatedly now. Xehanort's Keyblade recovered his normal form; it was useless to damage Sora with physical attacks so the dark Keybearer had to change his tactic. Xehanort used his Keyblade to shoot dark magical bullets at Sora, but the brown-haired boy dodged them while he walked towards Xehanort wobbling and laughing. Before Sora could attack, Xehanort launched a Triple Dark Firaga that hit Sora's chest and made him fell to the ground, but he stood up immediately and laughed more.
"Wow, I feel so great!" said Sora and suddenly his Keyblade disappeared from his hand. "Oh, how strange, don't you think?"
Suddenly a dark aura was around Sora's body, the level of darkness in his body was increasing, it wanted to take over his body, but the madness had more control now. Sora's hair started to dye black and his whole body did the same, however his eyes were still blue. The darkness inside Sora tried to activate his Anti Form, but the madness was blocking the transformation so instead of losing control, now the crazy Sora had the power to control his dark appearance, although it won't make any difference since the actual Sora behaved like when Sora used his Anti Form.
"Amazing!" said Sora as he looked at his body. "Now the color of my body matches the color of my blood!"
"You've lost your mind," said Xehanort looking at the half-Heartless Keybearer.
"About time you noticed," replied Sora and then he jumped backwards and flew forwards to attack Xehanort. The silver-haired boy knew that Sora was now more vulnerable to the Keyblade since he was now half-Heartless, but that didn't mean that Sora was weaker. Before Xehanort could use his Keyblade, Sora created a rope with darkness that immobilized Xehanort's arm and then Sora grabbed his head and smashed it on the ground repeatedly.
"C'mon, I'm like a Heartless and you are a Keyblade wielder," taunted Sora. "You should eliminate me, or are you too weak for that?"
The dark Keybearer teleported behind Sora and tried to pierce him with his sword, but before the Keyblade could touch his body, Sora ducked and put his hands on Xehanort's body and shot a blast of dark magic from each hand that made Xehanort crash against the spiked structure of the academy. Sora's enemy cut the spike and threw it at him and when the spike was near Sora, he jumped to it and used it to reach Xehanort who used a Fire spell to knock Sora down, but he parried the spell with his bare hand and then punched Xehanort in his face, kneed him in the gut, hit him with a somersault kick and grabbed him to throw the dark-skinned boy to the ground.
Before landing Xehanort turned around and threw several dark energy blasts with his Keyblade, but Sora created with his hands a great ball of dark energy that he launched at Xehanort and when the ball hit him, it created another explosion, but it wasn't as big as the one with the Mega Flare. Sora landed and started to walk toward Xehanort and when he was near him, he started to kick him.
"Who is the dull and ordinary boy now, huh?" said Sora with a crazy voice. "You're a Keyblade wielder who can't beat someone who isn't even a full Heartless, how pitiful."
Sora's bantering angered Xehanort and he started to attack him continuously while Sora dodged his attacks without even trying, but then Xehanort could hit Sora's body. He cut Sora's chest and black blood started to stain the floor; however that wasn't good for Xehanort since then dark spikes came out of the blood pool and pierced his body. After that, a burst of darkness that Sora created ripped Xehanort and carried him into the air, then Sora teleported behind Xehanort and kicked him back to the floor. Sora landed on Xehanort with great force to assure that he won't stand up. Sora's darkness and madness turned him into someone rather cruel and that scared his friends.
"Heartless…" muttered Black*Star, he was someone who had the senses more heightened so he could hear what Sora and Xehanort were saying and told the others what they said.
"He looks like a Heartless," said Liz.
"And now he's the one being cruel," said Stein.
"I know that Xehanort deserves it," said Kid. "But seeing Sora acting like that…"
"If the fight doesn't end quickly," said Soul, "He will have troubles."
"Don't worry," Maka said and the students looked at her confused. "We're talking about Sora, he's one of the strongest people I know and I'm sure that he will be fine wherever he is now."
"Where am I?" asked Sora. He was in a completely dark area with his eyes closed and then he landed on a platform that was the similar to the one where he fought Roxas. He looked at the stained glass pillar and saw that the image in the floor was different, instead of having a picture of Riku, Kairi, Donald and Goofy, it had the pictures of the people he had met during his mission in Death City and then he started to see in his mind what was happening outside. He saw his Anti Form or at least the black blood version of his Anti Form and how he was acting like a crazy person while he beat Xehanort.
"Man, that's embarrassing…" muttered Sora. "At least he is getting what he deserves."
"Besides, it's not that different from how you normally are," said someone behind Sora.
Sora turned around and saw a blond boy wearing a black coat and he recognized him immediately.
"Very funny Roxas," said Sora and the blond smiled. "What is this place?"
"It is said that people have a space in their heart for each friend," said Roxas.
"I see…" said Sora looking at the stained glass. "Do you know what happened to me out there?"
"Black blood," replied Roxas and he continued before Sora could ask how he got it. "When you did that special resonance with Maka and Soul, you got infected with it. I think that they already know it so surely they are feeling really guilty now."
"Well, if the black blood hadn't affected me, Xehanort would have killed me," said Sora who didn't want to blame his two friends.
"That's true," said Roxas, "but you could have won the first fight if you hadn't been trying to resist the black blood. I tried to help you, but it was overwhelming and then your darkness started to compete with it to take the control."
"What can I do now?" asked Sora.
"The darkness affects the heart while the madness affects the soul," explained Roxas. "As you know there's darkness in every heart and it's the same for the madness."
"Then the only thing I can do is to canalize them, right?" said Sora.
"Right," said Roxas and a door appeared behind him. "The black blood made the darkness in your heart to increase, so if you find a way to decrease the level of insanity in your soul, the darkness will do the same, besides you always had a great light in your heart so it won't be a problem."
"So when I cross that door," said Sora. "I'll have to try to stop the madness and that will make the darkness to decrease and I'll return to normal."
"Yes, but there's a problem," said Roxas. "The moment you cross the door, your Anti Form will deactivate and your body will lose consciousness. I don't think Xehanort will wait for you to wake up, but maybe I can do something to buy you time although your body is really damaged now."
"Don't do anything too risky, okay?" said Sora and Roxas smiled and nodded.
Sora opened the door and crossed it. Roxas saw how the door disappeared and then he sighed, he didn't know how Sora could get into all these messes and still being the way he is, but that's what everyone liked about him.
Meanwhile in the courtyard, Anti Sora kept crushing Xehanort as if it was the easiest thing in the world. Sora ran to Xehanort who catching his breath, but suddenly he stopped which Xehanort and the people watching the fight found strange. The dark form of Sora disappeared and now everyone saw Sora's normal appearance and then he fell to the ground, however he started to get up immediately after hitting the ground but he was doing it very slowly.
"Dammit, his body is more damaged than I expected, I won't be able to fight back like this," thought Roxas, he took control of Sora's body to protect it while he tried to solve the problem with the madness, but his body was too damaged and Roxas could barely move.
"I didn't expect to see you Roxas," said Xehanort who was starting to get up.
"To be honest, I didn't even wanted to see you," retorted Roxas.
While Roxas and Xehanort talked, the students of Shibusen tried to hear their conversation.
"What are they saying?" asked Jacqueline.
"Black*Star, can you hear them?" Tsubaki asked.
"Xehanort called Sora "Roxas"," said Black*Star bewildered and the others started to get confused too since no one knew Sora's nobody. "Besides, Sora's voice has changed when he returned to normal."
"His soul is different now," said Kid.
"What are you talking about?" asked Liz. "Can people change their soul just like that?"
"Kid's right," said Maka who also used Soul Perception. "It has some resemblance to Sora's soul, but it is clearly the soul of a different person."
"Keep quiet," said Black*Star. "Let me listen to them, maybe I can hear something important."
Roxas used a Cure spell to heal Sora's body, he could get up but the body was still too damaged to fight at his full potential.
"I've got to say that I'm impressed," said Xehanort. "I didn't know that Sora was that powerful when he used his darkness. If you see him, tell him that he passed the test, however now that I know that he can use the darkness so well he could still be one of us so if you don't mind, I'm going to take his body to our headquarters."
"I should have guessed that this was going to happen," thought Roxas as he started to walk backwards since Xehanort was approaching him. Xehanort started to run to knock Roxas out, but when he was near Sora's body a giant Shuriken made him stop and jump away. Black*Star grabbed the Shuriken and stood between Roxas and Xehanort.
"I don't know what's your deal," said Black*Star, "but you're not taking my friend with you."
The other meisters also ran, with their partners in their hands, to where Black*Star.
"Dammit Black*Star, you could have told us that you were going to interfere," said Kilik.
"Excuse me," said Maka looking at Sora's body. "You are…"
"Roxas," said the boy who controlled the body of the brown-haired Keybearer.
"Who are you exactly?" asked Ox.
"I don't think this is the best time to give explanations, Ox Ford," said Roxas and the boy in glasses looked at him surprised, he didn't expect that Roxas knew his name.
"If you don't want to die, move aside," said Xehanort to the students.
"You said that Sora passed the test," said Kid, "so you don't have more business here, if you plan to take our friend with you, we won't sit back and do nothing."
"Maybe we're not as the same level as a Keyblade wielder," said Harvar.
"But we won't let you touch him," finished Jacqueline.
Roxas looked impressed at Sora's friends, they were really brave to say those kinds of things to Xehanort and he knew that they were strong enough to help him.
"Listen," began Roxas, "Sora is now trying to solve the problem with the madness and his inner darkness, I took control of his body to buy him some time but it's too damaged and I won't be able to fight properly so I'll really need your help."
The fourteen students remained silent for a moment when Roxas said that and then they started to laugh and he didn't understand why.
"I hope that's a yes," said Roxas.
"Sorry," said Maka still laughing. "It's just…"
"We didn't think we would hear the words "I'll really need your help" from Sora's mouth," finished Soul who also found the situation funny.
"I guess even he needs help from time to time," said Kilik.
"Since Sora is the one who needs help, I'll do it for free but tell him to not get used to it," Kim said.
"We'll do our best, Roxas," said Ox.
"I already wanted to fight this guy anyway," Black*Star said while he grinned at Roxas.
"Sora has been always helping us since he came to Death City," said Kid and then he smiled at Roxas. "I would really like to return the favor."
"Leave it to us, Roxas-kun," said Tsubaki.
"Yeah, we've been looking forward to this," Liz said and her sister agreed.
Roxas laughed slightly, Sora sure knew how to choose his friends. They were willing to protect him no matter what and the blond was glad for it. He looked at Xehanort who heard all the conversation they had and it seems that he was decided to take Sora's body with him.
"You leave me no choice then," Xehanort said as he raised his Keyblade. "Time Stop!"
While Roxas and the Shibusen's students were about to fight against Xehanort, Sora was walking around an area that was totally black. He looked for a way to control the madness inside him, but there was nothing around until he found what it seemed to be a soul. He approached the soul and looked closely at it.
"This is Roxas'…" muttered Sora and then another soul appeared and Sora walked to take a look at the new soul. He didn't know to whom this soul belonged but then he remembered the girl with black hair that he saw when he was trapped in the nightmare during his exam for becoming a Keyblade Master.
"So this is hers," said Sora. "Why is it here?"
Sora started to feel sad for some reason, but he continued walking and he found another soul. This one was covered with black blood so Sora deduced that it was his. He approached it and touched it and suddenly he started to feel as if someone was pushing himself to the ground. He had to remove his hand from the soul, but he tried again and this time he didn't remove his hand. After a few seconds he appeared in his Station of Awakening and his soul was at his side.
"Here again…" Sora started to look around but he didn't find anything out of order, just his soul that was still covered with black blood. Suddenly someone appeared before Sora and the boy couldn't believe who he was looking at.
"Riku?" said him astonished. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm not Riku," replied the person who was the exact copy of Sora's best friend. "I'm just the part of you who is in charge of guiding you when you, for example, lose your sanity. You could say that I'm like your conscience."
"Then why do you look like Riku?" asked Sora confused. "Is there a reason?"
"I just took the appearance of him because is someone you feel comfortable with," said the fake Riku. "I can look like everyone you know."
When Sora's conscience said that it started to transform into some of Sora's friends, but Sora told his conscience to stop doing that. Now his conscience had the appearance of the boy known as Joshua.
"That appearance is surprisingly fitting for some reason," thought Sora. "So…why are you here?"
"As I said, I'm here to guide you," said Joshua. "Do you remember the dream you had before you get the Keyblade?"
Sora thought for a moment, it has been a long time but he remembered that dream perfectly and how Kairi hit him in the head when he told her about it.
"Yeah, why?" asked Sora.
"Remember how three people with the appearance of Tidus, Wakka and Selphie asked you three questions?" said Joshua. "This is going to be something similar to that."
"So you are going to ask me questions and that will make the black blood disappear?" asked Sora.
"More or less," Joshua said. "The black blood is something that can't disappear so easily, but with this, it will stop bothering you and then your darkness will stay under control again."
"Alright then," said Sora who was prepared to answer any question. "Let's begin."
Meanwhile Roxas and the others struggled to keep Xehanort in check, but even with the whole group, Xehanort managed to keep up with all of them since some of his wounds healed after he used his powers to manipulate time.
"It's true that this bastard can control time," said Soul while Maka used his scythe form to attack Xehanort. He dodged every swing of the scythe and then he sent Maka away with a hit from his Keyblade.
"Take this you dark creep!" exclaimed Black*Star, he was about to strike Xehanort with Tsubaki's Uncanny Sword Mode, but the silver-haired boy blocked the dark sword with his Keyblade. Black*Star struggled and tried to break Xehanort's guard and then Kid appeared from behind and started to shoot at the dark Keybearer. Xehanort grabbed Black*Star to use him as a human shield, the same thing Sora did in the training class so Black*Star knew how to escape from him. The boy's shadow blocked Kid's bullets, grabbed the Keybearer and threw him into the air. Ox, Kilik and Kim were at Xehanort's level and they took the chance to attack him.
"I'm all fired up! Triple F!" exclaimed Kilik and with Pot of Fire covered with flames, he punched Xehanort, but the Keybearer could block him. Then it was Kim turn to attack, she used Jackie's lamp form to create several waves of fire that hit Xehanort since he was still blocking Kilik.
"It's my turn, Lightning King Drill!" said Ox and he struck Xehanort with anti-air thrusting technique, however Xehanort used a Reflect spell and when Harvar touched the crystal shield it created an explosion that knocked the three meisters down.
Xehanort landed and then he ran to Roxas, however Maka got in his way and sent him back with a powerful swing of the Witch Hunt and she managed to protect Roxas. It looks like all the attacks from the meister were effective since Xehanort was as damaged as before they got into the fight, however they were even more wounded than him.
Xehanort teleported behind Maka, but before he could do anything to her, Roxas blocked him with his Keyblade, he was using the Kingdom Key since he didn't have enough control to summon a more powerful one, but at least he had enough energy to block Xehanort's blows. The dark Keybearer started to attack Roxas continuously and made him move back. Roxas was unable to counterattack, but fortunately Black*Star came to his aid and started to swing his sword at Xehanort who started to charge a spell and then an explosion of dark fire covered the whole area and damaged everyone except the caster.
"We'll lose at this rate," said Kid as he got up. "He's at least as damaged as before."
"But we're even worse, much worse," said Kilik. "If that bastard hadn't used that frigging clock to heal his injuries we would be in a better shape than now."
Roxas looked how the meisters were all covered with wounds and he was starting to get worried, if Sora didn't hurry, they might die. Now Sora was in front of his conscience, waiting for the question that he had to answer.
"Are you afraid of the man called Xehanort?" asked Joshua.
Sora thought about it, he wanted to answer that he wasn't scared of Xehanort, but if he answered incorrectly it wouldn't help him to heal his soul. The truth was that he was scared of him since he almost made him fall into the abyss and transformed him into one of the thirteen Darknesses. He always tried to show his friends that he wasn't scared of him so they wouldn't worry but it wasn't true.
"Yes," answered Sora and then the black blood of his soul started to fall from it.
"Do you know the reason why the madness affected you sometimes?" asked the conscience.
"Every time I thought about Xehanort or about what happened in my exam, the madness affected me because I'm scared of him," said Sora. "I didn't want to admit that I was scared and tried to reject the fear and that left me more vulnerable."
Mora black blood fell from Sora's soul as he talked.
"Then, when I found out that Kim was a witch and that she was scared of me," Sora continued, "I realized that I also could become into someone like Xehanort, a monster that doesn't care about the others and just want to achieve his goals."
Sora's soul was almost clear of black blood after he tell his conscience about the fear of being a Keyblade wielder like Xehanort. He was starting to feel better as he talked.
"Do you really want to be a Keyblade wielder?" asked the Joshua look-alike.
"At first I was hesitant about it, it was like my destiny was in the hands of another person," answered Sora. "But with all the things that have happened since I became a Keyblade wielder cleared up my doubts, there are a lot of people that are waiting for me to help them, so I'll make sure that I don't become into a person like Xehanort and not even the darkness or the madness will stop me from my objectives since I'm the one who is in charge here."
The remaining black blood of Sora's soul fell and now it started to shine, the whole area started to illuminate and then the soul disappeared.
"Congratulations, the first step to overcome your fears is to identify them," said Joshua smiling. "Now that you've accepted your fears, the madness shouldn't affect you like it did before."
"And what about the darkness?" asked Sora.
"It returned to normal, but that's something that you still have to work out, like Riku did," said Joshua. "But I'm sure that you will prevail. By the way, don't forget that the black blood is still inside you, but as long as you follow the right path you will be fine."
"All right, I'm ready," said Sora.
"Then go," Joshua told him. "Your friends have been buying you time, so you better don't let them down."
Xehanort looked at the students of Shibusen, they were worn out and Roxas was it too, all of them have been beat by the dark Keybearer, although they also caused damage to him, but now he was going to use the same technique as before to recover himself.
"Time Stop!" said Xehanort and then he vanished and a big clock appeared in the middle of the courtyard.
"Shit, not that again," said Kilik who was in pain and almost unable to move.
"I…I won't let you do that again!" cried Maka as he grabbed Soul and started to run towards the clock. Her body ached badly, but she couldn't let Xehanort heal again so the girl had to ignore the pain and try to do something. Maka and Soul performed a Soul Resonance and when the scythe's blade grew, the meister swing her weapon and tried to break the clock. It was really hard and she was about to pass out, but she remembered how Sora got up every time Xehanort smashed him at their first fight so she wasn't going to give up either. Suddenly, the scythe managed to break through and could break part of the clock.
"Amazing," said Kid. "She managed to break it."
The clock stopped, but then Xehanort appeared in front of the girl who was too tired to move and the silver-haired boy pushed her back with an Aero spell from his hand and she fell near the other meisters.
"I don't know how you did it," said Xehanort, "but you're going to regret it."
Two large blades made of blue light energy appeared in Xehanort's hands and he wielded them with a reverse grip. He ran to Maka to finish her off, but when he was about to thrust her with the blades, Roxas appeared between them and sent Xehanort away with a powerful blow.
"Are you okay, Maka?" asked him.
"That voice…Sora?" said the girl when she realized that it wasn't Roxas' anymore.
"Yeah," replied him.
"Took you long enough," said Black*Star who was in the floor immobile. "I prepared the stage for you so try to make a good show."
"Right, thanks everyone," said Sora. "Now let me take care of him."
"But Sora, your body is still…" said Maka when she saw that the Keybearer's body was really injured.
"It doesn't matter," said him. "You guys are hurt too, but you didn't give up so I'm going to do the same, besides he's as damaged as me."
"You would be more powerful if you let the darkness take the control," said Xehanort as he prepared for Sora's upcoming attack.
"Sorry, but that's not going to happen," said the Keybearer. "I'm my own master now."
Sora ran to his enemy as he threw Fire magic at him, the silver-haired boy blocked the spells with his blades with an amazing speed and Sora took advantage of his distraction to attack him, but Xehanort was impossibly fast when he used those blades and could hit Sora, however when the blade touched Sora's body, he disappeared which surprised Xehanort.
It turns out that what Sora wanted to attack was the clock behind Xehanort since he started to break it with his Keyblade, but Xehanort threw a fire x-shaped blast at Sora to keep him away from it. Sora jumped to dodge the fire magic, he could break the clock more, but it wasn't enough. Xehanort dashed across the area and began to use his blades to cut Sora, his attacks were insanely fast and Sora could barely dodge them all so he got more wounds than before.
Sora didn't give up and used his Keyblade to block one of the blades and with his free hand he grabbed the arm of Xehanort that wielded the other one. He threw the dark-skinned boy to the clock and then he prepared the move he used to defeat Black*Star in their first fight.
"Zantetsuken!" said Sora and then he cut across Xehanort and the clock. The brown-haired boy could break the clock, but Xehanort was still kicking and this time he summoned his Keyblade again.
"You are a nuisance," Xehanort said while he got up clutching his chest.
"I'm glad to hear that from you," said Sora as he smirked.
Xehanort teleported behind Sora and swing his Keyblade at him, but Sora turned around quickly and blocked his attack with his sword just using one hand. The dark Keybearer tried to push Sora back. However, the boy didn't move from his position, instead he was the one pushing Xehanort back. Sora broke the other Keybearer's defense and used his Ars Arcanumtechnique to hit him repeatedly, Xehanort tried to block the blows like he did before, but Sora was stronger now so he received the whole combo. Sora did an upper slash that knocked Xehanort into the air and then he jumped to use the special move called Ragnarok. After the combination attacks, the tip of Sora's Keyblade started to create a great sphere of energy that started to shoot lots of magical bullets that hit Xehanort's body and caused an explosion.
The dark Keybearer recovered on the ground and used an Aero spell that made Sora land, then he used the Fire spell Raging Storm which created three fire columns around him and ran to Sora. The brown-haired boy waited for him and when he saw a space between the fire he went into them to grab Xehanort and throw him out.
Before Xehanort could recover, Sora raised his Keyblade and started to gather energy. The Keybearer started to glow with a bright light that blinded the people in the area.
"Such a powerful light," said Spirit covering his eyes.
"It's totally different from before," Marie said.
"I don't know what he has done, but now the boy has more confidence and is stronger," said Stein with a small smile on his face.
"Faith!" said Sora and six columns made of light emerged from the floor surrounding him. The columns started to grow and when they were ready, Sora sent the circle of light pillars outwards to harm Xehanort. The attack was incredibly powerful and when Xehanort was trapped between the pillars, they created an explosion of light that defeated him completely making Sora win the fight.
Sora panted, his body was aching really badly with all those wounds, but fortunately he won before fainting. Xehanort was now looking at him half interested. He created a dark corridor and started to walk with difficulty to enter in the corridor.
"I was…wrong about you…" said Xehanort when he was in front the dark path. "You are one of the Lights…without a doubt. Don't waste time and go to wake my old self's former apprentice, all the Lights must be prepared for the war."
Sora was about to ask who was he talking about but Xehanort left Death City using the corridor he created before he could ask. Sora sighed and turned around to smile at his friends and they returned the smile.
"Is…everyone all right?" asked Sora who was about to pass out. All of them gave him a thumb up and Sora grinned, he did the same gesture and then he blacked out.
I don't know how it'd sound Sora's crazy laugh so I just imagined Vanitas laughing. Anyway I hope you liked this chapter, the next one will be the last.