Kingdom Hearts II
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The two keyblades disappear as the blond smiles and reaches out his hand.
"Need some help?"
二人の約束
The Promise Between the Two of Us
Chapter 22
Final Showdown Part 2
Sora still cannot believe his own eyes as he looks from Roxas to his out-stretched hand, he did not know what to do. Roxas notices this, he sighs and squats down in front of Sora. He reaches out his hands to hold the brunette's shoulder but Sora jerks at the contact. Roxas ignores this reaction as he pulls Sora into his arms, and grabs tight onto him. Sora trembles and stirs in his hold as Roxas strokes the cinnamon-coloured hair, and whispers soft words into the shaking figure's ear.
"Shh…It's me, Sora. I'm here, I'm right here…"
"But…Roxas…I…I…you…killed…"
Roxas sighs as he pulls Sora from him and holds Sora's chin up. Sora's teary eyes look back at him as Roxas closes the distance between their lips. Sora hesitates at first, but slowly parts his lips to let Roxas's tongue to enter. They break off after a while as Sora looks up to see Roxas smiling down at him.
"It's really you…"
Roxas plants a light kiss on his forehead. "Of course it's me. Do you think that I will let anyone other then myself to kiss you like this?" Sora blushes while Roxas chuckles.
"But why?"
"I'm not sure. After what happened earlier, I fell into darkness. But suddenly there's this bright light, I woke up to see you fighting Xemnas."
Sora thinks for a while. "That light must be from Ansem's device…"
Roxas pats his shoulder. "Come on, let's go back to the others. They must be worried about you." Sora nods as Roxas hold onto his hand, he summons Oblivion and cuts through the dimension. The surrounding starts to wave like a flag again and shatters like glasses.
"Sora!"
They both open back their eyes to see the group smiling at them. Kairi is about to run up to Sora when she notices Roxas is still holding onto Sora's hand. She looks at the blond. "Erm…You are…"
Roxas smiles at her. "Hello there, Kairi. We finally meet face to face."
Kairi gasps. "That voice! Roxas, you are Roxas, right?!" Roxas nods. "I was so worried when Saix took you away earlier. Are you alright?"
"I'm alright, thank you. By the way, where's Xemnas?"
"Over there!"
Donald points to Xemnas who is floating in front of Kingdom Hearts. "Hear me, Kingdom Hearts! It seems we must begin anew. Ah, but knowthis: I will give to you as many hearts as it takes. Mark my words! You can no more be complete without me than I without you. Heed me, Kingdom Hearts! Lend me your power, so that we may be complete! The power to erase the fools that hinder us."
"Oh no, Xemnas! Don't do it!" Roxas shouts to his ex-leader.
"Hearts quivering with hatred...Hearts burning with rage...Hearts scarred by envy... That fool Ansem said the heart's true nature was beyond his understanding. But it's not beyond mine! Hearts are the source of all power!"
The moon glows insanely bright and Xemnas disappears after the light is gone. A door soon appears in front of the moon and a path is formed between it to Sora and the group.
Roxas looks towards Sora. "Let's go. Xemnas must be inside."
Mickey nods. "The worlds gave us this doorway. They want us to be the guardians of their destiny!"
Riku steps forth to the other side of Sora. "Once we go through, there's no turning back. It's victory...or oblivion. So, Sora...are you ready? Do you remember before? We stood facing each other on opposite sides of that door. Now we stand side-by-side. Let's go home together this time."
Sora looks at the group and back to the door. "Let's end this!"
Sora, Mickey, and Riku touch each other's Keyblades together and hold them up. Beams shoot from their blades and the door opens. All six of them enter the door and see almost an entire world inside. Sora gasps as he sees Xemnas in the center of it all.
Xemnas smirks. "So...it seems your hearts have led you to obliteration. Perhaps it doesn't pay to be too loyal to one's heart. I will have to be sure and remember that."
He sends a building after them, as they run back and the building collapses on the ground. The door behind them starts to close with Mickey and Kairi on the other side.
Riku tries to reach for them "No!" He is too late and the door closes.
Roxas looks at him. "We can take him on our own!"
Several windowed walls punch up from the floor blocking them from continuing. The three keyblade wielders slice through them with their Keyblades and they run further inside. Xemnas's gigantic mecha flies into the sky and slams back down onto the ground. The platform they're standing on rises up to the mecha's level. Several buildings fly through the air toward them. Sora jumps up and breaks some of them apart with the Keyblade. He runs across the top of them and slices through, Roxas and the others are following close behind. The last one sends them into the cylinder of the flying mecha.
Nobodies appear, which they defeat them and send them into the core of the cylinder. Sora and group jump onto the side pipes, dodging the large wave of energy which erupts from the cylinder. They jump to the other cylinder and slide across the grate. More enemies appear and are knocked into the other cylinder, which also erupts into a surge of energy. They dodge and reach the other cylinder in time. They dodge the explosion and the cylinder drops off the mecha. As the second cylinder is destroyed, the group jumps up to the energy core and attack it, stopping it.
They come face to face with Xemnas, sitting like a king, armored on his throne. He has many weapons in his arsenal. "Cursed fools!" Sora looks to his group as they all nod, they ready their weapons and dashes forth.
At the end of the battle, combined of katars, naginata, and magical cards, Xemnas screams in agony. They all appear back at the Altar of Naught. Xemnas falls to his knees, clutching his chest.
"I need...more rage.. I need more...hearts..."
Sora steps forth a little and looks down at Xemnas. "There's more to a heart than just anger or hate. It's full of all kinds of feelings. Don't you remember?"
Xemnas smirks. "Unfortunately...I don't." Xemnas fades away. Sora sighs until he feels a hand on his shoulder. He turns around to see Roxas smiling at him, Sora grins back at his lover.
Mickey smiles at them. "Gosh, you all did great!"
Sora turns from Roxas to Riku. "You're coming back with us, right?"
Riku looks away. "I had given in to the darkness."
"Riku!" Riku looks back at him. "How am I gonna face everyone?"
"Like this!" Sora squishes his face in and makes Riku laughs. The building shakes suddenly.
"I'll open a path!" Riku holds out a hand and nothing happens. Mickey walks to him. "You don't belong in the dark realm anymore, Riku."
"But how do we get out of here, Your Majesty?"
"I'll help you." They turn around to see Naminé, as she opens a portal. Mickey and Donald run pass her to the portal. "Thank you."
Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto have gone through the portal. Namine smiles at the remaining group as Kairi walks up to her. "Thank you, Naminé."
"Sure." She looks towards Roxas and Sora. "See? I told you that you can meet him again."
Sora looks at Roxas, while the blond blushes. "Hahax, it seems to be." He smiles at Sora, who grins back. Kairi and Riku look at the scene in front of them. Sora looks at his best friends.
"Erm…guys…well…What I want to say is…especially to Kairi…" Sora's hand nervously searches itself beside, until he finally grabs hold of the hand that he is trying to find. Roxas looks at the nervous boy beside him and gives the hand a little squeeze. Sora glances at him and smiles, "Well, I was trying to say that…"
Kairi stops him with her hand placing on his mouth. Sora blinks in confusion while Kairi chuckles. "I know what you wish to say. I understand."
"But…you…"
"Me? I'm alright, stupid." Kairi looks at Roxas. "Roxas, Sora here is my best of best friends! Take good care of him for me!"
Roxas chuckles and nods. Kairi walks towards the portal and wait for them at the entrance. Sora is about to follow until he notices Roxas is not following. He turns around to see the blond and Riku looking at each other, more like staring.
"Roxas…Riku…"
The two break their eye contact and look at the brunette.
"Guys!!"
They turn around to see the portal closing with Kairi inside it. She reaches for them but the portal closes and dissipates. There's a flash of light suddenly and the three see a nesting core. A giant flying mecha dragon bursts out of the core and flies toward them. It knocks into the castle tower and roars. The tower breaks and starts to collapse. Sora, Roxas and Riku slide toward the ground. Riku sees a hovercraft and runs toward it.
"Riku!"
Riku jumps off the falling tower and onto the hovercraft. He flies it up to the tower. "Come on!"
Sora and Roxas each jump on the two empty platforms on each side of the hovercraft. The mecha dragon flies up alongside them as they fly through the space. The trio attack several parts of the mecha with lasers from the hovercraft, while dodging a few flying heartless. They watch as the giant crashes to the ground. Energy swirls around it and the area is filled with smoke. The smoke clears to show a larger mecha equipped with even more guns. Xemnas, in his kingly armor is sitting at the head. The trio flies to the head of the mecha and jump off, while the hovercraft is lost in the huge swirling abyss. They ready their Keyblades and start to fight Xemnas, when he shoots them into the abyss.
"Nothingness is eternal! Riku...are you sure you're not jealous of Sora?"
"Of course not!"
Sora glides to a discarded building and smashes it with his Keyblade. Riku rides the building as it crashes into the mecha. Roxas slams his Keyblade into it and splits the building in half, breaking the mecha's shield. Xemnas shouts.
"Embrace nothing! Hearts are power!"
The trio glides back to the head of the mecha and start beating up Xemnas again. At the final strike, there is a flash of light and they appear in a gray area. Xemnas stands before them in a black and white outfit.
"Heroes from the realm of light... I will not allow it to end this way… not yet. If light and darkness are eternal, then surely we nothings must be the same... Eternal!"
Riku glares at him. "You're right, light and darkness are eternal. Nothing probably goes on forever, too."
Roxas smirks. "But guess what, Xemnas?"
"That doesn't mean YOU'RE eternal!" Sora points his keyblade at him.
Xemnas chuckles. "No more eternal than that radiance of yours..." Xemnas's hands spark with blue energy. "Anger and hate are supreme."
They attack Xemnas, dodging his thorned vines and red lasers, until Xemnas blocks Sora in a sphere of blue energy. The brunette shouts out in agony. "Can you spare...a heart?"
"SORA!" Roxas and Riku jump up to stop it, but are hit by the energy and knocked away. Xemnas sends out an image of himself against them, while he continues to hold Sora.
The clone attacks them as Riku rushes forth to guard Roxas from the attack. "Go help Sora!!" Roxas nods and run towards Xemnas and Sora. When he reaches, he punches in and grabs Xemnas's hand. The barrier blocking Sora vanishes and he falls to the ground. Roxas takes the hilt of his blade and smacks Xemnas in the face. Riku, who had defeated the clone, come forth and grabs Xemnas horizontally and spins him around, throwing him."
Riku smirks. "Is that all you got?"
"There is no such thing as light!" Xemnas forms two spheres of energy in each hand and melds them together. He lifts them over his head and black thorns pierce outwards. Everything around them turns black.
"Sora, Riku, watch out!!"
In the darkness, a thousand points of light appear. Xemnas laughs as he sends each of those thousand lasers directly at the trio. They deflect them with their spinning Keyblades. There's a flash of light and the trio are staring down Xemnas. Xemnas dashes forth and knocks Riku back.
"Riku!"
Xemnas holds a beam sword to Sora's head and swings his arms back to hit Sora, but Roxas appears in a flash and blocks with his Keyblade. Xemnas swings around while Roxas pushes Sora out of the way and gets a strong hit with the beam sword in his left side. Roxas fells, as Sora catches himself and leaps forward. He grabs Oblivion from Roxas and slams it into Xemnas's chest. Sora smashes Xemnas with the keyblades, spinning him back. He then crosses the Keyblades and knocks Xemnas high into the air. They both spin around as Sora lands between to Roxas and Riku.
"Roxas! Riku!!"
They nod and take Sora's Keyblade and hand. They both send a beam through Xemnas.
"Cursed...Keyblade..." Xemnas angrily reaches out to them as he fades away in wisps and smoke.
Sora jumps in joy. "We did it!"
"I wouldn't be too sure of that."
"Huh?" They look around to see a whole bunch of Nobodies appear as they ready themselves for the battle. The hundreds of Nobodies are eventually defeated. Riku falls to his knees.
"Sora... I can't..."
"Don't say another word! It's not over. It's just not." Sora puts Riku's arm over his shoulder and helps him up, but staggers at the weight until Roxas comes over to help on the other hand.
Riku looks from Roxas to Sora. "How can you say that? Even if we could go on...look where we are."
"Aw, c'mon, Riku. You've been hanging out in darkness too long. You gotta try and think positive!"
"Sora's right, you know, Riku.I stayed in the darkness too before."
Riku smirks at him. "You've been influenced by him." They start walking, anywhere, just walking. Until they see a light. "Hey, look. What's that light?"
They walk into the light and end up on a dark beach. Roxas looks around. "I've been here before. This is where I met Xemnas…" Roxas thinks back about that time while the other two look at him.
"You two can let go of me now…" They did as what he said, as Sora walks towards the water.
"You know...maybe the darkness has gotten to me, too." Sora looks down as the water hits his shoes until Roxas pats him on the shoulder. They turn around and sees Riku lying on the ground. They quickly rush back and help the silver-haired teen up.
Riku chuckles softly. "This world is perfect for me. If this is what the world really is...just this, then maybe I should fade back into darkness."
"Riku..." Sora looks from his friend to Roxas, who is also in a deep thought. "If the world is made of light and darkness... We'll be the darkness."
Sora smiles at them. "Yeah. The other side...the realm of light is safe now. Kairi, the King, and the others are there."
"That's what I mean. Hey, Sora, Roxas... Could you both help me? I want to get down to the water."
They nod and help Riku up. "At least the waves sound the same." They heard his whisper as they walks down the shore and sit on the waterside for a time.
"To tell you the truth, Sora..." Sora and Roxas looks at him. "I was jealous of you."
"What for?"
"I wished I could live life the way you do. Just following my heart."
Roxas chuckles. "I agree with that."
Sora pouts and sigh. "Yeah, well, I've got my share of problems, too."
"Like what?"
"Like...wanting to be like you guys. You both are strong in everything." Roxas and Riku look at each other and grins back at the brunette.
"Well, there is one advantage to being us... Something you could never imitate."
Sora raises his eye brows "Really? What's that?"
"Having you for a friend."
"Or a lover." Sora blushes at Roxas while Riku glares as the blond chuckles.
Sora smiles at them. "Then I guess...I'm okay the way I am. I've got something you both could never imitate too."
They look up at the starless sky and close their eyes, feeling the breeze on their skin and hearing the sound of the waves. Suddenly, a bottle washes up between Riku's legs, he picks it up and opens it. There is a note inside. He reads the letter and smiles.
"Sora? I think it's for you." He hands it to Sora, who reads it out so that Roxas can hear it too.
"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows: Starting a new journey may not be so hard or maybe it has already begun. There are many worlds, but they share the same sky…one sky, one destiny."
A light appears over the water before them.
"Light. The door to light..."
Sora stands up and looks at the other two. "Come on, guys! We'll go together."
Both of them nod as they stand up and walk towards the light. Riku walks in first, Sora is about to walk in until he notices Roxas never follow.
"Roxas? Come..." Sora pauses in his words as his eyes widen, to see Roxas's body is becoming transparent. Sora runs back to Roxas and grabs onto his arms. "Roxas!! What…What's happening?!"
Roxas smiles sadly at him. "It seems like…this is the end of the road for me…"
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