Welcome back readers. Like I said about the worlds, I think I will use the worlds from KH 2. But that will be for the next chapters; for now please enjoy this chapter and thank you guys for the support.
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Chapter 4: Inner Conflict
A corridor of darkness opened to reveal King Sora and Queen Kairi, hand in hand, walking into the Realm of Darkness. Not only was it the home world of the Heartless and all Darkness in the universe, it also held the remnants of the worlds that have fallen into the darkness. However, since Sora's past endeavors in saving the realm of light, many of those worlds have been restored to their former state.
Now Sora can return those worlds from once they came. Back to the darkness.
The dark couple walked towards the destroyed remains of Disney Castle. The castle building's were destroyed, the gardens were slowly dying, and the blue and white colors of the castle were changing to red and black. Very fitting for the dark king.
"Kairi, before we head to the resting chambers, I want you to see someone we have been keeping here for awhile," said Sora.
"Okay, let's go see this person," Kairi agreed.
The two of them headed to the Hall of the Cornerstone, which has now become the Prisoner's Keep. Dungeons have been made into the walls to keep prisoners in. Most of the dungeons were filled with former servants and townspeople from Disney Town. They headed down to the furthest dungeon and looked inside to a surprising sight to Kairi.
A young adult woman with medium- length blue hair, blue eyes, and wearing a black and blue corset, was chained to the wall of the dungeon. She had many cuts, bruises, and her corset was cut in many areas.
Sora knocked on the jail door in order to get her attention. "Wakey-Wakey, Aqua," Sora mocked. Kairi took another look at the woman. This was the woman who protected her from those monsters all those years ago; the woman who, unintentionally, gave her the power to wield the keyblade.
Aqua looked up and her eyes went widened when she saw Kairi with Sora.
"Kairi, is that you?!" Aqua asked, "Listen to me, you have to get away from Sora. He's-"
"It's too late Aqua. I have joined Sora and have become the queen of darkness," said Kairi. Aqua looked at the pair with tear stricken eyes.
"What are you planning to do?" She asked to the couple.
"We plan to send all the worlds back to where they emerged and usher in a new age of peace for the darkness," Sora answered. He then held Kairi's hand, catching her attention.
"Come Kairi, let's go to our bedroom, we must rest for the conquest that is to come onto the worlds," Sora suggested. Kairi nodded her head in agreement, before turning and leaving Aqua in her own form of darkness: sadness and despair.
(Flashback: few months ago)
Sora was standing on the shores of the Dark Margin, staring out into the seas. He has just finished taking over Disney Castle and was thinking of how to take down the Seekers of Darkness.
That is until he heard voices.
He quickly duck down behind one of the rocks and eavesdropped on who would be taking.
"So do you remember where you are from yet?" A female voice asked.
"Sadly no, I'm afraid," a male voice responded.
"Oh, I'm sorry Ansem," the woman said.
'Ansem', Sora thought. The last time he saw Ansem the Wise, he was destroyed by his malfunctioning device. Is this where he ended up during the aftermath?
"It's quite alright, Aqua, there is nothing that can be done but wait," Ansem responded.
Aqua, the name sounded familiar. Sora remembered hearing the name from one of Yen Sid's books that mentioned a Master Aqua, but it never explained what happened to her. Could this be the same person?
Sora slowly rose from the rock he was hiding behind in order to see the two people. Ansem the Wise was not dressed in his old red outfit and was now wearing the Organization 13 black cloak. The woman, presumed be Aqua, was dressed as the woman he met way back when he was a young boy with Riku, so it must be her.
Not aware of Sora, the two continued their conversation.
"When was the last time we spoke Aqua?" Ansem asked.
"I'm not sure Ansem. Time doesn't exist here, so I can't give an accurate time when we last spoke," said Aqua.
"I see. Well don't worry, one day, Sora will find a way to save us from this prison and you will be able to go back to save your friends," said Ansem.
Sora thought now would be a good time to intrude.
"Is that right?" Sora asked, drawing the attention of Aqua and Ansem, with Aqua drawing her keyblade, Master's Defender. "Well, sorry to destroy your hope, but Sora won't be able to save you," Sora said, while laughing at the same time.
"Why wouldn't he come save us?" Aqua asked.
Sora put down his hood revealing himself to the duo, "Because I am Sora!"
Aqua was shocked to see that the little boy she once knew has become a creature of the dark. Ansem was also shocked, since he put a lot of faith in Sora and to see him like this now destroyed any hope that was there for the realm of light.
"Sora what happened to you!?" Aqua asked.
"I have become the new king of darkness and I will bring in a new age of peace to the universe," Sora said.
"How do plan to do that, Sora?" Ansem asked.
"By destroying the worlds that are in the realm of light," Sora said with a crooked grin.
"Not if I stop you, Sora," Aqua stated before jumping into the air and shooting a ball of fire at Sora and coming down for a downward strike. Sora smacked the fire ball away and summoned his keyblade to block Aqua's strike and pushed her back.
Aqua slowly got back up by supporting herself with her keyblade. She can already tell that what she had for experience and skill, Sora more than made up for it with extreme power. But she couldn't give up, not yet. She slowly focused on the power she gained from her friends and encased her keyblade in a pink aura. She quickly got up and charged at Sora with renewed ferocity. Sora simply smirked and blocked her strike, which sent her reeling back. "Relying on your friends for power, that power no longer works for me," Sora charged in and prepared one of his moves, "Dark Ars Arcanum!" Slashing Aqua with seven dark infused strikes which quickly brought Aqua down to her knees.
Sora quickly appeared next to her and wrapped her in dark chains, which slowly removed the energy from the wearer.
"That should hold you, keyblade master. Should also stop you from summoning your keyblade," Sora stated.
"Aqua!" Ansem shouted before charging at Sora, however before he could reach him, he was quickly held down by shadow heartless and disappeared into the darkness.
Sora then turned back towards Aqua and reached into her pocket. He looked for a couple of seconds, then pulled out a blue wayfinder.
"Interesting, so this is what kept you going in the darkness. A promise that you will get out and save your friends," Sora pulled out the wayfinder he received from Kairi and held both of them in his hands.
"I keep mine as a reminder of my love and devotion to Kairi, but I see no reason to hold on to yours," Sora stated before crushing Aqua's wayfinder in his hand. Aqua's eyes widened before tears started running from them. The last connection she had with her friends was gone and so was her hope. She didn't even notice two solider heartless appear and take her away, for she was too lost in her own hopelessness and despair.
(Present: Dark King's bedroom)
Sora and Kairi were both sleeping on the main bed together in order to keep themselves comfortable, however neither of them were getting sleep due to the beings that were in their hearts.
(Sora's Dive into the Heart)
Sora was standing on a platform that showed himself resting over a dark realm, while a portrait of Kairi was next to him.
Suddenly, two identical looking boys appeared before him. Both boys had brown hair that spiked upwards, identical faces, and blue eyes, but it was the clothes that distinguished them. One of the boys was wearing a yin yang styled jacket, shorts and had on a piece of armor on his shoulder. This was Ventus. The other boy was wearing a casual, checker styled jacket, pants, and had a spiked X for a zipper. This was Sora's Nobody, Roxas.
Sora looked at them both with a angered face. "What do you two want?" He asked.
The boy with the armor plate stepped up to him with his arms out. "Sora, this madness has to stop," he said.
"You call it madness, I call it necessity," Sora replied.
The other boy stepped up next, "No it's not Sora, first you attack Aqua, then you destroy Xehanort and now your own friends?! Don't you see what you are doing?" The boy asked.
"Of course I see, Roxas: I attacked Aqua, cause she would've jeopardized everything, Xehanort needed to be destroyed, due to his inaccurate beliefs, and I attacked my friends cause they would've dragged me down as they always do," Sora replied.
Both Roxas and the other boy couldn't believe how heartless Sora has become. The other boy tried to reach out to Sora again.
"Sora please, you have done everything you wanted to achieve, there is no other reason to destroy the other worlds, please stop this," he begged.
Sora scoffed at the claim, "Wrong Ventus, the worlds in the realm of light are always causing some form of trouble, that is why they must be destroyed and sent back to realm of darkness where they willed be watched over by their new king...ME!" Sora declared.
Both Roxas and Ventus looked at each other, then back towards Sora, "If we can't talk you out of it Sora, we will have to stop you by force," Ventus stated before activating his armor and Roxas donning his old Organization cloak.
Sora laughed at this. "Ventus, don't you remember, you are just a heart in here, you can't fight me. Only Roxas can," Sora stated. Ventus quickly turned back into a ball of light and disappeared into the darkness, leaving only Roxas.
Roxas, undeterred, drew out Oathkeeper and Oblivion and got into his fighting stance. Sora summoned his keyblade and the two charged at each other.
(Meanwhile, in Kairi's Dive to the Heart)
Kairi was going through the same argument with her Nobody, Namine.
"Kairi, I know you love Sora, but this is wrong. He is leading you down a path you don't want to see the ending to," Namine said.
"Your wrong, he is leading me down the path to true peace. Imagine Namine, no more fighting, no more loss, only peace in darkness," Kairi replied.
Namine looked down with a frown before stating, "Very well Kairi, you leave me no choice," Namine then summoned Oathkeeper and prepared to fight Kairi. Kairi did the same.
(Back to Sora's)
Sora and Roxas were fighting fiercely with each other, however, Roxas was starting to tire out and had mutiple cuts on his cloak, while Sora didn't have a scratch and was still full of energy. Roxas jumped into the air and did a front flip with his keyblades, but was blocked by Sora and kicked back, sending him flying to the edge of the platform.
"Try again," Sora taunted.
Reacting to the taunt, Roxas got back up and sent multiple pillars of light at Sora, though he quickly dodged all of them and appeared right in front of Roxas, surprising him. Sora then unleashed Dark Ragnorok on Roxas, sending flying before being blasted away by many dark flares.
Roxas slowly got up, but did not react in time when Sora lunged and stabbed him through the chest, running him through with his keyblade. Roxas looked up at Sora in shock.
"So..ra...why?" Roxas stuttered out.
"I see no more use for you Roxas. You would only try to stop me from the inside and I cannot have that," Sora said before pulling the blade out of Roxas's chest. Roxas then erupted into a ball of light before imploding, destroying his existence.
(Back to Kairi's)
Namine was on the ground, slowly fading away into nothingness after being defeated by Kairi, her keyblade broken into two.
She slowly reached her hand out to Kairi, who took it and sat down next to Namine.
"Kairi, I knew I couldn't defeat you, just promise me one thing please?" Namine requested.
"What?" Kairi asked.
"Be safe, you were the closest thing to a sister to me," said Namine.
"I was going to say the same thing," Kairi said.
Namine shed a tear before going limp and disappearing into small white flower petals.
(In the King's bedroom)
Both King and Queen woke up in each other's arms.
"Morning," Sora said, before noticing the single tear that emerged from Kairi's eye. "What's wrong?" He asked.
"I had to kill Namine in my heart so she wouldn't get in the way, but I didn't want to," Kairi said sadly.
"Funny, I had to do the same thing with Roxas," Sora said before getting up and summoning his keyblade.
"Sora?" Kairi asked worriedly.
"Don't worry I just have to get one more trespasser out of my heart," Sora said before pointing his keyblade at his chest and shot a beam at it, releasing Ventus's heart from Sora's. Ventus's heart then try to fly away, but it soon became entrapped in dark chains.
"Now that they are out of the way, we can focus on destroying the other worlds, but for now we need to get our plans set," Sora said evilly.
(Meanwhile in the Badlands)
In the deserted area of the Badlands, a suit of red and brown armor was kneeling on the ground with his keyblade, Ends of the Earth, stabbed into the ground. A lone heart came flying out of the sky and landed in front of the armor before entering it. A light slowly engulfed the armor before disappearing and revealing a young adult man with black spikey hair, black shirt, brown samurai pants, and the armor gauntlet on his arm. This was Terra, a man who was tricked into using the darkness and became Xehanort's new vessel. Now with his heart returned he has come back.
Terra looked around the badlands before pulling out his wayfinder and looking at it.
"I wonder what happened while I was possessed by Xehanort. Hopefully, I can find Aqua and Ven too," Terra said before activating his keyblade glider and flying off.
"Maybe Yen Sid will know," Terra suggested before flying off to the Mysterious Tower.
That was the fourth chapter of my story. Hope you guys liked it. Roxas and Namine are gone, Aqua and Ventus's heart are imprisoned by Sora, but Terra is back! Will he save everyone that is left. Find out when Sora and Kairi conquer the next world on their list: Radient Garden. Thank you guys for the support and have a great day. Peace.