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Chapter 6: Radiant No More
(A couple of hours before Sora and Kairi arrive at Merlin's)
In the Dark Tower far away from the city of Radiant Garden, Maleficent, the evil fairy who wants to take over of realm of light, and her lackey, Pete, were researching the Book of Prophecies, a book that can foretell certain events before they happen. The book was said to be lost after the great Keyblade War and the location of it is completely unknown.
"I don't know Maleficent," Pete said while looking at the hologram of the Book, "Maybe this Book you were talking about is nothing more than fairy tail," he said while scratching his head.
"Impossible you buffoon!" She barked, making Pete cower, "All stories, legends, and fairy tails come from somewhere," she replied.
However, before they could continue, multiple Armored Soldier Heartless appear and surround the duo.
Maleficent was surprised by this, Heartless like these should obey her not attack her. "What is the meaning of this?! Stand down now!" She demanded, but the heartless instead attacked her and Pete. Though they put up a fight, they were quickly defeated by reinforcements and restrained.
"What's going on here?!" Pete asked, scared out of his mind.
"I'll tell you what's going on, you stupid cat," A voice echoed through the tower. A corridor of darkness opened up in the room and out stepped Sora and Kairi hand in hand.
"Sora, what are you doing here?" Maleficent asked. "What happened to ya, kid?" Pete also asked.
"To answer both of your questions, you two have been a thorn in my side ever since we met, so I have decided to get rid of you while I'm here. The answer to your second question is that I have become the new King of Darkness and Kairi is my Queen," Sora answered.
"I thought that Princesses of Heart didn't have darkness in their heart," Pete said.
"True, but that doesn't mean we can't accept darkness into our heart," Kairi said while hugging Sora from behind.
"No matter, I won't let a boy and his Princess stop me from conquering the realm of light," Maleficent said before summoning a lightning spell and shooting it at the couple, but Sora simply smacked the spell away and destroying a wall in the process. Sora simply reached out with his hand and Maleficent's staff went flying out of her hands and into Sora's.
"A fairy's staff, a weapon formerly used for good, but now is used for more selfish and evil purposes." Sora said before breaking the staff in two over his knee. He and Kairi then walked up to the pair.
"I was going to take your heart and turn you into a powerful heartless and join my army, but for that attack alone, Kairi and I have decided to simply finish you both," Sora said.
"Please Sora, I apologize for the attack, I'll do anything please," Maleficent pleaded.
Both Sora and Kairi burst into laughing at her statement.
"Out of all of things you could've said right now, Begging would have not have been my first guess," Kairi said, while still laughing along with Sora.
"Have fun in the afterlife you two," Sora said before he and Kairi lunged at the evil duo.
All that was heard from the tower was a scream of despair, the sound of a blade striking, and then silence.
(Present time in Ansem's Lab)
Leon was having one good day. He and the former members of the Organization 13 were going over whatever research Ansem had left there, while also working with Tron to see what he could find in the computer. Along with that, the restoration of Radiant Garden was almost finished, the city was complete and the castle was near finished. All in all everything is going great.
"Tron, how is the everything going on your side?" Leon asked.
"Everything is good Squall, all data has been copied and uploaded onto your flash drive," Tron answered from the computer.
'Squall...I think I can finally go back to using that name,' Leon thought to himself. However, his thoughts were interrupted by Tron.
"Leon, you have an incoming transmission from Cid in Merlin's house," Tron said.
"Let it play," Leon said.
The screen cut to Merlin's house, except instead of the calm relaxing house he would normally see, the house looked like it got hit by a fire tornado. Everything was either destroyed or on fire and there was no sign of Yuffie, Aerith, or Merlin and instead of seeing the gruff, blond, engineer who is always running the computer, he saw Sora dressed in a red and black jumpsuit and a dark, grey hooded cloak.
"Hello Leon," Sora said in a dark voice.
"Sora? What happened? Is everyone alright?" Leon asked all at once with multiple questions running through his head as well.
Sora slowly chuckled to himself, "Sadly yes, almost everyone got away. Except for this old fool," Sora said before holding Merlin up to the screen. Merlin had multiple scratches, burn marks, and bruises all over his body and his hat was missing.
"Merlin!" Leon yelled at the screen, shocked and scared to see his friend in this state.
"Leon...So...ra...heartless...warn...the...ci-," Merlin stuttered only to have a keyblade pierce through his chest and have his heart float out of his body and his heart consumed by darkness.
Leon looked on in shock and horror to see his friend and mentor get killed by the boy who helped save Radiant Garden.
"Sora why? Why are you doing this?!" Leon yelled in anger and horror at the same time.
"The Realm of Light always caused conflict, either by itself or by another cause. That is why I, the new King of Darkness, along with my wife Kairi, will bring peace to the universe, by destroying the Realm of Light. And we are starting with Radiant Garden," Sora stated.
Leon couldn't believe it. This boy that has fought to protect the realm of light now wants to destroy it. That by itself destroyed much hope that was in the realm of light.
"See ya around Squall," Sora said before punching the computer, making the screen fizzle out and then go blank.
Leon was frozen solid, he couldn't move from where he was standing. Sora's words were now replaying over and over in his head. He and Kairi were attacking the realm of light and now he is attacking Radiant Garden. He was soon brought out of his thoughts when he heard multiple footsteps coming his way.
"Leon! Sora is-" Everyone said at once.
"I know. Merlin is gone," Leon said, silencing everyone.
"What are we going to do?" Yuffie asked.
Leon thought over how to keep everyone safe from Sora and the Heartless. As much as he didn't want to fight his former friend and comrade, it seemed like he had no other choice, but he wants to make sure that all innocents get out first.
Leon then turned towards his friends and teammates,"Yuffie, I need you to scout out the area, keep an eye on Sora and Kairi, so we know what they are doing," Leon said. Yuffie nodded before running out of the lab.
He then turned towards Cid, "Cid, you gotta get to the hanger. Prep the ships for the citizens so that they could get out," he ordered.
"You got it Leon. Those ships will be ready," Cid replied before running out.
Aerith was next,"Aerith, you, Dillan, and Aeleus will head to the city and evacuate the people to where the ships will be. Make sure no one is left behind," he said. The three of them nodded before running out as well.
He then turned to Even and Ienzo, "I'll stay here with you guys to make sure all the data and research that Ansem has here gets out safely," he said. The two of them nodded before they split up to different parts of the lab, while Leon stayed at the computer.
Tron appeared on the screen with a look of concern. "Leon what happened?" He asked.
Leon looked at the screen with a sad face. "Sora is attacking the town with the heartless," he said solemnly.
The look on Tron's face was that of sadness and loss, "What? That is impossible it-" he was at a loss for words right now.
Leon had to make the hard call, "Tron, can you activate the security again and can you make sure it targets Sora and Kairi?" He asked.
Tron was sad with the order, but knew that he had to, "Alright, as much as I don't want to...Security activated."
"Thank you, Tron," Leon said sadly.
(Meanwhile with Terra and Xion)
Terra, Xion, and the body of Ventus were flying together towards Radiant Garden in order to find answers as to what has happened while they were gone. As they were flying they came upon a frightening sight.
The world was completely surrounded by gummi heartless, along with three gigantic Hunter Heartless and the larger Hunter X Heartless.
"How are we gonna get past that blockade of Heartless?" Xion asked.
"Is that what they are called?" Terra responded.
Xion looked towards him, "Yes, if you see a symbol that is a red and black heart on a creature, they are Heartless."
"Okay, but the question remains, how are we getting past them?" Terra asked.
"I dunno," Xion answered.
Suddenly, Ventus's hand rose and his Keyblade appeared. It then shot a beam of light out which opened a portal.
"Where do ya think it leads?" Xion asked.
"I don't know, but Ventus has never lead me astray before," Terra said. They then flew into the portal, which lead them in the marketplace. Xion put the Star in Terra's bag that she was carrying, while Terra deactivated his armor and glider.
After they recovered from their flight, they came upon another sight.
Legions of citizens were being evacuated out of the city on to 10 to 20 gummi ships, which held up to 30 people. The people were being led by two men dressed as guards and a brown haired woman.
Terra, holding Ventus, and Xion ran down to the woman and asked what was going on.
"A few minutes, the former Keyblade wielder, Sora attacked us and now our security cameras has noticed a gigantic army of heartless that will make it to our walls in three minutes," The woman responded.
Suddenly, the ground started to shake rhythmically like footsteps. Everyone looked towards the castle to see two Groundshaker Heartless, gigantic four legged beasts with big shamans on their backs to lead them. The Groundshakers then started to ram at the castle in order to bring it down.
"Leon!" The woman yelled.
Everyone's attention was on the castle, so no one noticed a Neoshadow appear from the sky and kick a citizen on to the ground before pinning him down.
"The Heartless are here, Aerith. Everyone get on the ships now!" One of the guards yelled before pulling out a spear, while the other guard pulled out an axe sword.
People began to quickly pile into the ships before they were fully filled and the doors to them closed.
"Aerith, the ships are filled. Climb on we gotta go," Another voice said through Aerith's earpiece.
Terra was protecting Ventus, while Xion and the two guards were fending off the heartless. However, they were slowly being overwhelmed by the army. The two guards were then tackled to the ground and had their hearts removed. Their bodies then disappeared in a burst of light.
"Aeleus, Dillan!" Aerith screamed. She then pressed on her ear piece.
"Cid get going! Get those ships in the air, now!" Aerith ordered.
"You got it. All ships let's get these people outta of here," Cid said before the ships powered up and took off into the sky.
Terra seeing this, yelled out to Aerith. "No, there is a giant Heartless blockade around the world! They'll never make it!"
"WHAT! Cid are you there?" Aerith said desperately.
"Aer... too ma... wo...-" The radio went static.
"Cid? Cid?!" Aerith yelled before looking up to see multiple explosions in the sky. She looked down in sadness and fell to her knees in despair. Terra came running over to her and picked her up by her shoulders.
"Aerith, come on we gotta get to the castle. Xion created a ice wall to hold them off to give us time, but we gotta go now," he said. Aerith whipped away any tears and nodded. Terra ran over to Ventus and picked him up before the three of them started to head to the castle, which has almost been destroyed at this point.
(Meanwhile with Sora and Kairi)
Sora and Kairi arrived at the flower garden after walking around, destroying houses and turning the residents into Heartless. However, during the walk around, Kairi started to have flashbacks to her previous life when she was a child. Whenever they came, Kairi would stop where she was and hold her head in pain. Sora would of course stop and care for her, but he couldn't stop the memories.
As they walked into the garden, Kairi once again stopped and held her head in pain, but it was to the point where she fell on to her knees and screamed in pain. Sora got on the ground hugged her for comfort. After a few minutes Kairi stopped and stayed in the embrace of Sora.
"What was that one about?" Sora asked.
"It showed the memory of me picking flowers when I was attacked by these creatures. They chased me all the way to the castle gates until Aqua and Mickey came to save me. It's also where I unknowingly obtained the keyblade," Kairi explained.
"I see," Sora said nodding.
"Sora one day, I want to have a family, like with a son or a daughter. Raise them to be like us," Kairi said unexpectedly.
Sora simply chuckled at the response.
"Funny you should say that, because I have been working on a surprise for you for a while when we were back home," he said.
Kairi looked at him wide eyed. "Really, what is it?" She asked.
Before Sora could continue, he quickly wiped around and fired a dark fire spell at a nearby roof creating an explosion and sending a certain ninja flying into the air. Yuffie landed on her front side next to where Sora and Kairi were.
Sora turned to Kairi, "I'll show you when we get home," he said. Kairi nodded before glaring at Yuffie.
Yuffie quickly got up and into a battle stance. "Sora please stop this. Your destroying everything,"
Sora laughed at the statement, "If I had a dollar for everytime I heard that be said to me,"
"What happened to the boy who fought for his friends and people, the boy who inspired hope to everyone who was near him, the boy I fell in love with," Yuffie said with tears in her eyes.
Kairi, hearing that last part, quickly got up, summoned her keyblade, and marched towards Yuffie with intent to tear her heart out and eat it. However, Sora stopped her by holding her back.
Sora turned towards Yuffie and walked up to her until they were face to face. Sora held Yuffie by the shoulders.
"I'm sorry Yuffie, but my heart will forever belong to Kairi, but there is another way you can be with me,"he said to her. Yuffie looked up at him with tear stricken eyes.
"W-what's that?" She asked.
"You become Kairi's personal guard, protect her with your life. I understand if you don't want to, but I'll be forced to fight you then and I really don't want to if that is how you feel about me," Sora proposed.
Yuffie thought about the decision given to her. Does she sacrifice her friends and town, just to be with Sora or does she forget about her feelings for Sora and fight him in order to protect Radiant Garden.
"Sora I will join you," She answered confidently.
"Are you sure? After this there will be no going back," Sora said, a little concerned.
"I'm positive. I'm tired of fighting the Heartless and I'm tired of always fighting, but if you want me to protect Kairi, I will do so with my life," She answered.
"Very well," Sora said before walking up to her while covering his hand in darkness.
"It will be over very quickly," Sora said before placing his hand on her chest where her heart is. Yuffie was then completely covered in darkness for a few minutes before it dissolved. Yuffie now had yellow eyes like Sora and Kairi, she was wearing her old outfit except now it had red accents on the edges, small pieces of armor covered her clothes and two long ends of a dark scarf hung from her neck. Her shuriken now had multiple spikes on it and she now carried two of them.
"Are you okay, Yuffie?" Sora asked.
"Yes, your majesty. I'm fine and I feel so powerful then I was before," Yuffie said while looking at her new form.
"Then use that power to protect your queen at all costs, Yuffie, Knight of Darkness," Sora ordered.
Yuffie walked over to Kairi and bowed down to her, "My Queen, I shall protect you with my life. No harm will come to you," Yuffie declared.
"Thank you Yuffie. I know you will not fail," Kairi said. She held her hand out to Yuffie, who took it while getting up from the ground.
"YUFFIE?!" A scream broke the moment the three of them had.
Aerith, Terra, carrying Ventus, and Xion were running towards the garden. Aerith's face was a mixture of confusion, sadness, and despair.
"Sora, what did you do to Yuffie?" Aerith asked, angered.
"She has accepted the darkness and has become Kairi's personal protector," Sora said.
"Is that true, Yuffie?" Aerith asked again.
"Yes, Aerith, I want to be with Sora and this is the best place to be without being in the way of my King and Queen's relationship," Yuffie answered.
While that was going on, Sora was looking at Terra, Xion and Ventus. He definitely recognized Terra and Ventus when he was a kid. However, while wondering who Xion was, multiple memories of Roxas and Xion appeared in his head.
Sora drew his keyblade and pointed it at the three Keybladers.
"I knew I recognized you three from somewhere, oh and Terra, thank you for bringing Ventus to me. Now I can finally get rid of him once and for all," Sora said in a dark tone.
Terra placed Ventus on the ground before summoning his Keyblade and pointing it at Sora.
"I don't know if I can talk you out of this Sora, but if you so much as hurt Ventus, I swear you will regret it," He said threateningly.
"Ha ha ha you sure about that," Sora said in a joking manner.
Terra quickly dashed towards Sora for a quick blitz, but Sora intercepted the attack before it could even strike, knocking Terra off guard. Sora knocked Terra into the air with an upward swing, before jumping up and striking him multiple times before knocking him back to the ground with a downward strike.
Terra tried to get back up, but found that to be very difficult.
"Pathetic, it seems being in that armor of yours for so long has made you weak," Sora said before being forced to block a multitude of attacks from Xion, who was dual wielding Oathkeeper and Oblivion. The two eventually ended up in a blade lock.
"Ah, it seems you have acquired Roxas's Keyblades after his death," Sora said.
"What did you do to him Sora?" Xion asked angrily
"I destroyed him, he tried to stop me from inside my heart, so I had to get rid of him," he said without any regret.
"What?!" Xion said surprised. Sora used this opportunity to head butt her, sending her reeling back, before delivering a heavy strike to her chest, which sent her flying to where Terra, Ventus, and Aerith were.
"I'm not impressed, by the last of the heroes that are left," Sora said. He then raised his hand into the air and shot a beam of darkness into the air, creating a dark vortex in the air and covering the sky with dark clouds. The wind started to quickly pick up and lighting started raining from the clouds.
The castle then finally collapsed in a cloud of dust after being rammed and destroyed by the GroundShakers.
"LEONN!" Aerith screamed towards the fallen castle. She then felt something hard hit the back of her head, then everything went black.
"Aerith!" Terra and Xion yelled. A corridor of darkness opened behind Sora, Kairi, and Yuffie. Kairi and Yuffie walked in, but Sora, who was carrying Aerith, looked towards the last of the heroes.
"See ya around you two," Sora said before walking in. The corridor then closed.
The vortex started sucking everything into itself, along with the trio. All of them flew into the vortex and disappeared along with Radiant Garden.
(In the Realm of Darkness)
Terra's eyes opened up before he suddenly rose up from the ground. He looked around and saw that Xion and Ventus were next to him and Xion was completely asleep. He then saw the area he was in. Darkness was everywhere, multiple pieces of worlds were scattered around certain areas and there was not a trace of light anywhere.
"We're in the Realm of Darkness" Terra said.
And I'm going to stop it here, because I've been writing all day. Anyway, hope you guys enjoy this chapter and stay tuned for the next Chapter where Terra and Xion travel through the Realm of Darkness. Until see ya guys next time. Peace.