CURSE YOU FLU . *shakes fist at nothing* Once again I apologize to everyone. I was really hoping to post this chapter much much earlier then now, but a sudden recurrence of the flu I've had made it impossibly for me to work on the edits for the chapter. Also I'm sorry for the short chapter here, as this is the final part to the previous chapter to which I made separate. To truly make it up to everyone, I will be working harder now, even though I still feel a little poorly, to finish the next chapter and post it in the next few days. Anyway, thank you so much for continuing to read my story, and I hope you'll enjoy it a lot more as we get deeper into the plot ^-^
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Chapter Four - Strong Ties
Still panicking as he tried to locate any of the three wielder, the figure smiled as he sensed the growing power coming from behind him.
Quickly turning to face the three sources, his eyes seemed to show confusion, as suddenly instead of three, there was only one.
While confused for a few seconds, the towering man's eyes widened in fear, his metal covered arm instantly raising in front of himself as the two black and white blades clashed with him.
Both Oathkeeper and the mighty Oblivion keyblade continued to release pressure after pressure of invisible force onto the man, his arm just about keeping the two living weapons from slicing him as he gritted his teeth more in frustration.
Finally swinging his arm in return, the blades backed off, disappearing into the cloud of sand that soon was blown away, revealing the floating figure before the dark towering man.
The black and white clothes of Sora, seemed to glow on and off, while the wielder smiled with his arms hanging loosely away from him. The two powerful black and white Keyblades, continued to float behind him, their stance almost giving the man an angelic form to those who see him.
With a single sweep of his hand, Sora smiled as his two Keyblades immediately came to life once again. Both weapons flew from behind his back, striking the figure's arm over and over again, forcing him further away even while trying his best to counter the attacks.
"We're going to beat you here. And that's final!"
Sora said to the man, his voice sounding as if both his friends were speaking through him at once, his smile spreading across his face almost to confirm it. Soon gliding towards the man, Sora called his two blades back and latched onto them both within his hands. The now empowered wielder twirled the weapons in front of him, before swinging and unleashing the first of his hidden arts.
The faint glow on their tips were merely the calm before the barrage of fireballs fired out from the Keyblades, soon exploding in a fiery hailstorm all around the man. His nimbly dodging was just enough to save the dark man from catching on fire, before he swung his metal arm releasing a sickle of darkness the sliced right through the sand and towards Sora in his new form.
Easily jumping over the attack and gliding through the air, Sora swung his blades, causing a sudden eruption of ice to coat a large portion of the beach in an instant. The large jagged spires of ice erupted from the coated sand, making their way towards the dark demon as he leapt and dodged the attacks as best he could.
The giant man even swung his metal covered arm, shattering some of the ice which tried to hit him, though most of his time was used in swiftly dodging.
Finally, the ice soon began to melt around the beach, though nothing had truly stopped for the course of the battle. Soon facing the figure with the same deadly speed to which he had shown to them, Sora began his final assault on the dark man.
His impressive display with the Keyblades actually succeeded in landing some slashes onto the figure, while he continued to push the dark man more and more back. Landing a returning strike of his own from time to time, the figure seemed to roar in anger with every attack, while Sora easily blocked and danced around the attacks thrown at him.
Leaping into the air again, in order to dodge another sickle of darkness, the keyblade master glided around the area while explosions from more of the sickles the figure launched erupted along the keybearers flight path. As Sora continued to glide through the air, his two Keyblades twirled behind his back just as a loud booming sound of thunder was heard.
Unlike the last couple of rumbles from the large storm, this boom sounded much more louder and altogether different to the rest. The first brief flash of light, was enough for the figure to instantly be forced on the retreat of his attacks. Every new place he took, once jumping backwards, was soon but a scorch mark from the precise deadly bolt of thunder that Sora had called.
Soon a wide barrage of the powerful thunder strikes reigned around the tall man, while he tried his best to dodge the remainder of the lightning strikes.
Diving straight down from the air, Sora smiled as his Keyblades rested behind him during his glide, slicing through the very air as he sped up to reach his target before he could notice anything.
With a final spin, Sora spun completely around in the air, his arms lining up the two powerful Keyblades as they moved in one fluent motion. The blur of black and white, radiated outwards as they moved in perfect sync, appearing quite beautiful in motion. The attack came to its ultimate conclusion, as both blades struck the man directly in the chest, the powerful attack sending him flying backwards and landing with a loud thud in the sand.
"We did it! We really did it!"
Kairi's voice shouted in relief and excitement, as inside Sora's mind she must have been jumping, while Riku as always, would have been standing in mature silence though just as happy for the defeat of the figure.
Releasing a held in sign, Sora lowered his body back onto the sand, as he watched the figure's entire form slowly fade away into darkness, his body soon disappearing for good leaving only the transformed Sora with the sound of the waves crashing together on the shore.
Suddenly grabbing a hold of his Keyblades once again, Sora's eyes glanced from dark pool to dark pool, as many yellow eyes soon began to appear, all staring at the one who defeated the figure.
"These will be a cinch after beating that guy, take them out Sora!"
Riku's clear precise voice cut through Sora's mind, causing the young man to nod as he spun his Keyblades around and brought his eyes to the closest dark pool before him.
Smiling as it felt so long since he had used such a form, Sora was completely taken off guard by the sharp piercing pain that had stabbed right through his clothes and into his chest.
Looking down at the source of the pain, the extremely long black blade ran from the middle of his chest and all the way down into the depths of the pure dark pool in front of him.
Beginning to rise from the darkness, the bright yellow eyes of the emerging dark man stared back into Sora's wide large eyes.
"What a meaningless effort!" the man said with a grin, his once metal covered hand now having returned to normal, as he seemed to hold so effortlessly the large sword that was as tall as himself.
Having no choice but to drop his two Keyblades, watching as they faded in a flash of darkness and light, Sora could do nothing but stay suspended in the air.
The blade piercing his body, was causing so much pain that it was impossible to do anything in response, leaving the Keyblader exactly where the figure wanted.
"No more stalking, I want my prey!" the man said to Sora, his hand swinging his blade and launching Sora off it and hurtling into the air.
However, unlike the previous times, Sora's body didn't feel the soft crunch of sand, but the rough feeling of one of the palm trees hard trunks. The sudden crushing feeling of the tree slamming into Sora's back, along with the large stab within his chest, was more then enough for the explosion of light that erupted from the Keyblader.
Laying on the hard ground close to the miniature waterfall, the tired forms of Sora, Riku and Kairi all groaned in pain laying beside their weapons. The damage dealt to Sora in his Final form having all but disappeared, but left behind the pain inflicted to them all.
Amazingly, able to grip the handle of his keyblade through the searing pain, both Riku and Sora began to pull themselves onto their feet. The sudden paralyzing feeling that froze their bodies in movement, soon appeared to be the cause of the figure yet again, his bright yellow eyes staring at the two warriors while Kairi continued to lay on the ground within immense pain.
Raising his arm once within distance, the figure glared down towards each one of the wielders, before releasing a disgusted tsk as he swung his impossibly long black sword.
The sound of metal clashing was once again heard, though no movement was made from any of the three friends.
Before them all, a tall cloaked figure stood wielding what appeared to be an exceptionally long metal boomerang. The middle part of it had something that resembled the barrel of some sort of gun, while a faint ghost like glow ran along the blade edge of the weapon.
"No more!" the figure shouted from the darkness of his hood, while the dark man with the extremely long blade only pushed more against him, forcing the new figure to swing his large weapon in response.
"I said no more!" The new figure roared, his swing actually pushing the silver haired man away, while his yellow eyes seemed to flicker for a moment at the realization on who the cloaked figure was.
"N-No, no, no, no, no, not going back, not going back." the man started to repeat over and over again, his arms raising to his head and causing his sword to drop and fade away while he clutched his head in fear.
Lowering his boomerang, the cloaked figure began to slowly moved towards the man, his arm resting behind his back as a green mist of energy circled his opened hand.
"Its ok, you don't have to be afraid. Just take my hand, and you can have a nice long sleep." the figure tried to reassure the man, his steps gently pressing into the sands, while the silver haired man suddenly seemed to recompose himself. His yellow eyes blazing into life again as he glared daggers straight at the figure, while darkness erupted in violent waves from his arms.
Immediately stepping back, the cloaked figure raised his weapon to guard himself while backing towards Sora and his friends. All around the silver haired man, more and more pools of darkness began to form, the dozens of yellow eyes rising from the shadows as the creatures clawed themselves out from the depths. Suddenly reacting to the growing waves of heartless, the figure caused his large boomerang to disappear before dropping to his knees and placing his glowing hand onto Sora's shoulder.
"We simply don't have time for a Q and A right now. I need to get you all out of here." the figure said as the green glow from his hand spread first to Sora, and then to Kairi and Riku, just as the huge gathering of Shadows rushed towards the four.
With a single explosion of energy, the heartless backed away and began to scurry around where all four had previously just been. Their little eyes staring up to the towering figure, who's face was clearly that of rage with the disappearance of his prey. Lowering his hand on the head of a Neo Shadow that stumbled beside him, the man glared back towards the ocean as he seemed to speak to himself.
"We'll see them again soon enough. We must find the others above all else." the man spoke to his heartless, his hands stroking their sleek heads as he walked with them towards the mini pool of darkness that threatened to swallow the entire beach.
Once within the middle of this all consuming darkness, the man shook his head as he stroked the long antennae of the human sized heartless around him.
"No...this world will fall just like the rest, once we've found the others. There's no rush." the man added, just as the darkness curled and wrapped around them all, consuming them in its shadows and removing all traces of their arrival from the shores of Destiny Islands.
Well finally ^_^ That's it for the first world in the story lol ^^ From here on in, I hope to keep the worlds coming over a steady number of chapters. I really let Destiny Islands go pretty long, but I'm happy with the way these chapters have turned out. I promise to have the next proper chapter finished and ready in a few days as a thank you to everyone taking the time to read and also to those who have reviewed. Thank you all so much ^_^ Until next time.