Kaze: This story is almost over. All of the final battles with Ansem are in this chapter, so it's really long.
Me: Can you at least untie me for the end?
Kaze: You never untied me...
"Behold the endless abyss!" Ansem says. "Within it lies the heart of all worlds:" I can see a door in the distance now. It is pristinely white and very large.
"Kingdom Hearts!" The word gives me a strange feeling. It's so familiar, but I've never heard it before.
"Look as hard as you are able. You will not find even the smallest glimmer of light. From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours."
Suddenly, a giant… thing appears in front of us! It resembles an enormous Flying Fortress. It is mostly red but has various blue areas. A series of organic looking vines cover an open dome with a heart-like object in the center. At the top are Ansem and his guardian. They are both much larger and the guardian looks terrifying. Ansem is no longer wearing a shirt and looks much more muscular. The entire thing looks like it's alive with a giant face at the front.
"Darkness conquers all worlds!" Ansem shouts. We suddenly fall with no ground beneath us. Matt, Goofy,, Donald and Yen each disappear into a portal. Sora and I fall straight down.
As I fall deeper into the abyss, I hear Riku's voice. "Giving up already? Come on! I thought you two were stronger than that!" No way I'll give up!
Sora seems to have heard Riku too. We fall further down, but with the determination to fight back.
I realize I'm no longer falling. A flurry of bright yellow sparkles float around me. Pixie dust! I can fly now!
Sora and I soar out of the fog and up to Ansem. He looks shocked to see us still here. We both summon our Keyblades, ready to fight. Ansem now holds a staff with a weapon that looks like Riku's sword on each end.
I fly toward him with Sora right behind me. Ansem starts to attack the moment I'm in range. He spins his staff quickly, blocking me from attacking. He stops soon, allowing us to get close.
Sora and I attack from both sides, slashing Ansem's now giant body with great fury. Before we can react, Ansem starts to attack. He goes in every direction, swinging his staff with great skill.
He manages to hit us frequently. There's nothing we can do to block it. I cast Curaga and continue fighting. Before we can get enough attacks in, he starts the same attack as last time. Luckily, we were able to get away this time.
"All shall be extinquished!" Ansem says. A bunch of light purple circles appear behind Ansem. A blue lazer fires from each of them. I fly through most lazers, but a few of them strike true.
The attack stops fairly quickly, but by the time I reach Ansem, he's already swinging his staff again. We can barely get close to him!
A black orb appears around Ansem. "Return to darkness!" He shouts. Three small, black creatures appear before him. Not wanting to see want they do, I destroy them quickly.
I fly back to Ansem where Sora has been continuing the fight. I can tell he's extremely wounded, so I cast Curaga on him.
We attack Ansem once more. He doesn't attack back, so I assume he's resting from that flurry of previous attacks. That doesn't last long, though. He once again starts spinning his staff around.
This time, I know how that combo works. I manage to block each strike from hitting Sora or me. Now that he's done it so many times, I can predict each strike. There's no way to stop the attack though. We need to slow him down.
For the first time, I notice the black ropes connecting Ansem to the oversized Guardian. Is the Guardian giving him extra speed and power? Maybe if I cut those strands…
I don't have time to try my plan though. Another round of lazers appear and blast me in the back. I cast Aeroaga to protect me as I go in to attack Ansem.
I fly around to his back and easily cut through each of the ropes. They disappear as soon as they're broken. When all of them are gone, Ansem slumps over, seemingly out of energy. That worked!
Sora and I rush in to attack. I am out of magic, so I can't use a special attack. Before long, more of the strands attach themselves to Ansem, reviving him. "You understand nothing!" Ansem roars.
Two sets of three lazers appear and start to blast us. I dodge until they disappear, but more take their place after a few seconds. Looks like we'll have to fight through them.
I attack Ansem once more, but the lazers prevent me from getting enough hit's in. Sora has the same problem. Not to mention he's also attacking us with his staff. We have to down many potions and cast multiple spells to stay alive.
After a few minutes of this, I can tell Ansem is getting weak. With all of our remaining magic, we join together for one attack. Sora and I attack with multiple beams of light aiming for Ansem's chest.
When they strike, Ansem freezes. Expecting another attack, Sora and I brace ourselves. The attack never comes, though.
Ansem dismisses his weapon and crosses his arms. He floats a few feet back into a hole in the Guardian. A heartless emblem appears over his body, shielding him from the world. He's probably regenerating health.
A portal appears near the fortess's center. I can tell we'll eventually find our friends if we go in there. Without a second thought, we fly in.
I find myself in total darkness. A neon blue heartless emblem is emblazoned on the floor. No one is in here but me, Sora, and a few dozen shadow heartless. We get ready to battle.
Each heartless is destroyed in one or two hits. It's strange how easy to defeat these heartless are compared to when they appeared on Destiny Islands.
When all of the heartless are gone, a strange, red orb appears a few feet above the ground. I can tell it's important to this fortress. Maybe if we destroy enough of these, Ansem will be vulnerable!
I jump into the air and attack the orb. In a few hits, it's destroyed. A burst of light erupts from it, then flame everywhere. The room starts to shake violently and a portal appears before us. We jump through, flying back outside.
Outside, we find Ansem has set up various defenses. Eight strange objects are lined up about halfway up the structure. Two are twice as large as the others. All of them are firing strange projectiles.
I dodge a few of them and head straight for one of the largest objects. Sora goes to the other. We destroy them fairly quickly, but the second we do, a burst of wind flings us back. Then, a couple lazers appear and shoot at us.
We fly back, this time, firing spells at the things. Before long, they're destroyed. At that point, a Portal of Darkness opens up above us and we fly through.
We find ourselves in an area exactly the same as the last one. With just as many heartless as well. Suddenly, Goofy's voice rings out. "Sora!" I hear Matt's voice too.
"Kaze!" I knew we'd find them! Together, we fight the heartless.
This time, the room is full of darkball heartless. They're really hard to fight in such a dark place. They blend into the darkness, only standing out against the heartless emblem on the floor.
Eventually, we manage to destroy them all. Like before, an orb appeared in the air. This time, Sora took care of it. It explodes in a bright fire, opening another portal. Before the room crumbles, we all fly outside.
Back outside, the giant head in the front of the fortress has come alive. We don't see a portal, so I guess defeating it should open another one.
With lightning flashing around us, we fly toward the monstrous head. I fly toward the left eye and slash downward. It coed out in pain and attempts to snap at me. Too bad it doesn't have a neck.
It closes its eyes for a moment and roars, creating a lightning storm around it. A bolt or two hits me, forcing me to fly back and heal myself. Fully healed, I fly back into battle.
The monster looks angry to see me again. Once again, it unleases a storm of lightning on us. Luckily, I manage to dodge all of the bolts.
Goofy wasnt so lucky. The force of the attack knocked him out. Sora pushes him out of harms way until he wakes up.
In a few minutes, Sora manages to land the final hit. Darkness begins to leak from the head as it begins to moan in pain. Finally, its jaw slacks and a portal appears in its mouth. That's just great.
I know we have to go through to find our friends, so without any complaint, we go through.
Inside are Donald and Yen, just as I thought. They're busy fighting a few Invisibles, the heartless with wicke swords. I can tell they've been having trouble, so we jump right in.
Each of us fight our own heartless since there are an equal number of heartless and friends. I fight sword to sword with one. For some reson, it only uses it's sword to attack and not its magic powers.
After a few minutes, the last Invisible is destroyed. Like before, an orb appears in the center. All of us capable of magic shoot a fireball at it and it is quickly destroyed. A portal appears and we all fly out before the room is destroyed.
We fly out of the mouth as it starts to leak more darkness. It starts to glow brightly as it bursts in a brilliant explosion. Nothing is left behind.
With the head destroyed, the shield around the center disappears. Now, the heart of the fortress is exposed. Destroying it should expose Ansem so we can finish this!
We fly up to the core. I thought it'd be easy to destroy, but it is protected by quite a few arrow shooting things. "Sora, you take care of the core!" I say. "We'll get rid of the lazers!" Sora nods and flies toward the core. The rest of us land and start attacking the lazer things.
I time my strikes to also block the lazer arrows. It doesn't take long for us to destroy them together anyway. Around the same time they're destroyed, Sora destroys the core.
It shakes violently, all the while releasing a bright light. Electricity starts to ark all around it right before it becomes engulfed in a white light. With one final explosion, the core is gone.
We float up to meet Ansem just as he emerges from the Guardian. He summons his staff, looking stronger than ever.
"All shall be extinguished!" He says. Two lazers appear in front of us, temporarily stopping our advance. I quickly fly under them, but another set appears in my path. It looks like they won't be stopping any time soon.
I fly through the lazers, but still heading for Ansem. As soon as I reach him, I swing down on his arm, causing him to flinch in pain. The others catch up and start attacking as well.
Suddenly, everything turns black. All I can see are Ansem and the Guardian. They both raise their arms in unison and an orb of darkness appears above Ansem's hands. It is launched behind us, quickly growing to large proportions.
"Witness, true power!" Ansem roars. All of a sudden, it becomes an immense black hole! It starts to pull us in immediately.
I try with all my might to fly away from it, but it's too strong. Just as I'm about to be pulled in, it disappears, much to my relief.
We start to attack Ansem again, before he can attack again. Strangely, he has not used his staff yet.
"Behold! Darkness!" Ansem shouts once more. The Guardian's mouth and arms are suddenly cloaked in darkness. It doesn't seem to be doing anything yet, so we keep attacking.
But then, I look at everyone. We're all cloaked in that same darkness! I can feel it sapping my magic. Before long, we won't be able to cast spells! It's a good thing we have ethers and potions.
Ansem starts to attack with his staff once more. Donald and Goofy are trapped in his attack! Luckily, it ends before they can be knocked out. At that same moment, the darkness around us dissipates.
"Welcome to Darkness!" Ansem says. More lazers appear again, stopping us from attacking him. I really hate those things.
We fight through them, dodging whenever we can. When the lazers are gone, he Ansem immediately starts his next attack. "Darkness!"
He create another black hole, but this time, I know what to expect. I fly behind Ansem's Guardian, getting as far away as I can. Sora and Yen follow my lead. "Weak hearted fools! Witness real power!"
We start to get sucked in, but since we're so far back, the black hole can't pull us in before dissipating. However, Goofy and Matt were pulled in and were knocked out. Donald cures them with a Curaga, but was hurt by the black hole exploding.
Sora and I continue the fight. I can tell Ansem is getting weak, but we're tired too. We can't keep up the fight much longer.
"Sora, are you ready to finish this?" I ask.
"You know it!" We slam our Keyblades together, turning them into one brilliant sword of light. With both of us holding onto it, we attack Ansem. We swing in every direction, faster than Ansem can keep up with. Finally, we pull back and stab him right in the chest.
Ansem screams in pain as lightning, fire, and light start to burst from his body. "Is this the end?" He cries. "It can't be!"
Explosions race across Ansem's creation. Ansem himself hangs limply as a bright light shines in his chest. At this point, he gets up and tries to resist, but the light envelops his fortress. We all fly away at top speed, not wanting to be caught in it.
In a giant ball of fire, Ansem's fortress explodes, leaving nothing behind. It's finally over…
Me: I'm free! *Runs off into the night*
Kairi: weirdo.
Kaze: O.O When did you get here?