Riku was standing alone in the barren land, his keyblade armor on with his keyblade, Way to Dawn, resting on his shoulder. He had been here for hours at least, waiting for Sora's lingering will, but he hated every minute of it. He told himself he would never come back to this land after the battle of all worlds he had here not too long ago, but he did not have a choice but to come back. As he stood there, all he could think about were those events, since they would not leave his mind.
As Riku thought about the events that have happened here, he looked down at the dusty ground, not being able to look up and see the ruins in front of him. But shortly after he looked down, he heard something out in front of him. He looked up to see another man in armor, standing out a few yards in front of him kneeling down and resting his hands on his keyblade, kingdom key, which was in the ground. The sight of the armor made the silver haired man eyes widen, seeing that the armor was just like his old friend's armor.
"Sora…?" Riku asked, not sure if it was really his friend since he appeared so different. Just then the man that was believed to be Sora placed his hands on the handle of the keyblade and began to rise, using the keyblade to lift himself up. He then looked out at the silver haired man and held his keyblade out by his side, staring at the man across the area. Riku only looked at his old friend in horror as he felt the darkness rise around the area and his friend. (The Eye of Darkness – Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance)
Riku couldn't believe it, he actually found Sora's lingering will.
"Riku, my old friend, this is your end..." Sora said as he then ran at Riku, with his keyblade raised. Riku just barely dodged the attack, not wanting to hurt Sora, but he had no choice but to when Sora came back around, trying to swing at him head on. The armor quickly recovered though, and tried to hit Riku once again, this time Riku blocked the powerful blow, barely being able to do so since Sora was so strong. As soon as Riku realized he could not counter his old friend, he jumped back; making the Sora's keyblade hit the ground that caused a shock wave.
"Sora! Please don't do this! What about me, what about Kai—" Riku was cut off since Sora then threw himself at Riku once again, this time hitting the young man and causing him to fly backwards. The attack caused Riku to fly into a plateau, hit the ground landing on his back and making his helmet fly off his head and leaving a crack on armor on his back. Sora then began to walk up to Riku, who was struggling to stand.
"You don't concern me anymore; you are not my friend..." Sora stated. He then slowly made its way over to Riku, holding its keyblade firmly. As soon as it made it over to Riku, he pushed Riku back down on his back and then took his keyblade and pointed it straight at Riku's chest, and was about to bring it down on him. "You are my enemy..."
Just as Sora was about to bring it's keyblade down on his chest, Riku used his own keyblade to block it, and then fired a blast of light at him. The blast made Sora fly backwards, giving him time to stand and get ready for Sora to come back at him. Just as he predicted, Sora came back at Riku fast, trying to hit him with his keyblade once more. Riku successfully blocked all of the attacks Sora tried to hit him with but was unprepared for what he did next; it fired a huge blast of purple and black darkness at him, making him fly back. Riku landed right on his back and had the wind knocked out of him for a few moments, not being able to breath or move. It was clear Riku was no match for his old friend.
"Sora... What has the darkness done to you? Please remember!" Riku exclaimed, but Sora wasn't listening. Sora then once again walked up to Riku, placing his foot on his chest, to make sure he could not get up or use his keyblade again, with his keyblade ready to impale it. Sora looked down at Riku, snickering evilly under his breath.
"It was clear you were no match for me, and now it is time for you to die..." Sora spoke as Riku looked at his helmet, trying to find those blue eyes that where hiding under it, but were nowhere to be found. Riku knew then at that moment that the darkness had taken his friend. Sora was about to bring his keyblade down on Riku's chest, but out of nowhere…
"STOP!" A voice said that was all too familiar to the both of them. The two then looked over, seeing the familiar red head standing there, holding her hand over her heart as she looked at the two men that she loved. (End Eye of the Darkness)
As soon as Sora spotted Kairi, he only brought his keyblade closer to Riku's chest. "Kairi, get out of here! Yen Sid is right; he's not safe!" Riku exclaimed.
"Sora…" Kairi trailed off as a tear fell from her eye, staring at her boyfriend's lingering will.
When she spoke his name, Sora stopped towering above Riku, who was too weak to move at the moment and began to walk towards Kairi. He unsummoned his keyblade as he walked, but both Kairi and Riku noticed the darkness that was flowing around his hand.
"Sora, please, you don't need to do this! You aren't thinking clearly!" Kairi exclaimed at her boyfriend's will.
The will did not listen however and only walked closer to Kairi. "I know you are still in there Sora, we all do, the only person that doesn't see it is you!" Kairi continued, but it seemed like nothing was going to get her boyfriend to snap out of the phase he was in. "Sora, look at you, you nearly killed Riku and now you are coming over to try and kill me, I know the real Sora would never do something like that!"
The will was now inches away from Kairi, getting ready to raise his darkness filled hand to attack her. "I saw how know how you guys thought I was dead, you fought with Riku, you grieved, and then you broke down to the point when you let Xehanort remove your will from your body! You even let the darkness slowly take you over, bit by bit all because of me!" Kairi continued.
"Kairi…" Riku said, holding out his hand to her as he laid on the ground and only watched Sora's will get closer to her. Kairi was still injured, so if Sora hurt her, she would not make it.
"You promised me I would never have to see the darkness take over you, and I hate to say it but you are breaking your promise." Kairi then looked to see Sora's will rising his hand over Kairi, looking like he was ready to grab on to her neck ad slowly choke her to death. "But from what I remember, you never break a promise."
Sora was just about to bring his hand down on Kairi's neck, ready to choke her, but Kairi then quickly dug into her pocket as fast as she could, pulled out and object, and held it in front of her in the blink of an eye. This object made Sora's will pause, and it only stared at the object in disbelief.
It was Kairi's good luck charm.
The will completely froze when he saw the star shaped charm in her hand. It had to be a fake charm; he had the real one, didn't he? In an act of desperation, the will began to pat the place where his pockets used to be (Sora's will was only his armor taking its form) trying to feel for the charm. But when he didn't feel anything, Sora snapped into realization.
He let Xehanort's will take his will out of his body, he was the reason Riku was injured on the ground right now, but most importantly, he was about to kill his beloved.
Speaking of his beloved, what the hell happened to her? Why on earth was she wearing an Organization XIII coat? And her hair… it was not that short before. What on earth had Xehanort done to her?
Slow, Sora began to back away, ashamed that he nearly killed both of his friends. "Sora…" Kairi began to say, but Sora did not listen. Instead, the lingering will somehow managed to summon a corridor of darkness behind him, and ran through it without a word. Kairi was about to stop him, but the portal already closed before she could even try.
Taking in a breath, Kairi ran over to Riku, performing cure on him quickly before trying to help him stand. "Are you alright?" She asked.
Riku did not respond until he was standing. "I'm fine," he sighed, "We were so close to getting him, to bring his will back into his body, but we failed."
"There is still hope," she continued before she summoned her keyblade rider, "We know he has a will now, all we need to do is find it again."
Kairi then hopped on her rider, "Are you with me?"
Riku smiled at his friend, she still was mostly the same even after all she had gone through. "Of course, but you need to heal first."
"I'm fine, really, let's just go back—"
"Mayday, mayday, Kairi do you copy?!"
The sound of Tony's voice startled the two keybladers. Kairi then looked down at her communicator on her keyblade rider. "Tony? How did you hack into the keyblade rider communicator?"
"Kairi, I am a genius, billionaire, playboy—" Tony paused, "That's not the point! You two better get back to the tower ASAP!"
"What happened?" Riku was the one to ask this time.
"It's Xehanort! He brought his whole league of lackeys— woah, Hulk, don't smash—" There was a loud crash sound followed by a roar. "—never mind. They are after Sora's body and we do not have the upper advantage here!"
Riku face palmed. "Great, this is all my fault, if I didn't leave, we could have the upper advantage right now…"
"Riku, don't talk like that! We just need to get there quick!" Kairi exclaimed, "We are on our way!"
"Just hurry!"
And in a matter of seconds, the two keybladers were riding through the stars towards the Mysterious Tower, hoping they were not too late.
Cliffhangers, cliffhangers, how much I love to write you...
Riku is just screwing up everything isn't he? Don't worry, if you have a good memory and good at placing the pieces together, you might be able to find out if he gains redemption at all.
So I am thinking of changing my Pen Name to 'Our Heroes Fall' idk, what do you guys think? Idk, I just really don't like Twilight that much anymore so it doesn't really work...
OMG there are so many rumors about E3, kingdom hearts 3, and versus xiii lately! This is madness! It looks like we wont be finding anything out until tomorrow though...
So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!
