Terra and Aqua walked through the castle hand in hand together, looking for any sight of Xemnas or any Organization member for that matter. Out of all the keyblade bearers, besides Riku, Kairi and Sora's will (which they haven't heard from), Aqua and Terra believed that they had traveled the farthest up the castle.
After walking for several more moments, the two found themselves on a large balcony on one of the smaller towers of the castle. Aqua only gripped onto Terra's hand tighter as they walked closer to the railing of the balcony, which was so thin they figured it would shatter if they leaned on it too hard.
As the two inched closer and closer to the railing to look over the edge, they heard the noise of the door that lead onto the balcony open behind them. The two quickly summoned their keyblades upon hearing the noise, and turned around to see the man they have been searching for all this time locking the door with his own keyblade. "So forgive me if I am wrong…" Xemnas turned his keyblade to put up the invisible force field around the door. "But word around the castle is you want to have a word with me."
Terra growled before saying, "I wouldn't say we want a word, I would say we just want this to end, Xemnas."
"So you think you are going to get rid of part of the problem by ending me, is that it?" Xemnas walked closer to them but did not look like he was about to attack.
"It would be a good place to start," Aqua answered for Terra this time.
"How naïve are you?" Xemnas spat, "You really think it will be over if you defeat us? This is only a small piece of a large puzzle that none of you keybladers seem to understand."
Curious, Aqua lowered her keyblade and asked, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, Xehanort might be evil, but he is not even close to evil compared to others out there," he started. "There are hundreds, thousands in fact, some who are so powerful they are god level, not just Chaos, that use darkness for evil. So there is no point of fighting us since if you do succeed in stopping us, there will just be more waiting to strike; it will never stop."
Terra lowered his keyblade as well. "You're right; there will always be someone who threatens the worlds. But until those other people actually threaten them, we are not going to try and stop them; we are just going to stop you."
Xemnas did not respond at first and only looked at them. Then, after several more short moments, he brought his hand out and summoned his keyblade, going into his battle stance as soon as he was ready. (L'Oscurita dell'Ignoto – Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance) "Very well then, let me introduce you to your end!" Were his only words as he charged at them.
To respond to Xemnas coming right at them, Terra and Aqua both brought their keyblades out to block the former leader of Organization XIII. However, right when Xemnas was close to meeting their keyblades with one another, Terra pushed Aqua out of the way, making Xemnas's keyblade collide with his and keeping Aqua out of harm's way. Terra and Xemnas looked right at each other, Terra knowing that if Xemnas had eyes he would be staring right into his soul, as the two tried to push each other's keyblades down on one another. After a short period of time, Xemnas proved he had the upper hand and knocked Terra's keyblade out of his hand, and once the blade was gone, the lingering will hit Terra right in the chest, sending him flying backwards.
As Terra flew across the balcony (thankfully landing safely) Aqua came up from behind Xemnas and hit the will right in the back with her keyblade. However, much to Aqua's surprise, Xemnas barely even flinched at the contact, and only quickly turned around and brought his hand out, sending a storm of white and black thorns right at her. Thankfully, Aqua managed to jump out of the way of the prickly attack but Xemnas was right on her tail and teleported towards her using what appeared to be a huge ball of darkness. When he made it to her, Xemnas began to float around Aqua in a circle, leaving behind several dozen red arrows that surrounded her like a pack of wolves surrounding their prey. When the arrows began to come towards her, Aqua brought her keyblade up to try and preform a reflect attack, but she did it slightly to late, making some of the arrows reflect off the shield, while some few came and hit her.
Once he saw the arrows successfully hit Aqua, Xemnas prepared his keyblade to go in and attack her with melee attacks, but stopped when he felt something make contact with his back. Before he could react though, Xemnas was the victim of a combo attack performed by Terra, who was not very happy with what Xemnas was doing to his girlfriend right now. Right when Terra was about to top the combo off with a blast of light, Xemnas teleported away in the ball of darkness again, teleported farther away from the two so he could catch a breather. Terra was not finished with the lingering will though and quickly went to charge at the will, but right when he was about to hit him, Xemnas brought up a guard attack that sent Terra flying backwards, landing back towards Aqua.
"Cursed fool!" Xemnas yelled as he once again teleported, this time towards the two keyblade bearers. As soon as he made it to the two keybladers, who were more than prepared to hit him with their keyblades, the lingering will teleported again, this time right behind the two. Unfortunately, they both noticed this too late and Xemnas quickly jumped into the air and hit Aqua in her back and slashing Terra by his ankles. As Aqua went flying forwards from Xemnas's attack, Terra fell to the ground hard, landing on the ground face first as he gripped onto his keyblade tighter. When Terra began to roll on the ground so he could look up at him, he was not surprised when he saw Xemnas's lingering will towering over him, pointing his keyblade right at him. Terra only growled at this, but was not about to give up and quickly brought his keyblade forward to stop Xemnas's attack. Even though he was on the ground and weak, Terra somehow managed to make Xemnas lose his grip on his keyblade, leaving the will weaponless so Terra could quickly shoot up and get yet another combo on Xemnas.
When Terra had finished the combo, he managed to send Xemnas flying back, finally leaving the will in a weak state. He only grinned at this as he ran towards Xemnas, prepared to finish the will off once and for all, but right when he was about to attack him, something unexpected happened. Xemnas brought both his hands forwards, which were glowing a dangerous blue, and made Terra freeze in his tracks. At this moment, Terra felt a sharp pain in his chest, right where his heart would be, which was so painful he couldn't even let out a scream. "Can you spare a heart?" Was Xemnas's question, and at that moment Aqua, who had just recovered from the distance, knew what Xemnas was doing.
Reacting quickly, Aqua shot up, running towards Xemnas with her keyblade raised. When she made it about half way towards the two however, Xemnas made a copy of himself that put a reflect shield out to try and stop her, but Aqua was not about to let that happen. Bringing her keyblade up, she shot a powerful light attack that was so strong it when through the guard and hit the copy dead on, making it disappear instantly. Aqua then ran as fast as her legs could carry her and finally made it to Xemnas, instantly jumping in between the two. Aqua then brought her hand forward and grabbed onto Xemnas's, freeing Terra from Xemnas's spell. Aqua was about to try and attack Xemnas, but instead decided to go and make sure Terra was alright, jumping down and making sure her boyfriend was alright. However, when both of them where finally standing together Xemnas hit the two with his keyblade in one blow, hitting them so hard they both flew off the balcony and began to fall into the dark abyss below them.
Before they could fall into the dark abyss, Aqua grabbed a hold of Terra's hand and held it firmly as she stabbed her keyblade into the side of the tower, stopping them from falling. Aqua didn't know how she managed to grip onto the keyblade and hold Terra at the same time, but she only knew she had to keep it up if they wanted to live. "Aqua!" Terra called out her name, the sound echoing in her ears.
"Just hold on!" She grunting as she tried to strengthen her grip on the keyblade and Terra's hand.
Before either of them could say anything else, the sound of wind being pushed entered their ears. When they looked up, they saw Xemnas, flying on his keyblade rider above them, his old ethereal blades in his hands to replace his keyblade. The will only laughed as he pointed the blades at the two, who both looked up at him terrified. "Together even in death, how romantic!" He yelled sarcastically.
"Aqua, throw me towards him!" Terra yelled, loud enough for Aqua to hear him, but not loud enough for Xemnas to hear him over the loud blows of the wind.
"What? No, I won't put you in danger like that!" She yelled back.
"Just do it!" He yelled back. At this point, Aqua looked back up at Xemnas, who was just about to bring his blades down on the two, and finally agreed. The blue haired keyblade wielder then swung back as fast as she could and, once she was swinging high enough, threw Terra at Xemnas. The will only gasped as he saw Terra fly towards him, the keyblade master summoning his keyblade as he made it to Xemnas. This is when Terra got a midair combo attack on the lingering will, topping the attack off with a blast of light so strong that Xemnas's will exploded into the several pieces of armor that only fell into the dark abyss below. (End L'Oscurita dell'Ignoto)
Once the will was finally gone, Terra began to fall as well, and was about to summon his keyblade to save himself, but instead, another keyblade rider came out of nowhere and the rider caught him. Terra only looked to Aqua as she gripped onto him firmly as she flew them both up to safety on the balcony.
When they were both standing on the balcony safe, Aqua looked to Terra and slapped his shoulders, which made the young man let out a yelp of pain. "Are you seriously trying to give me a heart attack?!" She scolded him, "You cannot keep doing stuff like this to me!"
"We didn't have a choice, if you didn't throw me Xemnas could have—"
"I don't care what Xemnas could and couldn't have done!" Aqua cut him off, "You could have died and that scared me!"
"Well I didn't die, did I? And can you please not cut me off—"
Aqua did cut Terra off again, but instead of speaking, she pulled him into a kiss, silencing him immediately. However, Aqua quickly pushed him away again, confusing him for a second as she wiped her lips. "Sorry, shouldn't get a head of myself," she said.
"What do you mean?" Terra asked.
"I mean I will kiss you when this whole battle is over, when I know you will be safe," she replied.
Terra shrugged his shoulders. "Far enough," Was his reply.
Before either one of the could speak again, the two heard a familiar voice behind them. "Hey guys!" It said and, upon hearing this voice, the two keyblade bearers turned around only to see Ventus, Lea, Roxas, Namine and Xion running towards them. Once they made it to the two, Ventus continued asking, "Did you take Xemnas down?"
"Yeah, he's gone," Terra replied, looking to Aqua for support as she nodded.
"Good, that's five down," Xion said, "That only leaves Ansem, Vanitas, Riku's Replica and Xehanort."
"If that's the case then we should get to the top as soon as we can," Aqua spoke up, "Riku, Kairi and Sora are probably ahead of us and we can't let them fight alone."
"Well then let's get up there now!" Namine announced, with everyone showing their agreement by nodding. However, right before they were about to head out the door, dozens of heartless spawned before them, forcing them all to summon their weapons. When they turned around, they saw even more heartless behind them, ready to attack at any costs.
With the keybladers back to back, Lea expressed his anger saying, "Damn Xehanort! Give us a break will yah?"
"No, that's exactly it," Roxas said, "He's not giving us a break so we can't go to help the others!"
"He's splitting us up so he'll have a better chance of winning," Ventus added.
"We don't have a choice but to fight, there is no way we are going to be able to escape these things," Terra spoke.
"Well we can't just let them face those four alone! We might have defeated five of them but those four are going to stop at nothing to destroy them!" Aqua exclaimed.
Lea looked around at the heartless quickly before turning his head to look at Xion. "You said you could travel the fastest in your suit, right?" He asked her.
"Yeah, but it'll be hard to get away from all these heartless, let along find out where the other three are!" She yelled back.
"Xion please, you have to try, it might be the other's only chance!" Roxas replied to her. Xion was silent for a few moments before finally speaking up saying,
"Fine, but you guys better cover me while I get out of here!"
And with those words, the heartless attacked, leaving the heroes to protect Xion while she tried to get out of there to help the others.
So yeah, sorry about not updating in awhile. Not only did I have writers block this time, but I have to read this stupid book for summer homework and have been reading that to try and finish it -_-
AND I HAVE BEEN RAGING BECAUSE FRIGGIN JEFF DAVIS RUINED MY JEREK! WHY DID MISS BLAKE HAVE TO BE THE ONE KILLING PEOPLE HUM? DEREK WAS FINALLY HAPPY FOR ONCE!
That and Tom Hiddleston confirmed himself that Loki is not going to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron... sniff... I was at least hoping for a cameo! :(
... Sorry, Teen Wolf and Loki are slowly ruining my life...
So now that this chapter is out of the way, we are kind of in the home stretch for this story. What I mean by that is I know exactly what is going to happen, which translates to there should be no more long update gaps unless, for some reason, I get busy randomly or something. I doubt that is ganna happen though since I have finished several upcoming chapters and have several at least halfway finished!
So I may update again tonight since I have half of the next chapter done, but I am not making any promises! That and I need to make a short update chapter on another story of mine... So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!
