Chapter 52: Passages in St DragonKnight
"Attention all Endless! Intruders have boarded inside the ship. Approach with caution." Link announced over the intercom as Riku and Max ran back into the hallway where they had first been seen by Link and Snake. The two had managed to get rid of their armour as they avoided the Order's Unbirths and Endless. Riku quickly looked behind them and saw that they had lost the guards for the time being. Riku huffed before looking at the layout of the ship again and then looked at the two pathways that each lead to one of the prisons.
"Which way, Riku?" Max asked quickly.
"I don't know. Either one could properly lead to a trap." Riku replied.
Riku suddenly felt the atmosphere change within the air. Riku summoned the Way to Dawn while Max followed his actions by summoning his bow. Portals started to surround the Wielder of Dawn and the Archer dog as a number of Blinks and Soul-mages appeared in front of them. Riku began to offend against the Blinks while Max quickly changed his bow into two swords. Riku started to take out the multiple forces of Unbirths, one by one.
A Soul-mage quickly cast a Fira spell towards Riku, which he didn't notice. Max quickly jumped behind Riku and intercepted the spell by spinning his two swords in a clockwise rotation, creating a burred shield. Max then quickly changed back into his bow and pulled three arrows out of his arrow holder. Max placed the clip on his arrows onto the bow, making sure that the odd coloured plastic balancer was facing upwards. Max then aimed and fired all three of his arrows into the Soul-mage and the two other Soul-mages behind that one.
Riku turned and smirked at Max's attack before jumping away from another portal. A huge Unbirth appeared in front of them. It had two red eyes and it was the size of a Large Body Heartless. The top halve of it was a baby blue colour , the middle of it was black with the Unbirth symbol in the middle of its stomach and the bottom part was dark blue which seemed to fade in with the light blue as they joined together. The Fat Unbirth approached and slammed down in front of Max and Riku, creating a huge wave attack. Max was hit by the attack while Riku managed to duck under the attack and dashed towards the Fat Unbirth. Riku tried to attack its front but his keyblade only seem to bounce of the Unbirth's gut. The Fat Unbirth seemed to chuckle at this and grabbed Riku in his boxing glove styled hand. Riku dropped his keyblade, which vanished and The Fat Unbirth squeezed the life out of Riku as he brought Riku to his face and huffed his soulless breath in his face.
Max grabbed another arrow and placed it on his bow. As he readied himself to fire, his arrow gain an power around it as it surrounded the arrow head. Max held his arrow in place as he waited for the right moment to fire as well as his arrow still charging. When the Fat Unbirth threw Riku against the wall; Max fired the arrow and watched it go in great speed and strength as it pierced through the Fat Unbirth's chest, making it fall to the ground and fade away while it's heart went to Kingdom Hearts. Max placed his bow on his back before running over to Riku. Riku started to breath fast as he held on to his chest tightly. Max started to search his pockets that could help Riku since he didn't know magic.
Max looked down at Riku again to see traces of purple liquid form from Riku's body. He must have got poisoned while the Unbirth was crushing him Max concluded. Max's face brightened as he found what he was looking for: an Antidote and an Elixir. Max kneeled down next to Riku and made him drink the antidote first. Even though Riku coughed at the unbearable taste of the antidote; the poisoned attacked faded away in Riku's immune system. Max held his hand out to help Riku up and then pulled him up.
Max was about to hand him the Elixir went more portals started to appear which revealed Endless soldiers. As soon as they had seen Riku and Max, they pulled out their blasters and started to fire. Riku summoned Way to Dawn again and Max changed his bow into swords again as the two began to reflect the laser blasts with their swords and reflected them back at the soldiers. This made the soldiers stunned, giving Max and Riku the chance to move in. Riku dashed in front of one of the soldiers and quickly slashed him to his doom while teleporting in front of another and casting dark aura right at the endless' chest. Max started to spin his two swords again and threw it like a flying saw. The weapon managed to hit a number of Endless soldiers, making them fade away, before the swords returned to Max's hands.
More and more soldiers were appearing while Riku and Max were getting worn out from the number of Endless that kept on coming. Max and Riku stood side by side with their weapons ready as the Endless surround them. "We need to find a way to take them all down at once." Max said.
"I have an idea," Riku said, "Wait for my signal." Max nodded and began to fight against the soldiers once again. "Max!" Riku called as he threw Way to Dawn in the air.
"I can show you!" Max ran up against the metal walls and jumped away to grab the Way to Dawn while in the air. Max placed the Way to Dawn in his bow and fired it in the middle of the group of the soldiers. As soon as the keyblade struck in the metal flooring, a dawn coloured blast exploded off the keyblade and blindly covered the soldiers. "Riku!" Max then threw his bow down to Riku as he began to land.
"Time's up." Riku said as he jumped up and grabbed Max's bow and then landed with two swords in his hand. Riku ran straight into the dawn shadowed cloud and started to slash multiple attacks before dashing out of the cloud with one of his arms in front of him while his other arm is behind him as he kneeled down. The cloud faded away and all of the Endless soldiers dropped to the floor and faded away.
"That was so cool." Max said as he ran towards Riku and helped him up. He dugged in his pockets again and pulled out an Elixir. Max quickly poured the Elixir over Riku, refreshing Riku's maga and energy.
"Attention all endless. I'm now your commanding officer as Major Snake has departed to African Depths. Also, find the intruders; Dead or Alive." Link announced once again over the intercom.
Riku huffed at the announcement, "Great, we're too late!" he said angrily.
"We need to do something before more Endless come." Max said to him as he checked the hallways for more enemies.
"I know. I know. We just need to-" Riku was suddenly cut off with a bark. Riku and Max looked at each other before slowly turned around to see a dark brown half German shepherd, half border collie with white nose, chest and paws sitting in one of the hallways happily. The dog continued to bark at the two before running down the hallway. "Let's go." Riku said.
"Wait! We're following the dog?" Max placed his bow on his back again.
"It's either that or running into a number of traps and Endless." Riku started to run down the hallway where the dog was. Max scratched the back of his head before running after Riku.
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The dog barked happily as it entered the room and ran to the back of the room as Riku and Max scrolled in. Riku and Max looked around the room to see that the half German shepherd, half border collie had lead them to one of the prisons. They saw three sphere cages that was being held between the floor and ceiling. As Max looked at the prisoners in the cages, Riku watched the dog jump up at the sphere shaped cage at the far end of the room. Riku walked over to the cage and saw that there was a woman inside.
She had layered black hair that reaches to the middle of her back with three caramel highlights on either side of her face that ran through her hair. Her eyes were a deep dark brown, a heart-shaped face and a small nose. She wore a long, sleeveless, blue-hued rib-knit duster sweater that has a pair of white wing designs on the back, matching rib-knit arm warmers, a black halter top, a denim button up skirt, a black ribbon on her left arm, and black bike shorts that have zippers going down the front with a pair of silver buckled black boots. She also had a necklace with a ring around it and looked to be about 25, the same age as Leon.
"Good job, Angelo." The woman said to her dog. "You found help." The woman then looked up at Riku, "You must be Riku."
"How do you know who I am?" Riku questioned, surprised that this stranger knows who he is.
"Squall mentioned you, Sora and Kairi in the letters. He says that Sora was looking for you and Kairi." She explained.
"Squall?" Riku looked down at Angelo and started to pet the dog as she couldn't reach her master.
"Right, he changed his name." The woman reminded herself before looking at Riku again. "I should introduce myself. I'm Rinoa Heartilly." Angelo barked happily again as she heard her master's voice.
"How did you get here?" Riku asked her.
"We were captured. That's how!" Riku turned around to look at the cage that Max was currently looking at.
He approached the cell to see a guy that he had seem in Twilight town. He wore a hat with the "Ore" kanji sign, a blue vest, with a cross-like design lined in white, a gray coat with an emblem resembling the symbol of the Cross of Saint James on the sleeves, as well as black gloves and boots. He had short blond hair, blue-green eyes, and a scar across his forehead and nose. "He don't need your help, not even from you, Goofy." He said to Max.
"We have to trust them, Seifer." Rinoa said to him.
"MY NAME IS MAX!!!" Max shouted at him.
Riku looked in the other cage to see a small creature that looked similar to a heartless but had a huge yellow hat, a baggy blue top, baggy green trousers and he didn't have a heartless symbol on him. Riku remembered that he was from Twilight Town and his name was Vivi. "Seifer, what're we going to do. They already took Rai and Fuu." He said in his high pitched voice.
"We'll just have to work on a way to get out of here." Seifer replied.
"Wait, isn't Squall Leon?" Max asked, remembering one of his dad's stories.
Rinoa nodded, "Before Radiant Garden was taken, me and Squall used to be the best of friends. While he arrived in Transverse Town, I arrived in Twilight Town and we had started to write letters to each other after Radiant Garden was reclaimed. Before I had to return to Radiant Garden, the Order appeared in Twilight Town with their army of Endless took us prisoner. We've been here ever since, taking us away one by one."
"We need to free them." Max said to Riku.
"Way ahead of you." Riku summoned the Way of Dawn and pointed it at Rinoa's cell. A dawn coloured beam appeared from Riku's keyblade and unlocked Rinoa from her prison. As Rinoa deal with Angelo jumping over her, Riku repeated the process with Seifer and Vivi's prison.
"We have to shut this ship down." Rinoa said as she stood from Angelo.
"We can do it with Seifer on our side." Vivi cheered.
"That's right." Seifer said as he walked past Riku, Max, Rinoa and Angelo as Vivi followed. "I would lead us to victory." Seifer then grabbed a metal pole from the side and was ready to leave the room.
"You have no idea what you're up against." Max warned him.
"Besides, I'm the leader of the group so you'll follow me." Riku said as he and Max walked passed Seifer and out of the room. Vivi seemed to like Riku's bravery and followed him as well. Seifer growled at Riku taking command but was soon overcome by respect. He watched Angelo bark pass him and follow Riku and the others. Seifer then sighed and looked at Rinoa before both of them followed the group.
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Angelo was in front of the group, sniffing out for a trail that could lead to the engine room as well as sniffing for any Endless or Unbirths. Max and Riku had their weapons ready as they had to protect the group now, even though Seifer claims that he can protect himself. The group had already ran into a couple of Endless guards but managed to stealthily kill them without rising any suspicious. Vivi had be handle to the team as well as he knew his fair of magic so he was able to shut off any self activating lasers without using an I.D card but he couldn't do any more magic without his wand.
Rinoa mentioned that they all had weapons when the Endless attacked Twilight Town and knew which room they were being held and it wasn't that far away from the engine room. As they reached the doorway which lead to their weapons, the group looked down at Angelo who was growling at the door. "Angelo, what's wrong?" Rinoa tried to calm her dog down.
"There must be Endless on the other side." Max concluded.
"As leader of this group, I will get our weapons back." Seifer placed his pole behind his back and went to open the door.
"Wait." Riku pulled Seifer back.
"Get your hands off me." Seifer pushed Riku away from him.
"You don't know what's in there." Riku pointed towards the door, "What if it's one of the Order members."
"He's right, Seifer." Rinoa looked up at the two, "Let them take the lead." Seifer huffed with annoyance and stepped aside to let Riku and Max pass. Riku and Max nodded to each other, noting to each other what to do, before kicking down the door. Riku and Max was about to attack the figures in the room when Vivi ran in front of them. Riku and Max was confused by his actions and looked up when Vivi pointed at the figures.
They saw that the figures were a boy and a girl and they were both facing the room, guarding the weapons. The guy had tan skin and short black hair with sideburns and seemed to be as tall as Riku and as muscular. He wore an orange tank top and baggy dark sweatpants over wide shoes, giving him the look of a basketball player. His orange tank top also sports two thunderbolts on the upper back near the arms. The girl had silver hand with a long fringe covering her left eye. She wore a sleeveless jacket and capri pants.
Vivi jumped up and down happily and began to run towards the two while Seifer casually walked past Riku and Max as he spoke to the two, "Rai, Fuu. We knew you'll be alright." Seifer said to them, "That's the whole reason we set up the Twilight Town Disciplinary Committee." Vivi went over to Rai and pulled his tank top to try and get his attention while Seifer walked over to Fuu. Riku and Max was confused at why these guys would be here of all places while Rinoa was still trying calm Angelo down. Vivi gasped when he saw Rai's face and was sent flying across the room before he could make an response.
Seifer touched Fuu's shoulder and was then grabbed by the neck. Riku and Max summoned their weapons when they saw that Rai and Fuu's faces were half covered with shadow and one of their eyes were red. Fuu threw Seifer in the same place where Vivi was. Rinoa ran over to Seifer and Vivi with Angelo by their side to help them up. As soon as she left Riku and Max's side, a barrier appeared, preventing them from helping Riku and Max. Riku and Max watched as Rai's right hand turned into a yellow claw like Abroc's and Fuu's hand was silver and purple like Link's.
"The Endless is the most powerful being in the worlds, y'know." Rai informed them.
"Immortal." Fuu added.
"It's worthless to resist its power." Rai's claw began to produce sparks of electric. "You stand in the Dark Master's way; you will never defeat the Order."
"Rai, Fuu. What about our town? You swore to protect it!" Seifer shouted at them.
"We are protecting our home world; from you." Rai replied.
"Misguided beings." Fuu added again.
"Now with this new knowledge; I won't be standing in your shadow anymore, Seifer." Rai said deadly. "Once we get rid off these chums then I'll be taking you down, y'know."
"You know what I think." Riku cut in. "I think you both have gone delusional with the virus controlling your every thought."
"Wrong." Fuu replied.
"The virus helps us see the truth. The truth in where secrets are normally kept. A life without death." Rai explained
"What has happen to you guys?" Vivi cried.
Riku looked over to Max, "Is there anyway to save them?" he asked. Max shook his head, Riku then sighed before looking at the two. "You give us no choice." Riku and Max then ran in for the attack.
Mad: YES! 52 is done. That means that I had done 1 chapter per week since I had started, also meaning that I'm ahead on plans since i started in august. Now for messages:
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: The outcome of this chap isn't as bad as what could have happen. Hope you enjoyed the chap.
Sailor Winx: Oh man, I'm hope that you're alright. How did you get into cruthes? Wait.....oh no. YOU HAVE THE VIRUS!! *runs away* Just kidding, hope you feel well soon.
Junebaby95: I think you enjoyed high school musical getting blown up...
DarkAngel555: How do you know that Troy is dead? I might do a random chapter that they had ended up in Transverse town, you never know.
Taeniaea: Thanks
Future Keybearer: You know what; I was trying not to laugh when I was writing that bit.
Shadow Sylph: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! *blinks of madness* Have you told Jess yet? I guess that I'll just go with Liz and Gazz to expo since we all being Org XIII members anyway. Ha ha, housework does suck and I have to do my fair share every now and again *making drinks, washing up* You need to get a wireless thing for your Xbox360 or come on MSN so we can talk about stuff for the story. Hope to hear from you soon.
That's all folks. See ya next time.
Kingdommad.