Chapter 82- Sora vs Kairi
"FIGHT!" Brian shouted.
Kairi was the first the move with Oathkeeper in hand, she ran towards her opponent and tried to slash up upwards, Sora quickly deflected the strike and started to watch Kairi's movements, seeing where to block her attack. She strikes at the side only for him to block again before the two was only creating sparks with their weapons as they clashed together. Kairi stepped back slightly before aiming at his feet, trying to trip him. Sora saw her movement and jumped up in the air before flipping away from the fast paste strikes that she issued him.
She's better than I thought. Let's see how her magic is. Sora quick dashed away from Kairi as she tried to strike him with a heavy blow. He managed to gain some distance between her as she was trying to gain balance from the missing strike. He could set his curiosity at ease as he pointed Kingdom Key at her, right when she turns to face him. "FIRAGA!" he shouted as a multiple amount of fireballs began to head towards her. She quickly responded to the spell as she casted 'Wateraga', forcing the fireballs up in the air with the pillars of water, making the fireballs extinguish in the air from the lack of heat. Damn! She's left herself open... From taking out Sora's spell, Kairi wasn't concentrating where he was.
Take her! While she's distracted.
This isn't your fight. Sora looked at the spell before watching Kairi's movements carefully.
Kairi looked back at Sora and pointed Oathkeeper at him, "WATERAGA!" she shouted as she struck her keyblade upwards, creating a straight line pillars full with water. She watched Sora's surprised expression at the speed of the spell, watching him cast 'Reflect' to prevent the spell from striking him. This is my chance. Kairi smiled as she ran past the pillars and struck Sora at the side, at least the mere reflection that was shown in her 'Wateraga' Spell.
Her mistake cost her advantage to gain a point as Sora backed away and raised his keyblade upwards, "Haste!" Sora casted as an orange clock appeared in front of him with the face arrow speeding fast around the transparent clock before fading into him, giving him a tanned sun glow.
Haste? Isn't that part of Grey Magic? Since when does Sora use Grey Magic other than Reflect? Even though her thoughts were an important question, she decided to take the chance and try and strike the Keyblade Master but every strike that she threw at him was simply dodged.
Brian watched each movement of the match careful while the others cheered for who they thought would win, apart from Donald and Goofy, who had started to watch worryingly. They weren't the only one though, as Brian watched the two of them fight, he could see the huge amounts that Sora could have gained a point, it wouldn't take long for Kairi to notice them too.
Sora started to move away from Kairi again, seeing that she noticed his retreat this time as he could have gained a point since he still had Kingdom Key in hand while he was sidestepping Kairi's attacks.
Here. I'll fix it.
Sora could feel his arm hurt once more under the bandages as he flipped back. As he was trying not to yell in agony, his bandaged claw lifted the keyblade up in the air before he could feel words coming out of his mouth once more, "THUNDERAGA!"
The Princess of Heart was still trying to catch her breath as she heard him shout out the spell. She looked up to see the multiple amount of on thunderbolts coming down towards her. With the remaining energy that she still had, she attempted to dodge every thunderbolt that was fired at her. She managed to dodge all but the last one, striking her to the ground.
"Point to Sora!" Brian called out before turning to Max, who was at the desk with Steve changing the scores.
Sora- 01 Kairi- 00
Sora watched Brian run over to Kairi, giving her an Elixir to restore her energy, before looking at his bandaged claw. This duel is between me and Kairi. Not you!
But I AM you so I'm as much involved as the worthless princess.
Why don't you go bother someone else?
Trust me, you would want me here. I'll save you from a worse fate.
"Sora?" Brian clicked his fingers in front of him, "Are you okay?" Sora remained in his thoughts, "Sora!" Brian slapped him around the head.
"OW!" Sora clinched before glaring at Brian, "Did you have to do that?"
"Yeah, I did." Brian handed over an elixir to Sora, "When did you learn Haste?" he asked.
Sora drunk the elixir, restoring his energy and maga, before thinking about the answer, "I don't know." He replied slowly, unsure about the answer.
"Well, I think it'll be fair if you don't use time based magic." Brian told him, "I don't know where you have suddenly learned it but not of us know Haste. Agreed?" Sora nodded his head, "Right, get ready for round two." Sora quickly ran to the other side of the battle grid, seeing that Kairi was ready to go another round in her battle stand. "FIGHT!" Brian called out to begin the next round.
Again, Kairi is the first to dash forward and began to try to strike at Sora's sides again; the two keyblades clashed together once more as Sora noticed that her strikes were mainly at the sides. When she struck downwards, he blocked and held his keyblade in place as he could feel the force that she was placing behind Oathkeeper, letting him see the eagerness in her eyes. Whoa! She's putting some force into it. Right, I think that letting her gain a point will make her believe in herself more. Sora quickly placed his back foot in a different position, allowing him to push Kairi away from him, making her stagger backwards and open. He smirked at this and jumped to strike at her from above, seeing her block upwards. He placed his keyblade at the side as he ditched the attack and landed before trying to strike at Kairi sideways, even though he knew that he was too far from her from Kingdom Key to even touch the fabric of her clothing.
Kairi raised an eyebrow at this, seeing that even Sora wouldn't leave himself that open as he made an expression on his face from his mistake. Instead of taking the point, she decided to dash away from him and watched his movements. Okay, that's the second time I've seen him do that. He better not be doing what I think he's doing. She quickly placed herself into a defence position as she waited Sora's approach, only to see him mimic her actions. Guarding again, huh? Let's see if he can guard from this! "AEROGA!" She pointed Oathkeeper in his direction and a huge amount of winds began to shot towards him. Even though wind is Sora's element, he struggled against the strong winds, making it harder for him to defend.
Knowing that he would eventually lose balance, he rolled out of the winds just as he managed to see Kairi jump into the force of the winds from the corner of his eye. He remained kneeled on the ground though, not because he was letting her gain a point but the pain in his claw had returned and he was trying to control it, preventing himself from seriously hurting her. He stood up, only to be knocked back to the ground suddenly back Kairi's attack.
"Point goes to Kairi!" Brian called out.
Sora- 01 Kairi- 01
"Gawrsh, Sora looked as if he was distracted just then." Goofy said to his feathered friend.
"It's all part of his plan." Donald assured him, "Nothing to worry about."
"Well, if you say so." Goofy shrugged off.
"Man! This is getting boring!" Vaan called out to Brian. "Add obstacles!"
"Vaan?" Penelo scowled at him.
"What?" Vaan looked at her with a confused expression.
Brian placed Vaan's idea in his mind while helping Sora up and giving him another elixir. As soon as both of them and placed themselves back at their starting positions. Brian smirked as he announced, "Let's make this more interesting." He reached behind him to grab Staff of Myths, "EARTH!" he shouted before striking his staff in the ground.
Boulders and pillars began to appear on the battle, blocking the view of the opponent. Sora moved from side to side at his starting point to see if he could see Kairi on the other side, only to hear movement of Oathkeeper as the chain hit against the keyblade. He turned to face Brian with a pouted expression, "Why?" He whined.
"Vaan's right. It's boring if you guys keep fighting on a plain field." He smirked evilly at him, "You should be glad that he didn't cast fire instead." He laughed as he felt Sora's glare on him, he knew his actions would just make things harder for him since he's still sticking to defence as the duel had shown so far. "FIGHT!"
Both of them moved this time, Sora began to jump up the pillar, reaching the top so that he could see the entire rocky battle grid. From the view, he could see Kairi making her way through the rock covered puzzle maze, trying to find her.
She begins to question your actions.
And how do you know that?
Her aura seemed impure for a maiden of heart.
Because of your doing!
Maybe you should change your little plan...
Kairi looked up to see Sora on the pillar, deep in thought with Kingdom Key at his side. This is my chance. She began to run towards the pillar, speeding jumping it to reach the top. She tried to remain as quiet as she could up the pillar so that she could catch him by surprise. As soon as she reached the top, Oathkeeper ready.
"BLIZZARDA!"
Her eyes widened as she had fallen into a predictable trap, quickly slamming her body down to the edge of the cliff as she inserted her keyblade into it. This action allowed her to duck the ice spell but she was no hanging for her life by her Keyblade. She planned her legs onto the cliff, trying to pull Oathkeeper out. She looked up to see the Keyblade Master look down at her before pointing his Keyblade at the edge of the cliff and dug her keyblade out. She threw an unnoticeable glare at him as she pulled herself out of the cliff, handing in the middle of the battle gird while Sora dashed above him, jumping from cliff to cliff. She huffed before pointing her keyblade at him, a white orb appearing from Oathkeeper, "Holy!" Ten bright white orbs shot out of her keyblade and rotated in a circle pattern manner as they approached Sora.
Sora was currently trying to dash away the pain in his claw as the soul had managed to have some fun out of his torment. He looked behind him to see ten bright orbs approaching him, seeing the 'Holy' spell coming at him fast. He didn't have a chance to dash away as the spell struck him in the chest, sending him flying into one of the pillars, collapsing onto of him.
"Point to Kairi." Brian called out.
Sora- 01 Kairi- 02
"What's a matter, Bigfoot?" Brian mocked him, "I thought the Wielder of Light would be able to absorb such an attack."
"Well..." Sora groaned as he dug himself out of the dirt pile that had formed above him, "I didn't manage to see it on time." Sora quickly looked at his bandaged claw, feeling the pain ease before summoning Kingdom Key again. "She's better than I thought." He smiled at this, seeing Kairi get ready for the next round.
"And it's all thanks to me and Riku." Brian smirked happily.
"Thanks Brian. Just make me feel worse." Sora glared at him before heading back to his starting place.
As the two were talking, Kairi watched Sora's angered expression from Brian's comment before watching him head towards his beginning spot. The both of them could see each other again, seeing as dashing from cliff to cliff has damaged them slightly. Any sign? She asked her Nobody.
Nothing. I can't access his heart. I could only get some form of vision. Something's wrong, Kairi. We should stop this before something happens-
Not until he admits.
But Kairi-
This is something that I have to do, Naminé. Surely, you can understand?
I just think that you shouldn't fight him if something is wrong. We don't know what happened while he was with Riku at Port Royal and with Roxas missing, who knows what might happen. If the connection between you and him is damaged, are you worried that his heart might fade into the darkness without your light to help him?
Not by the way that he's fighting...but I am worried...I'm keeping an eye.
"Kairi." Brian called her, grabbing her attention, "Are you ready?"
"Yeah." She replied before looking back at Sora. Let's see if he will strike first.
"Right Round Four. FIGHT!"
Sora flinched in his defensive position; expecting his opponent to dash towards him like the previous rounds, only to find that she remained where is was, not even in her battle position. He watched her for any sign of movements before sighing and coming out of his battle position to look at her sombrely, "You okay?" he asked her.
"I don't know." Kairi looked at him seriously, "Why won't you strike first?"
"If I did, you could get me easily." Sora said casually.
"Then why have you been going easy with me?" Kairi crossed her arms as she waited for an answer, hearing Brian complain on the sides about how this was a duel, not a chat show.
"What do you mean?" He asked her, confused about what she meant.
"You know what I mean, Sora." She yelled at him, making Sora's confused expression fade, "You think that I haven't noticed the times where you could have gotten me? At first, I ignored the chance you had Haste since you still struck me with Thuderaga but when you was striking above but then changed it, the fact that I'm striking first, you're constant defending, freeing me from the cliff..." Kairi glared at him, waiting for an answer.
Brian coughed as he looked at Sora, "Busted." He coughed again before rubbing his chest, "Sorry. Dust got in my throat."
"What do you want me to do?" He asked her in a hurt tone. "Just let you walk out on us because of one fight ? What kind of a friend will I be if I let you do that? I did this because it was what you wanted...I didn't want to hurt you again though."
"So you decided to let me win?"
"No."
"Then don't hold back." Kairi summoned Oathkeeper and moved into her battle stand, "Give me everything that you've got, pretend I'm one of the Organisation members back from the dead, the Colonel-" Sora's mind flashed back to the dream, causing despair in his heart. "Just fight me."
"As much as we are enjoying your lovely conversation..." Brian said with sarcasm, "I would prefer if this round continued before we lose the others." He pointed to the stands where Max had fallen asleep with Steve pecking his head and Vaan and Penelo had disappeared, leaving Donald and Goofy to watch the other rounds.
Kairi dashes towards Sora at a high speed and pushed Oathkeeper towards him. Sora was too deep in his thoughts of his nightmare that he didn't even notice that the match had started up again. His eyes widened as he felt the two tips of Oathkeeper slice his shirt and pushed against his skin before feeling the force behind it that send him skidding across the floor, disposing of Kingdom Key from the impact.
"Point to Kairi!"
Sora- 01 Kairi- 03
Why are you allowing her to control you
You are following the ways of your worst nightmare
You will lose your heart
You're just a soul...what do you know? Sora breathed heavily from the attack, feeling the scar from his first adventure string as Oathkeeper was close to piercing it again. I don't know what to do anymore... He looked up from the ground that he was laying on to see Brian lending him a hand, which he takes once more, only to be refilled to another strange vision.
"Kairi! Please stay." Sora begged her
"Sora. You panic every time I'm in battle, you get jealous, and you keep hurting Riku and Brian. All because of me... I'm more of a danger to the group then you are." Kairi looked at him with watery eyes before getting on the gummi ship with Brian. Sora couldn't believe, he had lost her because of his stupid actions.
Sora, Riku, Donald, Goofy and Hikari run into Radiant Castle's Hall to find Brian being held by guards and Kairi in the claws of Colonel Devil. "It's nice to see you, Princess. Care to take a trip."He laughed as he summoned a portal and began to drag Kairi through the portal.
"The Colonel!" Donald pointed out. Sora looked at the scene to see Kairi.
"NOOOOOO!" He shouted as he ran across the hall, reaching out for Kairi's hand only to miss it by mere inches as the portal disappeared.
Brian shook Sora, trying to grab his attention, "Sora? Sora! Come on! You didn't land that hard."
"Huh...Huh?" Sora looked at Brian strangely before noticing that he was still at the duel. "I'm okay." Sora pushed Brian away; he would have to this about the vision later. Brian raised an eyebrow at Sora's behaviour before pushing it away for the time being. He quickly healed Sora's wounds and gave him another elixir before heading to the sideline again and giving his attention to Steve.
"Sora." He snapped his head towards Kairi, who was looking at him at a calmer expression but still looked mad for planning to defend, "If you was planning to go easy on me then why would you come to the duel?" She asked him.
"Well, that's silly to ask." Sora smiled slightly.
"Why is that?" Kairi's calmer expression was slowly disappearing.
"Because you're my friend, I would do anything for you, I'll support you even if it hurts but I took part because – because I didn't want you to leave us." He said with honestly, "We need you...I need you." He said the last part quieter.
"You're the great Keyblade Master. You don't need help from a worthless princess..." She said to him before turning around, eyes filling with tears, getting ready for the next round.
"Kairi-" Sora was about to run up to her but the pain from his claw returned as he grabbed his bandaged arm, seeing his shadowed claw glow brightly.
"Sora, are you alright?" Brian turned around to hear Sora groan.
"Yeah..." Sora pushed his claw away. "I'm fine." Not now!
Why not? She seems to have her mind in the right place.
She will never be worthless! NEVER!
Hmm...your right. Her heart only opens the Door to Darkness to all worlds.
Just leave...
"Are you guys ready?" Brian asked the both of them, "Okay! FIG-"
"Wait!" Sora stopped him.
"What!" Brian looked at him in an irritated way.
"Can I say something quickly?" Sora pleaded him.
"Fine! But make it quick." Brian groaned before turning towards the sleeping Max and tried to wake him up.
"Thank you." Sora turned to Kairi, "You will never EVER be worthless, Kairi. I admit, there were times where I avoided getting points but when you're determined, you can do it. You just have to believe that you can." Sora summoned Kingdom Key and took off the chain, "I believe in you, that's why I'll fight. Properly this time." Sora placed the Kingdom Key chain in his pocket and quickly took off his Silver Crown necklace, placing it on the Kingdom Key to change it to Ultima weapon. "Just believe in yourself and your heart. You can do it."
Kairi chuckled slightly, "Do you give Riku peep talks like this when he's feeling down?"
"Like he'd listen to my advice." Sora joked, making her laugh slightly. He smiled at this; the pain from his claw was at the back of his mind as he placed himself on the battle grid once more.
BOWBOWBOW
"SCOTT!" Kyle shouted for him while he checked the sample results that Brian had left for him. Takura had gone in Daniel's room to check up on him since they had heard movement a minute ago.
"Ohhhhhhhh." Scott's voice was heard from the kitchen.
"What are you groaning about? You're supported to be monitoring the cameras." Kyle reminded him.
"I'm a pilot. Not a security guard." Scott growled at him as he came into the front room. "And I hope that you're happy. Because of you, the Castle that Never Was has been destroyed."
"The Castle that Never—what the hell are you talking about, you idiot? How does me calling you destroy the Castle that Never Was if it is in the World that Never Was?" Kyle shot at him.
"I don't mean that one." Scott told him.
"What do you mean you 'don't mean that one'? THERE'S ONLY ONE!" Kyle yelled in frustration, "Just go to the screen before I kill you...now."
"Fine, castle killer. I will." Scott spat before going over to the monitors.
Takura walked back in from Daniel's room and looked at Kyle's angered expression weirdly, "What's wrong?"
"I promised Daniel that I wouldn't kill Scott; that's what's wrong. " Kyle groaned into his robotic arm. The Wooden Door suddenly came out of its hinges and slammed down on the floor, making Kyle aim his robotic arm at the door while Takura quickly looked for a sharp object that might have the ability to knock out someone; he ended up picking up a fork. Their lowered their arm and folk thought when they saw Riku and Hikari burst their way into the house, "Yes! Let's knock down random doors instead of entering the house like a normal person." Kyle growled as he went back to looking at the results.
"Hey Hikari." Takura greeted, "Hey Kairi."
Riku glared at the Mohican haired mechanic, "It's Riku." He corrected.
"No it's not. It's Silver." Hikari told Takura, earning a deathly glare from said 'Silver', "Where's Brian?"
"He left a while ago." Takura told them.
"He said that he was gonna look for you guys." Kyle said as he placed the test tubes down once more and turned towards them.
Hikari sighed as she looked at Riku sadly, "We're too late."
"Where's Sora and Kairi?" Riku asked them.
"Not sure. Maybe with Brian by now." Kyle thought about where the group could be.
"There at the town square." Scott shouted to them.
"You found them on the monitor?" Takura quickly ran over to Scott to look at the monitor.
"Thanks." Riku quickly muttered before running out of the door to town square.
"Hikari!" Kyle called her just as she was about to run after the Wielder to Dawn, "What's going on?"
"It's nothing to be concerned about." Hikari laughed nervously.
"Wow! She managed to blast him good." Scott gasped at the screen.
"So what? He got up with no problem." Takura pointed out.
"What are you two doing?" Kyle walked over to the monitor, allowing Hikari to try and sneak out.
She gulped as she saw Daniel staying in the doorway with an angry expression on his face. "Okay, so maybe it is important." She smiled cheesy. She has gone to try and stop hanging around Brian at some point, his behaviour is contagious.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora- 03 Kairi- 04
It was hard to keep up with what was going on as two keybladers had basically destroyed to entire grid and have had moments when their magic would go a different direction and hit Brian, making the Endless banned the use of magic after Sora had gained his second point. The two were now fighting with their Keyblades, matching each strike with speed and strength, counter after counter, strike after strike, the two fighters were determined to win this duel, not thoughts of doubt or worry went through their mind.
The Princess of Heart rushed towards him once more, trying her best to strike the Keyblade Master, only for him to dodge her attack and strike back at her, which she managed to block and push Sora back. She stepped back and swung Oathkeeper behind her before throwing it towards Sora, perfoming air strike. The Keyblade Master dodge rolled the air strike and managed to sprint over to Kairi and place his Keyblade at her side before she could summon Oathkeeper back. "Dead." He smiled at her.
"Point to Sora! Next point wins!" Brian shouted, allowing Max to change the scoreboards once more.
Sora- 04 Kairi- 04
Kairi smiled back at the Keyblade Master before summoning Oathkeeper back in her hand, both of them jumping back to their starting points with their keyblades in hand. Both of them were tired, exhausted and was having fun as their chuckled slightly with their heavy breathing. Neither of the two fighters noticed how Ultima Weapon seemed to shake dangerous while in the grip of Sora's bandaged arm. Sora was the first to talk, "You—fight-good, Kai." He breathed.
"You're-not bad yourself." She replied with a smile. Sora smiled at this, she was happy again and it was because he was honest and fought on full on. At first, he was worried because of the virus but he knows that no matter what happens to him, she will be there to save him. He chuckled at this slightly; he might become a knight in distress as Brian had called him before.
"Here Sora." Brian handed over another Elixir to Sora, seeing him drink it fast. He took the empty bottle from Sora, noticing from the corner of his eye the way his keyblade shook in his hand. "Are you alright?" he asked him with concern.
"I'm fine." Sora smiled at his casually.
Brian looked down at Sora's bandaged claw again to see a twitch every now and again. Since he remembered the last time that Sora's claw twitched, he knew something was wrong. "I this that you guys should stop. We still need to find those two fighting addicts." Brian posted his opinion, referring to Riku and Hikari.
"We can't leave it at a dra-" Sora gritted his teeth together as he grabbed his claw from the pain. "It won't be fair on her." He said through his teeth, disposing Ultima Weapon from the pain.
"I'm not an idiot." Brian helped him up, "You're acting the same way as you did back at the ship. You could hurt Kairi if you head into the last round."
"If I quit, I'll still hurt her." Sora groaned.
"You don't know that." Brian tried to get some sense into him.
"Yes I do." Sora muttered darkly before summoning his Keyblade and stepped back into the grid. He continued to breathe heavily as he faced his opponent once more, "Any sign of Roxas?" Sora asked her, his claw blended with the bandages on his arm.
Kairi shook her head, "Naminé hasn't found anything." She answered sadly before noticing the way Sora's Keyblade shook. "Sora, are you..."She began to ask with concern.
"Just the strike from earlier." Sora held his chest tightly with his other hand, feeling his heart burn. "Nothing wrong."
Kairi disposed of Oathkeeper and looked at Sora with pure worry. "You're not fine, Sora. You need help." She said as she began to approach him.
"Kairi I-" Sora yelled in pain before dropping to one knee, Ultima Weapon disappearing from his hand.
"Sora!" Donald and Goofy called out from the sides, watching Kairi run over to him.
"Kairi! Get away!" Brian shouted to her, grabbing his staff.
"We need to help hi-"
"Gravity!" Kairi felt her entire body freeze in place, feeling her force against her body that prevented her to move. "Firaga!" Flames began to surround the Princess of Heart, trapping her in the intense heat. She looked through the flames to see the cold look one Sora's face once more, she knew now that this wasn't him, whatever is happening to him is having some fun. She watched him stand up straight and create a barrier around the battle grid, preventing anyone to get in or out. The evil minded Sora smirked at the trapped princess, "I guess that you were right. You are worthless." He aimed his keyblade at her.
"Sora! This isn't you! Fight it!" Kairi tried to talk to him, finding the heat getting to her.
"Thundera-" Sora halted as he felt vibrations coming from elbow them. "What?"
The ground erupts between the two like an active volcano, sending Sora into the barrier and Kairi back to the other side of the battle grid, the flames disappearing. The Princess groaned before noticing someone knelling beside her, she looked up to see one of her best friends in his rock element looking down at her with worry, "Kairi, can you hear me?" He shook her slightly.
"Riku?" She began to wonder how he managed to get in the battle grid when Sora blocked everyone out.
"This is not your fight, you dark sucking traitor!" Sora roared as he summoned his keyblade, "DRIVE!" Sora glowed brightly as he changed into Valor form, summoning Sleeping Lion into his other hand. The outfit seemed to be affected from Sora's behaviour as parts of the garments such as the boots, jacket and his armoured shirt were consumed by grey shadow prints. He began to dash towards the Wielder of Dawn at a fast rate.
"Sheild!" Riku quickly covered him and Kairi with 'Dark Shield', protecting them from Sora as he began to hammer down on the dark shield like his life depended on it. As he continued to rapidly release his outburst on the shield, trying to get to them, Riku noticed the flash of Sora's eyes, he couldn't tell whether there were yellow or white.
"GET OUT!" Sora raged as he breaks Riku's shield, only to be pushed back by a Dark Aura Spell from Riku as he quickly reverted out of his element and summoned the Way to Dawn to strike at him. Sora sidestepped to dodge Riku's attack before he struck Riku at the back. "Let see you survive this." Sora smirked evilly as he battled Riku up in the air and began to strike him rapidly before slamming him back to the ground. "This is it." He said as he pointed Sleeping Lion at Riku's back while pointing Ultima Weapon in the opposite direction, "Reflect!" the brightly coloured shield managed to block the Wateraga blast from hitting him. Sora chuckled at this before turning around to Kairi, "You don't stand a chance against me, Princess." Sora said to her, "I won't be here long. Just killing the traitor will be enough." He turned away from Kairi to Riku, only to find him gone. "Where is he?" Sora started to look around.
Riku stood on top on the rock carving that he had created from entering the battle grid, pointing the Way to Dawn at his best friend, "Sleep." He cast.
He smirked as he quickly reverted out of Valor Form to gain magic once more. "Earth!" Sora's claw quickly changed from greyish-white to brown, allowing Sora to shoot a boulder that was placed on the floor in Riku's direction, knocking him of the pillar and hit the ground hard. Before he had a chance to get up, Sora changed his bandaged claw to its original greyish colour and grabbed Riku around the neck, lifting him from the ground with his other hand. "Look like Destiny had chosen the right Keyblade Master. Don't you agree?" Sora chuckled before placing a serious expression on his face. "Ruin!" Sora raised Ultima Weapon at him at blasted his best friend into the barrier, seeing the lack of strength in his face.
"LIGHT!" Kairi managed to sneak up behind him and grab him before casting Light on him like she had done in African Depths. At first, he struggled to try and get Kairi off of his back but soon slowed down as he slowly lost his energy and fell unconscious. "I did it." Kairi whispered to herself as she knelled down next to Sora, watching his claw relaxing. "But this happened because of me..." She quickly placed a lock of his hair behind his face, seeing the discomfort in his face.
"Riku!" The barrier disappeared and Brian quickly ran over to his partner in crime, giving him a Phoenix Down and an Elixir before helping him up. "You okay?"
"I'm fine." Riku said roughly, "What happened while we were separated?" Riku growled, not expecting Sora to try to attack him or Kairi when he scarified his life to find them.
"It's best that we explain back out the house." Brian looked back at the duellists, "It's best that we get Sora come help first." He said as he saw Kairi hug Sora's body towards her.
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Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: Keep on trying, this is the only category that Mad will do anyways. (::)(::)(::)
Dreamer726: Your welcome ^^
Artism: Your guess is nearly to what has happened in this chapter. It was a good guess ^^ (::)(::)(::)(::)
Island-style-girl: I'm glad that you like Steve. I have a chocobo with red tips, it's sooo cool. (::)(::)
Well, that's about it. Remember to review on Lucky Number Eight, it's important...REALLY IMPORTANT!
See ya Next time.
Kingdommad