Chapter 131: The Nobody Knight
The light faded out of Kasper's eyes as he stood on his armoured knight, looking back down at the fighters, only to see the Keyblade Master, glaring back at him. The Prince only shook his head at the teen. "Even in your drive, your claw still shows." He glared.
Sora floated there, his eyes keeping to the Kasper's in an angry glare as he held his keyblades within his hands. Being similar to his wind garments, his silver armour undershirt stayed the same but his hooded turned white and silver with an eye, wind symbol on his shirt and silver, white bottoms. The Kingdom Key and Oblivion rested in his hands but as Sora let go of them, the keyblades took its place behind the Keyblade Master, hovering behind him as he walked towards him. His golden garment had turned silver; his white shadowed claw remained as it linked with the pattern of his garments. His anger was held in his eyes as he spoke. "You let her go." He threatened.
Kasper smirked as he leaned on his creature. "What are you going to do? Unleash your outburst?" He laughed. "You're very close to losing grip, even with Riku and Hikari's support."
"I mean it Kasper!" Sora's claw pulsed. "Let Kairi go!"
"If you want her…" With a tap of his staff, a cage was quickly formed out of shadows appeared, allowing the Nobody Prince to place his unconscious sister into the cage. "Come and get her." He laughed as he clicked his fingers once more; his knight raised its arm and slammed his sword down at the Keyblade Master.
"Ghah!" In an attempt to parry the large sword, Sora quickly placed the keyblades in front of him, only to find that the force of the giant sword worked more as a block, making the keyblade master dig into the ground slightly. With the keyblades in place, Sora quickly raised his hands up, creating multiple amounts of Light to shoot down on Kasper, only for the prince to shield himself from the attack. "Damn it!" The Keyblade Master noticed his keyblades shaking from the force they were given; he quickly grabbed his weapons and skidded out of the way before the sword slammed to the ground.
"Take this!" Kasper raised his staff.
Sora was quickly surrounded by multiple amounts of ice, each piece being sharp and deadly. They shot at a fast rate, only to be shattered to pieces as Sora quickly broke the shards at a fast speed, using his keyblades and the orbs of light that were surrounding him. He gasped in surprise and pain as a few shards struck him in his claw, making Kingdom Key halt from any movement and return behind its owner, as if it wasn't being used. The lack of one keyblade made it even harder to block the shards, but it was possible as he quickly guided away and shots multiple amounts of light at the attacking shards.
He gasped as he felt a tight grip on him, feeling himself getting crushed from the hands of the Nobody Knight. He could feel his energy getting drained from the huge Nobody before getting slammed into the ground and blasted across the room with a dark attack. His body crashed to the floor, the darkened attack had caused a good effect on him.
"Surely you haven't forgotten how to fight us dear nobodies, have you?" Kasper taunted. "Or have you forgotten how the darkness felt?"
"Take this!" Sora quickly jumped back off the ground, Kingdom Key back to his control as he raced over to one of the Nobody Knight's hands, the one with the sword. With quick movements, he began to strike at the Nobody's hand, teleporting his keyblades to strike atop his hands with sparks of light before grabbing his keyblades to spin like a blade at the hand. Though the attacks looked like some damage has been made, the Nobody Knight raised his sword up and slammed down at the Keyblade Master once more. He quickly guilded out of the way and jumped on the hand once more, spinning his keyblades together to create a huge orb of light, firing it at the Knight's chest.
The force of impact forced the Knight back slightly, making the Prince above stagger from the top, holding on to the cage for support. "Stupid Knight! I nearly fell off!" He slammed his staff down out of annoyance.
Sora quickly observed the damage on the knight, only to see that it was only shaken slightly from the light attack. 'My attacks aren't doing anything! If I don't hurry, my drive is going to run dry.' With the Nobody's body being covered by armour, he would lose his drive before doing any decent quickly thought looking around the room, his sights on Kasper. 'There has to be a way to knock Kasper off the knight…if I stop him then his personal knight should disappear.' His thought process was halted as he quickly dodged out of the fire spells coming from the Prince.
"Run Keybearer! Run!" Kasper laughed as he shot multiple fireballs after the fighter, watching him block the attacks by slashing at them when they came close. "Knight! Slam!" From his command, his Nobody Knight disposed of his sword as he started to slam his fists down on the Keyblade Master, watching as his trusted bodyguard smashed the floor to pieces. "Halt!" He stopped his knight's actions, waiting for the dust to cheer. "C'mon…" Mutters escaped his lips as he waited impatiently for the dust to clear. As soon as it started to disappear, he smirked as he saw the Keyblade Master on his knees, his claw flashing slightly as he remained on his knee, his white hair nearly touching the ground.
However, his smirk dropped when he noticed the change of his garments.
Without any time to react, the prince felt impact come from his side as he was kicked across the top of his Nobody. He shook his head as he looked back at a familiar face. "Hikari, there is no need for this." He coughed as he grabbed his staff, looking back at the tomboy girl. "I can tell that you're not that bashful little girl anymore….looks like time in the darkness had affect you too." He smirked.
"At least I managed to keep my heart!" She pointed her blade at Kasper's neck, making his flinch slightly.
Despite having a sword to his neck, Kasper chuckled as he slammed his staff down again. "Knight! Grab!"
Riku appeared upon the Nobody with Hikari and Kasper, summoning his keyblade as he swung around, sliding both of the fists that appeared to grab them off. "You have to deal with us now, your highness."
Kasper simply huffed at the comment, "At least someone remembers their class." He spun his staff within his hands. "Gravity!" He shot his hands out, creating and gravitation bubble around him, pushing the two fighters away in an attempt to knock them off the nobody.
Sora pushed himself up, seeing that Riku and Hikari had managed to sneak their way onto the Knight, all he had to do is keep the Nobody busy while they deal with Kasper. He watched the Nobody Knight summon his sword again as it begun to slash at the Keyblade Master once more. Being much slower than he was in Final Form, he quickly got hit from the second strike and was slammed into the wall.
The Nobody Knight chuckled at the impact, only to grunt in confusion as its sword started to shake. Before it knew it, strong currents of wind and light blew the sword out from the wall and struck right back in the Nobody's armour, making the Knight shake around in pain. As it looked up, it watched as the Keyblade Master blasted towards the Nobody and began to slash at it with his wind attacks.
From the movement of the Nobody, Riku jumped above Kasper, aiming his hands down. "Dark Aura!" He began to fire rapidly down at the prince. "Hikari now!"
"Leave it to me." Hikari charged in, slicing at the enemy with the aid of Riku's attacks. She quickly uppercut Kasper into the air before smirking back at Riku as she jumped. "A little help!"
"Let's do it!" Grabbing a hold of Hikari's hands, Riku spun the girl around to pick up speed as she began to charge her attack. As soon as Kasper began to drop, the Wielder of Dawn realised the Eternal Wielder, aiming her flight just right as she stuck right through Kasper, blasting him down to the ground after the strike hit.
Riku quickly landed on the side, watching as Hikari sat on Kasper to make sure that he didn't get up but their main problem is the Nobody Knight, he should have stopped when taking Kasper out. The Wielder of Dawn quickly jumped back into the air to land on the Knight's back, only to be batted away next to Sora. "Gahh…"
"Here!" Sora quickly throws a potion down to Riku, kneeling down to him to aid him back to his feet. "This thing is not coming down!" Sora proclaimed.
"Maybe if we both hit it with our keyblades!" Riku quickly jumped out of the way as the Knight tried to strike him with his fists.
Sora had quickly jumped to the side to avoid the attack, looking at the scenery once more. The huge Nobody continued to rage within the throne room with Kairi upon it. As he looked over to the cage, his eyes widened with fear as he saw who was standing onto of the Knight. The Colonel, fully armoured from head to toe in his Order Endless Armour, was holding the unconscious Princess of Heart. "LET GO OF HER!" From the sight of the Colonel, his claw completely turned white as he dashed towards the Colonel, keyblade in hand as he fired 'Holy' at him.
As the light faded, Sora was left dumbfounded as the Colonel stood unscathed, more like he had just been healed. "Thanks. I needed that." With those words, a huge green energy came from his claw, blasting the Keyblade Master off the Knight and landed on the ground. He chuckled as he watched the keybearer struggle to get up as weeds began to appear from the wooden floor, tying the Keybearer to it. "All this way and you're nowhere near in saving her." He quickly shot round, summoning his two handed broadsword as he bashed Riku away from him, trapping the Wielder of Dawn to the ground as well. He quickly turned to the tom boy and blasted her away from the unconscious prince, trapping her as well. "And I was expecting a challenge from you."
"Tell me! You ever sort that fire problem out?" A cocky remark came from across the hall.
"Wha?" The Colonel turned to the sound of the voice in confusion, only to face a huge fireball, big enough to blast him and the Nobody Knight out of the throne room.
Sora, Riku and Hikari watched as the fireball skimmed over them by a few metres, as the fireball took the rest of the Knight out, as well as creating a huge hole within the throne as it took the Nobody and the Endless out. While everything was on fire, they noticed that the attack had taken the Knight out with no sign of the Colonel and Kairi still in the room. The weeds crumbled to pieces as they broke away from the floor, allowing the three to turn around to the mysterious person. Hikari shook her head at the sign of the person. "What took you so long?" she questioned.
Brian breathed heavily, mainly from the amount of power that went behind that attack and the amount of running he had to do to catch up to the others in time. "Well….there was those Seekers at the front….actually finding my way round this place…..as well as running into a good couple of walls thanks to my memories…"
"Okay. Fair enough." She quickly halted him before looking back at Sora and Riku. The two of them watched as the two wielders grabbed the unconscious siblings, Riku holding Kasper while Sora was holding Kairi. "You think she be okay?" She asked.
Riku looked over to Kairi. "One quick visit to Aerith and she should be fine."
"Let's hope." Sora smiled grimly before making his way out of the castle with Kairi in his arms. He halted his movements to check to see if Brian was alright, only to see him looking at Kairi in shock. "What's wrong?" he questioned, looking at Kairi in case he had missed anything.
"No. No. Don't worry. She's fine. "Brian assured him. "Let's go."
"What about the Colonel?" Hikari asked, looking back at the damage that her friend had just caused.
Brian sighed at this. "He's gone for now…but he'll be back."
BOWBOWBOW
"I SWEAR, KEYBEARER! I WILL NEVER FORGET OR FORGIVE! THIS WILL ALWAYS BE THE DAY WHERE YOU SENT MY SISTER TO HER DOOM!" Kasper raged as he was getting pulled back by some of the Radiant Garden Guards.
Sora remained calm, despite his virus' impulses, as he and the others stood within the Marketplace as they waited from Kairi to return from her check-up with Aerith, as well as waiting from Brian and Steve to return from the item shop. He gritted his teeth together as he continued to listen to Kasper's abuse.
"YOU JUST WAIT, SORA! WHETHER TODAY OR TOMORROW OR TEN YEARS FROM NOW, I WILL RULE, YOU WILL ALL NEED ME AND I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU PAY FOR MY SISTER'S LIFE!" He swore before getting dragged away to the castle cells.
Riku stood by Sora's side, seeing that he was still staring angrily at the spot of where Kasper was dragged away. "Sora. It's alright. We have Kairi. She's safe." He comforted him. "Besides, Kasper will be put away for a good amount of time, there is no way that we'll ask for his help."
"Yeah…" Sora's voice drained slightly before turning to see the familiar red head come over to them. Actually seeing her in front of her brought his smile back on his face. "Hey Kai, you feeling better?" he asked.
"Bit tried really." She yawned, keeping a hand to her injured, bandaged head, as she leaned on Sora's shoulder. "When are we going?" she asked.
"We're just waiting for Brian." Hikari told her. As soon as he name was mentioned, Brian came rushing back to the group, amount of ice cream in hand while Steve followed along. Hikari simply raised an eyebrow at this, "What's with the ice-cream?" She questioned.
"I thought we could use a treat." Brian said innocently while looking away, giving each of them the blue coloured ice-cream.
Hikari watched Brian hang the ice cream out, noticing that he has a huge box of them in his carrier bag. "Why have you got a box of them then?" She raised an eyebrow.
"For the trip home…" He chuckled nervously.
Riku looked between Hikari and Brian before glaring back at Brian, realisation hitting him. "Is Sea Salt Ice Cream a world item?" He asked.
"Maybe…" Brian dragged out, looking at both of Riku and Hikari's glares. His head started to hurt as an image of the older Riku and Hikari appeared in front of him. "Ahhh stop it! You're giving me a headache." He complained before sighing. "Look, a lot has happened. I've had a lot on my mind. I would properly had been sent to Radiant Garden quickly if we didn't come here anyway."
"Gah!"
Riku, Hikari and Brian turned to face Sora and Kairi, watching the Keyblade Master spit out the rest of the content in his mouth. "This Sea Salt takes weird." Sora whined, looking at the bitten ice cream sadly. "It tasted so good before."
Kairi quickly took a bite out of her's, smiling with enjoyment. "Salty…yet sweet."
Riku quickly took a bite out of his, only to forcefully swallow the ice cream. "Not my sort of thing." He said with distaste. "It's too salty at the beginning." He turned to Sora. "This should be something you would like though; you wouldn't shut up about it when we had returned home. I just assumed that was Roxas communicating out of you."
Sora shrugged. "I know. I liked it before and I had some when we came here before Little Devon."
Hikari turned to Brian. "Can the virus have an effect on taste buds? He asked.
Brian though before nodding. "Some viruses like to change the ways some senses work. I mean there was this dark ability Endless, who turned blind because the virus didn't want to see any forms of light. So changing someone's taste wouldn't be a surprise really."
"You mean I can't have anything sweet?" Sora coughed in disbelief. "Or salty?"
"We have all the items now, Sora." Riku reminded him. "You'll be back to eating ice cream in no time." He quickly looked at everyone. "C'mon. Leon and the others are waiting for us at the gummi ship."
With the final item in check, it was time to head back to Little Devon.
BOWBOWBOW
Nikolai stood on the stone wall as he watched the red gummi ship take off and leave the world behind, enjoying the taste of completely frozen ice cream, snapping to pieces as he watched the ship. He quickly finished his snack before turning around to face the Colonel, seeing that he was watching the ship as well. "That went better than I thought." He said with surprised.
Devil chuckled at this, "It's because the boy is remembering. He wanted to wait until Kasper couldn't see him." He smirked. "I guess his considers some of the past events after all, unlike those Devons."
Nikolai huffed at his words, "You never saw him when we were travelling together. He liked to help everyone with their problems."
"Like his dear master then." Devil pointed out before turning around, seeing Jenova appear in front of him. "Status Jenova!"
"They fell for it, Sir! Yes! Yes!" She reported.
"Excellent!" The Colonel smirked before looking at Radiant Garden once more. "Prepare for Phase Two. It's time to take some action."
A/N: Radiant Garden is done. Now is the time to return to Little Devon :D YAY! I will be going to DisneyLand and packing up for the year so I properly won't update for a week or so. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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