Chapter 135: The Battle of Little Devon
The Wielder of Dawn jumped back from the sharp pieces of ice that emerged from the ground, countering the sharp amounts of shards with his Way to Dawn as he shot back at the Sorrow Endless. The area around the house was now surrounded by ice and parts soaked with freezing water. While the half iced Nikolai kept his balance, Riku kept sliding to the left whenever he landed. One of the created icebergs smashed to pieces as the Sorrow Endless, his frozen gunblade in hand, as the two crossed swords. He leaned in with his weapon, the ice on his arm keeping his stand. "So you know the truth. The future." He spoke darkly, his breathe turning cold. "So why fight?"
"Because!" Riku leaned in, pushing Nikolai back slightly. "I want a different future."
"So you fight for everyone's destruction?" Nikolai commented, pushing back.
Riku sliced at the Endless, making him jump back onto one of the iceberg created. "I fight to save everyone."
Nikolai glared down at the Wielder of Dawn. "Then you're not as clever as I thought, Captain."
"How about you tell me why you are here? Why let Sora go? What is it that you are after, Nikolai?" Riku demanded, looking back up.
Nikolai shook his head at the questions. "Remember what I had said about one day, both light and darkness will unite to survive." He reminded him. "Surely, you have done your research."
Riku was slightly taken back by the statement, the last time that Nikolai had said that was when he had encountered him in Radiant Garden while he was looking for signs of clearly remembered asking about Xeharont, only to be left with Unbirths to fight. "How about you tell me instead of hiding behind that cold appearance of yours!" He told him, starting to get both worried and angered by Nikolai's works, what does he mean? What's coming?
"You won't learn if someone just gives you the answers." He replied. The response he gained was not one he was expecting as the Wielder of Dawn threw his keyblade into the iceberg that he was standing on and quickly jumped from the wall and kicked the keyblade in the ice, breaking it to pieces.
Riku quickly ran over to the Endless on the floor and held him by grabbing his armour, his keyblade to his neck. "You own me a deed!" Riku reminded the Endless, glaring down at him darkly. "So start talking!"
"There is no point to fighting, Riku!" Nikolai told him. "No matter what you do, whether you cure Sora or prevent the 'one for a thousand', you and everyone else will watch the world fall to darkness!" He slammed his head down to the ground and looked away. "No matter what we do, we cannot save the ones we love."
Riku looked down at Nikolai with determination. "We're not gonna give up." He moved his weapon away and began to walk away, seeing that the Sorrow Endless was withdrawing his ice environment, removing one of the ice barriers. "We fight to protect the light and that's what we're gonna do." He told him. As he walked, he began to sense something horrible ahead. Could the Order ruled worlds come into a reality or is there something else hidden away. So many questions that need to be revealed.
"Riku…" Nikolai pushed himself up and called to him, grabbing the keybearer's attention. "At the end of this. No matter what! You won't be returning to Destiny Islands with both of yours friends." He stared at him before disappearing in his respected blue portal.
So many questions but Riku didn't waste any time, he needed to find his friends.
BOWBOWBOW
The battles in the town square had ripped the entire environment apart; any signs of a festival had been easily destroyed. The ground was cracked and broken, feeling with water from the pathway for some reason, some of the building were covered in darkness or smashed to pieces by the movement of the earth. More of Little Devon's soldiers had formed in the square to aid Ventus, Hikari and Max in the Order's attack, but the soldiers could only hold the Unbirths back, any that got near Major Snake or Crush would be taken out in seconds. Ventus still had his hands tied with the darken boy filled with hate, there was no sign or Sora, Riku, Donald, Goofy or Kairi, Brian and Scott and disappeared moments before and Hikari and Max were beginning to struggle with the Outburst filled Order member.
"LOOK OUT!" Max quickly pushed Hikari out of the way as Snake, formed as a huge bolder rushed right above their heads and crashed through the remainder of the stage, destroying it completely. Aching to the bone, Max aided Hikari up with a huff, breathing deeply from his exhaustion. "What are we going to do? We're not gonna last much longer at this rate."
Hikari spun her sword, catching her breath. "We need to fight on. At least until the defences is back on." She could only assume that is where Brian and Scott had disappeared to, if she finds the two hiding, she is not going to be pleased. She looks up, weapon ready. "Get ready."
Max quickly dug through his pockets and passed a Hi—Potion in Hikari's direction. He quickly nodded to his friend before he runs toward, changing his weapon back into a bow as he charged his arrows and shot where he saw the lizard form Endless charging for them. Circling the Endless with each shot, its wasn't long until Max had managed to set exploding arrows with Snake in the middle. As soon as the last arrow was placed, all of the arrows shine brightly before exploding in front of fighters.
The timing of the blast had managed to catch Crush while he was in the air, allowing Ventus to quickly jump up from below and quickly clashed with the Wrath Endless, getting the upper hand as he quickly slammed the Endless back to the ground. With swift moves, Ventus sped his way over to Crush, watching him gain his footing, and quickly turned to his side, forming a spinning blade out of light, charging into the Wrath Endless at full speed, only to be deflected at the nick of time by a dark shadowed shield.
"Blind!" Crush blasted multiple amounts of dark flames towards Ventus. While the keybearer had managed to dodge the attack, he hadn't noticed that the attack was aimed at Hikari and Max as well, striking the archer while missing the fighter by a mere second. "Magnet!" Crush pointed his attention back towards Ventus and with strong force, pulled Ven's Wayward Wind out of his hand and into Crush's. "Thank you kindly." The keyblade began to be covered in darkness before it disappeared from his hands with a spark of light. "What the-"
"Keyblade." Ven quickly reminded him before throwing his weapon like a boomerang, striking Crush across the face.
With Max temporary blinded from Crush's spell, Snake quickly took this advantaged and overcame the two fighters. In his lizard form, he crash passed Max and sent him flying in the air before he ran over to Hikari, avoiding her strikes before he grabbed her by the arm and slammed her to the ground multiple times, as if she was nothing but a toy. He laughed as he let the blue haired teen gone, listening to her groans of pain as she lay weak on the floor. He walked up to the fallen teen and flipped her face up with his scaly foot. "Any last words?" Snake requested, chuckling evilly as he pressed his foot on her head.
A portal appeared out of nowhere, a blast of water blasting from the ground as someone crashes to the ground, taking Max out completely and leaving Ven open to Crush's advance. Snake only smirked at the figure before stepping off of Hikari's head. He turned away from the girl before looking back at the fallen figure, watching them slowly get to their feet. "Now this is unbelievable! Not only do they betray your trust but now they mock you making a copy. A clone! They surely insult you sir!" He told them.
Hikari pushed herself up, huffing from the amount of fatigue and damage taken, to look at the arriving figure in disbelief. "Sakuzy…" she gasped, her breath feeling short and weak.
Soaked to the bone, Storm looked at Snake strangely before looking back at Hikari, his dark scowl looking at the two in confusion. The expression on his face looked as if he was deciding who to believe. He slowly made his way towards the fallen Hikari, knelling in front of her and handed out his claw to her. It was only when Hikari slowly started to reach out to him was when he flip his claw upwards and cast strong winds against her, sending the injured Hikari through one of the broken houses. He lowered his arm as he turned back to look at Major Snake. "T-t-t-tough for a copy."
Snake chuckled at this. "I'll leave this to you then." He smirked evilly before turning his attention towards Crush and Ventus' fight.
Storm quickly used his wind ability to dye himself off, his clothing and hair moving rapidly in the air as he walked over to his former sword on the ground. He picked it up and threw it to his fallen sister; the sword skidded in front of her. He remained still as he watched Hikari struggle to her feet. "Pick it up." He instructed her.
Hikari shook her head, grabbing anything close to support her up, anything but her weapon. "I won't fight you…"
Storm slashed his claw though the air, creating one of his air blades to destroy Hikari's support, sending her to the ground. "Fight me!" he repeated. He struck the ground with his wind blades multiple times when she shook her head once more. "You won't free me from this hell?" He asked her in disbelief. "I want my peace!"
Hikari coughed in pain. "We have all of the items. We have the items." She didn't understand why her brother scoffed at her comment, has he truly become Storm? Is her brother still there? "We can cure you, Sakuzy. You don't have to fade to get rid of the virus!" She flinched as Storm nearly struck her once more. "Just stop this attack!" She begged him.
Storm laughed at the request. "Even if the cure magically worked, the Devons will kill me before curing me." He told her, knelling down to her once more. "After all, there are only three Devons left now. You wanna guess who's missing?" He said the last part with a sense of humour, a sick smile creeping on his face. Once again, he struck the ground.
Hikari breathed heavily, the dirt began to catch in her eyes from Storm's strikes. She only shook her head in disbelief. The images of her brother flashed past her, from the moment they had arrived at Little Devon, meeting the Devon brothers until the moments of his infected life, he was still Sakuzy. He was Sakuzy in African Depths; he was Sakuzy in the Pride Lands. The Shock Endless in front of her was not her brother, not anymore. That kind smile that rested on his face was gone, replaced by the twisted smirk that was placed now. "You may be lost. Controlled by the virus but you're not gone." She grabbed her sword as she used it for support. "I will not give up on you, Sakuzy! I will not fight you!" She told him, keeping her breath steady.
Storm only looked at her darkly. "Then what the Order say is true…" He said coldly. "You truly are just a copy." With his words spoken, he summoned his Shadow's Grove and slammed against his former Eternal Blade out of her hand, making the girl lose her balance again and hit the ground hard. Knowing that we won't be fighting today, he quickly looked at his communicator in his dark armour, seeing a message from Colonel Devil and Nikolai. "Major! Crush!" Storm quickly turned to the members. "We need to finish up. Vanitas is waiting."
Ven has had enough trouble with dealing with the strength of the dark Wrath Endless but when he thought he was about to overcome the teen, Major Snake had joined in the battle. With Crush's ability to force Ven's keyblade out of his hand, Ven was vulnerable to Snake's fast strikes from his fast whip strike, earth attacks or from the strength from his Lizard Outburst form. No matter how Ven tried to evade and block the two so that he would heal himself, the two Endless only came after him with multiple strikes. A pillar of light appeared, striking the two Endless back and refreshed the keyblade wielder in an attempt to flee the attacks once more. As Ventus tried the escape, Snake managed to trip him up with the earth before wrapping him tightly in a stone grip.
Snake chuckled with victory, watching Ventus struggle in the rock hard fist, his breath slowly escaping from him. "Finally! After jumping from world to world, I've finally caught you." He shot around to Crush. "Conceal him and take him to the Master." He instructed before looking back at Storm. "Contact Link. We need to get ready for what events are to come." He told him, receiving a nod before disappearing in his brown portal.
Hikari gasped in shock as she looked back up to watch Ven get covered in a darken bubble, preventing the keybearer to escape, before disappearing in a dark portal with Crush. "Ven!" She called out with all of her might, watching him disappear from sight.
Storm chuckled at his sister's misery. "To think! You could have made a difference if you didn't just sit there." He commented. "Just like the weak little girl you are." He walked away from the fallen fighter, walking backwards as she tried to push herself up. "When you're ready to grow up and face me. I'll come." He told her before disappearing in his own portal, leaving the injured Hikari to the deadly silent night.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora grabbed the edge of wall to quickly catch his breath. With the pain from his heart, head and claw getting stronger and stronger as well as trying his best to catch up to the haste ability Jun, the Keyblade Master had to take a breather. As soon as he had gathered his breathe, he turned his attention to the sounds of battles that were going on through the rest of the town. "I need to help them." He felt guilty for leaving his friends to deal with the battles while he had been following Jun around in circles, not knowing where she was leading him. He sighed as he looked in the direction he saw Jun run in. "Where is she leading me?" He wondered as he turned the corner, holding his chest. A smile grew on his face as he saw a familiar figure up ahead. "Kairi…" He spoke with relief. Now that he has found Kairi, they can quickly check on Riku and all of his friends.
He went to call out to Kairi when the pain from his heart increased, his claw growing rapidly. 'Not yet. Something is up' He warned him.
"Why should I listen to you?" Sora whispered as he looked back up to Kairi, only to find that she wasn't alone. "Hey…"
Sora watched from a distance as Brian ran over to Kairi, his hand on her shoulder, the expression on his face was filled with shock, disbelief and affection. "What's going on?" Sora watched in confusion as he watched the two talks, watching his claw flash green as he watched the two get too close for his comfort, especially when he watched Kairi pull Brian into an affectionate hug. "It's nothing…" He told himself, trying to calm himself down. "They're just friends."
The virus chuckled suddenly. 'You should listen to what's being said here. You will want to know.'
'Listen?' Sora thought before remember about the hearing ability that the virus had given him back in African Depths. With his hearing enhanced, Sora hid round the corner as he watched the two secretly. 'They're just friends.' Sora told himself once more as he watched the two.
Brian pulled away from Kairi, looking back at her with affection. "I don't know why I didn't say what I needed to say to you when we were travelling. I guess a part of me didn't want to lose you at a friend. But when you was lost, when you was missing, I regretted not telling you-" He was quickly shushed by the Princess of Heart as she placed a hand on his cheek, staring back at Brian with the same affection.
His hearing ability was cut after that, seeing that Brian and Kairi were still talking. Sora just watched the scene as if he was off the edge of the seat, not believing what was happening in front of him. Denial rushed through him as he continued to tell himself that the two are just friends as he watched the two. "Kairi…pull away." He whispered.
Why would she pull away? Can't you see that she has fallen for his trap? I tried to warn you-
"No.." Sora shook his head. "We made a promise. Once this was all over, we can be together without a worry in the world." The night in Christmas Town filled his mind, that one night that he actually shown her how much he cared and how much she cared for him.
Well, looks like that worthless princess is breaking that promise right now.
"Wha-" Distracted by the virus, Sora had turned his eyes away from his two friends. When he turned his attention back to them, he felt his heart drop, wishing that he never looked.
He watched Kairi pull Brian in for a slow affectionate kiss.
A/N: What will happen next? Ventus is captured? Kairi kissed Brian? What will Sora do? Where is Riku? Tune in next time for KINGDOM HEARTS : BALANCE OF WORLDS
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't replied. Dream Drop Distance sort of appeared out of nowhere. Now I haven't fully decided yet but I might throw some info from Dream Drop into the story so for those that haven't played it. I will give warning if the next chapter will contains spoilers for the game in the author's note. What did you guys think of the game anyway? And for those that have finished, are you looking forward to when KH3 come?
Hope you guys are enjoying the summer and the London 2012.
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