Persona X TWEWY X Kingdom Hearts
Summary: Trapped in an unfair game? Fighting against society? Changing the hearts of evil adults? Save the world? Discovering oneself? Nothing out of the ordinary for these teenagers.
Chapter Seventeen:
Down with the King.
*Early Morning: Monday 4/25*
*Seven days until Expulsion*
Walking down the hallway with Ann and Shiki, Xion stops when they spot the group of students near the bulletin boards, which were decorated with the calling cards the night party had created. In an instant the trio of girls inched closer to hear what the students were yammering on about, some were speculating what the cards were supposed to be. Some even claim they heard that the cards were posted before school even opened, and many more were adding their two cents to the sudden appearances of these calling cards.
"Looks like they got the students attention…" Ann whispers to the other two, "Wonder if Kamoshida's seen it".
"Haven't seen him yet, but its still pretty early," Shiki argued while Xion approached the bulletin boards. Curious as to what someone like Ryuji wrote on the super important card of calling. She was joined by Ann and Shiki as she reads aloud: "Sir Suguru Kamoshida, the utter bad word of lust…we know how bad word you are, and you put your twisted desires on students who can't fight back. That's why we have decided to steal away those desires and make you confess your sins".
Ann and Shiki looked at the writing first then back to Xion who read out the final piece: "This will be done tomorrow, so we hope you are ready. From, the Phantom Thieves".
"X-Xion…did you censor yourself?" Ann asked with humour in her voice. The raven nodded vigorously and said: "I'm not allowed to swear. Its bad". Shiki and Ann glanced at each other, conflicted with either laughing profusely at this girl's innocence or hug her. Ann shook her head and turned back to the icon of the thieves, pursing her lips and mouthing "wow". "This looks a lot better then the first one," she says.
"Yeah I remember Naminé mentioning it…this looks a lot cooler," Shiki agrees, adjusting her back, "But still…do you think this is enough?".
Xion turned and spotted Ryuji, Ren and Neku standing near the bulletin, hanging around. They approached the boys, the spiky blond grinning madly. "Not bad, eh?" he asked confidently, "I looked up a bunch of similar stuff online for reference". The two girls share a glance while Xion hums away innocently while Neku rolls his eyes at the punk. "You really should've let at least someone supervise your message…" he sighs while rolling his shoulders. Ryuji turned to him with a glare, indigently asking him what he did wrong.
"You wrote it like an idiot trying to be an adult," Neku explained, "Plus the original logo…sucked". Ryuji growls at him, but Ren raised his hand. "Calm down Ryuji. However it was structured, the message is clear as is our intention," he says, "Right now we just need Kamoshida to see it to take effect, right Morgana?". The cat pops his head out of his bag, keeping it low enough for people not to see him. "Yeah, once he sees the message, that should resonate with his shadow and then the treasure will show up in the Metaverse," the cat explained. He then nodded his head towards the students, which made everyone else peer over.
Several of them were starting to ask the purpose of the message as well as its contents, some girls asking if Kamoshida had done something wrong and even a few brought up the rumours surrounding him. Many questions regarding what exactly the thieves were taking, some about who they were and more about Kamoshida's actions that warranted this sort of calling card. Ryuji's grin came back full swing as he folds his arms while the students started to pile up and the hype rising.
"Looks like they're getting excited…" Ren remarks, "And now we wait for the man of the hour…".
Just as he said it, Kamoshida storms up to the bulletin boards, demanding to know who was the one who started this. Morgana cackles, saying: "Look at that, a predictable reaction from someone who knows what we mean by distorted desires". Neku nodded in agreement, smirking behind his collar. "Definitely. Look at him," he says gesturing him subtly, "I've never seen him get so worked up like this, even when you openly challenge him".
"Even when we challenged him in his office, he's never sweated this much," Ren added in. They watched the coach glare at the bulletin, before he suddenly turned on one student and grabbed him by the collar, demanding he'd fess up or tell him who started this. The student, terrified, screamed he doesn't know whose done this or even knows why, the others either backed away from him in terror or even ran away all together. Ryuji almost barked at him, but Ren stopped him, eyeing the tempered boy with a silent order.
In an instant, Kamoshida turned his head to the group and dropped the student and stormed over to them. "Was it you two!?" he growls, nearly stomping into Xion. The raven turned to him with resilience in her eyes and when he stared at her, he suddenly stopped in his tracks as the girl stares him down. Ren steps closer to Xion and pulls her behind him softly, glaring at the teacher. "And if it was?" he challenged again, "Are you going to threaten us?".
"You little…" Kamoshida growls and actually looked ready to raise his fist, but Neku stepped in. "Go ahead, attack him," he taunts. Kamoshida stared at him in shock as the others stared to stare him down. "You so much as touch a hair on his head, and ALL of us will turn you in," Neku threatened, and Shiki had her phone in her hand gripped in her pocket just in case. Kamoshida glares at the students with gritted teeth and before he could bark more, Riku and the others show up from the stairs and doors.
As the gang gathered up, eyes fiercely glaring back at the teacher with not even a shred of fear in their eyes nor even hesitation to start something with him. Like a coward, he scoffed and says: "Eh, its not a problem. You'll be expelled soon enough anyway". Suddenly the world shifted and melted away for a moment in the space of time, where they find themselves in nothing but darkness and instead of Kamoshida the coach, there stood the king staring them down.
"Come…steal it if you can!" taunts the king.
The world returns to normal with Kamoshida smirking at them, bragging that he could even have Sora and co kicked out if he so desired. Then he leered at Kairi and asked: "With Shiho probably never coming back, maybe you could take her place?". Kairi stood her ground and snapped: "Like heck I will…murderer". Kamoshida's eyes widened at the girl's tone and before he could even retort, Ren gestures the others to follow him. He passes the teacher with a final message.
"You've caused enough pain…now you're gonna get exactly what's coming to you".
Leaving the coach in a state of bafflement and terror, the gang headed outside for the yard. Along the way, Morgana spoke up. "Judging from that reaction…I'm sure we had an effect on his Palace". "So that means the treasure appeared…and we can steal it today".
"Only today," Rhyme reminds, "If Morgana is right then the impact of the calling card won't last long and very likely won't work a second time".
"Which means its do or die today," Neku says, "One day is all we're gonna need". Together the thieves proceeded with their daily school life, and as the day shifts into the afternoon, the heist had officially commenced.
*Afternoon: Monday 4/25*
*Kamoshida's Palace*
Exiting the safe room, the trio of thieves quickly dash for the throne room after Rhyme and Morgana climbed up to the second floor of the room. As Morgana had said, the entire castle was on full alert. There were bells going off around the area, they could feel the tension in the air as the more sensitive thieves could sense more shadows and heartless were starting to pop up all around the place like ants. Even at the drawbridge there were guards patrolling around like they were waiting for an enemy assault.
Once the team took them down with ease, Eri's group began the process of setting up the lines while with the aid of Beat flying each teammate to their respective towers. Once the three were up and stationed, Kairi and Sora started their sabotaging as the choke pointers got into positions, leaving Ren's five-member team to get into their positions. He and his two partners in crime entered the throne room to find it was devoid of any soldiers or even Kamoshida.
"What the hell's going on? The door's sittin' open and there aren't any soldiers?" Ryuji shouts. Ren slapped his chest to lower his voice and places two fingers on his earpiece to communicate with Rhyme for an idea. "I've a bad feeling that Kamoshida is either trying to lure us into an ambush and/or a trap, or if we're lucky he might have an understaff issue," she theorizes with half heart attempts to believe her second theory. "Either way, we're going to grab the treasure and confront him," Ren huffed, "May as well take his generous offer".
"We'll keep an eye out for anything, just watch yourselves," she pleaded. Ren confirms her request and together the three rush inwards to the treasure room. As they climbed the stairs, they get a call from Roxas just when Ren opened the door. "Well if we had any doubt about the treasure appearing…" he teases just when the treasure snatcher squad enters the room. Their jaws dropped to the ground when the see the treasure.
Floating in the middle of the room is a gaudy but certainly priceless crown that was easily the size of small shed. Adorned with priceless jewels with the metal being made of solid gold and red velvet cloth. Roxas had his arms folded looking at the treasure with amusement and even getting a little golden eyed at the size, likely trying to estimate the value of such a thing. He waves the group over while wearing the same masks Riku and the night party used, gesturing the door behind it was opened and already he had three sacks of treasure cruising down to Ventus.
"Holy shit…that's huge!" Ryuji says after picking his jaw off the floor.
"Yeah! Really wished it was smaller…could've used the line to sneak it out…" Roxas laments, gesturing the thin and puny line already having some issues with the treasure his group oversaw. Ren quietly curses and turns away from the group and talks to Rhyme and Morgana while Ann stares at the crown with disgust. "You ok?" Roxas asks as he started on the next sack. "It kinda pisses me off…why's it so pretty? I thought this was Kamoshida's desire?" she says.
"Mona never said it'd be repulsive," Roxas argued, "I mean look at everything that this castle has. It's all his cognition or whatever, so of course it'd be something extravagant and pretty like a crown". Ann folds her arms while Ryuji starts to help the nobody of Sora while he waits around for their leader to finish up.
"Tzu, Mona, we've got the treasure. Just like you said, it's just there ready to be stolen," he informs, "But we've got a situation. The bloody thing is as big as a car".
"What is it exactly?" Rhyme asks.
"A crown".
"How does it look? Does it look amazing!?" Morgana asks with excitement.
"Yes it looks valuable, Mona! But focus on the trouble at hand!" Ren lectured while pinching the bridge of his nose. This wasn't part of the plan; he hadn't taken into consideration the weight and size of the treasure itself. The leader of the Phantom Thieves had hoped it would have been something far smaller and much more manageable to sneak away with, but a crown of this size would take all three, if not five of them, to carry out. Maybe this was why Kamoshida didn't leave any guards behind, perhaps the trap in mind was leaving the thieves to lug this giant waste of material out.
He then hears some scuffle and a few low shouts from Rhyme on the other hand, then a loud "thump" sound. "Mona! Settle down and stop meowing, you'll give away our position!" she hisses on her end, "Joker, we don't have any other option and we can't wait for the others to arrive. You'll just have to carry it until the others can come and help". Ren sighed a "right" on his end and then turns to the others and said: "Come on, we're gonna have to lug it ourselves".
"You're kidding me…" Ann says, gesturing herself and the crown.
"Unless you want to wait around and risk this room being filled with soldiers, then no I'm not," Ren says, "New guy, how much longer is this gonna take you?". Roxas pauses and then gestured to himself, asking if he was "New Guy" and Ren nodded. "…couldn't have come up with a better name?" he asked with huff. "Roxas…" stressed Ren.
"I dunno! Look, just close the door after you leave or I will, either way its gonna take me awhile!" answers the non-Persona user. Ren cursed again but unfortunately they had very limited options so if the three had to carry it, then they'll carry it. "So once we take this, the Palace will disappear and Kamoshida will change," Ann says as if to remind the others why their doing this and even gleam some assurance that this wasn't going to be a giant waste of their time.
"That's what Mona says, so I'm very strongly hoping he's right about this," Ren says as he heaves the crown into his hands, "Otherwise I'm going to feel very stupid after this".
Meanwhile Rhyme and Morgana were still awaiting for their teammates on the outside, the strategist checking in with the others one team at a time to get an idea on the progress of the heist. So far Kairi had sabotaged the elevator from the dungeons and Sora was just wrapping up with the second-floor lift, cutting off at least two sets of reinforcements from their enemies. The choke point teams haven't seen any guards yet apart from the patrolling ones, but no mass horde of soldiers yet. "Which means Kamoshida is just waiting for us to either expose ourselves or he's waiting for the moment Joker brings out the crown," she theorizes.
"If he didn't set any traps in his treasure room even after leaving it wide open then you're probably right," Morgana says in agreement, "But you gotta admit this is going WAY better then you thought~". Morgana folds his stubby arms over and starts going on about how fortunate he was to find the others. A total ten Persona users followed by several useful allies, he bragged that he made the right judgement call in making a deal with Ren, laughing in a catlike way. Rhyme rolls her eyes at his "brilliant judgement" call before she checks in with Eri.
"This is Tzu, how are we doing on the other treasures?" she asked.
"So far I've got at least four bags of goodies~ Roxy-Moxy is guessing at least twenty more bags and we're golden~" Eri replied.
"…d-did you just call him "Roxy-Moxy?" Rhyme whispered with Morgana snickering.
"You guys didn't give us codenames, so I had to make them up!" replied Eri.
"Does he know?" says Rhyme with a deadpanned tone.
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him!" quickly replied Eri with a case of sudden nerves.
Rhyme sighed and asked her to keep her updated if something goes wrong after a quick reminder of what to do should the guards see her. Morgana pats her hip and gestures below them. They carefully peer through the slots of the stone railing to see Ren's team carrying the crown across the room, clearly struggling with the weight and size of the blasted thing. Morgana nearly squeals in delight from the crown, darn near drooled at the mere sight of the thing while Rhyme bites her lips. Ren's description of the treasure was grossly generous of him, the treasure looked so much more cumbersome then she had thought.
"Just how are we supposed to get that to the exit?" she thought deeply.
"Go, go! Let's go! KA-MO-SHIDA!".
The five thieves looked to see the king suddenly appear from nowhere and with a volleyball in hand, he performed a spike. The ball struck the crown right out of the thieves' hands, startling them. Then the scantly clothed king flipped over them and lands before his throne, smugly staring down his intruders. With a single raised hand, he levitated the crown and then either through his control over the Palace or some other bizarre cognition, the crown condensed into a normal sized crown.
"I won't let anyone take this!" boasts Kamoshida, "This proves I'm the king of this castle! It's the core of this world!".
The three thieves stared down the king before them, undaunted and not even fazed by his sudden appearance. "Rat bastard…" growls Ann while Ryuji brandishes his iron pipe, his shark like teeth bared. The king stares down at Ren in particular, the leader carrying an unamused and complete lack of any sense of worry in his eyes, while his foe was smug and even victorious. "Nothing to say rat boy? Bet you weren't expecting me to take back what's mine so soon?" he sneered.
"On the contrary, I was expecting SOMEONE to try and stop us, you showing up was the absolute lowest outcome I could think of," Ren says with a wave of his hand, "Considering as a total of what? Two? Three times whenever the odds were against you, you ran away". Kamoshida's eyes narrowed with insult while the leader pulls the cuffs of his gloves down, tightening them on his hands while carrying that cocky smirk.
"So what now, Kamoshida? Are you going to call your men to dispose of us? The heartless perhaps? Or do you have a special surprise for us?" he further taunts, "Because considering how much you fear our powers I'm assuming you're not gonna actually fight us". Kamoshida barked back, demanding the leader be silent and treat him with the respect he "rightfully" deserves, as a wicked grin forms on his face. "Oh I'm more than happy to dispose of you all myself, but I wouldn't defile my hands with your worthless lot!" Kamoshida threatens.
"So you're gonna call your men? Or did you already sound the alarm?" Ren challenged, sticking his hands into his pockets. When the king bragged they were already on the way, admitting he expected the thieves for a long while to show up he went ahead and warned them earlier. But when he sees Ann and Ryuji grinning maliciously as their leader's smirk turns into a smug look, Ren placed two fingers on his earpiece, switching on a loudspeaker after plucking it out and says: "Phantom Thieves? How are we doing with the king's men?".
"Nightmare here, Jet and I are cleaning house!" Riku calls out.
"Tigress on the scene, Mr Mew is smashing everything like they were made out sticks!" Shiki chirped.
"Reaper over here, doing my job and reaping!" Neku shouts with a laugh.
"Hmm…looks like your men aren't gonna reach you in time," Ren says mockingly, placing the earpiece back into his ear, "Meaning you're on your own now". Kamoshida growls but when he tries to speak, Ren cuts him off and says: "Oh and no need to bring up your lifts…we've already got a team taking care of the convenience of transportation".
Ryuji slammed his pipe into his hands, shouting: "Ya hear that you pervert! You've got no guards, no heartless or nothin!".
With a curse and a growl, Kamoshida bellowed: "You little shits think you thought of everything!? Fine then, I'LL personally take care of you, right here, right now!".
"That's our line, you sexually-harrassin' d-bag!" Ryuji insults. Instead of biting back, the king's smug looks returned as if he had suddenly gained the advantage. With a shake of his head, he called Ryuji's insult nothing more than a "selfish misunderstanding", like he had the whole thing wrong. Ann took a step forward and snapped at him: "How is that a misunderstanding!? You were doing horrible things and kept it as a secret!".
"Hey, don't blame me, blame the people around me. THEY were the ones who kept it a secret," says the king in a bragging tone, "Adults who wanted to share in my accomplishments, students who have the drive to become winners…they willingly protect me so we could all profit from it".
"Profit…" Ren says, before suddenly he takes his gun out and even pulls the trigger at the king. Luckily he only grazes the king's cheek, startling him and even his friends from this suddenly display of violence. When Kamoshida's widened eyes fall back onto the boy, no more is there a playful cocky look in his eyes but only unbridled rage. "You low life parasite! How DARE you justify everything you've done as "profit"! Who in the world profited from YOUR abuse!?".
"Did Mishima profit from your beatings!? Does the volleyball team profit from your sexual harassments!? Did Ryuji profit from you breaking his leg!? Ann being nothing more than a toy, did she profit from anything!?" rants the leader, and without missing a beat, he yelled: "Did Shiho Suzuki profit from trying to take her own life just to escape from you!?".
Kamoshida stepped back, fearing the rage infilled boy might take his head with the next shot fired. Ren scoffs in disgust, holstering his gun and brandishing his knife, eyes sharpened and poise tense like he was ready to pounce. "You are a cancer on Shujin, on every student there…and after everything you've done you have a nerve to act like you're the innocent on here, that they wanted to share your success so badly they were willing to take your garbage to get some of that? What a delusional train wreck of a mind you must have," insults Ren.
"Go ahead, either defend your crown or hand it over…either way, your rule ends here!".
Kamoshida shakes, both out of fear of the boy's sudden rage and pure hate for this brat. "There…there are too many imbeciles who don't understand it…!" Kamoshida said, "Brats like you and that idiot girl who tried to kill herself…".
Ann stands beside Ren, whip in hand as she stares daggers at the king. "True, she's a total idiot…letting you manipulate her, then committing suicide…and I'm even more of a dumbass for not realizing it sooner!" she shouts, "But no matter what kind of an idiot they are, they don't need your worthless permission to live their lives!".
"You…you drop that attitude you peasants! There is nothing wrong with using my gifts for my gain!" argues Kamoshida, "I'm a cut above all other humans!".
"You mean your BENEATH all other humans!" Ren counters, and Ann added in: "You're nothing but a demon obsessed with his sick desires!".
This surprisingly made him laugh, boasting that indeed Ann was right. He wasn't a human, but a demon who ruled this world. Slowly the dark reddish ink began to surround him, his echo-like voice started to sound more distorted with his laughter. Then his body is swarmed by the dark ink, and completely covers himself as he began to grow. Slowly he turned into a monstrously large abomination that nearly took up a whole wall's length of the floor. As the darkness disappears, no more stands the king, but a monster.
He turned into a large pink demon with multiple arms and legs as well as a thick purple tongue, wearing his Treasure as a crown. He wears a red cape on his back, with multiple medals hidden within it. He carries golden eating utensils in his lower arms, likely to consume the Cognitive existences of his female team members, that were only consisting of their lower halves and served in a golden chalice.
His upper arms carry a riding crop and a wine glass containing wine and the Cognitive Ann. Finally there are creatures chained to his throne, wearing the same helmets the prisoners from their first time coming to the Palace.
"I'm allowed to do whatever the hell I want!" declared the demon-king. Ren coldly smirked and raised his dagger, boasting: "This little game of king of the castle ends here". The thieves raised their weapons as the king howls, his full form revealed and exposed to the world. "You goddamn, no-good, shitty brats! Haven't you ever been taught not to point at people!? HUH!?" shouted the demon-king. The three thieves don't even respond to his insult, eyes fixed on the treasure now adorned on his head and out of their reach.
Kamoshida cracks his whip and commands the little creatures to attack. They scrambled to their stubby feet and then all perform a spike, shooting a hail of volleyballs at the thieves. Ren and Ann leapt out of the way while Ryuji swung his iron pipe. It collides with three volleyballs like a baseball bat and he slammed the balls back into Kamoshida's face, hitting him square in between his broken eyes. The king howled in pain as his head recoils, which gave Ren a chance to call Arséne and have his Persona rake his monster claws across the king's chest.
He commands his slaves to attack the thieves with more volleyballs, his threats spur the little creatures to keep firing volleyballs at the party like they were all machines from a batting cage. Because of Ren's incredible graceful nimbleness he manages to dance around these attacks while taking shots at the king, unlike Ann who is forced to use Carmen to help her incinerate the balls and protect herself. Ever the stubborn and bold teen, Ryuji takes the hits without even grunting or hissing in pain as he keeps up with the swinging back the ones he hits or shrug off the attacks.
The red clad thief snaps her whip and then starts to thrash it around in the air before her, swinging it so wildly and ferociously it was like she created a hurricane of razor sharp leaves. Her leather whip slashes and eviscerates the balls like they were made of wet paper, ripped to shreds and nothing. While she kept the attack up, Ryuji kicks off a pillar and while in the air, he roars: "PERSONA!". Ripping off his mask as the famous pirate raised his sail behind the boy, they call down a bolt of lightning upon the demon king and give him a terrible jolt that a normal human wouldn't have any prayer of surviving.
Kamoshida growls in pain, cursing Ryuji and lifts his golden utensils to attack him. The knife almost stabbed the punk in the stomach if he didn't swerve around it, but he was grazed on the stomach by the fork. He falls back down to the ground with a thud and this prompted Kamoshida to stab him while he was helpless. His knife was caught mid-stab by Ann's whip, and with her strength enhanced by her disdain for this abomination, he wasn't going to move his weapon at any point. Ren dashes and grabbed Ryuji off the ground and onto his feet, then hands him some medicine before resuming his assault on the king.
Kamoshida uses his monstrous strength to rip his weapon off Ann by yanking her whip out of her hands and swung the knife at the flying Ren. The Trickster leapt off the wall just inches above the pillar in time for the knife to collide with the wall, breaking pieces of metal and stone while the leader of the Phantom Thieves flies into the air with grace. He shoots more rounds from his gun at the king, striking his face and even his torso just inches away from his lower right arm. While he back flipped to the ground, Ryuji jumps into the air at the fork wielding arm and with vengeance filling his strength, he slammed his pipe right upon the muscle and flesh of the arm with so much force he could have smashed a pillar of stone.
This attack shattered the bones and joints of his arm, making the king howl in agony as his hand dropped the knife unwillingly. He tries to crush Ryuji with his upper arm only to miss when Ann's whip wrapped around his waist and yanked him back to herself and Ren, sparing him from becoming a pancake. He is throw onto his back and rolled onto his knees just as Ann calls her Persona to unleash a barrage of fire upon the king, striking him with her fiery rage.
Kamoshida doesn't catch fire but the pain and strain in his form is certainly telling the gang they were succeeding in harming the demon king. With one arm down in only the first few minutes into the fight, there is a great sense of satisfaction swelling within the thieves. Until Kamoshida uses the fork to plunge it into the chalice containing the other halves of the female bodies and to make him even more of a demon, he dropped the half into his massive mouth and consumed the half. A dark violet light surged around his body and then his broken arm surged to life, picking up the fork.
"GAH HAHA! That hit the spot!" he laughed monstrously, sneering at the thieves. Ren hissed in irritation, his foe had just demonstrated another monstrous act and now healed from their assault. "Skull!" he shouts and as if their minds were in sync, the punk charged towards the chalice. Calling upon his Persona once again to help him drop down a bolt of lighting onto the chalice, which shocked the cursed thing and even caused a few cracks in it.
This assault on his item enraged the king, shouting: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS WORTH! STOP TOUCHING IT! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!".
"Well now that just makes me wanna hit it more!" Ryuji yelled as he ducks under a swiping knife and charged towards the chalice. He nearly smashes it entirely but the king plunged his fork right in Ryuji's path. Just another step and Ryuji would have gotten the fork right through his head. He stumbles around it and was struck by the creature's volleyballs again, this time he felt the pain and was struck onto his back.
Ann snaps her whip across the field, smacking Kamoshida and a few volleyballs from attacking the down Ryuji while Ren shoots down some volleyballs. During this, Kamoshida took the wine glass containing another cognition of Ann (though calling it a doll would have been more appropriate) and lustfully slurped both the wine and girl in his chasm of a mouth before spitting her back into the glass. His body shined with dark red energy and when it dimmed, he swung his whip at the two thieves. Ann sees this and quickly pushed Ren away and was slammed into the stomach.
She gasped in pain before she went flying into the throne room door with a thud so loud and heavy it echoed throughout the throne room. Ann falls onto the ground with a light thud and struggles to get back up, just barely managing to rest on one knee and her elbows. "Aww, was that too rough?" mocked Kamoshida, "You'll get used to it later Ann, and you'll love it!". But in his lavishing victory, the giant monster neglected to acknowledge there was still a rebel on his feet and seeing both his friends harmed only invigorated him to deliver swift retribution.
Like a wraith appearing from the shadows, Ren slashes the chalice with one swipe of his dagger. The object split in two before the whole thing crumbled into fragments and dust while the cognitions of the female halves disappeared into the air. He back flips away from the roaring Kamoshida just as Ryuji gets onto his feet, rocking his shoulders. "NOOOO! No way! This was from when I won the national…" he laments, slumped and dare Ren remark, defeated. Himself, Ryuji and Ann, after swallowing her medicine, quickly surrounded the king with their guns, trapping him.
"You…you little shits think you can get away with this!? Do you realize who I am!?" accuses Kamoshida, "I AM KAMOSHIDA!".
"So we heard, what's your point?" Ren challenged.
"And yet you still do this! THAT'S EVEN WORSE! I'll make you all pay for this! I AM THE KNG!" bellowed the king.
"Ya know somethin'? I always saw you as a condescending hotshot but now…you're just a pathetic loser!" Ryuji mocks, "How's it feel to be on the receiving end of an ass whooping? You perverted jackass!".
"We're here to steal that crown of yours! Will you just give up and hand it over?" Ann threatens, "Or do you want us to keep kicking your ass?". Livid, Kamoshida refused to hand over his treasure to the likes of Ren's company, which somewhat amused the leader that the man, even in his pathetic defeated state he still had the nerve to still act like a hot shot. Ren's smirk widened into a more malicious one, suggesting to his friends if the king still has the energy to bark, then it's probably for the best they up their game.
Together the Phantom Thieves combine their Personas with the power of shadow dashing to suddenly vanish into the air and unleash a storm of attacks upon the king. Slashing from whip and blade with crushing and breaking from the pipe, the thieves moved so fast and lethally not even a creature like Kamoshida with his gigantic eyes could track them, much less repel their assault. Finally the thieves reappear above the king in the air, guns aimed and unleash a rainstorm of bullets upon the king.
Nearly slumping, the king almost collapses from the assault and uses the utensils to hold himself from falling. He pants and grunts before he stabbed his golden utensils into the ground and forced himself up. "I am the king! If not me, then who is!?" he declared, "You little shits constantly defying me…Looks like I gotta bring out the big guns!". He orders his slaves to bring out the, in his words, "you know what", and they scrambled away to get this strangely named item.
"Time for my kill shot from when I was active and rockin' it!" he bragged. He even explained the name behind the attack, redundant and nothing more then to stroke his ego. Soon enough as he kept the thieves at bay with his attacks, to their shock a cognition of Mishima ran with a volleyball to his king. The pathetic boy apologized to him meekly and terrified, even shrank when the king berated him for being too slow.
"He even has a cognition of Mishima…" Ann says, snapping her whip, "Who else did he make here!?".
"Mishima, you can pass it to me! You CAN do that, right you worthless chump!?" insults/orders Kamoshida. Weakly, Mishima tosses the ball into the air for his king, and like he did back in the real world, Kamoshida leaps into the air. He performs a spike but unlike the one he did back in the real world where he nearly broke Mishima's arm, the moment the ball smashed into the ground it explodes in a small burst that almost swallows the thieves. They were hit and thrown onto the backs in pain, clothing burned and ripped from the attack.
"Shit…I knew I couldn't go all out with Mishima providing back up…" chastised the king, "You worthless shit-for brains! Get off my court and bring in the other slave!". Yelping in terror, the poor cognition of the boy scrambles away while apologizing profusely. Ren glowered in thought as he got to his feet, if this attack as him being unable to go all out, then the real deal was for certain a death sentence. He glanced to Ann and Ryuji slowly struggle to get back on their feet, making Trickster curse beneath his breath.
"Next slave, get out here! Hurry up with my damn ball!" orders Kamoshida with a snap of his whip.
Running out onto the "court" is, to the shock and disgust of the thieves, is Shiho. Dressed as a scantily clad playboy bunny, wearing a fluffy white bikini with matching wristbands and collar, a white rabbit tail and ears, with hot pink heels and a crown. "King Kamoshida, I've brought your ball, just as you asked," she says in a sultry voice, as if she was drooling over this abomination. Laughing, Kamoshida praised her for being at least more useful than Mishima. "Yeah, all women should just obey my orders, ain't that right sweetheart?" he says.
The very moment Ann's eyes land upon the mockery of her friend, her teeth are bared and an roar of rage bursts from her mouth. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" screams the thief, flames of her Persona roared to life as if she had turned into a divine being of fiery wrath. She rips off her mask and with all the rage Kamoshida instilled into her heart, she calls for Carmen to perform probably one of the hardest things she had to do. Suddenly a geyser of flames roars to life beneath the cognition of Shiho, engulfing her in roaring hot fire that could potentially rival a volcano eruption.
The cognition couldn't even make a sound before her form is consumed by Ann's fury, startling even Kamoshida. When he looked to the spot his pet once stood and sees not even ash, he scoffed. "Even Suzui was useless. Looks like I'll have to give her some special instructions later… One on one!" he laughed.
"You piece of filth…you have the balls to do that to Shiho!? After everything you put her through!?" Ryuji growls as his Persona joins his beck and call. Ren and the other two charge at the king to resume the battle, while above Rhyme and Morgana watch on. The girl quietly hissed at the turn of the battle, watching her friends taking hits and slowly but surely become more and more weary as the battle dragged out. Kamoshida was bearing the pain but it seemed to her that this could turn into a battle of stamina. And based on how Ann and Ryuji were she feared it may become his victory.
"This isn't good…" Morgana whispers, "We should jump in and help them!".
"Adding the two of us won't make a giant difference if all we do is use brute force…" Rhyme argues, tapping her chin in thought. They had taken away his volleyball attacks and just as she guessed, his call for another slave going unheard told her he only had those two cognitions as his appointed ball bringers. But while that at least took the heat off the three, Kamoshida shows no sign of slowing down and she feared he could keep this up for as long as he'd need to.
Herself and Morgana COULD turn the tide but that would be very short lived given their abilities. And the more she watched him the more she realized that their attacks aren't doing as much as they were led to believe. Even with Ryuji hitting him hard enough to shatter bones, after that chalice healed him up it seems like the bones are even tougher now, and even a direct hit to the hit only rewards them with a recoil from Kamoshida. The strategist feared they may be only tickling him in comparison to the damage he's dealing to them.
Rhyme looks up and notices the crown's shine was a tad more sparkly and even from here she felt a distortion resonating from it. "Mona is it possible that the treasure could have some form of beneficial abilities to the Ruler?" she asked quietly, gesturing the crown. Morgana looks and his whiskers twitched, then nodding to her question. "Yeah, I'm getting a really worrisome vibe from that over sized headpiece…" he confirmed.
"Then if we manage to relive it from Kamoshida, could we possibly turn the odds to our favour?" she hoped. Morgana makes a cat grin, nodding to her. "Yeah…but we've still got Kamoshida to deal with as well. The crown would at least probably make our hits actually hurt him, but your argument kinda stands," he reminds. Rhyme nodded and then placed two fingers on her earpiece. "Phantom Thieves, we've a situation on our end. Is there anyone finished with their jobs?" she asked.
"We're almost done our end, but it's gonna take awhile for us to reach you!" Riku replied and judging from the sounds on his end he was closing the fight.
"I'm making my way to Reaper now, but same with Nightmare, I'll be a bit!" Shiki confirms.
"Still fighting! Think king dick-head was really fixed on having back up on his floor!" Neku yells over the fighting. Rhyme hissed in annoyance before reaching out to Sora and Kairi. "King? Scarlet? Have you finished with cutting off reinforcements?" she pleads.
Her answer came in the form of the door being slashed in an X pattern and as it blows off the hinges, two glowing figures dashed into the room. Bypassing the trio of thieves, two blades clashed with the utensils that tried to harm the gang. Kairi slashes the fork in half while Sora cleaves the blade of the knife in two, and then they both land before the disgraced king with weapons in hand.
"King and Scarlet here, dazzlingly stealing the show~" Kairi says, holding her blade in both hands. The other two thieves cheered their names while Ren folds his arms, smirking at Sora's cheeky smile. "Show-offs," he remarks, then gestures to Ann and Ryuji, "Hang back for a while and rest up, we'll take point!". The two leap back out of the fighting distance as Sora chucks Ren some medicine, all the while Kamoshida's eyes raged with dismay at the sight of more thieves in his castle. Meanwhile from above Rhyme and Morgana stare at the crown.
"A golden opportunity has arrived for us Mona, with Scarlet and King taking over the fight we can take the crown," she whispers. She gestured to the crown and then to the cat, ordering him to steal it while she provided back up to the other combatants. He nods and then scrambles to get closer to the king's head unaware while she hops over the railing of the terrace and lands on the floor, quietly hiding behind a pillar as Sora, Kairi and Ren continue the fight. Then just when she was about to join, her earpiece goes off.
"Hey uh, this is…New Guy…I've cleared the treasure room!" Roxas announced. Rhyme grinned as does the other thieves hearing in, and according to Roxas, himself and the others were nearing the meeting point with Eri. "Excellent work everyone, get the loot out of this place and wait on the drawbridge for us, we'll contact you once we take down the king," she instructs. The boy confirms the order and ceases the call, leaving Rhyme to finally join the fight.
Kamoshida tries to smack Sora with his whip while using his disgustingly long tongue to lap away at Kairi and Ren, his whip recoiled when it struck not the boy but a green barrier that appeared out of nowhere. Ren flips over the tongue while Kairi brings her blade down, making Kamoshida quickly retract before she cut off his tongue. The three turned four thieves stand side by side on the field, Rhyme showing off her war fan, now adorned by pins Neku gave her.
"Now listen up! This school exists because of me! You're the only ones who don't respect me!" bragged Kamoshida, as if trying to sway the opinions of the thieves. Rhyme just scoffs in response. "You're not respected by anyone; they fear you only because you have power over them and nothing more!" she challenged. "You little bitch! That ain't-
"You know what? I'm so sick and tired of your excuses and manipulative voice, it's grating on my ears…" Rhyme snapped, and as the pin glowed behind her fan, she finishes: "How about I give you a taste of exactly what those excuses sound like?". And with that, she lowers her fan and opens her mouth to unleash a hypersonic sound wave that covers Kamoshida. The king dropped his broken utensils and in a desperate attempt to shield his massive ears he slammed his hands onto them. The pin used is known to Players as "LIVE!", a Tigre Punks brand that uses sound as opposed to the natural elements.
Even behind the thieves had to shield their ears from the attack as Rhyme screeches the sound wave. The glass windows shatter, even the ground cracked beneath her waves and the throne started to break apart from her soundwave, Kamoshida thrashing his head yelling at her to cease but this frantic movement kept him distracted long enough for Morgana to perch himself upon the terrace railing and as Rhyme kept him on the defence, the cat readies himself to make the cut.
"BE QUIET YOU BRAT!" screams Kamoshida, letting his wine glass drop and swung his giant fist at the girl. Rhyme was struck, too busying screaming at him to move and she was punched all the wall back to the wall of the entrance. Her body smashed into the wall with a thunderous thud that sent cracks crawling up the wall to the ceiling, her body embedded in the wall like she become one with it. The girl couldn't even whimper, her head down and body motionless. Without the sound waves destroying his ears, Kamoshida starts to punch rapidly at the thieves with his disarmed hands.
The three thieves danced and dodge around his punches like they were wraiths, so quick and nimble Kamoshida might as well be trying to hit the air. "You little brats have it all wrong! I haven't sexually harassed anyone! They came on to ME because they wanted to get on my good side!" he says as he pummels at the thieves. His tirade of punches was halted by Kairi appearing from the air and diving with her sword aimed downward. Her blade pierced his punching hand and with her momentum, she penetrates the ground and stabbed her blade into the arm, trapping his limb.
He howled in pain and doesn't even attempt to retract his hand free out of fear. While he lost one limb Sora runs along the stabbed limb and leaps towards the king with his blade in hand. Unleashing a severe barrage of slashes and beatings before he performed one kick flip from him while tossing his sword at him. His holy blade struck home and nearly knocks off the crown from his skull, dizzying the king while he lands on his feet.
"Just how many excuses do you have in that inflated head of yours?" Kairi interrogates, "A misunderstanding? How in the world can you even THINK like that?".
"Those students didn't want to get on your "good side", they wanted you to treat them like people!" Sora throws. Ren takes a few more shots a him to keep his eyes on the trio while Morgana gets closer and closer to finally taking the odds back into their favour. Then with a roar, Kamoshida grabbed the broken knife and when it was raised, his eyes were fixed on the defeated thief trapped in the wall. Morgana sees this in time as Kamoshida throws the blade at Rhyme.
"TZU!" he screams and leaps off the terrace. Morgana uses his speed and shadow step together to thankfully appear with a swing of his sword to deflect the attack. The broken blade is tossed aside and he stands before Kamoshida and Rhyme, before his blue eyes widened in horrified realization. "AH HA! I knew there was another one here!" bellowed the king, "Too bad you put that little bitch first before my crown!". Morgana curses at this, but then Ryuji and Ann quickly help pry Rhyme out of the wall, Ann pleading Morgana do something for the girl.
"And now I'm going for four!" Kamoshida roars as he lifts his stabbed hand from the ground, taking Kairi's blade out with it. He slaps aside Kairi and Sora in their haste to help the others and smacked Ren with his whip into the ceiling, leaving his free hand to raise above the others and descend. Ann screams while Ryuji and Morgana quicken their efforts to save Rhyme from being crushed. As the hand descends upon them, the ground shook beneath their feet.
"PERSONA!".
A burst of light explodes from beneath the four thieves, a hole breaking away and out shoots Riku with Neku in tow. Riku plunges his sword into the palm of the king all the way to the hilt and with Neku's hand covered in lightning, he grabbed the blade's handle. He roars as he channels the lightning into the blade and lets it surge through Kamoshida's hand, covering inside and outside with lightning. The king bellows in pain, forcing himself to pull back his fist in agony. But his punishment wasn't over just yet.
Soaring through the ground and flying towards the king, Beat roars like a beast and like a bullet struck Kamoshida directly in between his eyes. Beat's fists glow with psych energy and with another enraged roar he starts to pummel Kamoshida with such force he sent tremors running through the over sized skull of the king. He kicked him in the head one more time before he jumps back, allowing Shiki to aim her hand at the king with glowing psych. "Mr Mew! Enlarge and SMASH!" she commands as her toy plushie leaps over her. Glowing in pink psych, Mr Mew enlarges himself and turns into the giant he once was on the day Shiki's Persona awakened.
Mr Mew lets out a roar-like "nya" and challenged the king. Even with extra limbs, minus one, Kamoshida's attacks don't even phase the plushie turned giant. Not even with the broke fork plunged into his chest does Mr Mew even bat an eye at him. He wails on the king with his paw-fists as if he were in a boxing match, pounding the vile king who dared to harm his master's companions. His fists were caught by the kings and they both slammed their heads against each other, fighting over supremacy.
Behind the giant cat, Morgana was tending to the slowly reawakening Rhyme, who was shaken from the pain and even coughed blood. "T-the crown…you gotta get the crown off…" she wheezed, coughing while Beat and Morgana hovered around her.
"Piggy isn't gonna last much longer!" Neku comments as even within the deadlock Kamoshida was using his last good limb to punch the cat in the stomach. Beat punched the ground and offered to fly in for the kill, but Shiki, still struggling to keep Mr Mew in his state of enlargement, warned them he'd be caught in the crossfire and wouldn't get a good hit in. "Not unless ya throw someone!" Ryuji offers, punching his chest.
The two punks smirk at his idea, and without another word, Beat's reaper wings spread open, and he grabbed Ryuji's wrist, then turned to the three leaders: "Make the last hit somethin'! Aight!?". The punk soars into the air while Mr Mew and Shiki still battle the king, the girl hissing in pain. Flying around the two giants, the punks see Kamoshida's crown was ripe for the picking and grabbing Ryuji's wrist with both hands, Beat starts to spin them both around until they were a whirlwind of colours.
"GO LONG!" Beat roared as he throws Ryuji. With a yell as his iron pipe is shining in lightning, he makes the swing and smashes the crown right off Kamoshida's head. Immediately after another punch to Mr Mew, the king's eyes widened in terror when he sees his precious crown fall off his head. "NO! My…my precious," he laments as his hands unintentionally release their grip on Mr Mew, who shrank back into his normal plushie size. Beat grabs it during the fall just as Riku rushes with Flowmotion and shadow step to grab Ryuji out of the blast zone.
With the king's source of power gone, all that remained was the curtain call.
"KING, REAPER! With me!" orders the Trickster.
"Right!" Neku concurs.
"Right behind you!" Sora affirms.
Together the three glowed with their Personas empowering them, and like before they vanish into nothingness. With Sora's body glowing with the power of light, Neku shrouded in psych power and Ren glowing red with his Persona's power, the three leaders lash around Kamoshida with their combined powers to finally topple the false king. Breaking his arms, demolishing every weapon he had, and finally bringing him down at last.
With their weapons and powers, they defeat the king. Kamoshida collapses, his crown rolling towards the thieves as Kamoshida's body is shrouded in the same red liquid that transformed him into the monstrosity, his true self. The crown shrinks in size, this time nothing more than a regular sized crown. The three thieves who brought down the king reappeared in front of the others, slouching and almost hunched over in exhaustion, Sora and Ren dropping their weapons.
Kairi and Shiki jogged to Sora and Neku to help them stand while Riku helped hold Ren up, checking the others for their wounds. "D-Did we win?" Sora asks, looking at the crown. "I think so…not even Kamoshida is gonna get up from that…" Riku says, throwing Ren's arm over his shoulder and turned his head to Ryuji, "Grab that crown".
Ryuji nodded and was about to go for it, but then Kamoshida suddenly leaps and grabs his crown before he starts running again. Ryuji barks at him but Ren gestures the others to gang up and ensure this man had no way out. The king almost runs onto the balcony outside, but in his blind panic he ended up entrapping himself between the balcony and the thieves. Even with half the party wounded and exhausted, without his crown and true self he wouldn't even last a second against them.
"What's wrong? Not running away?" taunted Ann, "Why don't you run? I thought you were a great athlete".
Lowering his head, Kamoshida growls and curses repeatedly, before he rants about how his career was always like this. "Those goddamn hyenas always forcing their expectations upon me!" he rants, "I'm doing all this for them! What's wrong about demanding a reward for that!?".
"You low life…is there no end to your excuses?" Riku growls as Ryuji readies his shut-gun, saying they'll do something about Kamoshida's distorted heart. Kamoshida growls, but it could have been mistaken for a whimper when he refused to face the team. "Scared?" Ann asks, taking a step forward out of the group, "Right now, you're seeing the same view that Shiho did…right before she tried to take her life".
Kamoshida turns around and almost attempted to run but freezes when Ann marched towards him, continuing: "I'm sure she was scared too…but unlike you she had no other choice but to jump". She asked him what preference of death he would prefer, to die at her hand or take the same path Shiho took. The coldness in her tone betrays her fiery powers, her stance tense and slowly Carmen reappears behind her, flames appearing on each side of her shoulder. The others didn't say a word, though many of them were watching Ann.
"Mona…if Kamoshida dies here…will the mental break down occur?" Ren asks lowly for only the cat to hear. The little furball nodded with sullen looks, yet he does nothing to stay Ann's hand, nor do the others. Though many more of the party weren't thrilled with the idea of Ann killing, the girl had more than earned the right to give this man the end a creature like him rightfully deserves.
Pathetically, Kamoshida begged the girl to forgive him, pleading for his life. His plea only furthers Ann's want to put him down, his pleas having the exact opposite effect. "Shut up…I bet everyone told you the same thing…but you…you took EVERYTHING from them!" she shouts with all the hate in her voice and with a single swipe of her hand, the balls of fire fly towards the king. With a shriek of terror, Kamoshida cowers and turns his body to prepare for death.
Except the flames struck the wall nearby, sparing the king. He pants and turns his eyes back to the thieves, seeing their eyes burn and shine like beacons. Whether it was out of genuine fear of Ann changing her mind, he finally conceded. He tosses the crown to Ren, telling to take it from him, and then with tears in his eyes and on his knees, he tells them to just finish him. He even added, like a cheery on top to a sweet deal, that if he dies the one in the real world will go too. The others show conflict in their expressions, but Ann refuses, bravely.
"No… if his mind shuts down, he can't confess his crimes," she says. Morgana praises her kindness, though Neku remarked it was more self-control than kindness. But even then Kamoshida asks, now that he's lost it all, what was he supposed to do now. "You atone for what you did. Every person you've ever hurt, every life you ruined…and you do everything you can in what time you got left to atone," Ren orders. With defeat yet acceptance, Kamoshida agrees before he finally disappears in light, his shadow finally returning to the depths of the real Kamoshida's heart.
"So…is it over?" Ryuji asks, looking around. "I mean Kamoshida's shadow disappeared…so I'm guessing…".
"Hello!? Anyone gonna answer!?".
The party jump and some clutch their ears in pain from the sudden yelling in their ears. Kairi groans tiredly and places her two fingers on the ear-piece. "Eri? What is it?" she asks. "I'm not sure you noticed but the CASTLE IS LITERALLY COLLASPING!" screamed the spunky girl. The moment she finished, suddenly the whole place begins to shake and break apart, debris falling from the ceiling and some pillars start to break away.
"Crap! Mona!?" Riku questions.
"I did say the Palace will collapse when the Ruler's treasure is taken…" he replied, grooming himself. As the room begins to break apart, Riku yells for everyone to run. Quickly the remaining thieves start to flee from joining the building's destruction, while Ren orders Eri. "Eri! Take Roxas and the others out of here!" he commands as they wall run down the hallway. The girl tries to argue but the leader orders her to get out of Metaverse and they'll meet up with them as soon as they escape themselves.
"I can't believe NOBODY thought of an escape plan!" Morgana lectures as he, for some reason, reverted into a normal cat and was resting on Ren's shoulder.
"I'm SOOOO sorry I didn't recall that very short moment in time you mentioned it!" replied Rhyme, carried by Beat, "It'd be nice if you reminded me of that DURING the briefing!".
"Can we please focus on escaping this place!?" Kairi pleads as she skirts around a fallen debris. Running onwards, the team come to a corner that leads them to the stairway back to the second floor. But before the team could reach the corner, it suddenly breaks apart and falls backward from the others as the floor falls apart, forcing Ren and the others to backway. "Shit!" Ryuji curses as the path behind them was starting to pile up with fallen rubble.
"We're trapped!" Ann screams.
The three leaders look at their broken escape route and behind them, wracking their minds for a back up plan…until the looked to their left and see down the hall was a familiar ghost door. The same door that for Ren leads to the Velvet Room and for Sora the door that brought him to this world. "Do you think…" Sora says looking at the two. "That the scary looking door is a way out?" Neku finishes with a raised brow.
As the floor cracks and breaks apart, the three groan and start grabbing the others to throw them in direction of the door, yelling at them to go through the door. Despite Kairi's words of hesitance, Shiki grabbed her wrist and starts to drag her to the door with the others trailing behind her. Neku pushes the door open, and they all jump through the door. Once the last thief enters, the door slammed behind them while they were still in the air.
"Yo…uh…are we floatin'?" Beat asks as the team realize their feet hadn't touched the ground. Slowly they all look to the non-existent ground, seeing nothing but shadows. As the party drank in the knowledge that they weren't standing on anything, they all shared one thought:
"OH CRAP".
They all began to fall into the shadows, everyone yelling and crying out. Beat tries to use his wings to try and at least to fly to grab some of the others, except soon everyone's clothes revert into their uniforms, taking away their abilities. Falling into the endless shadows, some screaming, some cursing and Ann constantly saying "WE'RE GONNA DIE, WE'RE GONNA DIE".
Sora looks to the falling Kairi, reaching out to him while calling his name. He tries to reach out to her before they come to the end of the shadows, falling into the light at the end of the chasm.
*?*
"Die, we're gonna die…we're gonna die".
The same mantra repeated by Ann wasn't the only thing Ren was hearing, he could also smell something else. He hears the ocean waves, the smells of salt water and fresh fauna nearby. He also feels his knees were being swallowed by something soft and warm. He hears the cawing of gulls from above and the intense heat from the sun. Slowly he opens his eyes then flinches when he feels the sun beaming into his eyes.
"What?" he whispers as he raised his arm to shield his eyes. When he stands up, he notices his surroundings. "Where…are we?" he gasped when he sees he was on what he could believe was an island. Surrounded by water where further ahead of him was what he guessed is the mainland, this island was probably just one of the smaller ones. He spots a shack, poorly constructed, nearby, a waterfall behind him with several fauna hiding a small entrance. To his right is another constructed part of the island, then nearby is a smaller island connected by a bridge where on it was a long branch with star-shaped fruit.
Ren then sees the others slowly taking in their surroundings, eyes wide and jaws to the ground. Worst of all even Morgana was at a complete loss for words.
"What the actual hell…?" Ryuji asked.
Behind the others, Sora, Riku and Kairi could only stand as still as possibly as they take in their new situation. Somehow, in some way...they had come home.
Back to Destiny Islands…
A/N:
…SOOOOOO um…yeah…this is how it ended…
We're done with Kamoshida, finally!
So I don't really have any questions this time, though I would love it if you guys tell me your thoughts on this, your favourite part and your take on where the ending is going. Thanks for reading!
Stay awesome but more importantly stay safe!