(HI EVERYONE! WERE YOU SURPRISED!?
I know that the last chapter was literally the last chapter, but I seriously just had to write this since I know everyone is no doubt curious what happened to the Her of the Keyblade and his two friends after the gate of Remnant opened, so it's here in this chapter as a conclusion to the story.
Reminder: I spoke to Chris Nest some time ago and he assured me that he has confidence in me and permission to end it as how I talked it over with him before now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or RWBY, they are the properties of their owners. The only ones that I do own are my OCs Vino, Gin, and Wolfe.
No Flames, please. If you read this story before and don't like it, then don't read it.
Please read, review, and enjoy the Conclusion to the story.)
{Play "Magical Mystery" from Kingdom hearts 2 OST}
Sora, Donald, and Goofy sat asleep in the cockpit of their Gummiship as it drifted in the Ocean Between. The events that happened in Remnant has really tired them out, especially the light show from Ruby's eyes that made the Keyblade unlock the gate that took them from Remnant in the first place.
Standing in the cockpit with them was a young teenage girl, with blue eyes and had a slim feminine body. She wore a plain, white, lace dress that were down to her mid-thighs. She also wore light blue sandals over her feet. She had rosy cheeks and pale, pink lips. She also had blonde hair that usually drapes over her right shoulder. Namine, formerly known as The Witch of Memories, Kairi's Nobody, stood there very troubled, watching her sleeping friends in their seats. And she was not alone.
Next to her was a elderly, and diminutive rock creature with a dark blond mane and eyebrows, gray skin texture, large ears, dark green attire covered in glowing yellow crystals with a flowing green cape approached. This was Grand Pabbie, a Rock Troll elder from the World of Arendelle.
He grumbled and turned to a figure in an inverted variation of the Black Coat that the members of Organization wear. His hood obscuring his identity as does the rest of his white coat. The Rock Troll Elder commented, "I do not like what you ask of me, Key Keeper. No matter the reasons…"
Grand Pabbie grunted, squeezing his eyes shut as he held his head with a hand before the pain stopped and asked, "Are you certain that there's no other option?"
He grunted again, receiving the message in his mind. He looked back to the three heroes before him and sighed heavily.
Namine looked up to the figure in the white coat and said, "This isn't right, what I did to their hearts a year ago… Why can't they remember who they met and what they did in that world?"
She gasped holding her head, just as the Rock Troll elder did before when the figure in the white coat turned to look at her. After the pain passed she looked back slightly annoyed, "Do you really need to do that to talk to us like that? I know you're being cautious, but can't you speak like an ordinary person?"
The figure remained silent before saying in a soft tone, "My apologies, I was merely wishing that our conversation had gone without interruption by those who wish to plunder Their Excellency."
He approached the unconscious trio and stated, "What these three need is to continue as destiny stated, by continuing their struggles with the organization of thirteen. They… must do this or the worlds will fall prey to the Nothings of the Void whilst they focus on one world over all worlds."
Grand Pabbie narrowed his eyes before he gave a reluctant sigh, "I must agree with the young lady. This is beyond what I will use my magic for."
"Then think of it this way, if you do not do as requested then the lord of Nothingness will engulf all the worlds into his rule where they would twist into his vision and goals." The figure in the white organization coat said, approaching and speaking to the elder Rock Troll with respect.
He then went to the troll's eye level and stated, "This is the only way to keep not only your world, but all worlds, safe from those who wish to ruin the balance of the cosmos."
He looked up to Namine and said, "It will also allow you to meet your original self, and the Key of Destiny. You must be beginning to feel anxious to see him again. Correct?"
Namine remained silent as she stood there, looking down sadly.
"Their Eminence assures that this sacrifice must be necessary to stop the Organization of Thirteen." The white coated male said, feeling for them. But he cannot disobey his superior.
Namine and Grand Pabbie shared a look before conceded to the request. Both used their skills with memories to manipulate Sora's, Donald's, and Goofy's memories to forget their time in Remnant.
Once it was done the White Coat held out an arm, immediately a portal of Light appeared. Namine and Grand Pabbie hurried through before the three woke up. The white-coat wearer turned and said, "I hope you can forgive me, Sora. But what you need to do right now against the Organization XIII is too important, especially with a Princess of Heart that you know so very well is still in their clutches. I wish I did not need to do this, however, I cannot go against the commands of Their Eminence, especially as they wish for you to restore balance again as you did when you did a year ago against the Heartless from using that 'replica' of them. You have their thanks and gratitude. They have promised that once you step on Remnant again, you will regain your memories there."
He then stood up walking away from them in the cockpit silently.
"May your hearts be your guiding key." The young man in the white coat said to the waking up trio before vanishing into the portal of light. Sora groaned as he opened his eyes confused and asked, "What's going on…"
He could not remember a thing, though the last thing he does remember was a Red Rose.
{End "Magical Mystery" from Kingdom Hearts 2 OST}
An Oath to Return
KINGDOM HEARTS
(Interlude: So yeah that conclusion scene above was something I planned for in the beginning when I asked Chris Nest if I could finish his story for him years ago. And Chris Nest agreed with me when I told him about the ending idea involving Sora, Donald, and Goofy, almost 2 years ago at Jan 2022. He thought it would be, and I quote, "As for your idea. Tbh I kind of like it, forces characters to "find themselves" if that makes sense." And honestly it does make sense to me now. This will help the RWBY characters continue on recovering and find themselves while Sora, Donald, and Goofy work on getting what they need to get done to defeat Organization XIII as they need to in KH2. And then the Mark of Mastery exam that Sora and Riku will take before they got dragged into Master Xehanort's schemes let alone his Keyblade War in KH3.
Before anyone comments. yeah I know An Oath to Return is purely a post KH3 secret ending title, however I felt like that in Sora's Heart he would promise to return to Remnant to help the friends he made while on Remnant. So it might be out of place, but it does fit the hidden meaning behind it, don't you think?
And now, the secret endings to Ruby Heart.)
{A Torch burning in the Darkness}
{Play "Strange Whispers" from Kingdom hearts OST}
As day rolled along after Ruby and her group left for Haven, A Corridor of Darkness opened up some feet away from the Rose/Xiao Long Houshold, from the darkness, someone walked out. It was Vino, still in his armor only the motif had changed to resemble Heartless. His now golden-yellow eyes looked up to the window where he knows Yang was in and sighs, clenching his gauntlets tightly into his palms, 'Damnit…why her…why did she have to suffer…'
Vino remained where he was until night fell and he saw that those within the Rose/Xiao Long household had gone to sleep. Using his new powers over the darkness to enter her room without being detected, approached her sleeping form and looking at Yang, his beautiful super nova, in the state she was in after Adam had cut her arm off. Leaning forward, he whispered, "I'll avenge you too, Yang… I promise…"
He then kissed her cheek lovingly, "I hope that after Adam pays for what he's done, you can return to being the woman that I had fallen in love with…"
Standing up straight again, Vino turned to his Corridor and walked to it but stops turning to look at the sleeping Yang and whispers, "Good-bye…"
A single tear flowing down his eye as he walked into it and it closed behind him. The moment he had the teardrop touched the floor causing Yang to wake up shocked. She looked around the room.
When she was asleep she felt a familiar presence. And she felt like someone kissed her as she asked, almost recognizing the voice, "Vino?"
{End "Strange Whispers" from Kingdom Hearts OST}
Reconnect.
KINGDOM HEARTS
{Second Chances within Nothingness}
{Play "Organization XIII" from Kingdom Hearts 2 OST}
In front of a mansion in a sunset like town stood a figure, their features hidden by the darkness as they stood, tiredly and straight as if waking up from an intense dream. They could not remember anything as to how they arrived at this place or what they was doing there in the first place. They felt empty...
A whooshing of darkness was heard and a man in his black coat, a hood covering his expression and face, appeared. he then approached the figure before he stopped three feet before her.
"You seek answers?" The man asked, his voice deep and rich like in tone.
The figure nodded stiffly. The shape becoming more define as that of a young woman. The man raised his arm and slid it in the air between them, having the following letters appear the air.
The young woman looked up to see the letters that spelled a word, while the man spoke, again, "You feel Nothing. Nothing is real."
The young woman's head lowered looking at the ground beneath her feet before it rose when the man said, "I can give you purpose."
As she looked, her eyes defining in shape and color when the man spoke, "Are you ready to commit yourself to your new purpose? For your new destiny?"
The woman hesitated for a moment before nodding her head again, her scarlet hair draped behind her back and a bundle of it hangs over her shoulders, the majority of her hair going past her hips.
The man then used his hand to make the letters in her name began to spin around her while her fair skin became visible, and clothes shifted from the darkness. The man waited for a moment before held his hand up, causing an "X" to appear at the spot.
The woman's now defined green eyes looked at the word and repeated, raspy, "R-R...Rh...Rhyprax?"
"That's right - the new you." The man said, the woman's vision can make out the piercing yellow eyes and olive tone of his skin, the silver of his hair. Xemnas, the leader of the Organization XIII, almost grinned seeing his latest recruit.
The woman, now identified as Rhyprax, made a motion to move before she collapsed, Xemnas caught her in his arm as he said to her fading consciousness, "Welcome to the True Organization XIII, Speared Empress of Magnetism."
He placed the organization's coat over her body, her clothes replaced with the gloves, pants, and heeled boots that go with the coat. He then picked his latest member up in his arms and returned to the World That Never Was to have her rest and recover her strength. Unable to stop himself from smiling under his hood. Especially how everything was coming together just as planned between he and himself.
{End "Organization XIII" from Kingdom Hearts 2 OST}
Reconnect.
KINGDOM HEARTS
(These are the secret endings I was talking about in the last chapter. I hope you enjoy them if you have questions, please ask them. I'll be happy to answer them.
But here's what made it possible for these 'Secret Endings' to be unlocked throughout the story in true Kingdom Hearts fashion.
- Secret Ending 1: "A Torch burning in the Darkness"; Vino unlocking the darkness in his heart when Adam had cut off his girlfriend's arm, the only one who he truly felt love for. Plus, like I mentioned last chapter, I wanted to show my theory of Vino having one of the 13 True Darknesses inside his heart and unleashes his power fully for the first time. The evidence that I tried to hint in this story were his glowing eyes, his power to 'feed' on negative emotions, and how his Aura turned dark. And we saw that pillar of Darkness when Terra unleashed his darkness in KH:BBS, but since Vino would have one of the Thirteen True Darknesses, the energy and pillar would be more intense and larger for all to see when unleashed it.
- Secret Ending 2: "Second Chance within Nothingness"; Pyrrha and Jaune getting closer to each other than they had in canon. It was enough for Pyrrha to have a the strength of Will and strength of heart that would be necessary for her to have a... second chance if you will. You all remember how in canon she just accepted her death? I had been talked to by someone I brought this topic to and they said that someone who had the strength of will and heart would not just accept their defeat, let alone their deaths, and would keep fighting till the end. Much like I'm sure the original members of Organization XIII would have felt when they were turned into Heartless and Nobodies. Though as to why she would not appear in the final battle of the Original Organization XIII would be due to the machinations of the true head of the Organization.
So have a great time and I hope you still like as time pass into the future, maybe a Final Mix of things to come may appear.
May your Heart by your Guiding Key.)
