Re: Another Side
FINALLY! Here is the rewrite of Chapter 18, which I deleted. This is the longest Chapter I've writen for 'Another Side'. Only 3 (maybe 4, possibly, but unlikely, 5) Chapters left. 3 Scenarios. Xemnas. Terra. Then the final chapter, Sora. Then I'll be working full time on Origins.
Also, After Origins, I will make a continue of Origins following Paul after the events of Origins. Here's the title: Another Side: The Keyblade Wars. Hehehe.
Anyways, Heres the Chapter:
Ventus
Chapter 18
Return
“Sora?”
“Roxas?”
No one answered my call. Was I alone? Was I always alone? Was there ever anybody else? I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately… Like… is any of this for real or not?
Maybe… Maybe this is all fake. No!
This can’t be fake! I can’t let it!
I heard a voice,
“File creation, Complete.” What was that? A computer? Where am I? Who am I? I’m… Sora? No. Roxas? No that’s not it…
I’m Roxora!
“Uploading… Complete!”
My heart… Why can’t I wake here? Not even in this place. This is so unfair.
I’m falling. I didn't know why or where I am. It is an exhilarating sensation. I feel the air rushing past me and I keep landing in water, but the water disappears and I continue to fall. I fell into the water every couple of moments. I wondered if there was even water. What if it was just my imagination?
Then I saw a Light…
…
What’s happening?! I’m exiting my heart!... Who is that? “Aqua? Aqua, is that you? Is Terra with you?”
“No, this is Namine.”
…
“Xion…”
…
“Starts with an ‘S’!”
Is that them? Sora… Roxas… Kairi… I feel them, but he’s here too. Vanitas.
Wait. I know what’s happening. I… I have to do this now. I’m taking my heart back!
Everything stopped. I felt myself changing.
We were face to face. Me and Vanitas.
“I’m taking my heart back!”
He laughed. “That will never happen. Soon, you’ll just become another part of my heart!”
“No! That will never happen!” I looked at my hand, I held my lucky charm. I summoned as much power as I can, then used it. “Trinity Limit!” Light glowed and I felt the power of many. I looked to see Terra and Aqua standing next to me.
“I know this wrong, but this will be my final gift,” I heard a voice say.
Our power destroyed Vanitas. I thought I felt some of him escape, but I know I’m mistaken. I latched onto the Darkness that was Vanitas and it became part of me, healing my broken heart. My heart was full. I had a perfect balance of light and dark.
I woke face down in the Chamber of Repose. I tried to stand up, but I felt weak. Someone grabbed my hand and helped me up. It was Terra.
The shock of seeing my friend again almost made me fall right back to the ground. “Terra!”
He looked at me. He seemed unsure of something. “Ven, is that really you?”
I looked into my memories. Our Memories to be exact. I could see my own life, Sora’s, from the moment I joined with his heart, Roxas’ memories, until he got caught, then Roxora’s and the life Vanitas’ memories, from the point Roxora changed.
Xehanort is alive. Aqua is trapped in the Real of Darkness. Terra was Xemnas. These facts will bother me until it’s all fixed. Once Xehanort is gone, Aqua is free, and Terra is only Terra, that day I will feel good again.
“Ven, is that really you,” Terra asked again.
“Yes. It’s me Terra,” I said, “I’m Ven.”
Terra smiled, “I found you, your alive!”
At the mention of the word ‘alive’ I felt all the pain from when Vanitas got hit by Xemnas. I fell back down and laughed, “I don’t feel alive.”
He grabbed my hand and helped me up.
It felt like I had just forgotten something. Names lingered in the back of my head. Namine… Xion… Who are they?
“So what happens now,” said Terra.
I hadn’t thought about that yet. What do we do now? “There’s a lot of things that need to happen,” I said.
“We can go save Aqua. We can return you to your body. Everything will be good again.”
I knew that was wrong. “No,” I said.
“Why? Oh- Right,”
“We can’t just leave him. Roxas is incomplete without me, and Sora is incomplete without Roxas. He saved me, I have to return the favor… But how?”
He looked at me as if he knew something. He did. “I know how. We can do it the same way you became attached to Sora.” His Keyblade appeared in his hand.
“But Vanitas-”
“I won’t let him return. I’ll absorb your darkness. My heart will most likely give into the darkness and give birth to a Nobody. Xemnas will have mine and Xehanort’s memories, he’ll be Sora’s enemy. He will search to be complete. He will want to take your heart out of Sora.”
“I know. But we have to do this.”
“But we don’t know how things will turn out. I will turn into a Heartless, and Eraqus will stay in my body like you did when Sora made Roxas. Without Eraqus I know I will use the darkness. I will bask in it. It will become my weapon.”
“But your light will still exist,” I recalled Sora’s words, “Deep down there’s a light that never goes out.”
“You’ll save me right?”
“Yeah.”
“Then…”
“Let’s do this. I’m ready when you are.”
He lifted his blade and stabbed my chest. I felt all my darkness leave. Darkness radiated of his blade as he stabbed himself. I fell to the ground. My vision blurred. I saw Xemnas staring at me before everything went dark.
…
I felt myself go into Roxas, Sora’s body. I felt secure. I just a few days I felt Sora’s heart. I latched onto him and saw two faces. Xion and Namine.
“So that’s who they are,” I thought,
“Without them, I would be Vanitas. I would be gone.” I thought about what I asked Aqua all those years ago,
Erase Me. “I regret those words.”