Chapter 37.1: Demons, Angels, and Players.
Master Aqua was in a rush. Her Keyrider was at full speed. Behind her, was her apprentices Riku, Kairi, Roxas, Xion, and her most important one right now, Sora. He was being carried by his best friend Riku who was a little shocked at what was happening to his best friend. He was quickly changing from himself into a look a like of his younger brother/nobody Roxas, but with a piece of armor on his shoulder. In a another flash, he returned to himself, but with a red mist coming out of his body. His face was in pain, his hands were holding on his two hearts, in agony. One his, and the other Master Aqua long lost friend Ven.
"Don't worry Sora, we are almost there!" Riku said to take assure his friend.
Kairi, who had her sister Namine and Sora's, Roxas's, and Xion's Mother Terra Branford were twice if not just as worried.
Their Lea, with Roxas and Xion were traveling by dark portals due to not being ready for KeyRiders yet. Master Aqua gave them all a call.
"I see Master Yen-Sid's tower, get ready to land!" Ordered Aqua.
Everyone understood.
"Sora, Ven, don't worry. I'll save you from this fox thing!" Aqua thought.
They all landed near the Tower. They could see a dark portal open, to find Roxas, Xion and Lea.
"This will be faster, I've got one set up in the old man's room all ready." Lea stated.
Aqua would tell Lea to show some respect to Master Yen-Sid but right now wasn't the time. She let Riku and Terra pass, carrying Sora. Then came Namine and Kairi. Roxas and Xion were next, now she was the only one left. She looked at the portal with a shiver of fear, she had never entered this kind of corridor before, but she had spent ten years in the Realm of Darkness which brought her some less the pleasant memories.
"That doesn't matter. Sora needs me, and Ven needs me too." Aqua thought to herself.
She took a deep breath and ran into the portal, to find everyone, Master Yen-Sid and two people she didn't expect to see.
"Haku, and your that ninja girl Yuffie right? Master Yen-Sid, why are they here?" Aqua asked.
Everyone looked at Yen-Sid as puzzled as she was.
"All in do time everyone, but now we must focus on Sora. Riku, Lea, bring me the boy." He ordered.
Riku and Lea brought the hurting Sora over to The elderly Keyblade master's desk. Terra raised her hand to speak.
"Is there anything I can do?" She asked wanting to help her child.
"Calm yourself Esper chid, you are all needed to save both these boys lives, but you must do as I say to the letter!" The Master stated.
Everyone nodded, seeing Sora gasping in pain.
"Now let us begin. Master Aqua, and Ms. Branford, I'll need you with me. Namine, you must use your brush to restrain him. Lady Yuffie, your scrolls. Lord Haku River, your water spells must be on the scroll. Lea, cast your fire over the scrolls. Roxas, Xion, Riku, Kairi you must thrust your Keyblades into Sora's chest. Now for your part Master Aqua and Ms. Terra. When Sora's chest opens Master Aqua you are to unlock a large cage door, as for you Ms. Terra. When that door opens you are to say this spell. Evil be gone, fox be at sleep." Yen-Sid ordered.
Everyone got to what they needed to do. Yuffie pulled out a large and old scroll, she unreeled and sent it into a circle around Sora. Haku looked at Lea who looked at him back.
"In the name of the water and river, bring me water!" The river spirt commanded.
Suddenly a small ring of water was hovering over the scroll. Lea shot out a burst of flames that did the same. Sora was twitching in pain and starting to move away from Yen-Sid's desk. Namine quickly grabbed her brush and painted some binding on Sora's arms and legs. Now for the harder part. Riku, Kairi, Xion, and Roxas summoned their keyblades, but what they were about to do might kill their best friend, brother, and boyfriend.
"Ladies first." Roxas offered.
Xion was the first to stab Sora, who screaming in pain.
"I'm sorry brother, blame the pointy hatted man!" Xion cried grabbing a hold Riku for comfort.
Roxas took out both his Keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion.
"Sorry Sora!" Roxas said.
"OW!" His older brother yelled.
"I said I was sorry!" Roxas protested.
Xion looked at Riku who was about ready to get ready. Xion then clung to Kairi for support.
Riku put on his old blindfold on, and stabbed his best friend. He didn't see his pain but he could hear it, and remembered when he was a douche.
"I swear, if I see L, I'm sticking those blades down his throat. He whispered.
Yen-Sid then looked at Kairi who looked uneasy. Xion gave her a whimpering look.
"Do not worry Kairi, His pain shall end soon." The Wizard said.
She slowly walked to her hurting lover. She could see the hole his his chest. She remembered the time when her heart was in his body. She was afraid this blow would turn him into a heartless.
She looked at Sora, then at Master Aqua, who was was holding his mother's shacking hand. She could feel this red, pulsing, almost demonic energy, was causing him agony. She gave the last blown hoping this would help him, with tears in her eyes. The elderly Keyblade Master's plan worked. The red energy bursted out of Sora's body, filling the room like a fog. They could see Sora's heart and Ven's slowly arising.
Between them was a large cell door. While everyone gasped at the large door, Aqua looked at Ven's sleeping tender heart with want, and desperation. She needed to find a way to wake her lost friend, but even after the many sleepless nights of looking at old book she had nothing to show for it.
When she was about to reach for Ven's heart, when Master Yen-Sid gave Aqua a look. She then remembered the plan, and summoned her Keyblade. She finally looked at the large, intimidating, rusted, iron jail cell like doors The blue haired master slowly got her Keyblade to shoot out the light that unlocked the door, but no no was ready for what would come out.
The doors were blasted open from a large beast like roar, causing Sora to feel like he was having a heart attack. Haku quickly transformed into his large snake-like dragon form. Two large glowing red eyes, a wolfish face with an orange fur coat, and a devilish grin met them all. Everyone but Yen-Sid and Haku looked terrified.
"Nine Tails!" The Dragon growled.
The Demon Fox looked at them all grinning.
"Hello to you too, CoHaku River. I see your no longer that witch's whipping boy….you smell of human. Met a nice little girl I see." The Fox muttered. Causing the Dragon to growl again.
He then turned around eyeing everyone else, seeing the fear in their eyes.
"Ah, my host's pack…look at you all. The Burning one, the Alpha-female, I see you eyeing your young one. The Memory kit…I can smell the fear on you., The two naughty kits, your so cute. The Dark one….you remind me my former host's…friend, but you were far better. The Esper mother, you have great power, almost up to my own Now for last, his mate…I love you're hair." The Fox said with a sly smirk.
"Mrs.Branford!" Master Yen-Sid yelled bringing her back.
"Um right….Evil be gone. Fox be at sleep!" Terra said.
The Wizard's hat was glowing bright blue. The magic from it, blasted the tailed beast. His energy faded coming back into the cage doors. The Fox eye's were slowly dropping. He roared and growled with all his might.
"I won't let you any of you use us! YOU HUMANS KILLED HIM TO SAVE YOURSELVES! NOW YOU REPEAT THE CYLCE!? He said before returning to sleep.
Sora, to everyone's panic woke up seeing the Fox coming back into his cage. Everyone quickly locked the door, and the boy watched Ven and his own heart go back into his body. Master Yen-Sid sat down back in his chair, unbinding the confused teenager. Riku and Kairi quickly grabbed a hold of him for support
"What….was….that?" Sora asked a little scared.
Everyone turned to Master Yen-Sid and Haku.
"Yeah what was that? Cause I only heard that thing was only in stories." Yuffie yelled as shocked as everyone else.
The old wizard closed his eyes, with a wave of his hand an old tome came from his bookcase.
The tome turned to a few pages, stopping at a picture of giant nine tailed fox.
"Long ago, in a world that I fear no longer exists, there where villages of ninjas, whom would wage war with one another." Yen-Sid started.
"A village full of Yuffie? AWESOME!" Sora thought.
"A village full of me? AWESOME!" Yuffie thought having her ego grow.
"In those wars, these Shinobi, had people infused with demonic tailed beasts that roamed the land. They were treated as weapons, and feared among their fellow villagers." Yen-Sid continued.
"Why would they do that? That sounds horrible." Kairi asked.
"At the time it was the only way to contain the demons, and sadly Kairi, no offense to you or anyone here but, you humans tend to fear what they do not understand." Haku answered her.
"That Fox thing said something about someone named Naruto, who was that?" Riku asked.
" Oh, oh, oh I know! I know." Yuffie said jumping up and down.
"Yes, Yuffie, would like to share with the rest of the class?"Lea said trying to give a little light humor, much to Yen-Sid's dismay.
"Before the fall, my mom and dad would tell me stories about. A blonde ninja who wore an orange jumpsuit. He used to be a prankster and a failure, but he turned into a real ninja. Making clones, and even could throw a whirlwind from his had. He and his friends ended up saving the world from the Masked man and his plan to put everyone in the world to sleep forever!" Yuffie said happily.
"Ptth! Orange jumpsuit…man that guy must have been retarded." Lea snarked.
"How about a nice glass of STFU Lea!" Yuffie muttered while punching him the ribs.
"Sleep forever…like what's happened to Ven?" Aqua thought.
"Well this Naruto guy sounds pretty cool, but why is his Fox thing inside me." Sora asked.
"That's just it Sora, you, Roxas, and Xion are the last of his line. Naruto is great grandfather." Yen-Sid spoke.
"WHAT?!" Everyone asked.
"Wait so that power Terra has, she's got it in her too?" Lea asked.
" No, my power comes from me being a human/Esper Hybrid. Less power but a bit more stable. Sora's genes are from somewhere else.Terra admitted.
"Wait so Sora's not your birth child?" Aqua asked.
"Oh Yeah, I'm adopted, like Kairi." Sora said.
"You seem awfully calm about that Sora. Most kids would freak out., with that knowledge. " Lea muttered.
"Mom's been taking care of me, so that makes her my mom. Right guys?" Sora reasoned while looking at Roxas and Xion.
"Right." They both said.
So this fox how bad is it?" Master Aqua asked.
"It is power fueled by anger, as Haku, the Phantom Blot, L, and that man Sora killed, felt. Sora, you must be very careful,right now. The seal that binds the Fox to you is weakening. The Keyblade Master warned.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Sora asked.
"No Sora, if it were leave your body you will die! What we did was just putting it to sleep. You are not to fight anyone until we can get this taken care of, if you were to even cast a fire spell, you would bring about your own end!" Master Yen-Sid yelled,
Sora then fainted. Riku and Kairi tired to bring him around.
"Sora! Sora! Speak to me Sora!" Kairi yelled.
"Haku could you please take the them all in the other room?" He asked getting a headache from watching Roxas, Xion and Lea fight Yuffie in the background while while Terra was trying to break them up.
The Dragon Human nodded and took the others into another room. Master Aqua was the last to leave as Yen-Sid shut the door with a wave of his hand.
"I must speak to you alone Master Aqua." He ordered, in the same way her master would say to her.
"Where did you transport Sora Haku?" Kairi asked.
"Now where did those two go?" Namine asked could seeing that Yuffie and Lea were no longer with them.
"Master Yen-Sid must have moved Sora to…where Chirhiro is! Chirhiro I'm coming!" Haku said panicking as he ran upstairs into another room.
Everyone followed him to find a sleeping Chirhiro resting in one bed, and on the other was Sora, Haku checked the young girl's pulse and heart beat. It was normal to his happiness.
"He did it, he saved her like he said he would." Haku said overjoyed.
"Hold it Haku, time out! What the heck is going on and who is that guy?" Roxas asked.
"What happened to poor Chirhiro? Shouldn't she be with her parents?" Kairi asked.
"…..She was with her parents. They had just moved in their new dwelling, when a human of pure evil came in, summoned three chidden of the deadly sins on them. I….didn't make it in time, so if it wasn't for your friend L……she would have shared the same fate as her mother and father." Haku said
No one said a word. Slowly young Chirhiro woke up, sobbing. Terra's motherly feeling got her to comfort the ten year old.
"It's okay sweet heart, your safe. it's all right, no one here's going to hurt you." Terra whispered to her.
Namine, Xion, and Kairi gave the young child a hug.
"Maybe we should give them their space." Riku said.
Roxas nodded. Haku on the other hand was not going anywhere.
They were about to leave, when Roxas found out the door was stuck shut.
"Hey what gives?!" Yelled another voice.
"It's just like the other doors. We can't get in or out." muttered a girl's voice.
"Lea, Yuffie, is that you?" Roxas asked.
"No it's the queen of England…Of Corse it's us Roxas!" Lea spat out with sarcasm.
"We can't get in." Yuffie said.
Riku summoned his Keyblade, and tried unlocking the door, however the shot backfired. Causing the sliver haired boy to fly in the wall. Everyone looked at Riku.
"Riku what's up?" Xion asked while pulling Riku out of the wall.
"Someone's us locked in, Riku's Keyblade can't open the door." Roxas stated.
"What? The Keyblade can open anything!" Kairi protested.
"Tell that do the door that sent me to the wall. Master Yen-Sid must have looked us in." Riku muttered.
"Why would he do that?" Namine asked.
"Because someone very powerful came here!" Haku growled feeling a dark force.
"It's that bad man! The one with the yellow eyes! He's going to kill us just like my…my mom and dad." Chirhiro cried.
"Wait..you don't mean?" Riku asked.
"Xemnas?" Xion said while grabbing a hold of Roxas.
"Worse!" Namine said.
"Master Xehanort!" Sora said wide and and awake panicing.
"Well F&%$!" Lea yelled behind the door.
"Lea language!" Terra said while covering Chirhiro, Roxas, and Xion's ears.
Yuffie having no idea what was going on, could tell this was bad if everyone was this freaked out.
In the main room.
Aqua was really tense. She was shacking with worry. She didn't want to look in him, the eye but had no choice. The elderly Wizard could see her pain. He waved his hand and a chair appeared. She slowly sat down. Yen-Sid also made a cup of tea for her our of thin air. He gave her a smile, and she slowly drink the tea. It was Jade Tea, her favorite tea.
"Aqua, how are you feeling?" He asked softly,
"What? I don't understand Master Yen-Sid." Aqua said.
"How are you feeling? This is the first time I've truly seen you without a crisis coming in ten years. Erauqs would never forgive me if his daughter was in need and I did nothing. So tell me young master, how are you?" Yen-Sid asked.
The blue haired woman sat long and hard. She slowly spoke.
"You mean like how I still have night terrors from fighting day and night in the Realm of Darkness? That I almost lost two of my students, and another is a ticking time bomb, and I don't know how to help him? That I feel a horrible guilt by causing Xehanort to wreak havoc on the lives of my two other students and the worlds. Oh and that's not even the worst part! I'm read tones, until my eyes went blind and Snow had to drag me to bed for the past two months and I still don't know how to get Ven out of Sora, or save Terra! I feel like a failure as a Keyblade Master and I feel if Ven and Terra were here they would hate my guts!" Aqua ranted.
"Oh I can't speak for young Ven, but I know I hate your guts Aqua. Muttered a calm, charming, chilling, and demonic voice.
Aqua turned around to her horror looking face to face with her best friend Terra, only with sliver hair, and yellow demonic eyes. She was about to summon her Keyblade, when in a stroke of Deja-vu her neck was grabbed tightly, and she was lifted up in the air. Yen-Sid was about to caste a spell, when Xehanort's Keyblade was pointed right at Aqua.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you old man, if you care about this young lady. It would be such a waste of a face as pretty as this one." The Master of Darkness coyly said.
The Wizard put his hands down.
"That's much better." He stated.
Xehanort then looked at a gasping and struggling Aqua.
"Now tell me my dear, where is Sora?" He asked, tightening his grip.
Aqua summoned her Keyblade and slashed it at his arm, with the last of her breath. He roared in pain. She then kicked her possessed friend across the room. She held on to her neck coughing. Master Yen-Sid set the tower on lock down, and Aqua was suddenly healed.
"Who healed me?" Aqua asked out loud.
"Sorry to keep you waiting Master Aqua, your back-up is here." Said a familiar voice.
Xehanort was caught off guard, a burst of music played out of nowhere, but the wave from it shot him down the stair case, a portal opened. Aqua gave a confused looked at the person stepping out the vortex, while Master Yen-Sid gave an approving nod.
"Who are you?" Aqua asked not recognizing the man standing in front of her.
The man in question had brown wavy hair, with slight bits of gray due to stress. He had one brown eye showing and the other eye was a bright light. His face was tan in spite of being covered for so long. The man's neck was cover with a cross made out of crystal. He wore an orange and black old style ninja robe. Almost like a Keyblade Master's robe, but with four different symbols, on it. One arm was normal with a wrist band on it, while another was a rusted auto-mail.
"It's me L, I just lost my old coat." He said with a grin.
"What?" Aqua asked.
Xehanort reappeared right in front of them all, with an energy ball of pure darkness, ready to fire at them.
Aqua shot out a deadly bubble attack, which sent him into a wall.
"See you got beaten by a better Keyblade Master again,Master Douche bag!" The Time Traveler said.
Soon the room was covered in shadow.
Who are you to dare insult me you worthless nobody!" Xehanort roared as he fired the blast
L gave the fallen Keyblade master a grin. He opened his mouth and shot out a screech that pushed the man away while causing the dark lord some pain.
"I told you. I'm The Boss, and you better run." L stated. He snapped his fingers shooting out a beam of light from his other eye, causing the Keyblade Master some agnoy. Master Yen-Sid shot out a blast of fireworks. The dark master was sent flying up and down the wall.
Aqua could swear she saw Terra's eye color return to normal.
"Terra!" She screamed pulling out her hand for him.
Xehanort quickly gained control again, he was about to stab Aqua, but he missed and stabbed L in an closing wound. The time traveler fell to the ground. Using Aqua's distress as a distraction, the body stealer made a portal of darkness and ran to the Underworld.
"No!" Aqua yelled about to go after him.
She left something grab at her leg.
"No Aqua, you can't go where he's going!" L said.
"I have to save him! I'm overdue ten years!" Aqua shouted.
"I know how you feel, but you can't go. I went down there, and that thing he has…will…rip you…apart. Sora needs you more then ever,,,,,and Ven….needs…his big sister…." L muttered before he past out on the floor bleeding.
Aqua…just stood there. Feeling beaten.
Master Yen-Sid sent them all home in a flash.
Three hours later, everyone was in bed, everyone but Aqua, who was looking at Mrs. Terra Sora, Roxas, Chirhiro and Xion sleeping.
"Sora, don't worry. This Nine Tailed Fox won't hurt you…I won't let it….and Ven, please give me some more time." She whispered to herself.
She walked out of their room. Kairi, and Namine were home asleep, as for Riku. Lea, and Haku were standing guard at the front door. She could see L.
"Aqua don't think yourself a failure alright. You'll get them back. I know it." L said trying to cheer her up.
She gave him a small smile.
"See, now we all had a long night, you guys had to save Roxas and Xion, find out Sora's got a genetic demon in him, and fight the Master of evil. While I got my personality back by electric shock, fought a losing fight with some demons with red crystals in their bodies, and got to save a little girl, but lost her parents……." L said a little depressed.
"I think we both had a long night." Aqua said laughing a bit.
" Then lets get some sleep Master Aqua, ma'am." L said.
"You too, The Boss! That sounds so lame! hah!" Aqua giggled.
"Hey don't knock the Title! That's the most-Oh no!" L muttered.
"L are you okay?" Aqua asked seeing him in pain.
" LUCY, LAN! IBLIUS YOU BASTARD PUT HIM DOWN! DON'T YOU DARE! STOP IT! STOP IT HE'S LOSING TOO MUCH BLOOD! STOP PLEASE! STOP! STOP! HE'S GONNA DIE! NO! LAN!" He yelled.
Aqua tried to grab a hold of him, when he went out cold out, she could see some blood come out of his body. The man vanished from her.
"What?" Aqua asked not sure what was going on.
End of part 1.