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Okay, here we go, the conclusion of the Intro!
Discliamer: There is cursing here, but it is not said, it is edited like so -> **** the only cursing I'll type are the "d" word and the "h" word and nothing else!
Disclaimer 2: There are scary images, but are only implied, and certain words are left out as not to impose any graphic images (hopefully your imagination won't get carried away), basically I'm gonna dance around it.
Intro: Part 8 –
End of the Innocence
Sora dropped his keyblade (turning back to its humble state of a keychain), and fell to his knees. All the strength derived from him of shock. His mind played over and over the reaction, refusing to accept…
Kairi wobbled back and forth trying to stand as if her motor skills had been depleted. Her hands came up to her face to cover the upcoming scream, but none came.
Riku took two steps forward, his legs then refused to move any more. If he got too close, the image may become real. His misty eyes blurred the vision into something even more horrible and he shut his eyes, they do not lie...
They were in the throne room; no other room in the castle was this big. The tattered Royal drapes were dripping. It was splattered all over the high chairs, and the decor, and wall. The roll of carpet leading to the thrones was choking it. The mess expanded out like thick veins easily snaking thier way around on the white marble floor. Sora's feelings were merging with his realization, and upon all fours, bracing this sudden impact–like a child discovering the murder of his parents–screamed, enough so that his outburst seemed to cover Riku and Kairi's grief and horror; his cry turning into uneven sobs. Kairi sank by Sora, and Riku dropped down by his side. Together, even though leaning upon each other, thier strength paled to shoulder an emotion so heavy…The darkness outside produced the sound of rain; the world had joined them in crying.
"Rain? Not very many people can coax the will of a world to feel. So then, that means yall are the denizens of light that protect this system, the one of Change -"
Riku slowly looked up -
" - the one of Security -"
Kairi slowly looked up -
" - and the one of Balance."
Sora slowly looked up at the thrones, and in the left Royal chair, sitting in the liquid, was not this Lady of Red,
but a beast, it’s sharp, incisive yellow eyes a piercing contrast to its black body. This creature was large; he sat like a dog upon the throne; however his butt barely fit, so he wobbled playfully.
*I am thee that waits in your home - *
At first glance, he looked like a simple evil cross between a dog, cat, and...rabbit? (His nose, along two wispy long parted ‘things’ that resembled rabbit ears, were the only rabbit characteristics). The creature walked down off the throne on all fours, the liquid dripping from his fur, then stood up to his full height -
*When you think you’re safe, and all alone*…
- it looked like he was built to walk on two and four legs; his long haired wolfish tail flicked about with play. His front arms looked a little long and ended in big paws, his back legs were strong, and athletically built, ending in large three toed paws with very sharp claws. His whole body was limber, but his neck was bent like a hyena. He had a moderate head like a mane-less lion along with those wispy ear-like things, and, freckles up front by his nose, (the bunny nose). On his chin it looked like he had a small goatee. His chest had a puff of black fur, while the rest of his body was all light black with short fur (except for the reddish black that dripped off); his smooth continuity broken by ruffs of fur along the back of his seemingly long bent neck.
*I can’t wait till you fall asleep -*
The creature bent down and gave a kind, menacing toothy grin showing his sharp teeth, and out of all of the creature’s features, Sora, Riku, and Kairi were fixated on his big eyes that were outlined in heavy jet black eyeliner; his bushy brows pressing them into a slanted diamond shape.
The white of his eyes contrasted with his yellow cat-iris’, and his black slit pupils.
-*and bound your soul in my teeth.*
The creature nodded his head up, “‘Bring forth the three that can calm the tide, wake the light, and seal thier guise. They who have seen both light and dark, who have ended a malicious start, and followed the path of a noble heart….And let me add on my behalf, that this By-Law is
complete trash. T’was created on a noted wind, to give the ignorant,
something, to believe in.” The creature shook the liquid off him, flicking his tail last to make a red period in his poetic statement. “Yes, a most pathetic By-Law, one writ in verse to purposely have its meaning twisted, but in that context, I guess you can say all the By-Laws are rather stupid. I think they do more harm than good really, but they totally screwed over this system, the only ‘Keyblade Master’ my missus and I had the fortune of meeting wasn’t even a Master at all.” The beast gave a giggle from his sly maniacal voice–
*King Mickey.*… Feeling was coming back into Sora's hand.
“The phony Master sent his court away to save them from the assault of my missus, the Lady of Red–”
*So they got away,* Sora breathed internally, *But then–*
“But then, my colleague caught them as they traveled through the Dark Portal, she has such a way of detouring people from their paths, it wasn’t troubling for her at all, and she tore them apart from thier hearts, bodies, and souls, here, looky.” Nefero pointed a claw at them, its tip glowed a weird blue, and an image flashed into their minds - Kairi grabbed her stomach. “By the nauseating looks you have on your faces, you can’t possibly picture such pure, clean, un-soiled beings at their dripping end, and I don’t blame you, this system was always a beacon of uncontaminated light, but now, there is an unmistakenable red smudge over it,
as you can see.”
…“You’re lying.” Sora’s felt the feel of his fingers around his blade.
“I would never,” the monster replied in false repulsion, “What reason would I have to lie? This is the truth of the trap this system fell into when it sacrificed its Astral Order in exchange for Protection, mh, not that there was much gall left anyway, you see, from some mousie’s witchy point of view, had some certain people, with a certain weapon, been here to defend the Royalty, they
might all still be alive.” – Something inside the three snapped – the beast threw itself into a drama pose, “And alas, what comes to oppose the evil that murdered its Royalty is still not the Keyblade Masters, but some hero thrown jerks” – the beast felt a sting by his neck as Sora’s blade buried itself in the wall behind the thrones, chipping the throne where the beast once sat, nailing the drapery behind it. The Keyblade returned to Sora’s hand, and the beast, was now being stared down by three, very upset –“Keyblade Masters,” he breathed, “Sora, Riku, and Kairi.” All three were on thier feet in fighting stance, shaking with anger from within, each gripping their blades tightly.
"You, are
going to
pay for this," Sora's voice shook.
“That rat’s wish disguised your entities from me–Oh crap so he
was able to make Yahena honor his wish–
damnit–my missus will
not be happy about this,” Nefero spoke to himself, “She wanted–”
“Listen to me you monster–tell us what you really did with our friends!” Riku yelled.
“I did, they’re dead, they’re gone, their lives came to an end,
get that through your heads, or were yall hoping for that
rhetorical miracle which will send everyone skipping off into the sunset hand in hand, (*Sigh*), since I can’t really do much worth a flyin’ flip, sit down here children, and let me explain how deep the shelter you have been living under.” Nefero snapped his paw and invisible hands pushed Sora, Riku, and Kairi down. “Believe it or not children, beyond the world borders, beyond this system’s borders, are other worlds and other systems – foreign places native to only the skies themselves. Tell me, yall know of your sister system right?”
The three Masters looked back empty.
“Oh my god, we are not that ignorant on Astral Order one-o-one,” said Nefero quickly -
“That wasn’t rhetorically meant, I want you to answer me–”
“Listen we were never aware of anything beyond this system until today!” blurted Kairi, “Then all this starts happening and you tear our world and our friends out from under us!
Why are you doing this?!”
Nefero gave an annoyed smile. “You know I’m starting to like your sister systems’ Keyblade Masters much more than yall – at least they knew that the universe didn’t end at their systems’ border! Speaking of endings, if you want really want to know why we ‘interrupted’ your miniscule daily lives sweetie – you can ask Older Sister.” Nefero flicked his paw again, and Sora, Riku, and Kairi’s suppressors became visible along with a dazzling new array of heartless–
"Heartless?!"
"You can call heartless?!"
The dragon like heartless punctured their claws into their shoulders,
“Ahh!”
“Well, as the demon of Heigh-ouri-sokto–the monster of tide and comings–the beast of darkness and ruin, or Nefero, my real name (*wink*), yes I can, ‘cause that’s
who I am, not that I’d expect you pathetic ****s to even
know any of that - no - Keyblade Masters clueless to their Astral Order?
Yall aren’t even worth a ****.”
"****?"
"I'll show you whose worth a ****!," yelled Sora as he ripped himself out of his captor’s grasp and slashed his blade sideways sending a streak of light forward –
skeene! – Nefero simply knocked it aside.
“Unbelievable. I’ve seen dogs with more intrepidness than you; have fun picking your comrades out of the Morgos’ teeth,” and in a crack of thunder, Nefero disappeared–
“Sora!” – Sora turned back around to see Riku slice his blade through the open mouth of the Morgos to pull Kairi out of the grip of her captor – WACK! – both were hit by the tail of another Morgos into Sora’s arms. The new and amazing heartless surrounded them, each one looking more vicious and deadlier than the next, but the ones that caught their attention forcing their attention up (while these two heartless looked down) rivaled Darksides in height, and looked like four legged creatures with a giant cloth covering them attached to the ground, which, to make matters worse, was now
swamped in darkness. The creatures swayed airily, thier circle yellow eyes looking right through Sora, Riku, and Kairi.
"I've never seen any of these heartless before!" yelled Sora as they positioned themselves back to back in defense of the horde.
"They must come from what, a-another system, or something?" stumbled Kairi. A wolf-like heartless leaped forward chomping the end of Kairi’s blade, trying to wrestle it out of her grip, but Sora and Riku slashed it back; it shook it’s head as if hardly taking any damage.
The heartless crept closer like water upon the sand, the Master’s Keyblades trembling in their hands from the intense pulse of darkness radiating off of the heartless.
Would it all end right here for you?
*What?* - The heartless leapt, rushed, and descended down like a mortician’s cloth.
Are you to die so worthlessly?
All of a sudden, Sora and Riku's keyblades shook, "Huh?" Kairi's blade disappeared from her grasp in a burst of light–
"Oh!"
The room suddenly became dark all around and everything was slowing. Sora suddenly became very dizzy, he stepped forward trying to catch his balance, but his legs gave out underneath him, and he fell backwards as the heartless (now only their eyes visible) swarmed around him. He called for Riku and Kairi but his own voice was a blur to his ears. His limp arms were thrown in front from his own weight, and then, he saw the light of his keyblade flicker along with his bracelet from Kairi – and like her blade, his also disappeared from him in a crack of light! Sora's gasp echoed throughout the darkness, the heartless dissolved away, thier remnants getting smaller and smaller as Sora fell through the vast darkness; the wind, and speed, the freedom…Sora lost consciousness as he heard the flap of wings......
Intro: Part 9 –
Till We Meet Again
A heart. A heart was beating; each beat, pronounced and clear, like the beat of a drum to soothe. Sora no longer felt like he was falling, he had no feeling at all, but slowly and surely, that lost sense came back to him. The heartbeat faded away as his sense of touch returned. He was lying on a floor, not any floor of matter, shape, or texture, just a floor, pressure on his body told him he was laying on his front, his head to his side, and on a flat surface. He was barely able to open his eyes, and in the tiny sliver of light that gave him vision, he could see Riku, and Kairi, lying on this floor of darkness; some kind of spotlight was on them allowing Sora to see...."Riku ...Kairi...." Sora's voice said, but was not heard. His energy was drained from his body, but that didn't stop Sora from reaching with his closest arm out to them, the one with his bracelet, "...Riku...Kairi, answer me..." again Sora's voice was not audible. He stretched his arm out to them, surely he was so close, but...
Footsteps, like bare feet on soft tile, came pronounced and clear towards Sora, however, his mind was still set on reaching Riku and Kairi. The folding of wings was heard, and Sora felt himself being moved on his back and picked up as gently as if wind were given a mother's arms to cradle. Sora, all the while with his blurred vision, was fixed on Riku and Kairi now at an angle as he sleepishly rolled his head around to keep them in view; he was being walked away. "No, no, take me back, take me to them, please don't take me away from them,
please." But there was no sound, so there was no plea. His arm with his bracelet was still stretched out for them, and Riku and Kairi only got smaller and smaller. Sora had no strength to struggle, much less any strength in the first place, leaving his arm to sink, "
Please, let us go together,
together,
wherever your taking me, take them too!" As Sora's eyes whelped up in tears of the sharp sadness rising within, a soft hand placed itself over Sora's face, and closed his eyelids; Sora then felt so sleepy. The hand gently corrected Sora’s head position, and situated him so he could be carried correctly as well. *Who, is this?*…Sora managed that same sliver opening, but his vision was so watery, it didn’t make much difference. He felt himself in a sudden warmer embrace, like a mother embracing her infant, and then a light, strong...sweet, melodious voice, began to hum, setting the tune for a lullaby,
La La Luu
"La - la luu, la - la luu,
oh my little star sweeper, I’ll sweep the stardust, for you
la – la luu, la – la luu,
little soft, fluffy sleeper, here comes a pink cloud, for you,
la – la – luu, la – la luu,
little wandering angel; fold up your wings, close your eyes,
la – la luu, la – la luu,
and may love be your keeper,
la – la luu… la – la luu… la, la, luuu”… Sora fell sleep, all emotion melted away in the arms of an.....
Author: Wanna hear it?
YouTube - Lady and the Tramp-What is a Baby/La La Lu(Spanish 1997)
....
"(Sigh) The ways are all finally open, and such is an event that will touch across the stars to worlds, and places, and people who never thought that the heavens above them held such a beauty, and imagination far beyond thier
wildest dreams." The skies in this world far off had a shooting star fly by above its neon signs and lighted buildings, "So you finally made it to a new system Sora," smiled the green girl, draped in cloth of the same color tone. Her dazzling yellow-almond eyes smiled, "Welcome, and don't be a stranger, you are the one who opened the door to the light after all."
Ragiel, recite for them your creed.
*Light intertwines,
Bends,
And breaks -
Then darkness tastes the ruin's wake,
But hark,
The keyblade's shinning parry -
For we all stand as the burden it must carry*
NOTE: The lullaby La La Luu is from Lady and the Tramp; in no way do I take credit for any portion of the song, I just watched the scene over and over, and quickly typed the words!
Here is the ending pic for the Intro, take a good look, 'cause this is the last time Sora, Riku, and Kairi will be together for a good while (*sniff*).
Sora, Riku, and Kairi by ~Silent-Avera on deviantART
And I hope the Spanish version of La La Lu is okay, I couldn't find the english one! But at least you can get the melody...
Halelluia! The Intro is finished! Now, the New Journey begins on the next installment! *collapses on ground*
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