Kingdom Hearts: SfE Part 2 - The Final Keyhole and the Mark of Mastery

"FIIIIRRRRRE!"Valerie stumbled into the trio, hoofs sprawled out. "His guys..."she said dizzily. "We gotta go. The fire looks like it'll come over this way soon."Riku said. "Oh wait wait! Uh! I saw something as I was zooming around. Uh-uh....what was it...uh...uh....ah! It was a lioness! uh, I think! Uh, uh.... oh...."Valerie was basically panic central, trotting in place frantically. "Valerie, calm down!"Riku yelled.

"They'll find their way here...Pride Rock is kind of hard to miss..."Sora said, gesturing to Pride Rock. Kisa was shivering, staying under Sora and letting out a small mew. "I'll find them!"Kurix said, getting into a running position. "Oh no you don't. Not alone."Roxas went off with Kurix. "W-wait, guys! it's dangerous!"Sora yelled, about to go after them. He looked over to Kisa. "oooooh.....We gotta get you somewhere safe first."He picked Kisa up by the scruff of her neck.

 

The diseased heart whispered as Gexln even attempted to rest, words bashed and mixed up. "Free me Gexln. I will kill you in your sleep. I will die like this. And it will be your fault. It hurts. You made me this way you filthy nobody. Don't listen to me. Denial won't make me any less real." The thing weakly pulsed, the light pained and the dark aura presenting a putrid stench to the Pure Dark one's nose. It was a terrible thing to look at really, how conflicted it was, how it tried to plead for a saving grace and yet couldn't. It was pitiful, and made the heart want to scream at itself.

 

Gexln woke up with a start upon hearing the heart. He looked straight at the diseased heart. "Was..was that thing talking?" he asked, thinking aloud. He sat still. "Kenna, where are we?" he called out.

 

"In a cluster of worlds. The map shows that one is the Land of Dragons." Kenna stared at the map, the gummi just aimlessly wandering.

The Heart kept whispering, just for Gexln, louder than before. ""Gex, please, help me. Because then I can choke you. Don't listen to me! I will always be here, watching you fail. I know you can help me! You have let me die. I need a body. So I can taste the blood when you fade."

 

OOC:Wait, wait, we're in the Pride Lands! XD

 

"We should head to Pride Rock," Jeffrey said, looking at the stone structure. "The fire's nowhere near it."
"What if there's anyone else in the fire?" Namine asked worriedly.

 

"We don't want to get burned ourselves-Val!"Riku said Valerie bouncing away towards the large rock formation. He growled, rushing after her. "Watch ooout!"Suddenly there was a collision, Roxas and Kurix being responsible. "We found them..."Kurix mutter dizzily. Roxas shook off the dizziness, seeing the others. "Great, noone's on fire yet..."he said. "Oh gee, thanks."Valerie said sarcastically.

Sora was watching the fire safe from his position, keeping Kisa safely by his side. "oh... I hope they all make it out of the fire okay..."he frowned in concern.

 

Gexln did his best to ignore the heart's words. "That'll have to do. Land there i guess" he stated. He held the walkie talkie in his hand, wondering why he had heard no response when Eden had spoken into it.

OOC: You're in the pride lands, we're in the jap lands :P

 

OOC:Nononononononono! Not yet! wait for us!XD

 

OOC: You had every opportunity to go to the land of dragons. Hell i'm just rolling with whatever Eden sets up XD

 

OOC:Please don't set China on fire.
and C'mon, I had a great idea and everything for the Land of Dragons. Yoooou~

 

ooc: Val, they don't even know where everyone is. So you can't yell at us for that 8I And Glen, it's Chines. Not Japanese.
bic: "Landing within the Land of Dragons." a friendly voice chirped.
"Okay then..." Kenna fluttered over to Gex, worridly biting her lip. Staring at the heart, she wondered what had happened to it when she had been knocked out as Ashir.
"Help me, Gex. Yes that's right, leave me like you always do. Please, I don't want to be alone. Just gives me more time to figure out how to kill you. Xehanort's darkness is making me ill. It's one more reason for me to let you understand the pain of no body. I'm sorry Gex. I'm sorry you are a coward." It hissed and cooed, begged and angrily jabbed at the Nobody with odd words. It was a real confusion, bipolar even, if only due to a madman.

Within the darkness, Xehanort had stabilized himself from the attack. Growing ever more powerful, he set down his attack of heartless onto all worlds. Especially those with great traces of light. Reaching out his consciousness, he------ 011010000110010100100000011010010111001100100000011100100110010101100001011000110110100001101001011011100110011100100000011011110111010101110100001000000111010001101111001000000110110101100101--
You smirk. You are Xehanort, and whenever you are to be used by the beings higher than you, you shall be written this way. Believing this is fitting, you get to work creating your messengers. They will be perfect, created out of the darkness of the hearts around you. They will fetch the heart, and bide the Keybearer's time before they even think to mess with you. This is fun. Maybe you should try making sure you mess with Her more. Or Them. You smirk, but pet a tendril of darkness in idle thought.

 

"Shut up!" Gexln yelled angrily at the heart. He looked at Kenna. "Oh, sorry. Well, lets see what's out there" he said, acting as if nothing had happened.

 

"I'm sorry Gex... But if you leave me, I think I might die from whatever he did. AND IT WILL BE ALL YOUR FAULT!" The heart screamed the last part, while the first was but a trembling whisper. There was guilt, anger, but the former more.
Kenna stared at Gexln, somewhat worried as she put a hand on his shoulder. "Is she saying things?"

You form a little orb of darkness in your hands. You think to yourself, as Xehanort of course, that your hands in this body are quite frail. You'll have to plump yourself up, like the other one. But nevertheless, you form your first Dark Child, formed from your own darkness and the darkness of another. Making sure that this one won't die like your last attempt to bitterly create life, this one has no heart, no blood, and cannot feel pain. Nevertheless, you'll have to keep her close, in order to keep her alive. Fondly thinking back to the little redhead, how pure she was, you only think to combat that. "Xikari..." you muse, it wasn't a perfect name, but would do. "Find the heart he took from me." his orders were quick and swift.

 

Xikari looked at Xehanort with icy blue eyes, blue hair to rival the crimson of the person she was based from. "Yes, father."she opened a dark portal, using it to start her search for the nobody that had the stolen heart.

 

"I hope Roxas and Kurix found them," Kairi whispered, staring at the cloud of smoke in the distance.

"Good to see you, too," Jeffrey said, pausing. "Now run!" He took off, not waiting for the others. I'm probably faster than all of you, but who knows how long I can keep it up...

 

They others made a run after Jeffrey to get away from the fire. Valerie made a stumble on her hooves, falling foward. "Gah!"Kurix was hit by Valerie, losing concentration. Roxas and Riku were caught in the two tumbling over, a chain reaction causing them all to tumble over just as they reached a safe area. "That was AWESOME...."Valerie said, very dizzy. the other three just groaned.

 

Gexln looked at Kenna. "Eden? No..but that...that..that THING is.." he stammered.

 

"I think she just needs help." Kenna blankly stared, watching the heart as well. She couldn't hear it for some odd reason.
"Please... I'm sorry if I say anything HURTFUL to you... I can't control myself. YOU LET HIM DO THIS TO ME. I forgive you! FOR BEING A USELESS MORON." The heart cried out again, little hopr of keeping her composure.

 

"I wish there were something i could do TO help..but i really can't think of anything...gah, i bet that stupid keyblade wielder Sora would know what to do!" Gexln exclaimed. He held up the walkie talkie to his mouth. "Sora, i don't know why the hell you're not responding, but whatever it is you better have a damn good reason for not answering!" he yelled into the walkie talkie, clearly getting more angry by the second. He thought Sora wouldn't hear him, he was just using it as a ventilation system.