I woke up with a feeling of depression in myself as I looked around the cave. I saw Riku and Kage were awake.
Kage was tending to some meat by the fire and Riku was sitting up with his eyes close looking almost meditative.
"See what I told you. It helps to kill time. He's awake now." Kage said to Riku.
Riku slowly opened one eye and then another. He looked at me and smiled. "Good morning love." he said.
I smiled and kissed him on the lips. I felt him open his mouth so I slid my tongue inside. He pushed against my tongue with his own as he pulled me to the floor on top of him. The kiss lasted for quite a while until I pulled away for air and saw Kage staring at us.
He let out a sad sigh and said "Breakfast is ready."
I looked at the food and smelled it. It smelled better then anything I've smelled in a long time.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Well Riku helped me kill a young wild mounting bird this morning so you're eating one of the best meals that comes from this area." Kage said.
"You guys don't expect me to survive do you?" I asked as I looked at them.
"I told you if it's all resting in your hands we have nothing to worry about Sora. I know you'll live. I just woke up and couldn▓t go back to sleep so Kage asked if I wanted to help get you a special breakfast is all." Riku said.
I looked at Kage who was red in the face. His cheeks burned with embarrassment. I went over to him and pulled him close to me. I gave him a hug and said "Thanks for thinking of me."
I felt him relax against me and return the hug. Riku looked at the two of us and joined in the embrace.
"What am I to you guys?" Kage asked us.
"Not sure but you're something big." Riku said.
"Maybe a brother or something?" I suggested.
"Would you hug your little brother like that?" Kage asked.
"Sora hugs everyone. He's a real touchy person and when we get home you're going to see that he's really hyper too. He eats a lot of sweets and drinks a lot of coffee. He's bouncy and hugs everyone." Riku said.
I got out of the hug and said "I am not hyper. I just go on an occasional sugar rush is all."
Kage looked at me and said "I think we should eat before Reikila gets here." I gave a nod and Riku went over to were the meet was cooking.
I took a bit of the meat and decided it was the best thing I've had for breakfast in a long time. I smiled at Riku and Kage but they were too busy eating to notice. We devoured the meat from the bird.
I looked at the entrance to the cave with a strange feeling in my stomach. I felt something inside of me and shortly after Reikila walked through the entrance.
"Good morning boys." He said in an excited voice. I looked at him and saw that his ears were sticking straight up.
"Let's get this taken care of so we can go home." I said.
"I was thinking you would want to draw it out and delay the moment of your death." Reikila said.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore Reikila. It seems to be the other way around. Perhaps you're afraid of what I'll do to you." I said in low tone.
"Nice." Riku whispered in my ear.
"I have no fear of death. In my age I welcome it in battle. Even if it does bring about the destruction of this world one of it's greatest warriors will survive and the fight is in his blood so I have no fear that the killing will cease." He said looking at Kage.
"You're wrong. I'll never kill again once I leave here." Kage said as he walked towards Reikila.
"Step back. You'll do nothing. Sora has to be the one to kill me but nothing stops me from killing you. I have no problems cutting the life from your body. I came her with intent to kill and it will not be prolonged any further. I could kill all three of you and still go on to take more lives." he said to Kage.
"The last person you killed will stay the last person you killed. Your life will be the only one I take. Kage will never kill again when he come home with Riku and I. The murderous cycle of this planet hell is ending with me. I'll be the last one to spill blood in the existence of this place." I said as I took sunlight in my right hand.
"Perhaps you'll be the one who is taken by the bloodlust. You're so willing to kill me that it's almost arousing. I can fell the hate, the anger, the desire to end my life. You remind me of myself before I made my first kill. The look in your eyes is almost arousing especially directed at me. Reikila said as he drew out a pair of golden daggers.
Each dagger was about eighteen inches long. He had several on his thighs and on belts around his chest and his waist. I wondered what he needed so many daggers for and then it hit me.
"If you survive this you're going to kill as many as you can until you go down. You don▓t intend to survive the day either way do you?" I asked him.
He gave a nod and said "I'll cleanse this world of the weaklings before the god of war claims my soul this day. I will not lie and say I wish to live this day but I won't let myself be beaten. I'll kill everyone I come across until I'm stricken down by my better. Not that you'll be saving any lives by killing me though. You're going to destroy this world because you see it's perfect order as evil."
"You're mad." I told him.
"I'm on a divine mission from the god of war to purge this world of weakness. You're quite powerful but your heat is weak and for that you must be killed." Reikila said as he pointed the dagger in his right hand at me.
"You seemed civil yesterday. Why the quick change of heart?" Kage asked.
"I'm ready to kill today. I'm not kind to anyone once I'm ready to kill them. You'll be next Kage. I'll enjoy doing things to your pretty little body once I finish with Sora." The elf said as he stepped closer to Kage.
"You won't lay a fucking finger on him. Get outside right now." I said surprising Riku and Kage. I surprised myself but if Reikila was surprised it didn't show.
He laughed and said "You're quite welcoming of a life and death battle but you stink of humanity and you bear the attitude of adolescent arrogance. I'm going to enjoy killing you. At the very least I'll leave you with a scar. I bet your flesh is unmarred isn't it?"
I was about to respond but I heard Kage behind me. "He's almost invincible in a close quarters indoors fight. You have to get him outside to even stand a chance." he whispered.
"Quite right Kage. You forgot elf ears mission nothing. You, Sora are, for lack of a better word, screwed with me in between you and the exit." Reikila said.
I summoned my oblivion keyblade and quickly flung it at Reikila who dodged it. I used that time to run past him and get outside. As soon as I reached the outside I turned to face him but I was too slow.
I felt a pain in my left leg. I looked ad saw a dagger in the ground next to my leg with blood on it.
I looked at Reikila who laughed and said "Such a cowardly and sluggish attack is no match for someone of my experience. I may be past my prime but there▓s no way you can match my centuries of experience."
I raised sunlight above me and shouted "Blinding burst!" as soon as I called out the attack I saw the bright light come from behind me.
When the light faded I saw Reikila standing to me with daggers over his eyes.
"He reflected the light away from his eyes with his daggers." Kage said in surprise.
"Sora, meaning sky, is a fitting name for you boy. You have your head so far in the clouds to forget that I'm the creator of the weapon you hold in your hand. I know all of it's attacks." The elf said as he raised his arms above his head.
He chanted something in another language and one of the belts of daggers from his chest rose in to the air.
The daggers began to circle around him. He laughed and said "Let's see how many you can dodge Sora. Kage has only seen me fight under human disguise but I'm free to sue my elfin battle magic here."
Two daggers flew at me. I quickly knocked them aside.
Three more came at me. i dodged two of them but the tried one drew a line of blood across my right arm. It wasn't anything fatal but it was painful.
I tried to raise my sword to strike him but I couldn't. "What is this?" I asked in surprise.
"Anchoring magical dagger strikes. Your arm might as well be gone." Reikila said.
I quickly moved my left arm to point the hand at the dagger and shouted "Firaga."
The dagger melted and I was able to move my hand again. I jumped at Reikila but the remaining daggers went for me. I maneuvered through them, only suffering a few minor wounds, on the way to Reikila.
I swung at him with sunlight. He blocked it and swung at me with the dagger in his left hand. I summoned my kingdom key to my left hand and blocked with it.
The weapon out of nowhere caught Reikila off guard. I swung out with sunlight and drew a line of blood across his left arm. He howled in pain and I heard Kage yell "That's it."
I jumped away and saw that I had blood on me. I looked and saw that Reikila was bleeding heavily. He tried to move his wrist to throw a dagger but he couldn't. It fell from his hand about a foot away from him.
He closed his eyes and mumbled something in that strange language and I suddenly caught fire were his blood was on me.
I held my left hand above the flames and summoned a fall of water to put the flames out. Due to the armor between my shirt and skin I wasn't burned but the armor was hot against my chest and stomach.
I looked and saw that Reikila had healed his arm wound. There was a scar there were I had cut. I let out a frustrated sigh and saw that I was surround by daggers.
Reikila closed his eyes once more and spoke in his elfin language. The daggers rose up around me and began to spin. The were a few feet away from me but they were getting closer in a teasingly slow pace. "You die now boy." Reikila said as the daggers picked up speed.
"Aeroga!" I shouted. A whirlwind blew around me and the daggers flew back at Reikila. I watched as they tore through him. He fell to the ground wounded.
"Well fought." he said so softly I could hardly hear him. I walked over to him but kept a distance. He laughed and said "My binding enchantments I placed on my daggers are a dual edged sword. I'm pined to the ground and can't move. I'm going to slowly bleed to death here. Not the way I intended to go at all." He said before he coughed up blood.
"No. Nobody I defeat will die slowly." I said as I walked to stand over him.
"Before you do one last thing. A sort of gift for defeating me. My daggers now serve you. They became yours the second your magic on them overpowered mine. Take them with you if you desire." Reikila said as he tried to stand.
I stared at Reikila and saw the daggers move as I wanted them to. All of the many daggers had on his body rose three feet above him. I brought them all down through his body in seconds.
I swung sunlight slowly over what was left of his body and the blade devoured his remains. I looked at the blood stained ground and saw the many daggers. I called them all to their sheaths and they fastened over my body.
"I hope I never have to kill again but I'm glad to know I can if I have to." I said as I healed my light wounds.
"What do we do now?" I asked Riku.
"Now we go home. All three of us." I said with a smile at Kage.
Kage walked over to my right and Riku stood my left. Riku drew moonlight and Kage drew out twilight.
"Ready guys?" I asked.
"Yeah let's go home." Riku said.
"I'm ready to run and never look back." Kage said with the happiest look I've seen on his face.
\We raised the lights over our head and all three at once shouted "Destiny islands." and swung our blades down.
A rift appeared same as in the secret place. We sheathed our swords joined hands and the three of us walked to the islands hand in hand.
End Notes
This is the longest story I've ever written as of it's completion and if you've made it here then I thank you for reading it all.
It took a lot of time and energy to write this but it's the most fun I've had on a story in a long time. The creation of this world and the people in it was quite a bit of fun.
I've fallen in love with Kage so there will be a sequel in his point of view that will be out fairly soon on this site. I already have that one all planed out in my mind. It will be called My New Home. I'm also working on an origional story for called Kage Of Shyra for but don't worry because I can work on more then one thing at a time.
I based a lot of these characters after people I know or knew. Daius is based off a friend of mine I met playing an online game.
Kage is a lot like I was at his age. I guess that makes me a bit of a narcissist for liking him so much but oh well.
I got the idea for Tenchi's always calm, funny, but stern when necessary personality from my grandfather who is like that.
I'm quite glad that I've never met anyone like Reikila but he reminds me of a friend of mine I met playing an online game. The friend wasn't evil but he was a hard core pker who always talked about how noobs should be killed so I kind of adapted that in to Reikila▓s desire to "Cleanse" the world of weakness.
Zoul was entirely made up in my mind. I haven't met a person like him that I can remember in this life but he was one of the first ones I thought of.
Now it's time for me to move on to the thank yous. First of all I want to thank my wonderful editor who I've come to love in be with the for the rest of my life sense who will see this chapter when it's posted because I'm editing this one on my own.
I would like to lastly and once again thank you for reading this long bit of work. Let me know what you thought of it on your way out ok?