Arc 2: Reunions and Answers

Disclaimer: I own NOTHING in this fanfiction except my OCs Inako and a few others. Everything else is owned by their respective creators.

In a single dark room in a world unknown to many and inhabited by even less people a scream could be heard. The scream came from a young man with short silver spiky hair who was being beaten by a much larger figure than himself. The only thing of the figure that could be seen in the darkness were his eyes. They were red eyes with black slits for pupils and they glowed slightly. The young man tried to stand but that last hit had broken his right leg so all he could do it kneel and pant out of breath. The figure laughed in a deep and powerful voice before speaking.

"Now come on Riku I thought you could fight against me. You were so confident that you could defeat me after what I did to your friends yet now look at you. Beaten and broken like the worm that you are. You don't even deserve the right for me to finish your life," the figure said looking down at Riku.

"Shut up," Riku said before shooting a blast of Dark Firaga out at the figures chest. The magic hit but caused little damage to the figure but it did illuminate the room for a moment. Riku quickly cast Cura on himself and rolled out of the way of the figure's counter attack. The spell didn't repair his leg fully but it made it so he could at least limp on it without falling down. Riku held his Way to the Dawn ready for the next attack from the figure before he was dragged away by someone else in the darkness. The one who dragged him into the darkness used a version of the spell Shell that combined it with the spell Protect to create a shield between them and the figure.

"Riku we need to get out of here now. Can you make a Dark Corridor for us?" a young woman with blue hair asked Riku.

"I've been trying but something about this world is preventing me from opening one. How's Terra and Ventus?" Riku asked as the figure outside the magical barrier formed a large hammer from what seemed to be green magic and started hitting against the barrier. A small crack appeared in the barrier from the first hit.

"They are stable but unconscious. I shouldn't have suggested this mission," the woman said as the barrier gained more cracks from the constant hammer hits.

"How were you supposed to know that he would be here Aqua? We were all caught off guard. I hope that the second team is having better results with their mission," Riku said as he looked at the barrier and preparing for what was most likely going to be the end.

"If they are we might get some back up soon," Aqua said as she looked at her two unconscious friends. before standing up.

"What are you going to do Aqua?" Riku asked.

"I'm going to try and hold him off for as long as I can. It'll buy you, Ven, and Terra some time to find a way out of here," Aqua said as she prepared to fight against a being that was god like in power.

"He'll kill you and then who will take care of Ventus and keep Terra from falling back into darkness," Riku said as the barrier was close to shattering from the hits.

"If I die so you three can live then so be it. Riku make sure to get as far away from here with Ven and Terra as possible," Aqua said as the barrier bent and started to break apart slowly from the force of the hammer blows. A light glow came from the breaking barrier showing the face of the man who had beaten them. The face was covered almost completely by a skull helmet that seemed to be a spiked version of a samurai helmet albiet with the skull as the face plate. The only part of his face that could be seen that wasn't covered by his helmet was his mouth and chin and those were turned into a small grin. A little bit of blood could be seen on the chin but Aqua knew that it wasn't the figure's own. It had been from when Terra had spat in his face after having his ribs crushed by a single swing of that war hammer that the figure was using.

"I'm not letting you fight him alone," Riku said as he got into a fighting stance. The barrier shattered completely and the room became dark again except for the figure's red eyes.

Aqua held her keyblade at the ready and said "Riku you couldn't even stand against him for a minute and you are wounded now. I can't risk the life of another while I can still fight."

"Come at me with both of your power and I will still stand above both of you. In the end before you die I'll make you understand true pain," the figure said before kicking at Aqua. Aqua dodged the kick and sliced at the figure's exposed leg. The keyblade only managed to make a small scratch on the figure's leg. The figure punched at Aqua and managed this time to hit her. The hit was powerful enough to make her a bit dazed and made her stumble back a bit. Before the figure could follow up the attack Riku fired multiple Dark Fires at it managing to just annoy the figure slightly. The figure formed a green spear of energy and tossed it at Riku. Riku blocked it with his keyblade but it made him fly back slightly from the force. Before he could recover the figure hit Riku with his shoulder and knocked Riku into one of the room's walls. Riku almost blacked out from the pain but fought to remain conscious.

"A keyblade master who is but a child is but a pathetic waste of space. You aren't even worth the time it would take to kill you but I can't let you insignificant worm defy me any longer," the figure said punctuating each word with a punch to Riku's head. By the end of the attacks Riku's face was broken and bleeding significantly. The figure formed his hammer and was about to smash Riku's skull when a barrage of slashes from the back came from Aqua.

"Leave him alone," Aqua said as she continued to attack the figure's almost completely bare back. The figure stumbled out of shock that she could still move after the kick he had given her but quickly turned around and grabbed Aqua's keyblade and used it to pull Aqua close to him. He then grabbed Aqua's neck and lifted her up. Aqua continued to slice at the figure's arms until the figure tossed her into Riku so hard the wall that Riku was punched into shattered. The light from the outside exposed a massive complex. The figure walked towards the nearly dead Riku and Aqua before a voice spoke up.

"Wait. We could use these 4. Lets use those torture chambers and get some information from these fools," a man said from what seemed to be over a loudspeaker.

"I don't listen to you worm," the figure said to the voice.

"If we kill them then we lose information," the voice said.

"I can take their souls and all of their knowledge pathetic son of Sparda," the figure said.

"At least spare one of them so our torture chambers can get some use," the voice said.

The figure started to argue with the voice about why he was the one in charge at the moment. While they argued Riku and Aqua healed themselves using Curaga and ran over to Terra and Ventus. They shook the two unconscious young men awake and explained the situation to them.

"Lets get out of here and plan our next assault," Riku said after the explanation on their situation was finished.

Silently Ventus and Terra agreed and looked around for a way to escape. As they looked the figure and the voice were arguing violently. A voice whispered into the ears of Aqua and Riku and said something very interesting.

"In the land of darkness he sleeps waiting for The Void to consume all. This universe is dying and rotting slowly. It deserves to be destroyed. Xehonart was the last straw. Now this universe's fate has been decided. However there is a way to breath new life to the worlds. There are 7 orange balls with red stars in them. They are small about the size of a baseball or half the size of a blitzball. The 7 balls need to be gathered for two wishes to be granted. One can be to give the universe new life and the other can be to bring back your friends. The dark god known as Inako has slain them and has enslaved their souls and bodies to do his bidding. Only the magic of these 7 balls called the Dragon Balls can give them back their true lives and all the others slain in this conflict will be revived and well on the remaining worlds. Then you can gather them again in a year to restore the worlds. However you only have 3 months to do this otherwise the worlds and all that has been lost so far in this conflict will be gone forever," the whispering voice said.

"Who are you and why should we trust you?" Riku whispered.

"I am the opposite of Inako. I am a god who seeks to save your worlds and all the ones that are already lost. All I ask in return is one thing. I ask for a physical body once more after this is done," the whispering voice said.

"That still doesn't answer my questions?" Riku whispered back to the disembodied voice.

"I'll tell you my name once you are safe and sound. There is a door that can only be accessed by beings of similar power to Vergil and Khan over there. I however can open the door for you and tell you the way to go to get out of this maze of a castle," the whispering voice said.

"Why are you helping us when you said that the universe deserves to be destroyed?" Aqua asked.

"I'm helping you because the universe does need to be destroyed but there are people in it like you and your friends who can make the universe better and can fight fate. That is why I'm helping you. That and if the universe is destroyed it would solve nothing," the whispering voice said as a hidden doorway opened for the 4 keyblade weilders.

The 4 keyblade weilders ran out as the figure and the voice that was hostile were still arguing. The whispering voice slowly lead the 4 out of the deepest parts of the castle and to the foyer. As the 4 ran they noticed that the enemy group had some of the most egotistical people in the universe. In the foyer of the castle there were 10 massive statues dedicated to the members. There was one for Vergil made of white marble and was heavily emphasizing his jacket, the color blue, and his katana. There was a statue to Exdeath made of hundreds of small crystals in a wooden base which emphasized the spikes on his shoulders, his helmet, and a light sky blue coloration. There was a statue that was to Zeromus that was made of blue crystals in black marble that looked like it had been modified multiple times. It showed him as a large spiked ball with the colors of black, dark blue, and red being emphasized in it. There was a statue to Kuja which looked much different from the others. It showed Kuja in sitting position and was smiling a mirror placed at the base of the statue. It was made of what seemed to be gray and white cloth yet not. Terra walked up to it and touched it. He instantly regretted it.

(Short disturbing moment.)

"Its made out of dead Nobodies," Terra said as he quickly stepped back reeling in disgust. The other 3 keyblade weilders looked at it and all looked mortified at the sight.

"What sick bastard makes a statue to themselves out of bodies?" Riku asked.

(End disturbing moment.)

"One that is obviously insane. Lets get out of here before one of them finds us," Ventus said.

(Disturbing moment.)

As the 4 ran off towards the doors the sounds of yelling started to be heard heading their way from deep within the castle. They quickly opened the doors onto a sight that none of them needed to see. It was a land of hellfire, brimstone, and death. Hundreds of still living people could be heard screaming for death beneath the surface as their rotting hands tried to claw through the ground but all they could get out were their hands.

(Disturbing moment done.)

"Horrible isn't it," a voice said from nearby the stunned keyblade weilders. It was a young man about 20 years old wearing a simple brown cotton shirt and a pair of torn pants. He was obviously a servant.

The keyblade weilders were too stunned from seeing the hellish area to react so the young man continued to speak.

"You are the keyblade weilders. The ones who can stop my master's plans. You can't fight them. They are too powerful for any mortal to battle. The only ones they seem to fear are certain gods. One they always refer to as "Kefka" and they all seem to want to avoid ever meeting him. Go find this Kefka god and tell him to come back here and destroy my masters. Then maybe you can spare more worlds from this sort of fate. I won't tell them you were here. Just get out of here. The torture and slaughter fields are for traitors to them and are one of the last places they will look. Just keep heading there and find a ship to get off of this forsaken world," the servant said as he pointed out over the large land with large black rocks and towers that seemed to be swords coming out of the ground.

"Thank you," Aqua said before the 4 keyblade wielders ran out towards the nearest rock and hid behind it. It took all of their strength of will to prevent themselves from vomiting in disgust. They tried to move parts of the ground to help one of the people underneath it but once they moved it a bit they saw that underneath the gray ash like soil was nothing but skeletons still screaming in anguish at the pain that they suffered through. The skeleton that they had partially released grabbed Ventus's chest and tried to pull off his skin. It left deep gouges in it before Riku broke its arm off and ripped the hand off of his chest.

As they tried to recover from that incident the sounds of the castle being torn apart looking for them could be heard. The yelling of Khan and Vergil at each other though sounded a bit like an old married couple. As the two evil beings continued to argue the whispering voice started to whisper again.

"Now might be the best time to tell you my name. I am known as Kefka. Kefka Palazzo. And I will be the one that will help insure that this never happens again," the whispering voice said.

Chapter end.

Author's note: Well that was a bit of darkness and cruelty. I have been training and learned how far I can go. Now I will be able to give everyone who reads this story some... hopefully terrorfying nightmares. And before you say that this story has large parts that don't seem like Kingdom Hearts now let me just say this. This is supposed to be an arc dealing with a lot more evil than before. This arc as a whole I hope to make darker and have a pace that will make you fear what is coming next out of disgust and terror. Sometimes some horror is good. Now if you don't want to read any more of the darker and more disturbing aspects there will be little indications of when the disturbing parts will be in. Just skip over that part and I'll try to give summaries on what is going on in them at the end. So thank you all for reading. Please review. Also this will be the last chapter for a little bit since I'm going to post a new story giving a little more of a humorous retelling of the story. It won't be a full version of the story. It will just be a humorous take on the arcs as a whole and will be for those that want to have a bit more humor instead of this. Alright so good night and may whatever deity or thing you either believe in bless you or if you don't believe in a deity then have a good time. Peace.