Kingdom Hearts Future Vol. 14 You can always be a Light in the Dark
Yen Sid and Mickey have been brought safely to the Tower, still unconscious but alive. Sora and Kairi told the Seekers that once again they had lost their leader to Anti-Sora. Xemnas and Ansem the Seeker of Darkness both new and had been feeling weak for a while, but Sora did explain to them that they still could save Xehanort.
Xemnas: What do you mean? He's gone we are powerless to do anything.
Ansem: I think he is trying to say we use a sort of metamorphosis and combine our bodies.
Sora: Right.
Kairi: But, unfortunately we don't know how to make that happen. When I saved Sora it was different, but to fuse you both without killing you, that's the difficult part.
Ansem the Wise: There's nothing we can do to help them without destroying their bodies I'm afraid that this is the only way to get Xehanort back.
Xemnas: Okay, let's do it.
Sora: Really?
Ansem: Yes we'd be more powerful together, we need this upper hand on Anti-Sora!
Suddenly the rest of the Seekers of Darkness approached Sora, Kairi, and Ansem the Wise pleading for the help that Xemnas and Ansem would receive. Unsure that they would be able to survive or even if their heartless had been destroyed they were all ready to take the risk. Sora and Kairi quickly struck down everyone of them in the hope they'd surface again and be a better person. Only Xehanort now around the age of fifty, Isa and Braig appeared the others hadn't been revived.
Sora: Well, this is kinda depressing. What do we do now?
Kairi: I don't know, what else can we do?
Xehanort: We take out Anti-Sora!
Sora: What? You think we stand a chance?
Isa: Yeah, with this new power we have we can take him down for the count.
Braig: Right, now stand aside while we end Anti-Sora and make our fallen comrades proud.
Sora: Or, we can stay here and work on a strategy. Even with your newfound powers your still no match alone. What if he absorbs your power like he did before?
There was along silence that ended in Isa, Braig and Xehanort heading off to find Anti-Sora. After the three had left Sora and Kairi went off to find their students training for the battle ahead. Sora had never seen them so focused on training before. Kairi walked over to them, looking at them she was very proud of how they were taking the situation, then the two began to tell their students that they were to continue their training under Eraqus, Ventus Sr., Aqua Sr.and Terra Sr. The group looked confused and wondered why the sudden change of Masters, Sora and Kairi explained that there was nothing more to teach them and the students should have a new style of fighting with their Keyblades. Sora and Kairi also asked them not to go looking for them later they were going to find Riku and bring him back.
Aqua Jr.: But Masters, we can help this is what we've been training for after all!
Roxas Jr.: Yeah, this isn't fair!
Xion Jr.: We want to be with you!
Terra Jr.: You're gonna need us.
Sora: Now, listen you're going to do as we say, Aqua, you are the oldest, I'd expect you to be reasonable. I want you all to stay just in case Kairi and I walk into a trap.
Lea and Mickey jump from the tower to meet Sora and Kairi.
Lea: What's this about you leaving-
Sora: Don't try to talk us out of it Lea, Riku has been our friend for years and he's always been there for us, now it's our turn to save him.
Kairi: Sora's right don't try to stand in our way.
Lea: I was just gonna ask if you needed help?
Mickey: Whether you know it or not Lea and I know how you feel. Lea couldn't save Isa twenty years ago, and Riku is a friend of mine too, years ago in Castle Oblivion we helped each other all the time. We're coming with you.
Sora: No.
Lea: We weren't asking.
Sora: Stay here and protect each other.
Lea: Not a chance, you know as well as I do you won't beat him if its just the two of you.
Sora: Don't care, and Riku will help us too. This time he won't get away.
Mickey: The Seekers! Where are they?
Kairi: They went to go find Anti-Sora and have their revenge.
Lea: We must go now they'll need our help. Sora, Kairi, come on. We can summon a portal that will be the fasted way there!
Sora: Fine. But kids WILL stay here.
The four departed for the Keyblade Graveyard to confront a dark power. They arrive to find Riku tied up to a pillar upside down and seemed to be close to death.
Sora: Kairi! Look its Riku!
Kairi: Sora look at him. Is he alive?
Lea: Barely.
Mickey: Sora cut him down!
Sora cut through the chains of darkness and Riku fell to the ground and Mickey cast cure. Healing his wounds but not regaining his strength, Riku tried to sit up and started to look around him seeing his friends he was filled with joy.
Riku: Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Lea thank you, but we need to go now. Anti-Sora has set a trap, I don't know what but he wanted to make us weaker somehow, something about bringing up the past?
Dark fire separated the Keyblade Masters and formed a tornado of fire around each one. Anti-Sora entered their heads and chanted "Turn back the clock of time, turn back the ages, victims to this rhyme, turn back the clock of time, lives turn to pages, turn back the clock of time!"
Sora: What the? I look twenty years younger.
Kairi: This is strange.
Riku: I haven't felt like this in ages.
Mickey: I've got more energy than before.
Lea: Cool! This is awesome! I'm a kid again!
Sora: What have you done?
Anti-Sora: I've just made it that more easy to kill all of you. Is that a problem?
Lea: For us, no. You think you've won? Look at us, you've given us more time than anyone else in this world. You've lost.
Anti-Sora: Really try to summon your Keyblade.
They all summoned their Keyblades but they could tell that they too had changed. They were weaker and they had changed their looks too.
Anti-Sora: So what now? You've only got one chance to beat me. The X-Blade but how will you get it? It's at the Tower but you can't get it fast enough, oh, that's so sad and unfortunate.
Xehanort: Oh yeah? We've got it right here!
Anti-Sora: What? Who's there? Where are you show yourself!
Isa: Hello there, miss us? Lea? What happened your young again that's not fair.
Lea: Well you didn't age for twenty years. Hey now people will have to remember me, I'm young again.
Xehanort: Kairi, take it, it's yours, Princess of Heart.
Kairi: Thanks.
Sora: Now, Anti-Sora, we finish this! Everyone on three! One...... Two......
Anti-Sora: No! Wait! Forgive me!
Sora: It's too late, you've caused too much pain, you've killed too many people! Time for you to pay for what you've done! Three!
All at one time the Keyblades and X-Blade had eradicated Anti-Sora in a flash of light. With the worlds freed from evil once again it was a time for peace. But there is always darkness in the hearts of all people. Would the peace last for long? Who knows, but for now our heroes need a long vacation.