As seen in part 9...
With a yell, Mickey turned and threw his keyblade directly at the Reclaimer... containing his heart... With a mighty boom, the Reclaimer exploded. Mickey turned towards Sora with his last ounce of strength. Through foggy eyes as the explosion erupted behind him and he started to disintegrate, he said, "Goodbye, Sora..."
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Sora reached out towards the King, "No!" But, to his utter astonishment, the King disappeared completely and all was quiet. Looking around, Sora didn't know what had become of Axel and Xemnas. A little off balance, Sora stood up, shakily, and then ran over to Riku. "Riku? Riku are you okay?" Riku was still unconscious, but was slowly starting to come around. It took awhile, but he eventually opened his eyes and sat up, "Sora... What happened? I don't remember a thing." Sora shook his head forlornly and explained everything that had taken place - including the King's suicide. "What?!" Riku asked in surprise, "Are you serious? Why would he do that?!"
"I don't know," Sora said in confounded shock. "He... he saved Kingdom Hearts. The Reclaimer is destroyed."
"And him with it!" Riku shouted and pounded his fist on the wall. "What even happened to Axel and Xemnas? I don't think those two are dead." Sora shrugged, "Well, you didn't see that explosion. They were right in the middle of it. I think they're long gone."
Riku sighed, "Let's hope so."
Suddenly the others ran up the stairs and Sora waved them over to where they were. Yuffie exclaimed, "Did you see the King?! He was walking! I think he's gonna be okay! We all saw him head up here to help you guys. Where is he? Where's Xemnas and Axel?" Everyone was extremely shocked when they heard the news of what really happened. Yuffie sighed in disappointment and then said, "Our enemies were cowards. Every one of them disappeared and we have no idea where they went." She looked around, "Wh-where is Minnie and Goofy? Weren't they originally with the King?" Sora gasped and ran down the stairs, and with him, everyone else.
Eventually they arrived where the King had fallen the first time, and found Minnie and Goofy unscathed. Sora breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness you guys are alright. What happened?" Minnie walked forward, "Well, as you may know, Mickey stood up. I was ecstatic! Until he turned on me and Goofy with evil intent showing in his eyes. I immediately knew that he was not my husband anymore. I put up a protective shield - invisible to even Mickey. And, although he was glaring, I could sense this little flame of good within him. I could feel it. He never so much as walked towards us. He just left up the stairs."
"So, he just left you?" Riku asked in bewilderment. "How... interesting."
"Very," Sora said, "But, I'm glad you guys are okay." Then, Sora looked at the ground and explained to the queen and Goofy what had happened to the King.
Minnie's eyes teared up and she shuddered gravely and Goofy announced, "Gawrsh, I always knew that the King was valiant... But, I never imagined he'd do something like that." Everyone could tell Minnie was about to lose it, but with as much dignity as she could muster, she shut out the tears. Riku looked at the others, "Well, the Organization is still at large, so let's all dividido, dividir up and procurar the castelo just in case." Everyone formed tiny groups and dividido, dividir up to their individual sections. Sora, Riku, and Minnie walked to the topo, início where the King had disappeared.
Minnie looked around like she was witnessing the Garden of Eden. The night sky was full of dark clouds, and lightning was electrifying the sky with its spectacular show of grandeur. It was sort of windy, but not so much as to bother or take notice. Sora and Riku inspected the machine or the remnants of what was left. "Sora," Minnie said, "What happened to my husband?" Sora turned to her, "You know what happened, Your Majesty. We already told you." She stared in his eyes, "No, I know what had happened to him. But, what happened to him? Where is he now?"
Sora thought for a moment, and then said, "He's... with the light. Where ever it is. He's with it. That's where he is, Your Majesty, and he's waiting for you. I know he is."
"Sora!" Riku shouted in surprise, and then there was a loud, grumbling sound. Out of nowhere, a giant double door appeared in front of the platform they were on, with a giant pathway leading to it.
"What... what is that?" Riku said. Sora smiled, "It's the door to the Realm of Darkness - leading to Kingdom Hearts." Minnie looked at him, "How do you know?"
"The King told me about this. The worlds gave us this doorway. They want us to be the guardians of their destiny."
"You mean," she said, "This was provided so we can protect it?"
"Exactly," he said, with a nod. "The worlds are entrusting us with the security of Kingdom Hearts - the coração of all worlds. We have a great responsibility in our hands now."
"Wow," Riku said, "This... this is amazing."
"And it's ours now!" A voice said out of nowhere. "What the...?" Sora said as he turned around. With a gasp, they all turned to see Xemnas and Axel standing there menacingly. "Thank you for pointing out what this is to us, Sora. We will be mais than delighted to take it from you now," Xemnas said with a triumphant sneer.
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Sora let out a grunt of disgust, "Xemnas! How are you still alive?! I thought that eruption killed you!" Xemnas smiled broadly, "Guess again, welp! Now, step aside kindly and refrain from any resistance. I may consider letting you leave with your puny life if you comply." Sora and Riku took out their keyblades and Axel took out his weapons of flames. Xemnas, like Axel, summoned a weapon that looked somewhat like a red light-saber. "You're crazy if you think we're gonna let you take Kingdom Hearts!" Riku snarled.
"Think?" Xemnas said with a smirk, "We're mais confident than that, you worthless being of ignorance. We know."
Riku laughed mockingly, "What makes you so confident? We're equally matched here."
"Oh?" Xemnas smirked. Then, out of nowhere, the rest of the Organization appeared, each one with a happy look of smugness.
Sora looked at the Queen, "Run!" The queen dashed for the stairs and was lost to sight. Then he turned back to the Organization members, "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!"
In the heat of the battle, Sora and Riku dashed progressivo, para a frente bravely. Weapons clashed against each other as fogo and thorns whipped around in an arc to try and destroy their adversaries. Sora used different spells which were cast quite effectively, and Axel tried his best to dodge each one, but did not succeed every time. Xemnas kept duplicating himself so they couldn't tell which Xemnas was the real one, and they were having a difficult time with this. Chaos reigned down on the timeless battle and it seemed like Sora and Riku were getting the loose end. Every once in a while, Xemnas would use his black and white thorns to throw Sora and Riku in the air. After doing so, he would use the thorns to carry him into the air where a series of tactical thrusts were performed por Xemnas. atuação quickly, Sora and Riku would dodge each thrust, each time getting closer to the ground until they safely landed. "Riku," Sora said, grinding his teeth together and blocking an attack from Larxene, "We're way outnumbered!" Riku kept fighting, his back to Sora, "I know! We're gonna have to make a retreat!" Sora growled, "I'm not running from a bunch of Nobodies! I don't run from anyone! I'm holding my ground, and if I go down, I'm going down like a warrior!" Riku yelled, still parrying and thrusting with his keyblade, "Sora! You're crazy! If we stay, it'll mean certain death for both of us. We have to make a retreat. It's the only way!" Sora glared at Riku and then blocked another attack, "Don't you get it?! If we leave, Kingdom Hearts is doomed!" Riku glared back for a dividido, dividir second, "If we stay, then we'll get killed and we won't have a chance to win Kingdom Hearts back!" The Organization was taken por surprise when the rest of the gang arrived on the scene. Now they were equally matched and Sora and Riku, with renewed strength, roared out their battlecry and jumped into the fray.
Suddenly, a giant sound erupted out of nowhere, and the doors to the Realm of Darkness opened slightly. Two balls of light flew out with tremendous speed and whipped up into the air. When they landed on the platform, brightly lit sparks burst into the air and it became very hard to see anything in the phantasmagoria of bright light. Sora and Riku held their hands in front of their face to shield themselves from the wind that was generated.
As the light died down, they all could see who was standing there. It was Mickey, and someone else. The King had returned, and he looked a lot different. His dark black Organization XIII robe, veste, roupão had been changed to a silky, pure white. In his hands, two new keyblades shown with all their splendor. One they recognized as the Starseeker - the other was totally new. To their surprise, the King's coração was revolving on the end of this new keyblade, attatched por an elaborate chain to the hilt. His coração was now one with the magnificent weapon, glowing a brilliant gold to match the blade itself. The hilt was made of solid silver and black steel. It was a thing of beauty.
Everyone gaped in bewilderment as they looked at the King in awe. The other figure, whom they just took notice of, was a man who stood way taller than the King. He was wearing a black, red, and gold robe, and his face was covered in red cloth that wrapped around him. Only one eye shown underneath the cloth, and he seemed very mysterious and enigmatic. "You..." Xemnas said, eyeing the King, "I thought you had died!" Mickey smirked, "You can't get rid of me that easily, Xemnas." Xemnas smirked back, "Well, so kind of you to cadastrar-se us, Your Majesty." Then, he turned his attention on the mysterious figure por the King's side. "Who, pray tell, are you?" The man stared evenly in Xemnas's eyes, "Oh, you don't remember me? Why, surely you can recall."
Xemnas watched as the man slowly undid the cloth that was wrapped around his head. Everyone could see when the man revealed his face that he had long, blond hair that went behind his ears and a blond beard as well. Xemnas smiled, "Ah, come back to the world of the living to try and destroy my beloved Kingdom Hearts, Ansem?" Sora raised an eyebrow, "So, this is Ansem. The one who built the Reclaimer." Ansem nodded, "And, the one who was destroyed por it." Xemnas chuckled darkly, "Too bad it didn't finish the job and left me to the dirty work." Mickey stepped forward, "Xemnas, you can end this now. We don't have to fight, if you'll just listen. Kingdom Hearts isn't what you think." Xemnas half smiled, "Oh, it's everything that I think. It's power. And, you know how much I crave power." Mickey narrowed his eyes, "Kingdom Hearts is much mais than that. And, I am not gonna let you take it."
Xemnas smirked, "Suit yourself, Your Highness. For you will soon find that I am not intimidated por you." With a sudden turn of speed, Xemnas launched a surge of thorns straight at the King. Mickey dodged it just in time and then everyone broke out into a fighting frenzy, except for Ansem and the Queen, who were not fighters whatsoever. Sora and Riku battled Axel and Larxene while Yuffie, Beast, and Jack Skellington were fighting Luxord and Xaldyn. The King was fighting Xemnas, and things were a complete riot.
Amid the consistent chaos, Xemnas smirked and stealthily evaporated away. Mickey immediately knew where he had gone. Turning to exemplify his point, he saw the doors, that once stood ajar, were slowly closing. Xemnas was inside the Realm of Darkness. Hastily, Mickey ran at topo, início speed and threw himself through the doors. Sora watched Mickey disappear and then ran over there with Riku on his heels. "Your Majesty!" Sora yelled. "Your Majesty, wait! What are you doing?" Mickey turned towards Sora, "Sora, I want you and Riku to close these doors and lock them! Now!"
"But, Your Majesty, you'll be trapped in here forever with Xemnas! Why would you-?"
"That wasn't a request, Sora, that was a demand! Do it now!" Mickey said and then ran into the darkness. Reacting to Mickey's demand, Sora and Riku put their keyblades together and nodded. Together, they locked the doors to the Realm of Darkness which disappeared soon afterward. "Why did he do that?" Riku said in bewilderment.
"The King always has a good reason for everything he does," Sora said grimly. "Now, let's get rid of Organization XIII for good now!"
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The King stood on a pillar of rock - capuz, capa over his head, looking to the side, with his keyblade facing the ground. The sea beneath him roiled and bubbled beneath and the sky roared out its challenge to any who dared to face it. Slowly, Xemnas, as the rain poured down and he stood on his own, giant pillar of rock, turned towards the King with determination illustrating the design of his eyes. Lighting cracked the sky like as if Zeus himself was witnessing the tensionous build-up in the atmosphere.
Thunder boomed out like a roaring lion, and everything was still for a few moments. Then, a lightning flash indicated where Xemnas was and Mickey was zooming off in a flash. He hurled himself from each pillar of rock to land on one directly across from Xemnas.
They glared at each other and then Xemnas said over the crashing of the waves and storm-like affinities, "So, it has come to this, has it? You and me and no one else. What a climax. My resolution will come from your death, which is to be very soon - por my own hands, and not por some filthy machine. I'll be the one to take you down, and I'll be the one to control all the worlds. There's nothing you can do about it. This is your fate."
"You are not the master of my fate, Xemnas," Mickey said scornfully, "Nobody is, but me. I'm the caretaker of my own destiny!"
"Just tell me one thing... Why do you resent the darkness?" Xemnas said, stretching his arms placatingly.
"I do not resent darkness. Darkness is just as important as light. They both coexist together. One cannot take part in this world without the other. However, darkness has a way of corrupting even the most kind souls in this life. That is why I do not use it in battle. I choose light."
"I've seen the darkness reside in you. I've seen it! Do not tell me it is not there! Use it, Your Highness! Together, we could rule all the worlds!"
"Enough!" Mickey yelled and cast a spell towards Xemnas - zapping a bolt of light forward. Xemnas did a backflip and landed on another rock, then he cast a multitude of thorns everywhere - each zooming towards the King with deadly accuracy. The King threw up a shield just in time to deflect the vile thorns. In retaliation, Mickey spun into the air and jumped from pillar to pillar until he reached Xemnas, performing a series of mid-air thrusts and jabs with his keyblades.
Xemnas, using his cloning ability, made multiple look-alikes and surrounded Mickey. The King glanced from side to side warily, taking note of each face, but he couldn't tell which one was real. With lightning precision, Xemnas struck Mickey in the back, causing him to fall face-first onto the floor. Reacting swiftly, Mickey flung himself to the side to avoid a segundo attack and then leaped up to deal damage to Xemnas's vulnerable side.
Xemnas yelled out in pain and turned around to face the King. As he turned, Mickey gathered a powerful fonte of light in his hand and thrust it at Xemnas. The light met him head-on and flung him across the expanse of ocean and rock to land on another pillar.
Mickey started jumping from rock to rock to get to him, and so Xemnas used his thorns to smash into the solid pillars - causing them to crack extremely and then crumble to pieces. The King, still moving with amazing agility, leaped off falling pieces of rock as they were falling towards the ocean beneath in order to get to Xemnas.
When he finally met him on the same grounds, Xemnas performed a skilled series of attacks - working together so as to batter the King harshly. Mickey's keyblades left his grasp as he was hurled into the air to land, rolling on the floor and almost falling off the side. Xemnas smirked, "Had enough, Your Highness?" Mickey's eyes were closed, but then they flashed open and, though fatigued as he was, heaved himself off the ground, summoned his keyblades back into his grasp, and attacked Xemnas once again. Xemnas was vastly shocked out how quickly his opponent had recovered, but he managed to block some of the attacks. Once again, Xemnas tried a complicated but skilled force of attack on Mickey. The King was hit, but he didn't give in to the onslaught. Instead, he came back harder - driving with all his might to destroy his foe.
Xemnas was starting to lose his confidence. Here was a keyblade master that would not lay down and die.
Mickey never stopped, but kept ducking, weaving, flipping, thrusting, blocking, and parrying with as much skill as twelve keyblade masters.
Xemnas blocked the attacks as best as he could, but Mickey, spinning with agility from one spot to the next, was hard to keep tabs on. With quick reflexes, the King twirled in the air to dodge the lazer and attack in between jabs.
Roaring in pain, Xemnas rushed into the air and rushed into the air, and the King followed him. Xemnas used the thorns to keep propelling himself through the air, and the King used wind to whip him into the o espaço above. Casting different things at each other, the atmosphere was filled with lightning, thorns, red lasers, and a variety of spells intertwining with each other.
Like a whip cracking above their heads, lightning exploded from the sky like a warning or maybe even an applaud for the dramatic show that was being performed. Mickey used the elements to his advantage and controlled the wind and lightning, making it bend to his will and direct harmful attacks upon his foe. Xemnas, however, used darkness to obliterate some of the attacks. The King could be using mais powerful moves, but in order to do that, he would need the darkness. Not wanting to use the darkness, he tried his best to keep it under check. He could remember distinctly when his master, Yen Sid, said, "Never let the darkness get the best of you. Once it takes root, it is hard to suppress, and it will grow like a weed. Always use light, Mickey, for darkness... will lead you into oblivion!" Shaking his head to snap him out of his reverie, he focused his mind on Xemnas. He couldn't afford to lose this battle. If he lost, Kingdom Hearts, and all the other worlds, would fall into darkness. He could never let that happen. Xemnas kept throwing large dark, energies at the King - trying to make him use it in retaliation, and Mickey, true to his master, did not yield to the darkness. Attentive of his position, the King spinned horizontally, with his arms outspread while holding his keyblades, towards Xemnas.
Seeing him coming, Xemnas whipped up in the air towards him and everything seemed to slow down. As they flew past each other, the King barely grazed Xemnas's face and the same with Xemnas's laser sword as it barely grazed the King's throat as they vaulted past each other.
Mist swirled in the air from the ocean below, and the King and Xemnas were so high in the sky, that they were almost touching the black, thunder-filled clouds of lightning - swirling in a vortex like a giant, flat tornado. As Xemnas flew past, the King turned around and delivered a devastating lightning spell that struck Xemnas as he was turning around - causing him to fall towards the earth. Mickey watched Xemnas fall onto a pillar, and almost immediately rushed to the scene, determination and intensity flashing in his eyes. As he landed, the King started battering Xemnas with multiple blows. Xemnas dodged a few here and there and retaliated with his lazer.
Eventually, Xemnas was rendered into a daze from the amount of damage that was dealt por the King. For the first time, he felt the cold, icy grip of fear take place and root itself in every inch of his being. Mickey glared at him with no remorse or guilt. He was here to do a job - protect Kingdom Hearts, and nothing could deviate his attention. Xemnas fell to the floor, propped on one elbow, weakly, and staring at Mickey with hidden astonishment illuminating his eyes.
The King growled and pointed his keyblade at Xemnas, "Xemnas... You are nothing but a dirty coward - hiding behind your Organization this whole time. You have kidnapped my wife, threatened my friends, and attempted the domination of the coração of All Worlds. For that, you can only be labeled as an unworthy, heartless brute. Nothing more!" Xemnas yelled out in anger, and leapt up suddenly to attack Mickey with wicked malice.
Mickey gasped in pain and then came back with a series of keyblade maneuvers, ending with a final blow from a powerful thrust into Xemnas's chest. Mickey glared, "No dignity, no honor, and now... You have no life!"
Xemnas smiled, "At least I accomplished something."
Mickey glared, "You accomplished nothing here!"
Looking dazed, Xemnas looked at the King, "I unlocked the darkness within you, Your Majesty."
The King gasped and looked downward to see his hands, gripping the keyblades with darkness swirling around them. Shutting the darkness away, it faded and he turned back to glare at Xemnas venomously.
Xemnas's eyes faded away as he began to disintegrate. He fell to his knees and then the stormy, black sky above opened up like a whirlpool - sucking Xemnas's disintegrated fragments inside like a giant wormhole.
With a final yell of defiance, Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII, was gone - lost into the sky, and ceasing to exist. Mickey stared upward for awhile, and then fell to the floor, too weak to move. Breathing heavily, the King held onto his keyblades tightly and closed his eyes. Within seconds, light enveloped him and he was transported to a mais calm spot. He was on the shores of a dark de praia, praia somewhere in the Realm of Darkness... The waves were quiet and serene. Above, you could see the moon shining down on the water to create a shimmering image of itself.
Mickey lay on the sands and closed his eyes. This would be a nice spot to spend the rest of eternity. Sorrow drifted into his mind as he pictured the ones he left behind - the ones who were on the other side. He would never see them again.
As he thought of his wife, a lone tear drifted down his face. With a sigh, Mickey was about to lose consciousness, when all of a sudden a portal appeared in front of him - hovering over the waters. Mickey looked at it weakly and then tried his best to make his way towards it. Unable to do so, he collapsed and so the portal expanded so he was completely enveloped in the light.
In the seguinte instance, Mickey was flying over the sky like a shooting estrela - moving at the speed of light through space, passing stars and other apparitions. As quickly as it had started, it ended, and Mickey crashed into the ground of some world - blacking out at the last second.
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"Hey, I think he's waking up!" Yuffie yelled with excitement. "Everyone, he's awake! He's alive!" Mickey opened his eyes slowly to see every one of his friends rushing over to him. Sora knelt por his side, "Your Majesty! You're awake! We were really worried!" Mickey shook his head, "What happened?" Riku smiled, "You tell us! One moment we're walking towards the Gummi ships, the seguinte moment, we see a shooting estrela crash into the ground. How did you get here?" Mickey's face turned into confusion, "I fell from the sky?"
Sora nodded, "Yup! You sure did! I thought you were locked in the Realm of Darkness... Oh! That reminds me, did you take care of Xemnas?" Mickey nodded and stood up slowly, "Yeah, I did. He's long gone, now. I'm just trying to remember what happened exactly... One moment, I was lying on the beach, and then the seguinte moment... That's it! A portal opened! Somebody opened a portal! I think I know who it was."
Sora nodded and then placed a hand on his chin thoughtfully, "That's strange. Anyway, I need to clear something up. How are you still alive? I mean, I'm glad that you are! But, I just don't know how it's possible. You threw your keyblade at your heart. I saw it with my own eyes." Mickey sighed, "Well, it's a long story. But, I was currently in the depths of my heart. I opened a portal using the light I possessed to see what was going on through my own eyes. As I looked, I could see that the darkness had almost completely taken over me. I used the last of my energy to gain a bit of control of myself - that's how I stopped the darkness in me from killing you, Sora. After that, I threw my keyblade at my heart, and in that instance, I snapped back into the depths that I was previously in. Almost like everything was in slow motion, I noticed through the window that I had created... my keyblade. It was moving towards me and I saw myself disintegrating from afar.
"As I was disintegrating, the keyblade seemed to explode out of the window of light and the platform beneath me cracked. I was falling into oblivion - into nothingness. I grabbed my keyblade and held onto it tightly... Then, I remembered what my master had said about creating portals with light. Just like darkness, light has the power to transport as well. So, since I now had the power to transport with my keyblade, that's what I did. Before, I didn't have the energy. I had no tool of leverage. Anyway, I created a portal, but I had no idea where it would lead. I just knew I had to get out before I disappeared for good. Once I was through the portal, I realized where I was. I was in Kingdom Hearts."
"You were actually inside Kingdom Hearts?" Sora said, widening his eyes.
"That I was, Sora," the King replied, "And that's where I found Ansem."
Everyone looked at Ansem and he nodded, "Yes. I was trapped in there for such a long time. It's been years. I was amazed when I saw the King, and I was even mais amazed when the Kingdom awarded him."
"The Kingdom awarded you?" Riku asked, crossing his arms, and looking at the King, "How did it do that?"
"It gave me back my coração and merged it with my weapon," Mickey said, showing his magnificent new keyblade with his coração attatched on the end. "It's quite incredible. It has amazing power. I've never seen anything like it. Not only that, but the Kingdom also gave me the power to use both light and darkness. I don't know of any that can do that. It's either one or the other. However, I will never use darkness."
Ansem smiled, "Basically, it was entrusting you with the full responsibility of protecting Kingdom Hearts. It saw you as a worthy individual because of the way you sacrificed yourself to save it - to save all the worlds and all that inhabit it. It saw your devotion and determination. Your heart."
Mickey's eyes displayed realization and he nodded, "I'm honored. I'll always do everything I can to ensure the safety of Kingdom Hearts."
Just then, everyone stepped to the side to make way for queen Minnie. She had tears in her eyes as she walked as fast as she could to Mickey. Mickey saw her suddenly and then walked quickly towards her, too. Minnie launched herself into his arms and wept, "Mickey! Oh, Mickey! I thought I'd lost you!" Mickey held her close and closed his eyes, "I'd thought I'd lost you, too, love. I'm so sorry you had to go through this. All of this. You should've never--"
"Shhhhh..." Minnie said, shaking her head. "All that matters is that you're seguro and here with me."
Yuffie smiled and nudged Sora, "Aww... Don't they look so cute?" Sora nodded, "Reunited couples. Doesn't get better than that. We accomplished our goal here. Kingdom Hearts is finally seguro from that filthy Organization. It's all over. Finally."
The King nodded, "Yup! It's all over! Now, I have a great suggestion."
"What?" Everyone asked.
"Let's go home!" Mickey said with a laugh.
Everyone laughed with him and then cheered with triumph. Hugs were exchanged here and there on a job well done, and then they moved along. Mickey and Minnie were holding hands when he said, "Oh! Minnie! Thanks for opening that portal for me. Where did you learn how to do that?"
Minnie looked at him, "I didn't open a portal for you." A puzzled look came over Mickey's features, as he looked at Riku, "Did you create the portal?" Riku shook his head, "No, I didn't."
Sora looked at the King with wide open eyes of curiosity, "If the queen didn't open the portal... and Riku didn't open it... Then, who did...?"
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With a yell, Mickey turned and threw his keyblade directly at the Reclaimer... containing his heart... With a mighty boom, the Reclaimer exploded. Mickey turned towards Sora with his last ounce of strength. Through foggy eyes as the explosion erupted behind him and he started to disintegrate, he said, "Goodbye, Sora..."
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Sora reached out towards the King, "No!" But, to his utter astonishment, the King disappeared completely and all was quiet. Looking around, Sora didn't know what had become of Axel and Xemnas. A little off balance, Sora stood up, shakily, and then ran over to Riku. "Riku? Riku are you okay?" Riku was still unconscious, but was slowly starting to come around. It took awhile, but he eventually opened his eyes and sat up, "Sora... What happened? I don't remember a thing." Sora shook his head forlornly and explained everything that had taken place - including the King's suicide. "What?!" Riku asked in surprise, "Are you serious? Why would he do that?!"
"I don't know," Sora said in confounded shock. "He... he saved Kingdom Hearts. The Reclaimer is destroyed."
"And him with it!" Riku shouted and pounded his fist on the wall. "What even happened to Axel and Xemnas? I don't think those two are dead." Sora shrugged, "Well, you didn't see that explosion. They were right in the middle of it. I think they're long gone."
Riku sighed, "Let's hope so."
Suddenly the others ran up the stairs and Sora waved them over to where they were. Yuffie exclaimed, "Did you see the King?! He was walking! I think he's gonna be okay! We all saw him head up here to help you guys. Where is he? Where's Xemnas and Axel?" Everyone was extremely shocked when they heard the news of what really happened. Yuffie sighed in disappointment and then said, "Our enemies were cowards. Every one of them disappeared and we have no idea where they went." She looked around, "Wh-where is Minnie and Goofy? Weren't they originally with the King?" Sora gasped and ran down the stairs, and with him, everyone else.
Eventually they arrived where the King had fallen the first time, and found Minnie and Goofy unscathed. Sora breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness you guys are alright. What happened?" Minnie walked forward, "Well, as you may know, Mickey stood up. I was ecstatic! Until he turned on me and Goofy with evil intent showing in his eyes. I immediately knew that he was not my husband anymore. I put up a protective shield - invisible to even Mickey. And, although he was glaring, I could sense this little flame of good within him. I could feel it. He never so much as walked towards us. He just left up the stairs."
"So, he just left you?" Riku asked in bewilderment. "How... interesting."
"Very," Sora said, "But, I'm glad you guys are okay." Then, Sora looked at the ground and explained to the queen and Goofy what had happened to the King.
Minnie's eyes teared up and she shuddered gravely and Goofy announced, "Gawrsh, I always knew that the King was valiant... But, I never imagined he'd do something like that." Everyone could tell Minnie was about to lose it, but with as much dignity as she could muster, she shut out the tears. Riku looked at the others, "Well, the Organization is still at large, so let's all dividido, dividir up and procurar the castelo just in case." Everyone formed tiny groups and dividido, dividir up to their individual sections. Sora, Riku, and Minnie walked to the topo, início where the King had disappeared.
Minnie looked around like she was witnessing the Garden of Eden. The night sky was full of dark clouds, and lightning was electrifying the sky with its spectacular show of grandeur. It was sort of windy, but not so much as to bother or take notice. Sora and Riku inspected the machine or the remnants of what was left. "Sora," Minnie said, "What happened to my husband?" Sora turned to her, "You know what happened, Your Majesty. We already told you." She stared in his eyes, "No, I know what had happened to him. But, what happened to him? Where is he now?"
Sora thought for a moment, and then said, "He's... with the light. Where ever it is. He's with it. That's where he is, Your Majesty, and he's waiting for you. I know he is."
"Sora!" Riku shouted in surprise, and then there was a loud, grumbling sound. Out of nowhere, a giant double door appeared in front of the platform they were on, with a giant pathway leading to it.
"What... what is that?" Riku said. Sora smiled, "It's the door to the Realm of Darkness - leading to Kingdom Hearts." Minnie looked at him, "How do you know?"
"The King told me about this. The worlds gave us this doorway. They want us to be the guardians of their destiny."
"You mean," she said, "This was provided so we can protect it?"
"Exactly," he said, with a nod. "The worlds are entrusting us with the security of Kingdom Hearts - the coração of all worlds. We have a great responsibility in our hands now."
"Wow," Riku said, "This... this is amazing."
"And it's ours now!" A voice said out of nowhere. "What the...?" Sora said as he turned around. With a gasp, they all turned to see Xemnas and Axel standing there menacingly. "Thank you for pointing out what this is to us, Sora. We will be mais than delighted to take it from you now," Xemnas said with a triumphant sneer.
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Sora let out a grunt of disgust, "Xemnas! How are you still alive?! I thought that eruption killed you!" Xemnas smiled broadly, "Guess again, welp! Now, step aside kindly and refrain from any resistance. I may consider letting you leave with your puny life if you comply." Sora and Riku took out their keyblades and Axel took out his weapons of flames. Xemnas, like Axel, summoned a weapon that looked somewhat like a red light-saber. "You're crazy if you think we're gonna let you take Kingdom Hearts!" Riku snarled.
"Think?" Xemnas said with a smirk, "We're mais confident than that, you worthless being of ignorance. We know."
Riku laughed mockingly, "What makes you so confident? We're equally matched here."
"Oh?" Xemnas smirked. Then, out of nowhere, the rest of the Organization appeared, each one with a happy look of smugness.
Sora looked at the Queen, "Run!" The queen dashed for the stairs and was lost to sight. Then he turned back to the Organization members, "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!"
In the heat of the battle, Sora and Riku dashed progressivo, para a frente bravely. Weapons clashed against each other as fogo and thorns whipped around in an arc to try and destroy their adversaries. Sora used different spells which were cast quite effectively, and Axel tried his best to dodge each one, but did not succeed every time. Xemnas kept duplicating himself so they couldn't tell which Xemnas was the real one, and they were having a difficult time with this. Chaos reigned down on the timeless battle and it seemed like Sora and Riku were getting the loose end. Every once in a while, Xemnas would use his black and white thorns to throw Sora and Riku in the air. After doing so, he would use the thorns to carry him into the air where a series of tactical thrusts were performed por Xemnas. atuação quickly, Sora and Riku would dodge each thrust, each time getting closer to the ground until they safely landed. "Riku," Sora said, grinding his teeth together and blocking an attack from Larxene, "We're way outnumbered!" Riku kept fighting, his back to Sora, "I know! We're gonna have to make a retreat!" Sora growled, "I'm not running from a bunch of Nobodies! I don't run from anyone! I'm holding my ground, and if I go down, I'm going down like a warrior!" Riku yelled, still parrying and thrusting with his keyblade, "Sora! You're crazy! If we stay, it'll mean certain death for both of us. We have to make a retreat. It's the only way!" Sora glared at Riku and then blocked another attack, "Don't you get it?! If we leave, Kingdom Hearts is doomed!" Riku glared back for a dividido, dividir second, "If we stay, then we'll get killed and we won't have a chance to win Kingdom Hearts back!" The Organization was taken por surprise when the rest of the gang arrived on the scene. Now they were equally matched and Sora and Riku, with renewed strength, roared out their battlecry and jumped into the fray.
Suddenly, a giant sound erupted out of nowhere, and the doors to the Realm of Darkness opened slightly. Two balls of light flew out with tremendous speed and whipped up into the air. When they landed on the platform, brightly lit sparks burst into the air and it became very hard to see anything in the phantasmagoria of bright light. Sora and Riku held their hands in front of their face to shield themselves from the wind that was generated.
As the light died down, they all could see who was standing there. It was Mickey, and someone else. The King had returned, and he looked a lot different. His dark black Organization XIII robe, veste, roupão had been changed to a silky, pure white. In his hands, two new keyblades shown with all their splendor. One they recognized as the Starseeker - the other was totally new. To their surprise, the King's coração was revolving on the end of this new keyblade, attatched por an elaborate chain to the hilt. His coração was now one with the magnificent weapon, glowing a brilliant gold to match the blade itself. The hilt was made of solid silver and black steel. It was a thing of beauty.
Everyone gaped in bewilderment as they looked at the King in awe. The other figure, whom they just took notice of, was a man who stood way taller than the King. He was wearing a black, red, and gold robe, and his face was covered in red cloth that wrapped around him. Only one eye shown underneath the cloth, and he seemed very mysterious and enigmatic. "You..." Xemnas said, eyeing the King, "I thought you had died!" Mickey smirked, "You can't get rid of me that easily, Xemnas." Xemnas smirked back, "Well, so kind of you to cadastrar-se us, Your Majesty." Then, he turned his attention on the mysterious figure por the King's side. "Who, pray tell, are you?" The man stared evenly in Xemnas's eyes, "Oh, you don't remember me? Why, surely you can recall."
Xemnas watched as the man slowly undid the cloth that was wrapped around his head. Everyone could see when the man revealed his face that he had long, blond hair that went behind his ears and a blond beard as well. Xemnas smiled, "Ah, come back to the world of the living to try and destroy my beloved Kingdom Hearts, Ansem?" Sora raised an eyebrow, "So, this is Ansem. The one who built the Reclaimer." Ansem nodded, "And, the one who was destroyed por it." Xemnas chuckled darkly, "Too bad it didn't finish the job and left me to the dirty work." Mickey stepped forward, "Xemnas, you can end this now. We don't have to fight, if you'll just listen. Kingdom Hearts isn't what you think." Xemnas half smiled, "Oh, it's everything that I think. It's power. And, you know how much I crave power." Mickey narrowed his eyes, "Kingdom Hearts is much mais than that. And, I am not gonna let you take it."
Xemnas smirked, "Suit yourself, Your Highness. For you will soon find that I am not intimidated por you." With a sudden turn of speed, Xemnas launched a surge of thorns straight at the King. Mickey dodged it just in time and then everyone broke out into a fighting frenzy, except for Ansem and the Queen, who were not fighters whatsoever. Sora and Riku battled Axel and Larxene while Yuffie, Beast, and Jack Skellington were fighting Luxord and Xaldyn. The King was fighting Xemnas, and things were a complete riot.
Amid the consistent chaos, Xemnas smirked and stealthily evaporated away. Mickey immediately knew where he had gone. Turning to exemplify his point, he saw the doors, that once stood ajar, were slowly closing. Xemnas was inside the Realm of Darkness. Hastily, Mickey ran at topo, início speed and threw himself through the doors. Sora watched Mickey disappear and then ran over there with Riku on his heels. "Your Majesty!" Sora yelled. "Your Majesty, wait! What are you doing?" Mickey turned towards Sora, "Sora, I want you and Riku to close these doors and lock them! Now!"
"But, Your Majesty, you'll be trapped in here forever with Xemnas! Why would you-?"
"That wasn't a request, Sora, that was a demand! Do it now!" Mickey said and then ran into the darkness. Reacting to Mickey's demand, Sora and Riku put their keyblades together and nodded. Together, they locked the doors to the Realm of Darkness which disappeared soon afterward. "Why did he do that?" Riku said in bewilderment.
"The King always has a good reason for everything he does," Sora said grimly. "Now, let's get rid of Organization XIII for good now!"
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*This música is playing during the fight, fading into each other. The first song starts out slow throughout the duration of their talk, and then grows intense as they attack. This is how it should be seen in your mind if you're at the right speed. Anyway, use your imagination, have fun reading, and enjoy the música as it collaborates with the writing. Remember to open each link in a separate tab, and pause the one you're not listening to. When the first song ends, stop what you're reading, start the seguinte one, and immediately continue leitura where you left off. If you deviate your attention for a moment, make sure to start the música over so the composição literária matches the music, as intended. REMEMBER: Words are read faster than moments are created. So, read slowly if you have to so the actions of the characters in your imagination match the music*
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The King stood on a pillar of rock - capuz, capa over his head, looking to the side, with his keyblade facing the ground. The sea beneath him roiled and bubbled beneath and the sky roared out its challenge to any who dared to face it. Slowly, Xemnas, as the rain poured down and he stood on his own, giant pillar of rock, turned towards the King with determination illustrating the design of his eyes. Lighting cracked the sky like as if Zeus himself was witnessing the tensionous build-up in the atmosphere.
Thunder boomed out like a roaring lion, and everything was still for a few moments. Then, a lightning flash indicated where Xemnas was and Mickey was zooming off in a flash. He hurled himself from each pillar of rock to land on one directly across from Xemnas.
They glared at each other and then Xemnas said over the crashing of the waves and storm-like affinities, "So, it has come to this, has it? You and me and no one else. What a climax. My resolution will come from your death, which is to be very soon - por my own hands, and not por some filthy machine. I'll be the one to take you down, and I'll be the one to control all the worlds. There's nothing you can do about it. This is your fate."
"You are not the master of my fate, Xemnas," Mickey said scornfully, "Nobody is, but me. I'm the caretaker of my own destiny!"
"Just tell me one thing... Why do you resent the darkness?" Xemnas said, stretching his arms placatingly.
"I do not resent darkness. Darkness is just as important as light. They both coexist together. One cannot take part in this world without the other. However, darkness has a way of corrupting even the most kind souls in this life. That is why I do not use it in battle. I choose light."
"I've seen the darkness reside in you. I've seen it! Do not tell me it is not there! Use it, Your Highness! Together, we could rule all the worlds!"
"Enough!" Mickey yelled and cast a spell towards Xemnas - zapping a bolt of light forward. Xemnas did a backflip and landed on another rock, then he cast a multitude of thorns everywhere - each zooming towards the King with deadly accuracy. The King threw up a shield just in time to deflect the vile thorns. In retaliation, Mickey spun into the air and jumped from pillar to pillar until he reached Xemnas, performing a series of mid-air thrusts and jabs with his keyblades.
Xemnas, using his cloning ability, made multiple look-alikes and surrounded Mickey. The King glanced from side to side warily, taking note of each face, but he couldn't tell which one was real. With lightning precision, Xemnas struck Mickey in the back, causing him to fall face-first onto the floor. Reacting swiftly, Mickey flung himself to the side to avoid a segundo attack and then leaped up to deal damage to Xemnas's vulnerable side.
Xemnas yelled out in pain and turned around to face the King. As he turned, Mickey gathered a powerful fonte of light in his hand and thrust it at Xemnas. The light met him head-on and flung him across the expanse of ocean and rock to land on another pillar.
Mickey started jumping from rock to rock to get to him, and so Xemnas used his thorns to smash into the solid pillars - causing them to crack extremely and then crumble to pieces. The King, still moving with amazing agility, leaped off falling pieces of rock as they were falling towards the ocean beneath in order to get to Xemnas.
When he finally met him on the same grounds, Xemnas performed a skilled series of attacks - working together so as to batter the King harshly. Mickey's keyblades left his grasp as he was hurled into the air to land, rolling on the floor and almost falling off the side. Xemnas smirked, "Had enough, Your Highness?" Mickey's eyes were closed, but then they flashed open and, though fatigued as he was, heaved himself off the ground, summoned his keyblades back into his grasp, and attacked Xemnas once again. Xemnas was vastly shocked out how quickly his opponent had recovered, but he managed to block some of the attacks. Once again, Xemnas tried a complicated but skilled force of attack on Mickey. The King was hit, but he didn't give in to the onslaught. Instead, he came back harder - driving with all his might to destroy his foe.
Xemnas was starting to lose his confidence. Here was a keyblade master that would not lay down and die.
Mickey never stopped, but kept ducking, weaving, flipping, thrusting, blocking, and parrying with as much skill as twelve keyblade masters.
Xemnas blocked the attacks as best as he could, but Mickey, spinning with agility from one spot to the next, was hard to keep tabs on. With quick reflexes, the King twirled in the air to dodge the lazer and attack in between jabs.
Roaring in pain, Xemnas rushed into the air and rushed into the air, and the King followed him. Xemnas used the thorns to keep propelling himself through the air, and the King used wind to whip him into the o espaço above. Casting different things at each other, the atmosphere was filled with lightning, thorns, red lasers, and a variety of spells intertwining with each other.
Like a whip cracking above their heads, lightning exploded from the sky like a warning or maybe even an applaud for the dramatic show that was being performed. Mickey used the elements to his advantage and controlled the wind and lightning, making it bend to his will and direct harmful attacks upon his foe. Xemnas, however, used darkness to obliterate some of the attacks. The King could be using mais powerful moves, but in order to do that, he would need the darkness. Not wanting to use the darkness, he tried his best to keep it under check. He could remember distinctly when his master, Yen Sid, said, "Never let the darkness get the best of you. Once it takes root, it is hard to suppress, and it will grow like a weed. Always use light, Mickey, for darkness... will lead you into oblivion!" Shaking his head to snap him out of his reverie, he focused his mind on Xemnas. He couldn't afford to lose this battle. If he lost, Kingdom Hearts, and all the other worlds, would fall into darkness. He could never let that happen. Xemnas kept throwing large dark, energies at the King - trying to make him use it in retaliation, and Mickey, true to his master, did not yield to the darkness. Attentive of his position, the King spinned horizontally, with his arms outspread while holding his keyblades, towards Xemnas.
Seeing him coming, Xemnas whipped up in the air towards him and everything seemed to slow down. As they flew past each other, the King barely grazed Xemnas's face and the same with Xemnas's laser sword as it barely grazed the King's throat as they vaulted past each other.
Mist swirled in the air from the ocean below, and the King and Xemnas were so high in the sky, that they were almost touching the black, thunder-filled clouds of lightning - swirling in a vortex like a giant, flat tornado. As Xemnas flew past, the King turned around and delivered a devastating lightning spell that struck Xemnas as he was turning around - causing him to fall towards the earth. Mickey watched Xemnas fall onto a pillar, and almost immediately rushed to the scene, determination and intensity flashing in his eyes. As he landed, the King started battering Xemnas with multiple blows. Xemnas dodged a few here and there and retaliated with his lazer.
Eventually, Xemnas was rendered into a daze from the amount of damage that was dealt por the King. For the first time, he felt the cold, icy grip of fear take place and root itself in every inch of his being. Mickey glared at him with no remorse or guilt. He was here to do a job - protect Kingdom Hearts, and nothing could deviate his attention. Xemnas fell to the floor, propped on one elbow, weakly, and staring at Mickey with hidden astonishment illuminating his eyes.
The King growled and pointed his keyblade at Xemnas, "Xemnas... You are nothing but a dirty coward - hiding behind your Organization this whole time. You have kidnapped my wife, threatened my friends, and attempted the domination of the coração of All Worlds. For that, you can only be labeled as an unworthy, heartless brute. Nothing more!" Xemnas yelled out in anger, and leapt up suddenly to attack Mickey with wicked malice.
Mickey gasped in pain and then came back with a series of keyblade maneuvers, ending with a final blow from a powerful thrust into Xemnas's chest. Mickey glared, "No dignity, no honor, and now... You have no life!"
Xemnas smiled, "At least I accomplished something."
Mickey glared, "You accomplished nothing here!"
Looking dazed, Xemnas looked at the King, "I unlocked the darkness within you, Your Majesty."
The King gasped and looked downward to see his hands, gripping the keyblades with darkness swirling around them. Shutting the darkness away, it faded and he turned back to glare at Xemnas venomously.
Xemnas's eyes faded away as he began to disintegrate. He fell to his knees and then the stormy, black sky above opened up like a whirlpool - sucking Xemnas's disintegrated fragments inside like a giant wormhole.
With a final yell of defiance, Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII, was gone - lost into the sky, and ceasing to exist. Mickey stared upward for awhile, and then fell to the floor, too weak to move. Breathing heavily, the King held onto his keyblades tightly and closed his eyes. Within seconds, light enveloped him and he was transported to a mais calm spot. He was on the shores of a dark de praia, praia somewhere in the Realm of Darkness... The waves were quiet and serene. Above, you could see the moon shining down on the water to create a shimmering image of itself.
Mickey lay on the sands and closed his eyes. This would be a nice spot to spend the rest of eternity. Sorrow drifted into his mind as he pictured the ones he left behind - the ones who were on the other side. He would never see them again.
As he thought of his wife, a lone tear drifted down his face. With a sigh, Mickey was about to lose consciousness, when all of a sudden a portal appeared in front of him - hovering over the waters. Mickey looked at it weakly and then tried his best to make his way towards it. Unable to do so, he collapsed and so the portal expanded so he was completely enveloped in the light.
In the seguinte instance, Mickey was flying over the sky like a shooting estrela - moving at the speed of light through space, passing stars and other apparitions. As quickly as it had started, it ended, and Mickey crashed into the ground of some world - blacking out at the last second.
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"Hey, I think he's waking up!" Yuffie yelled with excitement. "Everyone, he's awake! He's alive!" Mickey opened his eyes slowly to see every one of his friends rushing over to him. Sora knelt por his side, "Your Majesty! You're awake! We were really worried!" Mickey shook his head, "What happened?" Riku smiled, "You tell us! One moment we're walking towards the Gummi ships, the seguinte moment, we see a shooting estrela crash into the ground. How did you get here?" Mickey's face turned into confusion, "I fell from the sky?"
Sora nodded, "Yup! You sure did! I thought you were locked in the Realm of Darkness... Oh! That reminds me, did you take care of Xemnas?" Mickey nodded and stood up slowly, "Yeah, I did. He's long gone, now. I'm just trying to remember what happened exactly... One moment, I was lying on the beach, and then the seguinte moment... That's it! A portal opened! Somebody opened a portal! I think I know who it was."
Sora nodded and then placed a hand on his chin thoughtfully, "That's strange. Anyway, I need to clear something up. How are you still alive? I mean, I'm glad that you are! But, I just don't know how it's possible. You threw your keyblade at your heart. I saw it with my own eyes." Mickey sighed, "Well, it's a long story. But, I was currently in the depths of my heart. I opened a portal using the light I possessed to see what was going on through my own eyes. As I looked, I could see that the darkness had almost completely taken over me. I used the last of my energy to gain a bit of control of myself - that's how I stopped the darkness in me from killing you, Sora. After that, I threw my keyblade at my heart, and in that instance, I snapped back into the depths that I was previously in. Almost like everything was in slow motion, I noticed through the window that I had created... my keyblade. It was moving towards me and I saw myself disintegrating from afar.
"As I was disintegrating, the keyblade seemed to explode out of the window of light and the platform beneath me cracked. I was falling into oblivion - into nothingness. I grabbed my keyblade and held onto it tightly... Then, I remembered what my master had said about creating portals with light. Just like darkness, light has the power to transport as well. So, since I now had the power to transport with my keyblade, that's what I did. Before, I didn't have the energy. I had no tool of leverage. Anyway, I created a portal, but I had no idea where it would lead. I just knew I had to get out before I disappeared for good. Once I was through the portal, I realized where I was. I was in Kingdom Hearts."
"You were actually inside Kingdom Hearts?" Sora said, widening his eyes.
"That I was, Sora," the King replied, "And that's where I found Ansem."
Everyone looked at Ansem and he nodded, "Yes. I was trapped in there for such a long time. It's been years. I was amazed when I saw the King, and I was even mais amazed when the Kingdom awarded him."
"The Kingdom awarded you?" Riku asked, crossing his arms, and looking at the King, "How did it do that?"
"It gave me back my coração and merged it with my weapon," Mickey said, showing his magnificent new keyblade with his coração attatched on the end. "It's quite incredible. It has amazing power. I've never seen anything like it. Not only that, but the Kingdom also gave me the power to use both light and darkness. I don't know of any that can do that. It's either one or the other. However, I will never use darkness."
Ansem smiled, "Basically, it was entrusting you with the full responsibility of protecting Kingdom Hearts. It saw you as a worthy individual because of the way you sacrificed yourself to save it - to save all the worlds and all that inhabit it. It saw your devotion and determination. Your heart."
Mickey's eyes displayed realization and he nodded, "I'm honored. I'll always do everything I can to ensure the safety of Kingdom Hearts."
Just then, everyone stepped to the side to make way for queen Minnie. She had tears in her eyes as she walked as fast as she could to Mickey. Mickey saw her suddenly and then walked quickly towards her, too. Minnie launched herself into his arms and wept, "Mickey! Oh, Mickey! I thought I'd lost you!" Mickey held her close and closed his eyes, "I'd thought I'd lost you, too, love. I'm so sorry you had to go through this. All of this. You should've never--"
"Shhhhh..." Minnie said, shaking her head. "All that matters is that you're seguro and here with me."
Yuffie smiled and nudged Sora, "Aww... Don't they look so cute?" Sora nodded, "Reunited couples. Doesn't get better than that. We accomplished our goal here. Kingdom Hearts is finally seguro from that filthy Organization. It's all over. Finally."
The King nodded, "Yup! It's all over! Now, I have a great suggestion."
"What?" Everyone asked.
"Let's go home!" Mickey said with a laugh.
Everyone laughed with him and then cheered with triumph. Hugs were exchanged here and there on a job well done, and then they moved along. Mickey and Minnie were holding hands when he said, "Oh! Minnie! Thanks for opening that portal for me. Where did you learn how to do that?"
Minnie looked at him, "I didn't open a portal for you." A puzzled look came over Mickey's features, as he looked at Riku, "Did you create the portal?" Riku shook his head, "No, I didn't."
Sora looked at the King with wide open eyes of curiosity, "If the queen didn't open the portal... and Riku didn't open it... Then, who did...?"
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