Indelible Darkness: Part 1- Chains of Fate

[Lectori Salutem]

Nice chapter, it's not boring. And another keyblade bearer is sealing keyholes? That's interesting. Is it Sora? I think it is...

[Silent Avera]

Talkative chappies are nice, never underestimate their power >:)

>X3

[Nelo Angelo]

Sorry with the lateness bro, but I read em both and thought they were great! This Larene girl is interesting ;) As someone mentioned though, try not to make it too choppy and break it down too much. But your descriptions are good. Keep it up bro, the more you write the better you get. Look forward to the next chap, wonder who the other keyblader is ;P

[TwilightRiku_13]

Okay, I saw this story before, and I have been meaning to read it, but unfortunately I have been putting it off. Anyway, I finally have had time to read this, and I must say this is a really good story you have here. I really like seeing Riku as the hero instead of the bad guy. Also, I do believe that Lerane is Larxene's somebody; there are just too many similarities. Anyway, great job, and I look forward to the next update.

[Max/souleater]

sorry for the total major lateness, but i was gone for a week, and havnt had the chance to write in a while, but here it is, so i hope you like it.

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Chapter 5: Threads In the Sand and the Queen of the Sea

The King let us off of the ship within these huge waterfalls surrounding a castle. Outside of the waterfalls was a town, but Mickey said there really wasn’t anything left of the town because of the heartless.

“Okay, I’m going to go try and learn more about the Organization, and then I’ll head to the town. You two meet me in the plaza there when you’re finished,” the king said, and then he flew away.

“So I’m presuming they are in this castle,” I said to Lerane as we began the ascent toward the castle.

“Well, there really isn’t anywhere else is there,” Lerane stated rather than asked.

We had to work our way up these rocks that lead to an odd elevator. The elevator ran along this tiny beam of light and it lead almost directly in front of the front doors to the castle.

We made it to the elevator, and when we got on Lerane grabbed a hold of my arm.

“What are you doing?” I asked her trying to sound normal.

“Well don’t want to fall! And there’s nothing else to hold on to, so leave me be.”

“Okay...” That was all I could come up with. I just looked ahead as we approached the end.

“Why aren’t the heartless coming after us, I can smell the darkness overflowing in this place!” Lerane said as we walked toward the doors.

“Perhaps it’s because of the coats we have, and they don’t know we’re here,” I replied.

We made it to the huge double doors leading inside, and we went in.

“No one would suspect we would just stroll right in through the front doors,” Lerane said happily as she smiled and waltzed right inside.

The first room we saw was huge, and there were two staircases on the left and right leading to yet another door, which is where I figured we should head to find these seekers of darkness.

“Wow... Riku, when this is all over, you and I should get a castle this big!” Lerane said as she started dancing around in the middle of the room.”

“Okay Lerane. I promise you that if we get through all of this ok, I’ll get you a castle three times bigger than this one.”

“I’m holding you to that,” She said as she held out her pinky. We pinky swore on it, and the we headed up the left set of stairs and through the door.

“Ugh! More elevators...” Lerane muttered.

I wasn’t that happy about it either. We went on elevator after elevator... Inside, outside... This castle was nothing but a damn maze, and it was pissing me off. After a whole lot of total bull crap walking around the castle in circles, we ended up in another big room, and I saw the group the king spoke of.

“Lerane!” I whispered to her attentively as I grabbed her arm and pulled her over behind a pillar. I didn’t want them to see us, so we remained hidden and listened.

“So the boy has sealed more keyholes?” A woman in a long dark dress asked.

“Yes Maleficent,” A man in a turban said.

“Well Jafar, he’s going to end up in your world next. You’d better not let him get that keyhole, and you had better be back with the princess!” Maleficent seemed to be ordering him.

“So how many are left?” A man with a flame on his head asked.

“Four,” Maleficent answered, “We currently have Snow White, Cinderella, and Alice. All that are left are Aurora, Jasmine, Belle, and Kairi.”

“What about Wendy?” A man with a hook for a hand asked.

“I’ve told you once and I’ll tell you again Hook. Wendy is not a princess! Get it through your head!” Maleficent screamed at him angrily. Now, about that seal...” Maleficent said, and she headed out of the room with an octopus looking lady, the man with the flame on his head, and Hook. Jafar and one other made of... What looked like cloth, remained in the room.

“So, what shall you do now Oogie?” Jafar asked the cloth- man.

“Well, I’m gonna hafta-“

“He’s going to die. And so are you Jafar!” I said as both Lerane and I revealed ourselves. We knew we couldn’t take all six at once, but we figured two should be just fine.

“Who are you?!” Oogie asked, “Wait, I don’t care, all I need to know is... that you are dead!”

Without another word, I brought out the keyblade a charged at them. I jumped up and kicked off of Oogie’s head, and slashed at Jafar’s face!

“A keyblade?! What’s going on? That boy traveling with the King’s lackeys had the key!” Jafar screamed.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but you’re finished!” Oogie screamed over at me, and he started running toward me.

“Not so fast!” Lerane shouted at Oogie, and lightening fast she sprinted past him, and back, slashing at him with her daggers.

The cloth body of Oogie was being ripped apart by Lerane, and Oogie wasn’t nearly fast enough to keep up. He didn’t really seem to have any advantages in the fight, or anything to wield or use to help him out. Bugs... were spilling out of the open gashes.

“You little-“ Jafar raise his staff up, and I jumped up and knocked it out of his hand.

“Not so fast Jafar, your fight is with me,” I said as I smirked at him.

Jafar looked toward his staff, and I got in the way so he couldn’t go after it. He went to shoot this orange lightening at me, and I swiftly dodged it. I ran low along the sides of his magic, and when I was close to him, I spun around real fast and slashed at his legs, making him fall to the ground. He began to try and push himself up, and I swung the keyblade at his back forcing him back down to the ground.

I looked over at Lerane and Oogie, and Oogie was almost noting now. The top of his cloth body was kind of dangling, empty from the bugs coming out, and the bottom was just trying to keep itself standing up. Lerane grabbed the tippy top of Oogie’s cloth head, put one of her daggers on Oogies neck, and began cutting it. When she got all the way across the neck, she began turning Oogies head, and continued to cut, until she cut all the way around it, makeing the rest of the body fall, and the rest of the bugs made their way out of it. Lerane’s hand was in the same place in the air, holding Oogies empty cloth head.

“Need a Halloween mask Riku?” Lerane asked, and then she just tossed the head to the ground and watched as Oogie’s heart left his body, and floated away in the air.

“You brats won’t get away with this!” Jafar exclaimed, not quite yelling.

“Oh we won’t?” I asked him, kicking him over on his back as he tried to get up again, “Where are Sora and Kairi?!”

“Heh heh heh..... Oh! So you are asking me for help?! Well, if you want to get anything out of me, I suppose you’re going to do as I say!”

Lerane walked over, then looked at Jafar and said “Listen, we are very busy people. If you won’t tell us, we’ll get it out of one of your filthy friends!”

Jafar looked up at me. He smiled, and said “I’ll tell you nothing. If you really need to know, and there’s no guarantee anyone else will tell you, then you need me!”

“Ha! You’re wrong there!” I rose my keyblade as I said that, and watched his smile turn to a horrified face.

Jafar closed his eyes and looked away, and then I took my keyblade in the air, and I lunged it into his chest. He screamed, and squirmed, but no one must have been able to hear, because no one came. I ripped the keyblade out of his chest, and blood came out with it. His heart soon followed it, and like Oogie’s, it floated away.

“Well now what?” Lerane asked me.

“I suppose we sneak around some more and take the rest out like this.”

“What about the bodies?”

“Hmm...” I turned and looked at them, and they were slowly fading away into darkness. “Looks like that’s being taken care of already, so lets hurry up and go!”

We quickly ran through the door on the far right of the room our battle took place in, and we ended up in a hallway. We could look down at the hallway below us, and easily jump down to it from here.

“Riku! I hear something!” Lerane said as she pointed to the door down the hall. We retreated back through the door we came in through, and peeked through it, to see the octopus woman leaving by herself. She went to the hallway on the lower level, and quickly began leaving.

“Lets follow her!” I said to Lerane, and we hurried as we got on her trail. We followed her all the way through the castle, to the point where we were back where we started within the waterfalls.

“She must be leaving...” Lerane whispered to me.

“Lets make this quick,” I whispered back to Lerane.

We both began to run in opposite direction around the area where the woman was, until we were each on opposite sides of her.

“.......... Well well, I wasn’t aware of the rats that were following me.” The woman said as she looked at each of us. Now that I could see her closer up, she was fat, purple, and ugly.

“Are you ready to meet the same fate as your friends?” I asked her as I rose my keyblade.

“What?... Jafar and Oogie... There scents are... Hahaha! Well, I’m not as big a fool as those two were, I’ll take you out myself! I was only headed to town to do some more damage with the heartless before I returned to Atlantica, but this will be a nice warm up!”

“Bring it on you eight- legged freak!” I screamed as I began to run towards her. I jumped up in the air to strike, and she grabbed my leg with one of her tentacles while I was still in midair, and she slammed me on the ground.

“My name is Ursula you weak- hearted little boy, and don’t you forget- AHHHHH!!!” She stopped in mid- sentence, and when she scream she let go of my leg and turned around. She used another tentacle to reach her back and pull a dagger out. “You little bitch!!!!!” She screamed to Lerane.

I hurried and got up on my feet. By the time I was up, Ursula had launched herself high up in the air, and when she came back down she fell in the water. I looked over the edge of the ground we were on, and I couldn’t see her.

“Riku behind you!” Lerane screamed. I turned and saw Ursula’s head and arms popping out of the waterfall.

“Hahahahahahaha!!!!” She laughed that annoying laugh again, and began shooting huge balls of water at both me and Lerane. She knocked Lerane over, and I tried dodging them to the best of my ability, but by the time I got near her she had already retreated back into the water.

“Lerane, are you okay?” I asked her as I frantically looked around for Ursula to come back out.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I could hear her say, “I’ll be damned if my cause of death will be ‘death by octo- bitch’!”

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that,” I heard Ursula say as both Lerane and I got blasted by those water balls, and we fell over the edge into the water.

I opened my eyes underneath the water, and looked around for Lerane. I could see her looking over at me, and when she saw I was okay, she began swimming back up. I started to follow her when all of a sudden something had a hold of my leg! I looked back to see Ursula dragging me towards her.

“Surprise!” She screamed at me.

I tried to reply, but I almost forgot I was underwater. I took the keyblade out, and she wrapped one tentacle around the end of it, then another on my neck, and she slammed me against a giant stone that was under the water. I could only move my right leg and my left arm. I was using my left arm to try and get her tentacle off my neck. She sat there and smiled as I suffocated. I couldn’t believe this was happening. I didn’t think it could, unlike Oogie or Jafar, Ursula had a huge advantage in this fight, and I feared for the worst.

“G-YAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I heard Ursula scream at the top of her lungs, as she let loose on all of her holds on me but the neck. I saw her swimming downwards, and I noticed the tentacle on my neck had been cut off from her body. I could the feel Lerane’s soft touch lifting me to the water’s surface.

When we reached the top, Lerane directed me over towards the stone we were on when we got off the ship as I gasped for air. We both got on it, and she helped me get the tentacle off of my neck.

“Lerane... Thank you,” I said to her, still breathing heavily.

“No problem Riku, I had to repay you for Twilight Town,” she answered as she smiled at me and put her hand on my shoulder.

All of a sudden, Ursula’s upper body rose out of the water.

“You are going to pay with your life for that!” She screamed to Lerane.

“Well, I guess if one of your other friends are strong enough to avenge you I will!” Lerane shouted back to her as she rose her right hand with four daggers in it and screamed “Thundaga!!!”

Thunder and lightning filled the night sky, and lightning came crashing down all over the body of water. I watched as Ursula was being electrocuted, and I could already smell the horrible, horrible smell of her burnt flesh. When it was all done, we watched as Ursula’s body sunk in the water, and her heart was released into the vast sky above.

I looked over at Lerane, and she looked back and began hugging me.

“Riku, I’m so glad you’re okay,” I heard her whisper in my ear, and I could feel tears dripping down her face and onto mine.

I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her back. “I’m glad you’re okay too.”

To be continued...

~You are free to break the chains of fate that bind you~

[Silent Avera]

Woah O_o they went to town on 'em! That'll save Sora alot of time at least.....*crosses fingers*

And incoming on my favorite line from this chappie: Octo-bitch. XD

[TwilightRiku_13]

Oh yeah baby, super awesome action in that chapter!!! I really loved Ursula's death; it's just awesome when someone is electrocuted by thunder. Man, I am really loving the Riku/Lerane pairing; they are just really cute together. Now, with that being said, I have a question, if it turns out that Lerane is Larxene's somebody, will she turn into a nobody? I'm just curious about that. Anyway, great job, and I look forward to more.

[Nevermore]

I liked the fight scene, though, I felt it could have used more. Detail and proper perspective is key to crafting a good fight scene. This one's not bad, but you could do better. Nice job though, lol

[Max/souleater]

lol silent avera, when i first thought of that, i knew i had to include itXD

well twilight, i cant reveal whether something that big would happen or not, if it would, so who knowsXD

and gotcha raven,more detail ^^

[NaminesNobody]

I finally remember to read this!! I really like the fight scene in this chapter and the octo-bitch nickname lol.

[Lectori Salutem]

Death by Octo-bitch. I never knew Riku had a sense of humour like that^^ Nice chapter, nice action!

[Chaos]

great chapter my favorite was the ursala fight lol octo-bitch max keep it up

[Nelo Angelo]

Haha Octo-bitch. Great line man. That was a brilliant chap! I didn't expect 3 bosses to get whooped straight away but its your story. The descriptions were really good. Keep it up man, they'll get even better. I also like this pairing ;) nice work bruv!

[Kasrinok]

Hey Max! Its G-Baby(Lol), ive heard all about this fan fic from you, seems to me alot of people are waiting to see the finish of this Fan-Fic. I see most people liked the "Octo-Bitch" part lol, very creative. Ill read the whole fic sometime soon so i can too comment on it.