Hearts of Twilight Chapter 4; Discoveries

[Lycanthrope]

As the group of 13 reached the inside of the gummi ship, Sora realized something.

“It won’t start up,” Sora freaked.

“Are you serious?” Draco moaned.

“You guys hold off the Half-Hearts. I’ll try to fix it,” Mega stood up and shouted.

“Dude, are you sure you can fix this? Have you ever seen a gummi ship before?” Riku questioned.

“Trust me, Mega is a fantastic mechanic,” Xonic replied.

“If you are sure,” Kenji said.

As Mega and Lylie stayed behind to work on the gummi ship repairs, the other 11 went over to where the Half-Hearts were. Xonic, Draco, Femix, and Bleh had no idea how to defeat them, but they at least had their struggle bats.

Xonic and Draco charged over to the Half-Hearts. They were trying to strike them at every angle, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t damage them.

“What’s wrong with these?” Draco shouted to Xonic.

“I don’t know, but, we need to defeat them,” Xonic replied.

All of a sudden, Kadash noticed a teenager with no eyes or hair, but had a jester hat with three spikes on it. He was laying on the ground by the ocean, face down.

“You ok?” Kadash asked the teen.

“I think so,” he replied. “By the way, I am Ajure. Where am I? I may not have eyes that are visible to you, but I can still see, and this is not my home.”

“We are on Destiny Islands,” Kadash replied.

“Okay, I guess,” Ajure stated.

Right out of the blue, someone in a gray tattered cloak with brown hair and red streaks ran over to them.

“Kadash, get him to safety. He is in no condition to fight,” he said.

“Right away, Eagle,” Kadash obeyed him, taking Ajure over to Lylie and Mega at the gummi ship.

“How is it coming along?” Kadash asked.

“Give me a few more minutes here. I am a mechanic, not a magician. I mean, the engine is completely fried,” Mega explained.

“Okay. Not sure how much longer we can hold these things off though,” Kadash replied.

It seemed only Sora, Riku, Kairi, Eagle, Kenji, Mira Li, and Princess could destroy the Half-Hearts. Xonic was the first one to notice that.

Xonic also was the first one to notice that the Half-Hearts were trying to kidnap Elle. He was enraged at the Half-Hearts, being as though he hardly knew Elle, he had a crush on her and he wanted to protect her from the demon creatures. His heart was filled for love for Elle, but it was also filled with anger towards the Half-Hearts. Then, he could here words in his head. They were “Mystery, Darkness, Light, Twilight.” over and over. The more he heard those words, the more powerful he felt. All of a sudden, he was wielding four new weapons. One, a very dark sword that was pitch black, was very long and appeared in his left hand. The blade was long and thick. Another was a shield that had the Twilight Town emblem on it. The third were shoulder pad like things that were pure white. He slid them down his arm, extending to his wrists and down to his ankles. The final weapon looked a lot like the blade that Riku was bearing, but it was a combined light orange, purple, white, and black, and it had the words “MYSTERY” written on it. He could tell it was Keyblade, and he named it Mystery. He called the blade Dark Blade, his shield the Twilight Shield, and his armor the Light Armor. He was very short on time, and the names resembled the weapon, plus he wasn’t very creative with his names.

With the Dark Blade in his left hand and Mystery in his right, he went after the Half-Hearts that had kidnapped Elle. He managed to catch up to them, but he was too late to completely save Elle for the moment. They had knocked her partially unconscious, and she was moaning and groaning in agony.

He twirled the two blades in front of him, and he ran into the Half-Hearts. They were very weak to his surprise, but they were great in numbers. It was him alone at that point up against almost 100 Half-Hearts, but he didn’t give up. He cared so much about Elle that he would die before he would give up.

As he reached the Half-Heart that was holding Elle, he put away his blades and jumped over the creature, and grabbed Elle and put her over his shoulder in the process.

He dashed over towards the gummi ship, putting Elle down on the ground gently. She could barely find the energy to open her eyes, but she managed to whisper something to Xonic.

“Thank… you,” she whispered. Xonic could hear the agony in voice.

“You’re welcome,” he said back to her, as he kissed her on the forehead. “Be careful.”

As Elle went to sleep, he asked Mega to watch over Elle.

“Are you kidding me, Xonic? You’re my friend and all, but I have to fix the gummi ship. I’m sorry,” Mega said.

“It’s alright, Mega,” Xonic said. “Hey Mira Li, can you get over here and watch over Elle while I fight the Half-Hearts?”

“Nope, sorry. I found some guy named Taxima on the side of the dock. He is badly injured, and he seems crazy, talking about some sort of fight he was in before getting sucked into a black hole. It was with some Sin guy or whatever,” Mira Li said.

Xonic sighed. “Okay, thanks anyway. Kenji, can you help me out over here and watch Elle. She’s hurt and partially unconscious?”

“Sure thing, Xonic,” Kenji replied and came over to the gummi ship in a flash.

Xonic bowed in appreciation towards Kenji. thank you.”

“No problem.”

As Xonic raced over to where his friends from Twilight Town had been struggling earlier, he noticed his friend had new weapons too. Femix seemed to have some sort of sword resembling crystal. Draco and Bleh also had a weapon like Xonic’s keyblade, but Bleh’s was green and brown, like a forest. Draco’s was yellow and some sort of shade of gray. Xonic figured to act now in the fights, and ask questions later.

Meanwhile, Kenji was watching over Elle, Princess, Ajure, Lylie, and the mysterious Taxima. Princess had been knocked out by a Half-Heart. Ajure was tired and weary. Lylie was being watched by Mega, but it distracted him from fixing the ship. Lylie was also blind and unable to fight, even though she had the fighter’s will. Taxima was crazy, talking about things that no one else could understand. Kenji was the only one who had volunteered to take care of them all and to protect them at first, but every now and then, Eagle, Mira Li, and Kadash would stop in to make sure they were all ok.

“Kenji, do you need help?” Mira Li asked.

“Yes. I’m stuck watching over five hurt people all by myself and fighting off Half-Hearts that come anywhere near us. I think help is necessary at this point.,” Kenji replied.

“Okay. What do you need me to do?” Mira Li questioned.

“Go and take some of these people into the gummi ship. I am right outside here, and Eagle and Mega are inside the ship fixing the engine. I’ll be out here protecting the entrance. We will switch positions every 10 minutes, starting now,” Kenji commanded.

Mira Li took them inside the ship one by one. She put them in the chairs they would sit in. She knew Mega and Eagle needed to hurry up.

“How are the repairs going?” Mira Li wondered.

“Almost done. We just need to re-oil the system and pray this ship will launch. But don’t get your hopes up,” Eagle said.

Mira nodded. She hoped the others would last just a little bit longer to hold off the Half-Hearts.

Back to where the four from Twilight Town were, the Half-Hearts were decreasing in numbers.

“I think it’s working,” Femix shouted.

“Don’t get too cocky Femix. Our job isn’t done yet,” Draco replied.

“Yeah, but they are starting to decrease. Plus, Mega should almost be finished the repairs by now,” Xonic said.

Bleh noticed a huge Half-Heart appear out of a black hole.

“Um, guys, we got bigger issues,” Bleh said.

“Bleh, go warn the others to hurry up and to be alert. We will hold them off,” Xonic shouted.

Bleh ran over to the gummi ship in a hurry. He told Kenji to go inside the ship and tell the others.

“Right away, Bleh,” Kenji said as they both went into the gummi ship.

Kadash noticed the Half-Heart that Xonic, Femix, and Draco had just began to fight. He figured he would want to join in on the fun, so he flew over to help them.

“Thought you guys could use some help,” Kadash said.

“Duh, that thing is like 20 times bigger than us,” Femix shouted

Kadash took out a sword and started to hack away at the Half-Heart. The beastly creature struck Draco in the arm, knocking him over and he flew right towards the gummi ship’s direction. He could not find the strength to get up.

Xonic noticed Draco fly back, but couldn’t go over to his aid, because he would risk Femix’s and Kadash’s safety.

The battle was heated, as the gang could not defeat the beast. The beast countered most of their attacks, which luckily, most of them were blocked by Xonic, Femix, or Kadash.

Xonic then jumped up at the creature and struck it’s hand. He grabbed onto the creature and started to climb up the creature’s arm. He reached the head and bashed the creature several times. As the creature was getting weaker and weaker by the second, it managed to grab Xonic and throw him right at Kadash. Kadash then had a plan. He grabbed Xonic’s legs as Xonic flew over to him, and he twirled him around and spun around, until he got a clear shot at the creature. Xonic realized what was going on.

Kadash released Xonic, and Xonic flew towards the beast. He put his blades in the shape of an X and struck the creature. That was the last thing the creature saw. The hit was so powerful, the creature bent down and faded away.

Almost right after the beast faded away,, Xonic was approached by a group of figures wearing a black and white mixed cloak.

“Very well Xonic. You have passed the first test,” one of them said.

“What test? What are you talking about?” Xonic questioned.

The figures all laughed simultaneously. Xonic dove over toward the one that made the comment about the tests, but as soon as he dove, they all disappeared.

“What was that about?” Xonic wondered in his mind.

Mira Li ran up to Femix, Xonic, and Kadash and said, “Mega and Eagle fixed the gummi ship. We can leave now.”

Xonic nodded and they all went back to the ship, except Xonic, who picked up Draco and threw him over his shoulders.

They were all accounted for, even the new additions in Ajure and Taxima, who were mysterious to everyone else, as no one knew anything about them yet. The ship left Destiny Island, and Xonic knew that someday, he would see that island again. But, not for a very, very long time…

[princess namine]

thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.It was nice how you put Elle in there. It was simple and clean (song by Utada Hikaru) you should listen to it.

[Aphex]

Ah, I'm liking how the story's developing. Good to see Kenji in action. Keep up the good work and I'll be looking out for the next chapter.

[Lycanthrope]

Thanks you two.

Chapter 5 is in the works right now. It won't be exciting until the very end...

[princess namine]

I just want to say that don't make Elle weak because the way I describe her didn't make her sound weak and you kinda did.

[Lycanthrope]

Something will happen to Elle in Chapter 5... It's a good thing, just to clear that up.

[princess namine]

thank you, I can't wait for the next chapter. Also try to include princess more

[Lycanthrope]

Ok. I will.

(If you want spoilers for what will eventually happen, PM me)