//------------------------------// // Chapter XLIX: The Final Battle (Part 1) // Story: KINGDOM HEARTS: Dark Order // by OliverSparkle //------------------------------// The guardians and the Equestria group were all in deep shocked after they barely but clearly saw what was going on at the far end of the labyrinth. “The Storm King has transformed!” Ocellus said panicky. “And what’s worse, the x-blade has been forged again!” Added Mickey. Fluttershy ran up forwards a bit while worriedly shouting, “Lightning!” The Storm King, in his new form, pointing the x-blade up in the air again before saying, “Kingdom Hearts! I call upon your true form. Open now and show me the World to come.” Suddenly, some of the dark clouds moved aside to reveal a great big heart shape with light inside of it. It was the true form, of Kingdom Hearts. But then, darkness smoke started to cover up the light within Kingdom Hearts as The Storm King began to float up even higher to the clouds. While Sora, Kairi and Riku watched the yeti disappear into the clouds, the chains around Lightning snapped off and he started to float up into the dark clouds. Sora quickly saw this as he let out a small gasp of shock before running up to the colt while shouting, “Lightning!” “Sora!” Lightning shouting in fear. But Sora wasn’t able to save Lightning in time as he started to float up even higher to where Sora can’t save him. Lightning tried to break free from the floating as he got even more scared than before, but it was no use. The floating was locked onto him and it was strong enough to keep him floating up towards the dark clouds where The Storm King is now. “No! Stop! I don’t wanna go! I don’t wanna go in! Help me! Sora! MOMMA!” And with that being his last word, Lightning disappeared into the dark clouds unknowing where he was in them. Suddenly, medium size dark purple dots started flashing on the dark clouds as Sora let out another small gasp of shock while looking up at the dark clouds and seeing all the dots flashing on them. And then, Floods started to rain from the dots and land everywhere and around Sora, Kairi and Riku. Kairi and Riku let out a small gasp of shock and anger while Sora angrily said, “This again?!” The three started fighting the Floods. But no matter how many times they defeated a Flood, they keep on pouring from the sky and attacking those that they see. The purple dots kept on flashing on all of the dark clouds in the sky around the Keyblade Graveyard as the guardians and the Equestria group saw what was going on up in the sky. “Do you, see that?” Asked Axel while looking up at the dark clouds and purple dots. Just then, the Floods started raining from the clouds and landed everywhere and around the guardians and Equestria group. The guardians summoned their Keyblades, with Donald and Goofy summoning their staff and shield, as Constantine’s hands started to glow in dark golden grasp. “Get ready!” Aqua said to everyone while glaring at the Floods as they all stood in battle mode. Sunset turned to Sunburst and Starlight before saying, “In case something happens, there’s something I need to tell you both.” She shook her head while smiling as she then announced, “I’m your sister, Sunburst.” “WHAT?!” Starlight and Sunburst shouted in shock and surprised. But before they could say anything else, the Floods started to fly towards them as the guardians started to clash them with their Keyblades while John Constantine shoots them with dark golden grasp fire balls. “Protect our friends!” Terra said, “Don’t let the Floods get to them!” “Right!” Ven said before clashing another flood. Sora, Kairi and Riku continued doing their best to fight off the Floods. But the more Floods pour from the clouds, the harder it got. “There’s way too many of them!” Kairi said after clashing through two Floods. Sora clashed through three Floods while saying, “And the more time we continue fighting them, the less time we’ll have to stop The Storm King and save both Lightning and Silverstream. He’ll be growing more powerful than the second.” Riku clashed through one Flood before looking at his friends and said, “Sora, you go stop The Storm King and save Lightning and Silverstream while we stay and fight the Unversed.” “What?” Sora asked in shock. “Sora,” Riku continued, “Like you said, if we don’t stop The Storm King soon, it’ll be too late. You defeated Ansem, Xemnas and Xehanort before, you can do the same with The Storm King, save our two new friends and close Kingdom Hearts again. We can cover you as much as we can. You have to trust us.” Sora looked at Riku for a bit before looking up at the dark clouds as he started to glare them. He knew that Riku was right. He defeated the three Xehanorts before, he can defeated The Storm King. Sora looked back at Riku and said, “All right. Jiminy.” “Yes, Sora?” Asked Jiminy as he jumped out of Sora’s hood and onto his shoulder. “Head back to Donald and Goofy as safe as you possibly can. I can’t risk you getting hurt while also saving Lightning.” “You got it, Sora. I’ll try to be safe as much as I can.” With that said, Jiminy jumped off Sora’s shoulder and used his umbrella to fly down to the ground before making his way back to Donald and Goofy while keeping safe. Sora looked back to his friends as they both smiled proudly at him. “Good luck,” said Riku. “Be careful,” said Kairi worriedly but calmly. “Don’t worry, Kairi,” replied Sora proudly, “I got this.” Kairi and Riku gave him a nod before continuing their fight against the Floods as Sora bent down a bit before making a big jump and flew up into the dark clouds. Sora flew through across the dark clouds in search for Lightning and The Storm King to save the colt, defeat the evil yeti and close Kingdom Hearts again. “Come on, where are you?” He asked to himself. Just then, Sora saw something up ahead as he stopped and just floated. He carefully looked straight forward before letting out a small gasp of shock as he saw what was up ahead. It was Lightning Twister whimpering in great pain and fear while floating with Silverstream’s necklace around his neck. “Lightning!” Shouted Sora before flying towards his friend. While still whimpering, Lightning heard Sora’s voice from the distance. He opened his eyes and gasped in shock as he saw him flying towards him. “S-Sora!” Lightning cried while reaching his hooves out to Sora. Once Sora was near Lightning, he wrapped his hooves around Sora’s neck and hugged him while whimpering into his neck as Sora hugged him back in comfort. They stayed like that for a few seconds before Sora pulled Lightning away a bit before asking, “Lightning, where is The Storm King?” Lightning brushed off the last tears in his eyes before pointing at a far end dark light that was thundering. “H-He’s in t-there! He’s g-growing m-more stronger!” Sora glared at the far end dark light as he did a nod before looking at the colt again and said, “Don’t worry, Lightning. I’ll deal with him. You hide in my hood so that you’re safe.” Lightning nodded his head in response as Sora gently placed him in his hood. He then flew towards the dark light to fight The Storm King. Sora was now in the dark light area inside the dark clouds as he stopped and floated near where The Storm King was while glaring at him. The Storm King was floating in his new form while holding the x-blade in his hand and staring at Sora. “I am, The Storm Lord. Kingdom Hearts, all the worlds and all kingdoms of Equestria are, MINE!” Sora continued to glare at the evil yeti as he summoned his Keyblade while saying, “If this is your kingdom, then it’s a kingdom I don’t want any part of!” The Storm King laughed evilly while stand floating in battle mode with the x-blade ready to fight Sora. Sora flew quickly and angrily towards The Storm King and the two clashing the Keyblade and x-blade together twenty-six times. Sora swung his Keyblade at The Storm King, but he quickly dodged the attack and flew underneath Sora to float behind him as he turned round before glaring at him again. The Storm King laughed evilly again before saying, “You think you are a match for me?!” He then tried to slash Sora with the x-blade four times, but he kept on dodging the attacks by flying to the right and to the left in perfect timing. The two clashed the Keyblade and x-blade together twenty-eight times this time before Sora spun backwards as he pointed his Keyblade at the yeti. “Fire!” Sora shot three fire balls from the end of the blade and they all flew towards The Storm King. The evil yeti managed to dodge the first two, but the last one hit him in the chest causing him to let out a small scream of pain while flying back a bit. The Storm King growled at Sora and said, “You’ll regret that!” The Storm King flew towards Sora and tried to slash him with the x-blade, but he quickly spun around the yeti till he was now floating behind him. Sora was about to slash The Storm King with his Keyblade, but the yeti was quick on his feet this time and smacked Sora with the x-blade sending him flying backwards while letting out a scream of pain before landing on a nearby dark cloud as Lightning flew out of Sora’s hood and landed on another dark cloud that was far from the one Sora was on. Sora saw where Lightning was on now as he let out a small gasp of shock. “Lightning, look out!” Lightning moved his head up a bit before seeing The Storm King floating towards him. The little colt started to shake in fear when the yeti stopped and floated near him. “We could have ruled everything and Kingdom Hearts together!” He shouted at the scared colt, “But this betrayal has gone on long enough!” The Storm King began to raise the x-blade up in the air, “Time to end this!” Sora was able to get up and save his friend thanks to the smack from the x-blade. He let out another small gasp of shock as he saw what was about to happen next. “No!!” He shouted while reaching out to Lightning. The Storm King moved the x-blade down towards Lightning ready to smack him as the scared colt covered his face with his little hooves. But then suddenly, a pink sparkly see through protective bubble appeared around Lightning causing the x-blade to smack that instead. The Storm King and Sora gasped in shock as they saw the bubble. Lightning moved his hooves from his face and looked at the bubble that was protecting him from the attack. He then felt something glowing on him. He looked down to his chest and saw it was Silverstream’s necklace that was sparkling and the one that created the bubble. “Silverstream...she’s protecting me.” Just then, he heard her voice singing from somewhere in the distance. Sleep my little brother “Huh?” Sleep my little star Lightning started to look around the bubble to find where Silverstream’s voice was coming from, but she was still no where to be seen. Sleep little piece Of my heart “Silverstream? Where are you? Are you here? Please answer! Please!” This little colt Now wants to sleep That’s when Lightning remembered what Fluttershy about those still being with him in his heart, he now knows that Silverstream is still with him. He placed his hoof on the necklace and smiled. Let’s make his bed Full of warmth and love “You’re still with me, aren’t you?” Lightning closed his eyes and continued to smile. Just then, the x-blade started to glow making The Storm King look at it in both shock and confusion. “What the?” Before he say anything else, the glow came out of the x-blade and formed into a small ball as it flew towards the bubble causing it faded away. The ball floated up a bit while growing bigger. Then, the ball turned into a shape of an animal to which Sora knew who it was as he smiled. Sora chuckled happily before saying, “She’s okay!” The bright light shot away from the form to reveal none other than Silverstream who was still okay. She opened her eyes before looking down and saw Lightning standing on the dark cloud holding her necklace and smiling with his eyes closed. The pink hippogriff smiled before flying down towards the colt while saying, “Lightning.” Lightning heard Silverstream’s voice as he opened his eyes and looked up before gasping. He saw his big sister flying down towards him which made his eyes filled up with tears of happiness. “Silverstream!” Lightning said while reaching his hooves out to her. Once Silverstream was at where Lightning was, the two hugged each other in reunion as Lightning rested his head on Silverstream’s shoulder. Silverstream’s Keyblade appeared in her right claw before a yellow flower appeared at the end of the blade as Sora started to glow light green. She was healing Sora to help him. Sora slowly got up and summoned his Keyblade before jumping over to the other dark cloud to join the colt and hippogriff. Sora smiled at the two as Silverstream smiled at Sora. “Thanks,” said Sora politely. Silverstream gave Sora a nod before the two glared at The Storm King as they stood in battle mode while Silverstream continued to hold Lightning in her left talon arm with his head resting on her shoulder. “As I thought,” said The Storm King, “Your worst memories of me can’t reach you anymore.” He then stood in battle mode again after saying, “Now I’m certain of where your fear of me is.” While still holding the colt close to her, but nice and safe too, Sora and Silverstream flew towards The Storm King and the three started clashing the Keyblades and x-blade twenty-eight times. The wielder and hippogriff tried to push The Storm King away with their Keyblades, but he blocked their push with the x-blade and tried to push them away with it as tiny sparks started to jump out from the clash scratch of the blades. The clash finally ended as The Storm King swung the x-blade at the three making Sora and Silverstream quickly fly backwards to dodge the attack. Silverstream flew towards The Storm King and the two clashed the Keyblade and x-blade together twenty-six times. The hippogriff flew back a bit before pointing her Keyblade at the yeti. “Water!” A big stream of water shot out of the end of Silverstream’s Keyblade and hit The Storm King causing him to fly backwards a bit while spinning. The Storm King growled angrily at Silverstream before lifting the x-blade up to the air as he flew towards the hippogriff and the colt ready to clash them. But when he was about to clash them, Sora jumped in and blocked the clash with his Keyblade making The Storm King try to push him down with the x-blade as tiny sparks start to fly from the blades. The Storm King has had enough of Sora getting in his way and trying to ruining everything, so he swung the x-blade to the right breaking the clash before smacking Sora with it causing him to scream in pain while flying to the left. Luckily he was able to stop and flew back to the evil yeti. However, just as Sora got near to him, The Storm King grabbed Sora by the legs and threw him to the clouds beneath them and made him fly down through the clouds making him disappear. “SORA!” Silverstream and Lightning shouted in a worried tone, not knowing if he was okay or not. The two looked at The Storm King as he floated forward towards them which made the poor scared colt hide his face in Silverstream’s chest and shook in fear not knowing what the evil yeti’s gonna do next. “You’ve got in my way for the last time, hippogriff!” The Storm King growled before looking at Lightning, “And as for you, traitor! You think you can defeat me and close Kingdom Hearts, well you’re WRONG!! I am all powerful, the master of the x-blade, the true ruler of Kingdom Hearts, Equestria and all the worlds, and you have NOTHING!!” “You’re wrong, Storm King!” Said Silverstream angrily as she pointed her Keyblade at the yeti, “He has something that you can’t even take away from him! And that is us! His friends, and family! And that’s something you’ll never understand, because you know nothing about friendship, family, hearts and love, especially since you’re so over the cute pony thing. Just like I’m so over you and your threats.” The Storm King growled angrily at Silverstream as he then pointed the x-blade at the two before saying, “I don’t need to understand friends or family to destroy the likes of you two! I shall return to Equestria with my new Unversed Storm Guard army and be back for Queen Novo’s next celebration, but you won’t! I am all powerful, I am the true king! I am ALL of the darkness!” The Storm King moved the x-blade up into the air, ready to clash Silverstream and Lightning Twister, as the scared colt shook in fear even more while the pink hippogriff held him close to her. The Storm King was about to clash the two, until he was stopped by the sound of Keyblades clashing together from the distance from below the clouds. He looked behind him, while Silverstream and Lightning looked to the left side, and saw a lot of Keyblades flying up through the clouds before flying around in a circle while making a spare shape. While all the Keyblades were flying around in a spare shape, a bright light shone inside the spare and faded away to reveal Sora holding his Keyblade and his clothes now in black and white clothes as he glared at the king. Through inside the armoured face, The Storm King was now in deep shock and scared of what’s to come next. Silverstream and Lightning were happy to see Sora was okay, but knew what was coming next, so Silverstream moved to the left a bit and ducked down with Lightning underneath her talon arm. A light appeared at the end of Sora’s Keyblade as he rose the Keyblade up in the air before saying, “And I, am, all of... the light.” Sora swung his Keyblade to point it at The Storm King as the light beamed towards the yeti while glowing bigger and bigger until it trapped The Storm King into the light. The Storm King was struggling to stop the light from defeating him as his ultimate form started to turn into dust and fade away. The Storm King looked at his body and hands in fear and saw his form was no more. “No... no...” he said in shock and fear before looking at Sora, “How can you have this power?!” Sora continued to glare at The Storm King and answered, “Because, Storm King, my friends...are my power, and also...friendship, is magic!” And Sora continued to aim the light at The Storm King as the now scared yeti felt something on his feet. He looked down and saw he was being turned back to stone again with the stone forming on his feet and raising towards the head. “No! No, no! Not again!” The Storm King looked at Lightning through the beam of light and tried to reach out to him, but it was too late, he was now completely in stone again with the x-blade falling out of his claw before the hand was in stone too. Then, light creaks appeared on the stone Storm King before the entire statue broke into tiny pieces before they all faded away ending The Storm King once and for all this time. The beam of light slowly faded away making all the Keyblades safely fly down back to their spots in the graveyard and turning the colours on Sora’s outfit back into their original colours. Sora looked at Silverstream and Lightning and smiled at them as they smiled at him back. The x-blade slowly fell through the clouds and fell to the ground while spinning. Sora, Silverstream and Lightning saw the ultimate key falling and flew down after it.