Conceived In Darkness

Kingdom Hearts Conceived In Darkness by Vash/RikuDawntreader/PrettySephy Disclaimer: I own no one from the Kingdom Hearts series. --------------------------------------------------------- -Chapter 12- Sora was standing on the bridge that made up the entrance to the Bailey when a black feather landed on his shoulder. Looking up, he saw Sephiroth descending toward him, his sword drawn for battle. Leaping out of the way, just in time, Sora drew his Keyblade and lunged at Sephiroth, determined to disarm him. He didn't want to kill the winged man. There were too many questions that he needed answers "Good," Sephiroth laughed, blocking Sora's blow. "Its been a while since I've face a truly worthy opponent. "But you'll have to do a lot better if you're going to destroy me." "I don't want to destroy you," Sora told him, "I just want to know something. Please?" "I'll tell you if you beat me," Sephiroth nodded. Lunge! Block! Parry! After what felt like at least twenty minutes of this, Sora was beginning to wear down. He knew if he didn't find an opening soon, Sephiroth would probably win. Sephiroth sensed triumph would soon be his. Raising his arm, he made as if to summon the gods themselves to witness the final blow. Sora saw how Sephiroth had thrown back his head, his eyes fixed on the heavens. With the last bit of strenght he could muster, he struck Sephiroth's hand with his keyblade, knocking Masamune from his grip and sending it flying a couple feet off. "Fair's fair," Sephiroth said, sounding impressed. "So, what did you want to know?" Sora got right to the point. "Did you ever love anyone?" ***** Elizabeth Swann, or Turner depending on whom you asked, stood aweather on the deck of the Black Pearl wearing a worried expression as the rain pelted her face. "Hey, Liz," Will joined her, putting his coat over her shoulders. "We'll find them. I promise." "We never should have let him take Riku," Elizabeth said, scolding herself along with the others. "That young man needs looking after. I can only pray that we can find him before the baby comes." "And what, pray tell, are we meant to do about it?" Jack wanted to know. "Even if we do find him, chances are he'll still die in childbirth." Elizabet and Will turned to face him. "Maybe he will at that," she accepted. "But as least he'll die in a bed, attended by people who actually care about him." "You two had better get below if you want to go on helping me to look for him, then" Jack told them as he manned the helm. "The weather's not too bad, but better men than you or I have often been felled by foul weather." "Thank you," Elizabeth told him as made her way to her cabin. ***** Gloved hands lowered the telescope that had been focusing on the swift vessel as it neared the coast. "Well, Mr. Cooger," the owner of the hands told the short, wretched man who stood beside him, "it seems our little show has attracted a pair of lads from a land even further than from whence we came." He folded the telescope and stuck it in his breast pocket. "Shall we welcome our new visitors?" "Be careful," the veiled woman to his other side warned, "The one who is with child is stronger than even yourself." "With child?" Dark made a dismissive gesture with his hand. "Pshaw! Anyone can see those are both young men. And neither is much past his salad days." "Young men they may be," the Dust Witch warned, "but mark my words or you shall fall again as you did at the hands of those two boys so many autumns ago." "A minor setback," Dark told her. "But never mind that now. Let us extend the hand of welcome to these newcomers." "I do so against my better judgement," the witch told him, returning to her trailer to make preparations.