The Next World

Authors note: This chapter will be told in Riku's point of view.















I walked outside of the cave and looked at Ansem. He was standing there smiling at me. "Hello Riku. I see you still come to my side when I call you." He said as he took us to the dimension of darkness he showed me how to travel through.





"What do you want to say to me?" I asked him.





"We're the swordsmen of darkness. We have to have our fight at night." Ansem said to me.





I looked at the sky. "It's just evening. Night hasn't fallen yet. I'm going back to the cave." I said to Ansem as I turned to walk away.





I felt his strong hand grab my forearm. He pulled me against his chest. "I was thinking we could have some quality time before I had to kill you." He whispered in my ear.





I pushed him away from me and said "You know the answer is no it's always been no."







He laughed and said "The answer is always no at first but eventually you give in and I get what I want. You want it too Riku so don't make it hard on the two of us."





"I don't want your hands anywhere on my body. Night falls in twenty minutes and then you die. That will be my fondest memory of time with you. I'm going to enjoy ending your life." I told Ansem.





"But how will you take up twenty minutes? I'm sure you can always just do something for me to watch. I always enjoyed watching you please yourself. Perhaps you could do that for me to watch." He said.





"You're a sick twisted man." I said to Ansem.





He grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me close to him. I glared at him as he wrapped his arm around my chest and cupped my chin. He tiled my face up and looked down at me. "I've said this one and I'll say it again. I know you want me as much as I want you." Ansem said as he leaned down to kiss me.





I let him kiss me and opened my mouth. I waited for him to slide his tongue in my mouth. When he did and bit down on it as hard as I could. He pulled away quickly and I looked up at him.





"In the past I was too young to know how fucked up you were. I wasn't able to say no to something that felt so psychically good but now I see that the things you did to me were never right. It's close enough to nightfall now." I said after I spit out a mouthful of his blood.





"I can't see how one as beautiful as you is so insistent on death. You won't be able to kill me but I'm full capable of killing. You know that this night will be the end of your life." Ansem said as he drew out a long red scimitar.





I swung out at him with moonlight but he blocked it. I struck again faster but he blocked and swung back at me with a quick slash I was hardly able to parry aside.





He swung once more and cut me lightly across the chest. I felt the blade cut in to my skin and frowned thinking "I should have worn some armor after all."





I ignored the pain and swung back, lightly cutting Ansem's arm, He took a step back and I laughed. "I have no problem spilling your blood."





He smiled at me and said "This just might make things interesting then if you're willing to kill me. I even had plans on what to do with your body after I had killed you but they might not happen."





"What kind of plans?" I asked him beginning to feel the disgust and anger an encounter with him always brings.





"After I had killed you I was going to close up your wounds and animate your body. Even though your soul wouldn't be in it a body like yours is a terrible thing to waste." Ansem said to me with a smile.





"You're a sick and twisted son of a bitch. You deserve to die slowly and painfully. I wish I could do it. The quick death I'm forced to give you is a kinder fate then you deserve." I said as I swung out with moonlight.





Ansem blocked the attack but I swung out with my empty hand and summoned my soul eater as I swung. His left leg was removed by the attack. I smiled as he fell to the ground. He looked up at me with a pleading look in his eyes.







"Ask me for it. You know we both want it." I taunted him with a smile.





"You have to do it. You have to kill me and let moonlight consume me like Kage let twilight do to Zoul. I don't need to ask for it because you have to do it." Ansem said.





I let out a sigh and said "I'll get what I want."





I stabbed him in his right leg slowly and watched the terror in his eyes. "You wouldn't do this to me Riku. I'm a flesh and blood human just like you." Ansem said as I prepared to stab him again.





"You're nothing like me." I said as I stabbed his leg. "You're a liar. You twisted my dreams. You manipulated me. You raped me several times over then course of my most fragile years. You used me like I was nothing more then a tool." I stabbed him in his leg at the end of my every sentence.





He screamed out loudly in pain and I lost it. I began to slash at him wildly in a fury. I slashed at his body until I couldn't lift my arms anymore.



I felt hallow and burned out when I looked at his mutilated body. It was as if he was ravaged by some kind of a beast.





I slowly swung moonlight over him and watched as a dark aura swallowed him up. When his body was gone my adrenaline rush wore off and I felt the pain from the shallow cut on my chest. I decided to heal it.





I sighed in disgust at what I had done as I left the dimension of darkness and walked back to the cave were Sora and Kage were waiting for me.





I went inside and saw Kage lying against the cave wall looking at the fire. Sora was lying against him with his head in Kage's lap. He had his arms around Sora and immediately turned his attention to me.





Kage looked at me and let go of Sora and laid him on the ground. He walked over to me and said "He tried to stay up but fell asleep a few hours after you left."





"How long have I been gone for?" I asked Kage.





The sun will be up in about five hours time. I suggest you go to sleep now. There's no way for us to wash the blood off of you so Sora will have to see it when he wakes up. I hope he doesn't think I found your dead body and dragged you back. How do you survive bleeding like that anyways?" Kage asked.





"It's not my blood. It's his. I couldn't stop and I didn't do it fast." I said choking back a sob.





"What do you mean you couldn't stop and you didn't do it fast?" He asked me.





"I cut one of his legs off in the fight and he fell to the ground. I stabbed his other leg a few times while I told him how different we are. I know he's evil but I did evil things to him before I killed him. Oh my god I killed him. I killed a man. I'm a murderer. I even slashed him up until my arms didn't work anymore." I said as I grabbed on to Kage and started sobbing.





"It's okay. It's over now. You did what you had to do." he said as he put his arms around me and held me close to him.





"I tortured him and after I finally did kill him I mutilated him like some kind of beast. It's not okay. I killed a man. I'm a murderer." I cried in to Kage's chest.





"You're not a murderer. You defended yourself. He would have killed you if you didn't kill him Riku. You did what you had to do. Just go to sleep. You'll feel better in the morning if you do." Kage said.





"I don't know if I can or not." I said to him.





"Just go snuggle up next to Sora, hold him close to you, think happy thoughts, and go to sleep." Kage told me.





I looked at Sora and over to Kage again before I went over to Sora and took him in my arms. I snuggled close to him pulled him close to me and drifted off to sleep.