The New Dawn 4: Attack of the Final Star

Siah glared "What do you mean 'you suffer'?" Siah said. She knew they were in a hurry but she was confused. "Voltiar are you ok? Where is Raven?"

Raven walked forward cautiously. She gasped when the wind picked up through the entire chamber. Raven's hair blew in every which direction and she felt herself be lifted up. She looked around. as the stone walls began to change. They fell from around her. Caved to the floor, and dissapeared as if the tower had never been there. Raven was back outside, standing on nothing but thin air. The wind calmed. Everything was silent. Raven saw a small light ahead of her. Something about it drew her closer to it. She looked down, seeing the ground very far benieth her. She felt like she was standing on a bridge made of nothing but glass so fine that one step could send her falling to the ground. She took a cautious step forward and saw the air ripple under her feet as if she was walking on water. Raven looked ahead again and took a deep breath "Too late to turn back now..." she began walking forward to the light in the distance. A keyblade appeared in her hand.

 

Siah hesitated. She had never seen Voltiar like this before. He almost seemed angry. She looked back at her friends and then back to Voltiar "O... ok." she studdered. "As long as it doesn't involve killing you I'm game." she said cautiously. "So... you said come and we will follow."

As Raven got closer to the light beyond the wall, she had a strange feeling of deja vu. She had been here before but it was different this time. Last time she had been lead by Luna and she had been hand in hand with Voltiar and she had been a child. Back then everything was a game. This time, she knew what she was getting herself into. She knew she was possibly ending her life this time. And she knew she was alone this time. For the first time, that realization seemed to strike her as the light she was walking toward grew to an immense size. Raven dissapeared and the entire world was encased in light.

 

Siah glared but she took Clader's hand. Knowing that their fates were intertwined now, anything that she had to do here was only possible with Calder's help. She hesitated, the melencholy feel about Voltiar was so different. Even in the worst of situations he was never this dull and angry. It was strange and unsetteling to her. She ignored the feeling knowing there really wasn't time to worry about that right now. She had to hurry.

Raven looked around, everywhere she looked she saw nothing but light. Even down at her hands... she had become light it seemed. But she could still feel herself. Her heart hammering in her chest, as if beating franticly anxious to escape now that it knew its task. She looked about herself as the city appeared around her again still destroyed and reduced to a pile of ruins but for only a brief second, Raven could have sworn she saw this world the way it was supposed to be. A tear ran down her cheek and fell to the ground where it landed, green grass sprouted from the ground as she saw Voltiar and the others comming in the distance she sighed, her breath seemed soundless but she could have sworn the wind picked up in the entire world after her sigh. She was back to controlling this world again... to some extent. "Not much time now..." she thought unsure if she was talking about her own life, or the life that everyone else would have back very soon.

In the distance Siah saw a figure appear on the horizon in the middle of the light. She seemed unafected by the light but something also made Siah feel like the person was causing it. As they got closer Siah saw her face and her eyes went wide "Raven!?"
The woman she saw on the horizon certainly did look like Raven but there were a few differences. Any scars that Raven had had from battles past were gone. A pair of white wings sprouted from her back and the expression on her face was a lot like Voltiars: Lifeless, hopeless, but also knowing.
The woman looked like this:

Raven saw them approaching and she raised her hands up to her heart, a glowing power seemed to be growing there. Raven looked to Voltiar, and the rest of her friends as they got close enough that she could hear and speak to them. She almost didn't want to speak. She didn't know what to say "We dont have much time. Nerazza and Coldex will have senced the light by now... they will know the doors have been found. They will be comming very soon."

Siah shook her head, "What do you mean? How did the two of you find the doors. Whats happening?" she said. "This can't be your home. Raven, you explained your home was a beautiful world... this cant be it."

Raven looked sad "No time to explain... Voltiar will have plenty of time to explain everything to you after this is over. You will do that for me, right Voltiar?"

 

At the same time that Brakdern attacked, jaxx also lept into action. She at first ran straight for Voltiar. There were three copies of her atacking at once, and while he was distracted with them the real Jaxx came from behind and blasted him with powerful dark magic. Raven had tried to help but she was blocked by a group of guardian heartless. Jaxx walked up to Voltiar with her sword pointed to his heart. She suddenly smiled "Nerazza I found the door to darkness. It resides within his heart." she said with cold antisipatioin. She looked back at Voltiar "Look at things this way. You can give in and help us peacefully, or we can just stab you with a keyblade and get what we want by force."

Raven had summoned her keyblade and was trying to fight through the heartless that blocked her way. She couldn't hear what was being said.

Jaxx smiled a little "You're immortal Voltiar. You are darkness, you belong with us. If you give us the door, you still wont die and neither will Raven. The light in her heart will be despelled, no more destiny in the way and no death to part you."

As Raven got closer and could hear what Jaxx was saying she gasped, no way... Voltiar wouldn't consider it... would he? Her heart almost seemed to stop "Dont listen to her Voltiar!"
She could see an annoyed glare on Jaxx's face as a chain made of darkness shot from the ground and wrapped around Raven's wrist. The light surrounding Raven dimmed a little and Raven was shocked to find that when she tried to speak, there was no sound.

Jaxx ignored Raven as she knelt down next to Voltiar, the tip of her sword rested against his chest "After all... whats wrong with a world full of eternal darkness if you get to keep the one thing that reminds you why it's so important to live on?"

Siah summoned her keyblade and looked to Brakdern. She wanted to help him fight Brakdern.

 

Siah heard Nerazza's voice behind her and turned to face her, "I would sooner die then become like you!" Siah said. She looked around, knowing that she had to find Raven but Raven Jaxx and Voltiar were very far off onto the distance behind Nerazza. She would have to pass her before she would be able to get there.

 

The moment Jaxx's concentration was broken, Raven was freed from the darkness that Jaxx had used to tie her back but Raven didn't have time to help Voltiar. She had to find Siah and Calder. She watched Voltiar push Jaxx back and smiled, relieved that he had made the right desison.

Jaxx smiled a little and looked over at Raven then back at Voltiar "Fine then we do this the fun way." she said before she grabbed Voltiar's wrist and threw him off of her. She picked up her sword and pointed it at Raven. Raven, who was now close enough to Jaxx and Voltiar that she could have struck Jaxx with her keyblade, suddenly fell knee deep into a dark path. Alarmed, she looked at Jaxx and tried to step out but she couldnt' move. Jaxx laughed "Struggeling will make you fall faster." it was then that Raven noticed the shadows were climbing up her legs and her torso. Wrapping around her like vines. Jaxx smiled "The light in you must be smothered out... even if it means you die without purpose. It's been fun Raven." she mockingly saluted her and then looked at Voltiar drawing her sword "Now lets just see how much power this world has granted you."

Siah watched Calder fall and gasped, it came out as half of a scream as she felt his pain as if it was her own. She shoved past Nerazza and ran over to Calder, refusing to believe it was over. He couldn't be dead. She would have felt it if he died. As Symm appeared next to her, she was already at the fallen building "Help me. Calder fell and then he's under there somewhere."

 

Siah called for Calder over and over again, lifting as much of the rubble as she could. She knew he was alive. But she couldn't find him. She didn't know if he was injured. She was walking over the rubble as gently as she could, "Calder can you hear me!?"

Raven wrapped her arms around Voltiar to try to help brace herself and help him pull herself out. She shot a glance at where Jaxx had flown through the wall. When she looked back at Voltiar "This whole damsel princess thing is really getting old." she said, almost smiling.

Jaxx stood up, wiping blood from her head with the back of her hand. She was quite a ways away from where she had originally been standing when Voltiar had hit her but she could still hear what was going on in the fray. She heard Raven's comment and she laughed before she dissapeared.