Kingdom Hearts 2: Lament of Innocence Chap 2
,The gang have now arrived at a part of the castle known as The House of Sacred Remains. Given the design of the area it gives off the impression they're inside a cathedral with a fancy looking stained glass window behind them. Sora: *looking around the neat yet gothic looking area* WoahTheir impression was short lived, as after walking straight to the balcony they see downstairs not just a big angel statue in the center, they're already greeted by enemies; not just animate skeletons wearing spiked wriest bands and carrying large femur bones as weapons, but shadow heartless too.Leon: *to the trio* Hope you're ready for this. Cause we'll encounter enemies where ever we go.Sora: *smiles to assure him* Don't worry we can handle it.Goofy: Yeah, we've been through worse.Leon: All right.The enemies then take notice of them. Now ready to fight, the trio summon their weapons, as Leon prepares to use his whip. As they jump down they are then immediately attack. A skeleton attacks Goofy with its weapon, but he blocks it in time for him to repel it back and 'punch' it right in the chest knocking it back. Donald casts thunder on a couple Shadow which stuns them long enough for Leon to strike them with his whip and destroy them. Sora at first trades blows with a skeleton before eventually destroying it. After a few moments the first wave of enemies were dealt with. Course this was just the beginning.Sora: *relieved the battle's over* Glad that's over. At least for now.Leon: Yeah. Be ready for anything, you never know.And with that they pass through the door in front of them. In the hallway they see a door to their left, and another in front of them. After some thinking they decide to open the one on the left. Upon entering it, they enter what seems like an indoor church with chairs and an organ in front of them. Before they could check the room out more they're now greeted by another swarm of enemies. After defeating them rather quickly they rest for a moment to look around.Sora: Wow, this place must be really old. Wonder what happened?Leon: No one knows, this castle's a complete mystery.And with that in mind, they pass through a light purple door and in front of them appears to be some sort of pedestal sticking out of the ground.Sora: What's this thing? *walks closer to it*Goofy: I think maybe you're supposed to stand on it?Sora: Lets see. *gets on top of it, at first nothing happens, but moments later the pedestal starts to sink into the ground until it lays flat and even with the ground* Woah, what happened? Leon: I don't know, but we better move on.Sora: *nods* Right.Little did they know that the pedestal was actually one of 3 switches needed to unlock a secret door. Meantime they head back to the hallway to go to the other door with what looks like demons on both sides of it. Going through it they enter what appears to be another mini church just with the organ place else where, and the stalls covered in cobwebs. They're greeted this time not by skeletons, but zombies.Sora: *surprised* Wow, zombies! *the call out gets their attention, much to the groups chagrin* Oops.As they were about to fight the slow moving zombies a small swarm of Solider Heartless materialize 'aiding' them. Leon shows off more of his skills with the whip, like as if he's already a master even after he just got it. Moments later the group defeats the threat.Sora: I gotta say Leon, i'm very impressed with how you use the whip. Leon: Thanks Sora. After going through another door, and turning right in another hallway, they now enter what looks like a small library with bookcases on the bottom and top floor. And as if expecting it, they encounter yet another type of enemy which is just a helmet with glowing red eyes, a sword and shield floating and what appears to be a black misty 'body' this was known as a Ghost Warrior. Along with NeoShadows emerging from the ground. Ready with their weapons yet again they engage them in battle with Sora trading sword blocks with the Ghost Warrior before destroying it. Some time later the wave has been defeated, and they now go through the door not below the window, but next to a book case. Where they enter another part of the library and are greeted by a much larger number of Ghost Warriors and Shadows. Though annoyed they still ready themselves to face them with Leon showing off some skills with some of his sub weapons specifically throwing knives, where as Sora and Donald quickly destroy the remaining enemies with Thundaga. Once that's done they notice a door up on a ledge.Sora: Say I wonder where that door up there leads to?Donald: Don't know. Sora: Hold on i'll check it out. *and with that he easily double jumps onto the platform. Upon doing so he looks back at them*Leon: We'll wait here till you get back.Sora nods in acceptance, and with that he walks through the door alone.Upon walking through it he for a moment admires the gothic architecture of the hallway as he walks through it. His admiration was short lived as he was now greeted by a small group of red skeletons carrying maces and wearing spiked wrist bands.Sora: Red skeletons eh? *smiles with confidence as he summons his keyblade to face them, unaware of what they're truly capable of* Bring it! *and with that one of them attempts to slam its mace right at Sora who easily dodges out of the way to retaliate by throwing a couple hits to destroy it. Upon casting Thundaga on the rest he quickly finishes them off with Explosion to destroy them* Too easy. *his victory was short lived as to his surprise the red skeletons start to reform good as new as if nothing had happened* Aww you gotta be kidding me! *as he continues to fight them for a couple minutes he realizes that no matter what he does he can't destroy them for good, and they're just wasting his time as the others are waiting for him to return.* Sorry folks, but i've got friends waiting for me. *and with that he casts Blizzaga to freeze them in place long enough to go through the other door at the end of the hallway.He then enters an empty room with fences on both sides with water on the ground, and right in front of him was an amazing stained glass window. But as much he would like to admire the room he turns to walk to the door on the right. Upon entering another hallway to his annoyance he's greeted by 2 red skeletons. Now wanting to waste his time fighting them he attempts to avoid them via jumping over them while doing a front flip in the process. He then sees a skeleton wearing a helmet guarding the door carrying a bow, which it immediately shoots arrows at Sora who retaliates by casting Firaga to destroy it in one shot. He then opens the door to enter another library. This time he's greeted by a small swarm of Shadow Heartless along with what looks like a living suit of armor wielding a chain with a giant spiked mace.Sora: Wow so cool! If only it weren't trying to kill me. *with that said he summons his keyblade to fight them. Upon easily destroying the Shadows he looks at the Heavy Armor* Well big guy, it's just you and me now. *readies himself* What do ya say?The armor obviously did not answer as it immediately starts its attack by at first swinging the mace around to strike Sora with rather impressive speed who just barely dodges it. He then dashes forward to land several strikes to the armor which though damages it a bit, it gives off an aura of darkness signifying a brief power boost. Sora remains undeterred as he exchanges several blows with the armor till finally destroying it. Sora: *showing only minor exhaustion, but glad the fight's over he checks out his surroundings. He then notices a small opening in one of the bookcases. As he walks too it* I wonder where this leads? *he then pushes the bookcase open to reveal a secret passageway. Upon going through it he sees what looks like the same pedestal from earlier* Well better press it down. *upon standing on it his weight alone was enough to press it down all the way to the ground* Not sure what happens now, but I better head back to the others. *and with that he retraces his steps luckily he only went one direction. Still like before it unlocked the first part of a different door. Eventually he makes it back to the group*Goofy: Well anything worth checking out up there?Sora: Besides another pedestal no, so it be best to move on. Nodding in agreement they continue on their adventure through the castle. Upon passing from one church like room to another they encounter several enemies from skeletons to zombies to heartless. Upon entering yet another hallway they encounter a new enemy known as a Buckbaird; simply a giant floating eyeball with a silted iris with a chain and pointy spike hanging below it.Sora: Ok that's disturbing.Leon: I'll take care of this.The Buckbaird electrifies its chain then swirls it around to strike Leon with electricity whom he manages to block with his gauntlet and strike back with his whip. It then charges up a beam then fires it right at him. Thankfully he side jumps out of the way and throws a dagger in its eyeball and throws twin axes to finish it off. Sora: Wow, nice moves Leon!Leon: *nods* hmm, thanks.As they move on they enter yet another library, but this one's much darker than usual as they now encounter not only zombies and Shadow Heartless, but skeletons of wolves that breathe fire. Though disturbed this didn't stop them from taking them out. Once done they enter through another door to a hallway. At first there was nothing there, but if traveling around the castle has thought them anything is that there can and will be enemies anywhere they go. And just like that they did, but to Soras annoyance they're red skeletons along with a Buckbaird.Sora: *annoyed* Oh great not these guys again.Having told about them earlier they still defeat them and the Buckbaird, but in the red skeletons case just long enough to move on to the next room. Only to encounter more red skeletons along with a Heavy Armor.Sora: *annoyed* I've only face these red skeletons a few times, and already I hate them.After a tough, but quick battle they quickly defeat the armor, and before the red skeletons can reform they exit the room, to see yet another pedestal. Which upon standing on it unlocks the 2nd part of a secret door, after which they move on. After retracing their steps a bit they enter another hallway only to be greeted by a swarm of new enemies the Flea men; small turquoise skin humanoids with antenna, wearing red coats, have two toes and carrying axes.Sora: At least they're not red skeletons.As they ready themselves they're quick to learn that for small creatures they're quite nimble and agile, as they bounce around all over the place. One of which attempts to chop Goofy who thankfully blocks it with his shield and as he immediately pushes it back he throws the shield to split the flea man that attack him in two. Sora: *aware that they speed's prolonging them too long he gets an idea; he casts Magnet to gather the flea men all together at once* Donald! *getting an idea of what he wants he nods, as they both cast Thundaga together at the gathered Flea Men destroying them all at once*Leon: Approaching them after performing such a spell* I must say that was rather impressive.Sora: *chuckles* Thanks Leon. *As they move on they approach a different door, one that has 2 skeletal figures on it* Ok that's disturbing.As they open the 'scary' door they enter for once a brand new location which appears to be a maze of magic walls with the walls coming out of statues.Donald: Wow!Before they can admire the new room they notice shadowy masses on the floor coming right at them. Sensing danger they immediately head to the nearest exit which they do. They now enter a rather long and dark hallway filled with purple fired candles and stained glass windows allowing the moonlight to shine through. Seeing no enemies in sight for once they take a moment to just relax as they walk through the hallway. Eventually they reach a skeletal door which still disturbs them. Upon entering through the door they arrive in another maze like room, only difference is that it's red and the magic walls have more of a misty look. Seeing those same shadowy masses they make it to the exit by jumping over the walls. Upon walking through another hallway they come across a different door in front of them, this one had a sorta chainmail design with a head on top of it. Upon entering it at first all they see is a wall in front of them, but when they turn to the right much to their surprise spikes start protruding out of the floor.Sora: What the!? Geez whoever designed this castle sure is crazy.Leon: Maybe so, but there's only one way to go.Donald: What?! You don't mean?Leon: Fraid so.Sora: Don't worry Donald we just need to time our jumps. No biggie.Donald: I hope you're right Sora.After another set of spikes appear they stayed put, and waited for the next set of spikes to arrive. Once they did they immediately raced across, and with perfect timing they jumped over another set of spikes, and upon seeing a door they hurried to it and exit through it. before they could even catch their breathe from such a dangerous act they're greeted by Shadow Heartless and Skeleton Wolves. Fortunately they were able to defeat them with ease. Upon doing so they walk up to another door.Leon: *trying to open it but fails* Locked.Sora: Let me try. *summons his keyblade, and after pointing it at the door it automatically unlocks it*Leon: What happened?Sora: I used my keyblade to automatically unlock it.Leon: I must say i'm impressed. Sora: Thanks Leon.They then open the door and enter what looks like a dead end. It wasn't all for nothing though as Leon notices a relic on a pedestal. Leon: This could be of use to me. *he then takes it* Shall we move on?The trio nod in response, and after retracing their steps they make it back to the spike room. Seeing no other option but to continue onward they prepare themselves. After jumping over one wave of spikes after another they enter a room to see another switch to step on, which unlocks a 2nd part of a different secret door. They then head back to the magic wall room with the blue walls, and enter a different door from the one that they first entered in. Which to their surprise is another spike room. Which they were able to make it to another switch room which after pressing on it unlocks a 3rd and last part of a secret door. They then exit the room, turn to the right side, and after jumping over a couple waves of spikes enter another hallway to catch their breathe.Donald: You were right Sora, the designer of this castle sure was crazy.Goofy: Yeah, insane even.Sora: The designer may be crazy, but at least the architecture looks nice. After catching their breathe they head towards the door at the end of the hallway. They enter a room similar to how they first got here. As they took a moment to check out the scenery a group of enemies consisting of Solider heartless, Shadows, and Skeleton Knight materialize. They then ready themselves to fight them with Leon getting an opportunity to use his holy water sub weapon a few times. After a few minutes of the enemies respawning they soon stop. Soon after they exit through a door and right in front of them is a door with 3 green circles which indicates that can enter now which they do. Entering another hallway they see a heavy Armor guarding a door, which Sora and Donald quickly destroy by using Blizzaga and Thundaga together. After going through the door to another room they encounter another new enemy; a cloaked figure with glowing red eyes and axes hanging from the arms via chains known as Vassagos. Not only that they encounter zombies too.Sora: Wow one spooky enemy after another.That said they engage them in battle, and after a couple respawns they finally defeat them. Once done they go through one hallway after another defeating enemies as they go, till they get to one room with another pedestal which upon stepping on unlocks the 3rd part of another secret door. Retracing their steps they go through several hallways till they eventually get to a blue door with what looks like angelic figures on it. They enter another room which this time has a table in front of them. Nothing much to look at so they press on to the door next to them. Upon walking through another hallway they see that's for once not another door, but a set of stairs that leads downstairs.Donald: *gulps* We have to go downstairs? Leon: Yep, where else would we go?,And with that they walk down the stairs. They soon get to what looks like a basement with cobwebs all over the place, not to mention being in a darker place than upstairs, and looking creepier than before. But that didn't stop them from walking up to the door in front of them. After going through said door they see in front of them what looks like five head stones with different heads on them; two have a demons head, and three have a ladies head.Sora: Ok, that's creepy. *as they go to the doors on the left he notices three dead skeletal bodies in openings on the wall one on top of the other which even he finds rather disturbing. But that didn't stop him from moving on. As they enter through they doors they see a rather disturbing new enemy; it was twice as tall as Leon, wore a mask and what looks like chainmail, and carried what seems like a club with spikes on one end, this was an Executioner* Oh wow. *hearing him it along with several summoned Shadow Heartless and Vassagos appear to attack them* Me and my big mouth.Donald: *as they summon their weapons to fight he looks to Sora sarcastically* Big indeed.Shortly after defeating the 'small fry' they gaze at the Executioner which they think Leon and Sora can handle themselves. It now attacks Sora first by swinging its club around which Sora sees coming and jumps on it for a brief second and jumps at it to land several blows in the Executioners head, which Leon takes a turn by using a cross sub weapon to summon twin crosses orbiting around him. The Executioner attempts to strike him, but Leon blocks it with his gauntlet, and just by being near it the crosses do some damage before he strikes it with several whip lashes. After several moments of fighting it they then finish it off together with Sora casting Explosion and Leon unleashing a 'shock wave' from his whip, which then causes it to combust into flames and parish.Sora: *sighs* Man, what a beast that was. *he then notices another set of five head stones* Hey look. *they have the same heads, only difference is that there're three demons and two ladies. He then looks behind him with a door being blocked, thinking this may have some sort of connection* Goofy: I wonder what those headstones could mean?Donald: *seeing more openings on the wall with more dead bodies, concerned they may come to life* I don't know, but we better get out of here.Leon: Agreed we'll figure out the headstones later.With that said they go through the door on the right and through another hallway. To their surprise they enter a crypt with a large open space, and to their right are six big stone coffins with boards behind them with writing they can't read. To their left are five giant stone heads that have the same heads as the headstones, only difference is that the heads are behind the others; the ladies head's behind the demons and vice versa, but behind them is another stone coffin this time it has a lady statue laying on top of it with another board behind it.Goofy: *frighted* Gwarsh this place gives me the creeps.Donald: *scared just being there* Me too, Goofy.Sora: *as he looks more to the heads than the coffins, he starts to think what they could be used for* These statue heads, could they be connected to the head stones we saw earlier? Leon: *joining him* Maybe. These have to match the order of the head stones?Sora: Yeah, I think you're right. In fact I think these may unblock the door earlier. Let's try the first set that we saw.With Leons help Sora was able to turn the heads in the order of lady, demon, demon, lady, demon.Sora: Well I'm sure that did the trick. *looks to the group seeing Donald and Goofy worried, but not Leon* Uh, shall we head back to the room then?Nodding in agreement with Donald and Goofy finally happy to leave the spooky crypt they retrace their steps back to the room with the exact order of the headstones they did. Upon going through the unblocked door to another hallway they enter a rather high room; they were on a ledge with a bridge made of crates in front of them going in different directions, but the lasers being fired out of demon statues moving around the wall is what caught them off guard, and looking below them are several enemies if they were to fall down there.Sora: Oh come on!With no other option they have no choice but to cross the bridge whilst avoiding the lasers. Leon goes first and successfully reaches the other side. Signaling the others to follow him, they were able to reach the other side safely thanks to walls blocking the lasers. Donald: *as they make it to the doors* Ah that went well.They then enter through the doors, they enter what hopefully seems like one last hallway with the candles on the walls being held by angel statues glowing red giving the hallway a reddish and ominous glow. As they move forward they encounter one last Executioner guarding a new door; red in color and had but a skull and wings below it. But right now they were to focus on the enemy in front of them, only this time it gave off an aura of darkness showing a small increase in power. After a few minutes of a tough battle they were able to finally destroy it.Sora: *as the group were ready to enter* Well, must be the end of the line for there to be a door like this.Leon: Yeah, and no matter what's in there we face it together. Sora: *smiles with confidence* That we will Leon. *to the gang* Ready? *Donald and Goofy nod in agreement, and despite the frightening journey they've had they'll always be with them no matter what* All right, here goes nothing.As they go through the door they enter a rather unusual chamber; it was made of living tissue with colon like entrances on the walls, and many giant eyeballs on the floor much to everyones disgust. Sora: ugh what a stank!Their disgust was short lived as they were attacked by a rather large and undead looking worm like monster known as the Undead Parasite. It came out of one hole and as it was about to eat them, they duck down at the last moment which it then goes into another hole in the wall. Donald: AHHH, what was that?!Sora: I don't know, but it sure ain't friendly.,As they summon their weapons to fight it they side back to back waiting for it to show itself. As it comes out of one hole to ram them, they jump out of the way and Donald casts Fire on the parasites body, which to their surprise doesn't seem to hurt it one bit. Their surprise was short lived as something was appearing out of the ground to attack Goofy from behind.Sora: *seeing it* Goofy behind you!Goofy: hnne? *looks behind him and to his shock it was a Soulless fleshy zombie which it immediately attempts to attack Goofy by slamming its body on him which knocks him to the ground and attempts to maw him, which thankfully he was able to keep it at bay by pushing it by the throat and with his shield destroys it* Gawrsh what was that? *he gets back up* I didn't see that coming!His question's about to be answered as several more Soulless and Neoshow Heartless spawn over the ground. Realizing they'll now have to deal with both them and the Undead Parasite at the same time they'll in for quite a battle. Sora: I had a feeling this would happen. *as he destroys a couple Soulless*Leon: Honestly *lashes Soulless away* So did I.The parasite emerges from a wall and breathes fire at them, while they were able to dodge the fire, Sora casts Reflega that produces a barrier of light that upon dispersing unleashes a series of small, random light explosions that destroys the surrounding Heartless and Soulless, but doesn't harm the Parasite even a little as it now seemed more mad than hurt.Sora: *frustrated* Geez what's up with this thing? *as the battle continues for several minutes upon dealing with an endless horde of Soulless and Heartless, and no matter what they do they can't harm the Undead Parasite* There has to be a way to end this, this is getting us no where!Leon: Stay calm Sora, if there's one thing I know is that every enemy has a weakness you just need to find it.Donald: Easier said than done!Goofy: *upon defeating a couple Soulless and checking out the eyeballs, he might have an idea* Everyone ignore the rest, attack the eyeballs!Sora: Wait what?Leon: *realizing Goofy might be onto something* Yes, attack the eyeballs those could be a way to defeat this thing!Sora: Well all right.The as one of each member gets to one eyeball in Donald and Goofys case upon it looking at them they were briefly disgusted for a moment, but more importantly they attack them relentlessly whilst still dealing with the hordes of Soulless and Heartless, as well as dodging the Parasite. Problem is the eyeballs were giving off a glow of darkness which makes them tougher than they look. Though they eventually destroy the eyeballs, what came out of the center of the floor was a rather grotesque tumor-like core, and the most unusual feature is that it has what looks like a worm like Heartless surrounding it as if guarding it. Leon: *upon striking it with his whip manages to damage both it and the Parasite at the same time* Of course. Everyone attack the core! And with that in mind they immediately, though the worm Heartless tries its best to protect the core by slamming its head at them on the ground they were still able to damage it, problem is it was much tougher than it looks. Just then they were swamped by much darker colored Soulless about to attack them.Sora: *as the Soulless distracted them, he looks back to see the core sinking to the floor* Oh come on!They then have no choice but to defend themselves from the Soulless and Parasite, and wait for the core to show itself again. Leon uses his holy water sub weapon to destroy several Heartless, and seeing the Parasite about to attack Sora from behind, he uses his whip to wrap around Soras stomach and pulls him out of the way in time.Sora: Thanks Leon. *Leon nods* Now lets end this!After the core shows up at a different hole from where one of the eyeballs were Leon uses his axe sub weapon in conjunction with Soras Thundaga to give the axes an electrical boast which damages the core quite a bit, and after Leon lashes it with his whip a few times Sora and Donald cast firaga and thundaga respectively which damages it even more.Goofy: *getting an idea to finally end this* Leon!Leon looks to Goofy as he tosses his shield in the air. Immediately he knows what to do, and with his whip he wraps around the handle of the shield and in conjunction attacks the core relentlessly, and to finish it off he spins around and has the whip let go of the shield and throws it straight at the core, which finally causes it to burst into the flames, along with the Undead Parasite at the same time finally destroying it for good.Donald: *excited on their defeated foe* Take that!Sora: All right!As they briefly celebrate their victory a blue orb appears above them emitting what sounds like a heartbeat. As they walk to it to investigate Leon feels a strange within it.Leon: This orb could be of use to use. *as he touches the orb it 'absorbs' into him granting him new power* Wow, I feel power from this orb. Before they could ask more questions a purple magic circle big enough for all them to fit in appears on the floor.Goofy: Uh how'd that get here?Sora: I don't know, but it could be our way out of here.Donald: If that's the case let's get out of here.And with that they all step on the magic circle which after emitting light particles upwards for a moment it now teleports them out of the chamber, and back to chamber to where the stage selection was.Sora: Back to where we started.Leon: Indeed. But before we go to another one I need to check on something first.Sora: Sure thing, we'll wait here.And with that Leon leaves for a moment, and as the trio finally catch their breathe after such an intense journey from just one part of the castle. A few minutes later Leon returns.Leon: Turns out the blue orb not only gave me power, but unlocks a part of what we need to face Walter.Sora: I see. In the meantime *to Goofy* Goofy care to choose the next one?Goofy: Ohhh ok. *looks at the pedestals on the floor, and makes a decision* 1st one clockwise.Leon: All right. *turns to the trio* You folks ready? *they nods for their next exciting yet spooky adventure* Very well then. *and with that they step onto the pedestal which takes them to another part of the castle*
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