Kingdom Hearts x Fem!Reader: The Lost Princess

Chapter 54

Warnings: same as it always has been but with a tiny bit of crack

Rating: SFW

You and the others followed Riku and the twins back to the Proof of Existence and noticed that the path ahead was open. You all walked up the stairs to Naught's Approach. The beam from Ansem's device was starting to weaken, and it shook in his hands.

"Ansem?" Mickey asked. Ansem laughed.

"I'm a fool. I've spent years studying the workings of the heart. Yet it seems I still haven't learned a thing!" he said.

"What d'ya mean?"

"The process of encoding hearts is incalculable. The inhabitants of my Twilight Town were data created from real hearts. I was convinced that they would think and behave the way I had envisioned—but I couldn't have been more wrong. A heart is so much more than any system. I saw it when Roxas and Kairi crossed paths. I knew. But I was too stubborn to accept it. It's always the same. I try to wrap my mind around things my heart already knows, only to fail. While I was trying to bring Sora back, I had so many plans in store. But once Sora was an acting force, they fell apart. All my research amounted to nothing, compared with that one boy's heart." The device started to short.

"Ansem! The machine!" Mickey said.

"All the more proof that hearts cannot be contained by data. Run, my friend! It's going to self-destruct, and anything could happen!" Ansem said.

"But..."

"Your Majesty!" you and Sora said. You, the twins, and Sora's group ran in.

"Sora, (Y/N), the rest is up to you... And Roxas— I doubt you can hear me—but...I am sorry," Ansem said.

"Ansem!" Mickey said.

"My heart is telling me what I must do. Please allow me to do what it says!"

"No!" Riku grabbed Mickey's arm. "Riku!"

"His heart's decided. We can't change that," Riku said. Suddenly, Xemnas appeared.

"Dad!" Yui and Roxy said.

"I was wondering who would dare interfere with my Kingdom Hearts. And look—here you all are. How convenient for me. Ansem the Wise... You look pathetic," Xemnas said.

"Have your laugh. I deserve as much for failing to see you for the fool you are," Ansem said.

"Students do take after their teachers. Only a fool would be your apprentice. After all, none of this would have happened without you. YOU are the source of all Heartless. It was your research that inspired me to go further than you ever dared."

"I admit...my disregard brought chaos to more worlds than one. But what were YOU seeking? You erased me from the world, only to take my name and continue research better left forgotten... Is this the answer you've been looking for?"

"All that and more. I'm carrying on what you yourself began, and I'm creating a brand new world, one heart at a time. I thought you'd praise me, but all you ever do is hold me back. I understand, though. Unlike me, you have a heart. And you're powerless to control it. Consumed, by the jealousy you feel toward the student who surpassed you."

"Xehanort. Foolish apprentice of a foolish man. You have surpassed nothing—only proved how little we both know. We may profess to know the heart, but its essence is beyond our reach. We're both ignorant—as oblivious as when we began. I'm afraid that any world you try to create... Any world of yours...would be an empire of ignorance. That is why you and your creation are destined to fall!" Electricity surged through and around the device