[Kingdom Hearts][Epic Mickey] Lost Lights

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I have been awake since 3am this morning. While watching Boss Baby: Family Business, Promising Young Woman, and various episodes of Sofia the First, I worked on Lost Lights. So now, I present to you, chapter 14. We're almost at endgame! Maybe another chapter or two, and that's it!

Thank you for reading!

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The four of them looked up at the Storm Blot with their Keyblades ready. The face of the storm taking on a sinister simile of Oswald's face, ink dripping from its supposed eyes and mouth. At the moment, the creature had yet to actually attack them. The face slithered in and out of the main cloud overhang. It eventually found its way close to Sabrina. She gave it a noise of disgust before taking a swing at it to make it go away. Although her swing had missed, it served as the leading choice on whether the Storm Blot was going to attack or not.

Everyone geared up for a fight as the creature let out a sickening roar. From its command, several tendrils came down from the overhead cloud. Some planted themselves in the ground, furthering to destabilize the area, while the rest tried to swat at the four wielders. Aqua led them in focusing their efforts on the tendrils. The wielders did their best to try to fend them off, but it didn't seem to be working very well. The tendrils didn't seem to be phased by any physical attack. It even became apparent that it was immune to certain types of magic; gravity was one of them, much to Sabrina's annoyed discovery. Aqua had been the one to deduce that it was also immune to ice magic, and Ven easily affirmed not long after that wind magic did nothing as well.

In her increasing annoyance at the monster, Sabrina came to notice something. Among the tendrils were protrusions that looked a lot like boils. When any one of them hit these boils enough, the popped (for lack of a better term- it disgusted her just thinking about it) and the tendril would quiver before another boil rose. She had a theory, and so she took it upon herself to get rid of all the boils that came up on a nearby tendril. She would be the first to admit that her handiwork was a bit sloppy. But her theory had proven to be correct; destroying the boils that came up on a tendril was a weak point. Terra -who had noticed her being reckless and was about to correct her for it- realized what she had done, and relayed the information to Aqua.

Their fight became a lot easier from there. Everyone took to a different tendril as it came down. After enough were taken care of, the face of the Storm Blot was stunned. Aqua and Terra were quick to wail on the creature before it work up. The Storm Blot once more let out a furious roar before sending down more tendrils. At this point, the Keyblade wielders knew what to expect. They followed their pattern two more times to bring the creature down- Aqua and Terra lending their expertise whenever the Storm Blot was stunned, while Sabrina and Ventus offered crowd control for lingering tendrils.

When it was all over, the Storm Blot let out one last cry. Its face took one last look at Sabrina, something that resembled a great sadness. As the clouds around them cleared, the Storm Blot said to her in a low, pained voice, "Your heart is... always connected... to ours..."

Sabrina remained on guard even when the sky around them was nothing but blue. It took a few moments for the realization to sink in before she sunk to her knees.

"Sabrina!" Aqua quickly exclaimed, with Ventus being the first to rush over to Sabrina. He got down beside her, but knew better to touch her at this point. Instead, he just waited.

He wasn't going to lie, it looked like Sabrina really wanted to throw up.

Every muscle in Sabrina's body was tense. She had one hand on the ground to steady herself, while her other was placed on her stomach. Her fingers dug into the loose stone with agency. She didn't even acknowledge that Ven was there. A few minutes of still silence felt like hours before Sabrina started to get up. Her knees were shaking, but didn't take Ven's hand to steady herself. She couldn't risk it.