Even If You're In the Deepest Darkness, I'll Be Your Light(Digimon ver.)

Seeker of Darkness

Riku's Pov

I just laid there. On my hands and knees. Kudamon kept pawing at my arm, urging me to get up and go help Sora. But I couldn't. I didn't have any strength left.

"How could I have been so stupid? I loved Hikari more than anything and yet... I hurt her in the worst way possible." I asked myself.

"Know this. You can bring back the one you lost." I turned around to see a cloaked figure.

"What are you saying? There's a way to get Hikari back?" I asked. I felt Kudamon tugging on my pant leg, telling me not to trust him.

"Riku, don't!" Kudamon whispered.

"Yes." the figured answered.

"Please! Tell me how!" I begged.

"You need to become stronger. You showed no fear in stepping through the door to darkness. It held no terror for you. Plunge deeper into the darkness, and your heart will grow even stronger. Then, you will be able to revive your princess." the figure said.

"Relying on the darkness is how I lost her in the first place. Why should I rely on it again?" I asked.

"Her heart is in darkness now. You must use darkness to find it." the figure explained.

"What should I do?" I asked.

"It's really quite simple. Open yourself to the darkness. That is all. Let your heart, your being, become darkness itself." the figure said. Green aura covered my body. This feeling, it wasn't like the light Hikari's heart had given me. It was cold and heavy. The figure came closer and closer and then... my vision faded to black.

Maleficent's Pov

I looked at the Keyhole. Something was wrong. I heard footsteps and saw Riku had returned. He must have returned his Rockruff.

"So, I see the path has emerged at last." Riku said. His voice was different. It was almost as if there was another person speaking.

"Yes. The Keyhole to the darkness." I said.

"Unlock it and the Heartless will overrun this world." Riku said. I scoffed at this.

"What do I care? The darkness holds no power over me. Rather, I will use its power to control all worlds." I said.

"Such confidence." Riku scoffed. He raised his hand and summoned a Keyblade.

It was the Keyblade made from the princesses' hearts. That's when I realized it. "Impossible! The princesses of Heart are all here! It must be her." I said. I looked at the last princess. Kairi.

"Without her heart, she will never be able to release her power." Riku pointed out. A roar echoed through the castle.

"The king's fools are here. I'll deal with them myself. You stay here and guard the princesses." I ordered. I went to where they would be.

Sora's Pov

We came to a small area and that's when I saw her. Maleficent.

"I'm afraid you're too late. Any moment now, the final Keyhole will be unsealed. This world will be plunged into darkness. It is unstoppable." Maleficent said.

"We'll stop it! After coming this far, there's no way we're gonna let that happen!" I said.

"You poor, simple fools. You think you can defeat me? Me, the mistress of all evil?" Maleficent exclaimed. Maleficent was powerful. On top of levitating out of reach, summoning comets, calling thunderbolts and summoning Heartless, I had doubt that we could beat her. That's when I heard something that made my heart race.

"You can beat her Sora!" I turned around, thinking Hikari was there, but she wasn't. That's when my Keyblade began to glow. Hikari was sending me strength from where ever she was now. I saw Veemon was glowing too. Maybe Salamon was sending him strength too.

"Veemon digivolve to... Veedramon!"

"V-Nova Blast Arrow MAX!" Veedramon excalimed. He fired an even more powerful V-Nova Blast at Maleficent. I then jumped above Maleficent and slashed her with my Keyblade. She was burned by the light and her cloak spread out over the ground. Riku appeared from a bubble of darkness.

"Riku!" I said.

"How ironic. The were using Maleficent from the beginning. She failed to notice the darkness in her heart eating away at her. A fitting end for such a fool." Riku said. Something was wrong. Pikachu was growling and hissing at Riku. Riku's voice... That when I saw a Keyblade in his hand.

"Is that-" Donald began, but Riku finished for him.

"Yes. A Keyblade. But unlike yours, this Keyblade holds the power to unlock people's hearts. You will see a demonstration soon enough." Riku said, disappearing. We ran through the bubble after Riku. We came to a room where the Keyhole was. We ran up some stairs. A barrier stopped Goofy just as we reached the top. There, I saw Kairi laying on the floor.

"Kairi!" I ran to her and held her in my arms, "Kairi! Kairi! Open your eyes!" I pleaded.

"It's no use. I looked up to see Riku sitting just above the Keyhole. "That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up." Riku said.

"What? You... You're not Riku." I said.

"The Keyhole cannot be completed, so long as the last princess of heart still sleeps." Riku said.

"The princess...? Kairi's a princess?" I asked.

"Yes, and without her power, the Keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened." Riku said.

"Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!" I yelled.

"But first, you must give the princess back her heart." Riku said. I felt sharp stab of pain in my chest. It was as if I had been struck in the heart with an arrow. I fell to the ground in pain.

"Sora, what wrong?!" Veemon cried.

"Sora!" Donald cried.

"What's-" I began, but Riku explained.

"Don't you see yet? The princess's heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi's heart rests within you!" Riku exclaimed.

"Kairi... Kairi's inside me?" I asked. I wondered how this could have happened. Then I remember just as the islands were destroyed when Kairi went through me.

"I know all that there is to know." Riku said.

"Tell me. Who are you?" I asked.

"It is I, Ansem, the seeker of darkness." Ansem started coming toward me. Donald and Veemon tried to stop him, but Ansem knocked them through a barrier and prevented them from helping me. "So, I shall release you now, Princess. Complete the Keyhole with your power. Open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness!" Ansem exclaimed. He raised his Keyblade and brought it down. That's when I heard-

"Sora!" I heard all three of my friends voice yell for me. I looked up and blocked the blade just in time.

"Forget it! There's no way you're taking Kairi's heart! I'll beat you and free Riku and save Kairi. Then, the three of us will go and find Hikari." I exclaimed.