A Destiny Found (Riku fanfic) Book 3

Meeting Zack

*Riku pov*

I stopped by the edge of the island. I know Asher is happy to be with his family again, I just don't know what I would do without him. "Dad!!" I turn back and see Asher run over to me. "Asher what are you doing out here?" He looks at me worried. "I wanted to make sure you were okay. I didn't want you think that I didn't care about you anymore. You and mom raised me. You both will always be my parents. No matter what." I smile at him and hug him. "Sorry I got a bit jealous." He laughed and nodded. "Oh how touching, I'm sorry to ruin the sweet moment, but I need Asher." We both turned around and saw Sephiroth. I step in front of Asher and get my keyblade out. "No you aren't going to take him!" Sephiroth looks at Asher and smiles. Asher then groans in pain and falls to his knees. I look back to make sure he is okay, I shouldn't have turned my back cause Sephiroth had the advantage and shoved me back hard, knocking me down. Asher looks at me worried. "Dad!" He yells in pain again. He passes out and just as I am about to, a person in a black hood comes down and knocks Sephiroth down. I see the mans face a bit, and I could have sworn that I have seen him before. I start feeling more weak and I pass out just as he leaves and the man turns towards us, everything goes black.

*Cloud pov*

We run in the direction that they both ran towards. I saw someone standing near Asher. "Hey get away from him!" The man looked up and his hood fell off. "Za-Zack?" Zack smiles at me and then sighs. "We have to get both of them out of here, before something happens to them. I know I have a lot to explain, but lets help them first." Emma is standing there staring at Zack. "Zack?" Zack looks over at her and smiles and nods. We get Riku and Asher back to the house. After looking at Asher one more time Emma turns and glares a bit at Zack. "Where have you been?!" Zack sighs. "I was going to come back. I found out you were gone after I came to see you. I heard about everything that happened to you. Emma I could-" Emma looks upset and the rest of us looked at them very confused. "Zack helped me when I was looking for Riku after everything that happened. One day we were supposed to meet to come up with a plan, but he left. He left me there." Zack looked at Emma and sighed. "Im sorry I wasn't there, I got called to take care of something that day. Actually that was the day that Aerith and I left when I found out Sephiroth was coming after us. Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, and Leon followed us. Leon was also distraught about the fact that you were not with him. He found out from someone there that you weren't alive. But here you are. When we met, I didn't even think to find out if you were his sister." Emma sighed and nodded. "Well, I wouldn't have remembered. I forgot about most of my childhood. That night my father was destroyed by the darkness taking over him." After a while, Ventus looked at Zack. "So we meet again. I guess you became a hero after all." We all laugh. "Yeah, I finally became one, even after you made that comment back when we were fighting at the coliseum." I laugh. "Thats where I met Sora and his gang. Hades was controlling me at the time, I had to fight against the kid. I beat him too." Sora looked at me with a look that told me to shut up. I smile and go to say something but we hear someone walk in, Riku woke up and walked in. Emma looked at him worried. "Riku you should be in bed." "Is Asher okay? Please te-" Emma looked at him and nodded kissing him to cut him off. "He's fine. He is in the other room. Violet is with him" Riku nods and relaxes. Zack looks at Riku and smiles. "So your the one that found and took care of Asher?" Riku looks up and nods. "Yeah, I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't found him. And you must be his biological father. I'm sorry about what happened. But im glad you're alive, so that Asher can get to meet you. Emma was in the same position as him when she was his age. She also got lucky and found her biological family. Leon is her brother." Zack laughs and looks at Emma and jokingly says "Good luck with that one." Leon rolls his eyes and says his signature "Whatever'." Terra, Leon, Emma, Riku, Sora, Ventus, and I all talked with Zack. Zack explained what happened and then looked at Emma and Riku. Emma looked down and then sighed. "Riku Emma, thank you for taking care of Asher. Especially with all that has been going on." We look up and see Violet walking out of the room. "He's still asleep, I just wanted to grab him another pillow so I could stay in there with him." Emma got up and went to grab another blanket and Violet looks at Zack and then smiles shyly. "So you're Ashers father?" Zach nodded. "Are you and Asher dating?" Violet shrugged and blushed. "He hasn't asked me yet. But we have kissed." Riku looked at Violet as she said that and Emma walked in looking amused. "Riku took a while to ask me, so don't worry. In fact you kissed me and we hadn't seen each other for a while. Then finally when we did, you asked me." Riku looked down and blushed.