Hurky: It's the last chapter of The Little Merboy 2!!
Riku: Nice!!
Hurky: Sorry for making you wait so long, but I started college recently and have had a ton of work to do. Plus major writer's block.
Sora: So without further ado, here's the final chapter!
"...I defeated Axel," Sora repeated weakly. He felt so tired yet victorious.
Skye smiled. "Dad..." he said.
"I see you've woken up, sleepyhead," said a female voice.
Sora and Skye turned to find Kairi standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. She walked over to the bed and sat next to Skye. "How are you feeling, Sora?" she asked.
Sora used his elbows to prop himself up on his pillows. "Unh...just a little...better," he replied feeling twinges of pain all over his body. "But I should be fine within the next few days. How long was I out of it?"
"Two days," replied Kairi. "Skye just woke up, too, but I think he's fine now."
Skye nodded. He realized that he felt a lot like his old self again.
"I think we should leave you alone, Sora. You need your rest," said Kairi. "Come on, Skye."
"No, Kairi, let Skye stay with me," protested Sora.
Kairi nodded. Without another word, she got up and walked out of the room.
"So what happened after I left?" asked Skye, feeling curious.
"Well, it's a long story, but here goes..." began Sora...
Two days earlier...
Back in the sea, the battle between Sora and Axel was still raging on. Axel opened his hands up and a shiny, black trident lined with purple and green jewels appeared in them.
"Take a look at my trident," he said, swinging the trident around, "Ansem created it especially for me with his own power years before you messed things up. He wanted to make me an apprentice. I would have been next in line to take over the sea after Ansem did it, but all my dreams were crushed no thanks to you!"
He took a swing at Sora with the trident but Sora blocked it with his own. Sora then swung at Axel but he, too, blocked the trident. They began to spar trident to trident. They clanked together, in hopes of hurting one another. Sora hated to hurt people, but this was for the sake of the people he loved.
Suddenly, Axel's trident scraped the skin on Sora's chest. Sora yelped in pain and put a hand to his chest. He saw blood seep out from it. It was a gash that was maybe 14 inches long. He felt a little dizzy and sunk to the ocean floor. His breathing was shallow and heavy.
"Aw, did I hurt the wittle pwince?" asked Axel in a babyish tone. "Your mommy can't save you and nothing else will. Give up now and hand me your trident. It's more powerful than your own mother's!"
Sora turned and looked at the trident in his hand. Indeed, his mother created and gave him the trident as a wedding present. She had combined some of her and Ethan's own powers to create it. There was no way he was going to give this trident up. The sea would be in great danger if he did.
"Never!" he cried.
Axel smirked. "Then you leave me no choice," he said in a calm voice but then rage rose in his voice. "BUT TO KILL YOU!!"
He pointed the sharp end of the trident and was about to stab Sora with it when he felt something piercing into his own chest. He looked down and saw Sora's trident inside his chest. He also felt the end of the trident sticking out of his back. Sora pulled his trident out of Axel, causing him to scream in pain.
Sora smirked. "Looks like I beat you to your own game," he said.
Axel just floated there in disbelief and shock. "You may have won this round..." he began to say but fell to the floor and never got back up.
Sora breathed a sigh of relief. "It's over," he said to himself. He turned around and began to swim back to the shore...
Meanwhile, back at the shore, Riku and Skye were human again. Riku had Skye on his lap, cleaning up his wounds. Sora's mother handed Riku a vial filled with a blue liquid.
"I meant to go see Skye in the hospital to give this to him," she explained. "Give this to him."
Riku, nodded. He took the vial, opened it, and held it to Skye's lips and poured it into his mouth. The passed out boy swallowed it without waking up.
Suddenly, Sora emerged from the water, a human again, wearing nothing but his blue swim trunks. His trident had disappeared. He was able to make it appear and disappear (Hurky: Like you know how he does it with the keyblade). He was bruised all over, including the gash on his chest.
"Sora!" cried Kairi, running to her husband. The queen and Riku (with Skye in his arms) also ran to him.
Sora stopped in his tracks. He cracked a tiny smile. "I did it." he said. Then, he passed out from all his injuries...
Back with Sora and Skye...
Sora lifted up his shirt to check out his wound. It was all bandaged up. Sora put his hand on it and felt a sharp pain come to his chest.
"I'm just glad it's over," he said.
"And I'm happy to have you back!" Skye said.
Sora smiled. "Same here, Skye. I'm glad I have you back." he said.
He yawned and lied back down on his pillows. "I'm going to try and get...more...rest..." he said, drifting to sleep. Finally, he closed his eyes and dozed off. Skye slowly slid off his parents' bed and went to go join his mother...
A month had passed before Sora was nearly back to normal. He spent a week after the battle resting but after that, he was up and walking around. Skye never went back into the ocean. He wasn't quite ready to go back yet. Until one day...
Sora and Skye were walking the shores of the beach one afternoon. Suddenly, Sora brought up the incident from last month.
"Skye, I came very close to losing you," he said.
Skye looked down at his feet. "I know. And I almost lost you, too." he said sadly.
"But I feel like this was all my fault." said Sora.
Skye looked up in surprise. "How?" he asked.
"It was my fault for not telling you about our heritage. The merpeople heritage. I just wanted to protect you from the dangers. Skye, you're my son and I love you very much, but it hurts me on the inside to see you fall into danger." continued Sora. "I should have told you in the first place. The more I forbade you from the ocean, the more you wanted to go to it. You remind me of myself when I was your age. I had wanted to become a human and I never thought about actually becoming one until I fell in love with your mother.
"In order for me to become a human, I had to disobey my own mother and I hated to do that. Believe me, I learned a lesson after my incident with Ansem. I remember how happy I felt when my mother finally let me become a human for good. I don't want to lose you, Skye. I promised myself to do everything I could in my power to protect you from the first time I held you in my arms as a baby to when you're old enough to leave us. I feel so stupid for not doing-"
"-You have done a good job with protecting me," Skye pointed out. "You always told me never to be out alone after dark, never talk to strangers, don't eat any food dropped on the floor and the five second rule is not an exception, and told me the difference between good milk and sour milk..."
"Hey, I had to learn the hard way about sour milk!" Sora said with a laugh. "One of the first things I learned about as a human was that milk doesn't stay good forever. You need to put it in the refridgerator!"
They continued walking. "So I'm going to do this: I'm going to give you the power to morph from a human to a merman." finished Sora.
Skye's eyes lit up. "Really?" he cried excitedly.
Sora nodded.
"Alright!!" cheered Skye, throwing a fist into the air. Then his smile faded. "But then doesn't that mean that you lose that power?"
Sora shook his head. "We can give the power but not lose it. I'll still have my power once I give it to you." he explained. He held out a hand to Skye, who took it. Sora closed his eyes and began to transmit the power to his son. Skye felt a tingling sensation in his arm as the power went from his father to him. Finally, Sora let go. "Let's go for a swim."
Skye pulled off his shirt and immediately ran to the ocean. His father followed with him.
As Sora walked to the water, he thought about the first time he let Skye go into the water when he was just a toddler. It was not too far from where they were now. Skye was wearing those Little Swimmers pants and Kairi held him as she waded out to the water with Sora. Skye was laughing and having fun. He loved the feeling of the cool, clear water all over his little body. Then his parents sat him down on the shore and Skye splashed the water washing all over his lower part of the body. You couldn't get this in a bath.
Sora laughed to himself at that memory. This was just like that time, only Skye was testing out his new power.
"Come on, Dad!" Skye called.
Sora snapped back to reality and looked out to the sea. Skye was already far out.
"Coming, Skye!" he yelled.
His son dove into the water, revealing his fins. Sora grinned and also dove into the water, transforming as he swam to Skye. He finally reached him under the water.
"So, what now, Dad?" asked Skye.
Sora scanned the horizon. Then, he got an idea. "Let me go show you something," he said. "You stayed in my room, right? Let's go head there."
Skye grinned and immediately darted to the west. "I'll race ya!" he yelled.
Sora flicked his tail and followed. He tried to catch up to his son, but he was slower than he thought. When Sora was Skye's age, he was able to swim at lightning speeds, but he was a little slower now that he was in his mid-thirties.
"Slow poke!" teased Skye when his father reached his room.
Sora ignored his son's comment and swam into his old room. He gazed at all the treasures.
"Hasn't changed a bit," he said.
Skye swam in. "So what is it that you wanted to show me, Dad?" he asked.
Sora swam over to a painting of people in a village that was hanging on the wall. "This," he said.
"A painting?" asked Skye.
"No, what's behind it," replied Sora. He moved the painting off the wall to reveal a hole to another room. He swam inside it and Skye followed. There, stood a statue of a girl with short hair about Skye's age, wearing a long gown. She was frozen in a standing position.
"She's pretty, Dad," Skye said in awe. "Who is she?"
"She's your mother." replied Sora.
"Are you serious?" asked Skye.
Sora nodded. "I found it the morning after I rescued Kairi." he said. "You're the first person to see it."
Skye smiled. "I'm so happy you showed me this." he said. "Thanks, Dad."
"You're welcome." said Sora. "Come on, let's go. I know you want to go explore other things."
"Let's go then!!" said Skye, swimming out of the room. Sora laughed...
The End.
Hurky: Yes!! I finally completed a story after a long time!!!
Kairi: That was beautiful.
Riku: Yeah. Glad it's done.
Sora: Hurky would like to thank all her reviewers. Thanks a lot!!