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This is by far my favorite Kingdom Hearts Headcanon I came up with.

Alright y'all. Remember that scene in KH3 in Final World!Sanfransokyo when Sora and Mininort have their confrontation and Mininort's “there's no saving you” line? (If any of yall have stalked my blog...I think you know where I'm going with this...maybe)

Sora has the Master's Defender keyblade at this point right? Canonically he currently wields it after saving Aqua from the Realm of Darkness (even if it does turn into whatever you're currently using).

What if...

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"All that galivanting through the Sleeping Worlds, and yet you learned nothing?" Mininort says with his usual snark.

Sora summons Masters Defender and points it directly at Mininort, stopping the other boy in his tracks.

Mininort's cocky smile disappears instantaneously and his mouth drops.

Mininort looks at Sora and for a split second, he doesn't see Sora's light blue eyes, sparkling with confident determination burning into him. Instead, Eraqus' dark eyes cut into his soul, nearly suffocating him with the disappointment they hold.

He gasps.

"Are you?" Sora asks tentatively.

Mininort shakes his head. "You just, reminded me of someone..."

Sora tilts his head and Mininort gave a small, empty chuckle, regaining his usual demeanor.

Sora saw Mininort's lips moving but his mind couldn't keep up with his words, too preoccupied with Mininort holding out his hand and Sora realizes why the other boy seems so familiar.

He nearly slapped himself for not putting it together. Silver hair glowing in the light, a firm hand holding out to him, a smirk laced in darkness...Sora didn't see Mininort.

He saw Riku back on Destiny Islands, asking Sora to join him to the outside world as Darkness formed around them.

"No..." Sora whispered.

"What are you?" Mininort's voice cut through Sora's daze and he saw the Master's Defender, hanging by his side.

Sora sends away his keyblade and smirks.

"You worried about me, now? Besides, you remind me of someone too."

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Title: “She’d say maybe for 15 years” Word Count: 692 Author’s Note: Let’s see how long of a title I can make

Irene. It hurt.

Zoey was no stranger to pain. Being an elf, she had been around for centuries and that was plenty of time to experience a great amount of suffering and pain. She thought there was nothing worse than being torn from her home. That nothing would compare to the fear and sadness knowing that she couldn’t see her family again. Exiled and forced to walk alone because she had been too curious for her own good.

She was wrong.

Nothing could come close to the numbing pain that came from hearing the words “They’re all...just gone.”

It ate at her from the inside, numbing her to everything. She couldn’t feel sad, she didn’t know how to. She just felt...empty. Like the part of her that had been so essential in everything had just shriveled up and died. Leaving her with nothing in its death. 

So the first night, Zoey never cried once. She held Levin and Malachi tight as the two boys sobbed, knowing mom wasn’t going to be coming back. Not yet.

The night after that when everyone was asleep, she didn’t cry. Staring out at the water remembering countless nights she’d found Aphmau awake and worried about tomorrow. It brought her no sorrow, no joy..it just felt hollow.

She didn’t cry the months following.

The first year, Zoey felt heartless for never shedding a single tear. To many it was unsettling to watch the usually warm elf go cold. When people waved and smiled, she waved back but never smiled. Zoey could only fake a  brave smile infront of her two boys, hoping to hide how empty she felt inside. They were probably never fooled and if they ever noticed that far away look of longing in her eyes, they never mentioned it.

Eventually though, Zoey did have to break. It happened in front of the portal. After about a year Dante and a small group of guards had found a portal. It was only logical for Zoey to assume this is where Aphmau had disappeared. Zoey tried so..so hard to understand how the portal worked but no matter how long she looked at it, no matter how hard she tried...it didn’t make sense.

The forest was so Silent. Too silent. All too quiet for a place where she disappeared

She was gone.

And that was the point in which it hit her. The worst part of all of this was that Zoey couldn’t guarantee that she would ever be coming back. She let out a choked gasp for air, feeling like it’d be her last. She was suffocating in how open the clearing was and her gasps for air started to became sobs.

She was sobbing, and crying, staring at the stupid, awful, horrible, portal before her.

For the first time in a year, she felt something. It was red and hot, and  it burned inside her. Making her shout - no, scream - at the portal. Furious at how she wasn’t be there to change anything. Loud and angry words were tumbling out of her mouth. All her emotions finally bubbling over and making one big mess all at once, until she couldn’t fume and scream anymore. Exhausted with the effort it took to feel so much all at once.

Somehow she’d ended up on her back, remnants of tears marking her face. Clumps of grass and dirt held tightly in her clenched hands. Taking deep breathes watching the clouds move by as she - now at a slower pace - let her emotions find there ways back into her heart. Chasing away the numbness she’d felt for so long.

And She realized behind the anger and sadness, she felt something else.  Love. She hated how she felt more love than anything else. How strongly it was guiding her still, more love than she could handle. Telling her to never stop trying, to keep looking and learning.

Urging her to continue on because if there is a portal then maybe she could get her back and that she could finally turn and look Malachi in the eyes. Confidently saying, “Mom is coming back soon”, so she could lift the boy in the air and hug him tightly. To let him know that no one would be abandoning family on her watch. So she could hold Levin’s hand and tell him “Mom is here.” and mean it.

Love that told her she could do it and that’d she’d do it regardless of the risks. And to be honest. Maybe Zoey would.