(A:N As an author and a person I have my own personality and style so naturally I have my own style of writing. These mean that a person is thinking, " this is when they are talking just so there's no confusion.
Sometimes I can babble on and on but I hope you like my story anyway. By the way in life I'm opposed to swearing but in this story I just can' t help myself! Laughs giddily but becomes serious ahem forgive me the story must go on! Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, cause if I did it would be a whole lot whackier and a lot sadder too, it would also be rated either teen or mature.)
A large black tower stood in the midst of a fiery barren wasteland, the tower was covered thickly in thorny vines that scaled the very tip of the tall monument. No doors lay at the bottom of the tower to allow entrance, in fact the whole tower was completely devoid of any windows or doors save for the one window that lay at the very top.
Inside the top room was a young boy sitting in a tall red chair, much like a throne, white chains on his hands and his feet keeping him immobile. The chains were tied to the walls of the room, ensuring the boy would not escape.
His skin was deathly pale, as if the boy hadn't eaten in days. Long blond hair fell down to the floor with short bangs covering half of his pale face. His eyes were closed, his face giving a sense of peacefulness despite his predicament.
His clothes were a long gray kimono with slits on either side going up to his thighs, black slippers with white cherry blossoms at the tip of each one.
"They're coming master." The boy opened his red eyes looking to the right of him where his servant, Dea, was standing awaiting further orders. A long dark cloak covered him, keeping his appearance hidden in shadow.
"Good. You should be there to greet them, make sure that Saihiri does his job." The boy told him.
"How can you be sure this heartless will follow your orders?" Dea asked him.
"Trust me; he'll have no choice in the matter. I have waited far too long to stop now."
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Chapter one
Of Trains and Dreams
The rain outside seemed to go on forever almost like everything around weighed so great that even the sky wished to bring them down as they rode on the train to Disney kingdom.
Riku hated when it rained it made everything seem so sad and cold and yet when it did he couldn't help but watch the raindrops fall one by one until it stopped; even though it made him unhappy it fascinated him as well.
Lately something about the rain reminded him of something he'd forgotten, he wasn't sure what, but the question constantly bothered him.
Riku turned from staring at the rain to look at Sora his companion who was stretched out haphazardly on the seat across from him sound asleep.
Sora had changed somewhat over the course of a year, he allowed the back of his hair to grow it now went all the way down to his feet and Riku guessed it must've been 4 ft. long now.
Sora kept it in a ponytail so as not to bother him when he was fighting, something he had gotten surprisingly good at but still not good enough to defeat Riku; his face still retained that boyish look, any other person that didn't know him would think he was 13 and not 16.
Yes Sora had changed but not as much as Riku, Riku's hair also grew but not as long as Sora's, he cut it every once in a while in the back so it didn't go too far past his back, the front was long enough it covered his eyes partially but you could still see those striking sea green eyes clearly through his silver tresses.
A lot of other things had changed about Riku as well, mostly to do with the constant dreams he'd been having.
The dream was always of him standing on a pier, situated on the edge of a vast lake. It would be raining in his dream, lightning and thunder striking constantly, but not enough to make him leave.
He'd be soaked through his clothes, freezing, but he still couldn't leave.
He'd look down at his hand and there lay a silver jade pendant, the lightning from the sky would make it shine ever so often making it look even more enchanting than it already was.
And just when he was going to get up he'd feel a tap on his shoulder, and then he'd wake up.
The dream would occur over and over, every night never going past that one point. The strange dreams made him wish he'd have something to keep him busy and take his mind off of them; unfortunately he got his wish in the worst way possible.
Riku knew as well as anyone that a letter from Mickey was hardly ever good.
When they received the letter from King Mickey he had requested they both come to see him as soon as they could, Riku had been excited despite the reason for the visit. Sora had been excited about seeing the little mouse again as well, he was happy despite being wary of the journey they were on and he had reason to be so, the king had sent a letter to Riku that neither Kairi nor Sora knew about.
"Dear Riku, I need you and Sora to be extra careful when you're on the train
to Twilight Town I think there might be someone after Sora but I'm not sure I
can't tell you much for now since I'm still investigating the matter myself,
don't tell anyone who you are and especially don't tell them that you're keybladers.
When you stop in Twilight Town I have a friend there, who knows a friend, who knows
a friend, who knows a friend, that knows a guy there who who's waiting to take you
here he knows who you are so you don't have to worry about finding him. Again be
careful and try to have a nice trip see you and Sora when you get here.
Sincerely, Mickey.
P.S. This is a confidential letter so I trust you can keep a secret I don't
wanna worry Sora."
He smiled softly, thinking about King Mickey always made him smile it really had been too long since he'd seen the little pipsqueak. Donald and Goofy would most surely smother Sora the second he walked through the doors of Disney kingdom, even that didn't deter Sora excitement earlier before he ran out of energy and went to sleep, Sora's words still rung clear in his head, actually the more he thought about it, it seemed more like a song to him.
Flashback Three hours earlier
Sora had practically skipped all the way to the train station like a male Dorothy.
"We're off to see king mickey
the wonder king of Disney, we
hear he is a wonderful king if
ever a king there was, if ever O
a king there was the king mickey is the
one because
because
because
because
because
because
Because of the wonderful things
he does."
"Kairi gave you sugar before we left didn't she?" Riku asked suspicious of his attitude and high energy.
"Only a lollipop" Riku raised his brow disbelieving. "or three and that was all I needed to get myself going." He answered finishing the rest of his last lollipop and throwing the stick in the trash.
"I can't wait to see Donald, and Goofy, and Minnie, and Daisy, and Pluto and especially king Mickey." he said to Riku as they walked to the counter for their tickets.
"Two tickets for Twilight Town please." he asked, the girl working the counter.
He looked towards Sora, who while waiting for Riku was busying himself with seeing how good his balance was by walking on the slim edge of a deep splashing fountain; this particular fountain however had piranhas in it to attract tourists because the fish could change colors so children under 16 were not allowed near it there was a gate that went all around it and a guard at the entrance.
"Sir." she said to him snapping him out of his reverie.
"Here you go sir, your train leaves in exactly 20 minutes." she said handing him the tickets giving him a genuine smile so naturally he smiled back at her and said thank you, and for a second Riku could have sworn she blushed.
He shrugged it off and walked towards Sora who was now spinning in circles on the edge of the fountain while holding his right leg up, silly, but impressive.
Unfortunately for Sora after a while he got dizzy and began to lose his balance. Sora put his right leg down to stop spinning but he was still wavering and flailing his arms to regain his footing, his movements agitated the fish as they began to try jumping out of the fountain, and just when he was about to fall in the water Riku grabbed one end of his jacket in an effort to catch him, this caused his left arm to slip out of his jacket and he ended up dangerously close to falling in but he caught the sleeve in time.
Riku quickly grabbed Sora around his waist and pulled him away from the fountain, Sora however was panting trying to catch his breath looking wide-eyed and absolutely frightened at the deep pool of water he had almost fell into.
"You Okay, Sora?" he asked him.
"Uh-huh." he replied calming little by little, Riku laughed a little at how scared he had been.
"That is why you should never play like that, particularly near piranha infested fountains." Riku scolded him.
"Gomen nasai Riku. So when do we leave?" Sora asked him hastily, He couldn't blame him since he was anxious to leave too.
"We to leave in 10 minutes, we can sit at a bench and wait." They walked out of the gate to a bench nearest to the train they were getting on.
Once they sat down however Sora couldn't keep still, he would tap his foot constantly and twiddle his thumbs, this annoyed Riku to no end and 10 min was growing to feel more like ten hours when finally a female voice boomed over the P.A. system at the train station.
"Now boarding Train 24 to Twilight Town." Saved by the bell Riku thought.
Sora jumped and grabbed his suitcase. "Come on Riku let's go!" Sora said bursting yet again into song. "We're off to see king mickey
the wonderful king of Disney
We hear he is a wonderful king if ever a king there was."
End Flashback
He sighed heavily, his lightly happy mood gone as soon as it came, just when they thought it was all over.
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Sora's P.O.V
As Sora lay down in the compartment to rest he felt his eyes getting heavy, He tried his best to stay awake by shaking his head and rubbing his eyes trying to chase the sleepy feeling away but it was no use, soon he found himself succumbing to sleep hoping and praying he wouldn't have another dream.
His dreams as of late had turned into nightmares.
The dream started out with him in the corridor of a tall tower near a window with Kairi standing across from him, she had a small smile on her face as she looked out the window.
She beckoned Sora over to the window and pointed to the landscape outside, it seemed she wanted him to know just what she found was so amusing.
However when Sora looked he was horrified at what he saw but this only made her smile wider. What Sora could only guess was a forest was now reduced to nothing but ash, the ground scorched, the trees withered away; the entire area had been devastated like someone had sucked the life out of the place and then set it on fire.
When Sora felt a hand caress his cheek he automatically turned but when he looked at her she was no longer herself.
He jumped back startled by the sudden change, but tripped as he did and fell on the floor using his hands to scoot a safer and more further distance to regain his footing.
Once he did he was able to focus more on this new person before him.
This person looked like a replica of him only with different characteristics; the hair on his head was blonde instead of brown and fell behind him going all the way down to his back.
His clothes were a short kimono that went down to his knees with a sleeveless side on his left and one huge sleeve on his right arm that went halfway down to his thigh; the color of the robe was a mixture of dark blue, turquoise, and black. And his eyes, there was almost no way to describe them in place of blue they were blood red; the strange boy tilted his head to the side as he looked at Sora with a positively predatory glint in his eyes.
He started to walk towards Sora and for every one step the boy made Sora took two steps backward.
"Who are you?" Sora asked him but he didn't answer he just smiled and continued with their little game which he knew eventually he would win but Sora was getting irritated.
"I'll ask you again" he said taking out his keyblade, he wasn't 100 sure but he could tell this creature was not human."Who are you?" he asked, this time the boy laughed.
"Silly, do you really think that will stop me?" Suddenly a third arm one that looked transparent and black sprouted out of the boy's back it slipped out of his left side and out the open window.
Sora didn't understand why he was doing this until it was too late, he turned his eyes to the glass window beside him the arm was outside it, he gasped sharply when he saw it, but he didn't have time to react before it broke through shattering the window, glass flying everywhere, and pinned him to the wall.
The arm was obviously much bigger than it had been before for it now covered his entire torso up to his neck, long sharp talons protruding from all five fingers were embedded deeply in the wall effectively keeping him where he was, no matter how hard he struggled to get free.
Finally he stopped to see if the boy was still there surprised to see that he had come much closer to Sora and that they were now face-to-face despite the arm he was still connected to, now that he was closer this boy looked like a scarier version of Roxas with longer tamed hair, the boy gazed at Sora with a look of utter curiosity and wonder.
"Did the massacre outside scare you?" he asked him for a second Sora thought he sounded almost concerned but he could tell he wasn't. Sora couldn't find any way to answer, he just stared at him oblivious as to why he would he ask such a question.
"I did that." He carried on as if what he had done to this place was unimportant; "As you can see I'm--" He paused to playfully trace one of the talons on the hand that kept Sora prisoner. "--Not exactly human. I've never met a keyblade master before that was so young, what's your name?" he asked mocking Sora.
"My name is Sora now let me go!" he shouted, his voice echoing throughout the hall, the boy chuckled slightly stepping away from Sora .
"But that's no fun." He whined, pouting slightly.
"I'm not your playtoy." he retorted.
"You might think so, but in my world anything that exists is my playtoy. I can bend the very fabric of reality any way I wish; but oddly enough you don't seem to be effected by it, that means--" He started walking to sora again putting his hands on either side of Sora's shoulders. "You must have entered as the twilight in my orb, that's why the shield is falling apart."
"The twilight? Shield?" Sora said confused yet again, "Wait just a minute what are you talking about? What orb?"
"You'll understand soon enough Sora but not now, I'll see you another time and when I do you may call me Maldeo (A:N Pronounced Mal-Dey-O)." As soon as Maldeo had finished the hand holding him began to push him into the wall, and Sora thought it might crush him but the walls turned into something like dark quick-sand and he started sinking in slowly.
"No, no stop!" he said struggling to get free before he was completely under.
"Goodbye Sora." He said with a smirk on his face, his name seemed to echo in his mind as he sank into the wall.
Sora by now was panting from exhaustion and he felt himself getting weak no longer able to struggle anymore, starting to feel hopeless, he was now completely submerged in darkness. Sora could still hear the voice saying his name, as he listened he noticed it was now Riku calling out his name over and over it calmed him a little.
"Sora, you gotta wake up." he told him.
But I can't, I'm stuck Riku.
"Come on Sora wake up." Riku told him again.
Sora closed his eyes, and tried concentrating on Riku's voice. He could hear it getting closer so he was sure he was starting to wake up, he could feel someone shaking him but it was a numb feeling like he wasn't in his own body, so he tried harder and got closer; now he could hear Riku's voice clearly so he began to open his eyes and when he did he saw Riku standing over him, he blinked his eyes twice to make sure what he was seeing was real and not the dream.
"Riku!" he exclaimed grabbing him in a bone crushing hug, Riku for his part was now very confused.
"Are you ok?" he asked Sora hesitantly.
Sora released him from his death-grip, and pondered for a second if he should tell Riku about the dream but when he saw the look of concern on Riku's face he decided against it, Later he told himself Riku has more important things to think about other than my dreams.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Sora said hurriedly "I just was happy to see you is all." Riku furrowed his eyebrows in a way that told Sora he didn't fully believe what he was saying, so Sora changed the subject.
"Sooo, I know this is really cliche' but are we there yet?"
"Yeah, that's why I woke you up we have to get off the train." Riku said handing him his bag.
"Hmm, that was quick." Sora said to him as they walked out of the compartment and off the train.
"Quick? Sora, you were asleep for 9 hours." He told him.
"Really wow 9 hours sure fly by fast when you're sleeping." Riku laughed.
"Alright now, first thing to do is find a hotel to sleep in for the night then tomorrow we can start searching for this guy we're supposed to meet." Riku started walking to look with sora trailing behind, Twilight Town was different at night then it was in the day, the alleys and buildings around seemed darker than normal and the rain only added to the strange feeling that lingered in the air.
"Haha." Faint laughter caught Riku's attention, he turned to his right and saw a boy in an alley, his back leaning on a building just a few feet away from them. His red eyes stared intently at them, a small smile on his face. His long raven black hair fell behind his back in a ponytail that reached to his knees.
He wore a short white kimono decorated with black cherry blossoms at the bottom ends, and on each sleeve; strapped to his feet were traditional japanese sandals with strings that laced up to his thigh on each leg. Such odd clothing. Riku thought.
"And just who might you be?" Riku asked the boy.
His smile grew wider. "An old friend."
Sora realized something was strangely familiar about this boy, in fact he looked just like the other one. But this one seemed different, somehow not as frightening or malicious.
Riku smirked."Funny, I don't remember you."
"It was a long time ago, I'm not surprised you don't." The boy replied as he walked into the street light so that they could view him better. Riku now noticed the katana on the boys' right hip, much like his clothes, the sheath was white with black cherry blossoms.
"What's with the sword?"
"Hahaha, you ask an awful lot of questions very strange."
"What I find strange is how you're avoiding my question." Riku retorted.
"Don't worry Seiya, I have nothing to hide." He replied. A look of surprised immediately came across his face, that name sounded familiar.
"What did you call me?"
"Hmph, something for you to think about." He turned back toward the alley and started to walk away.
"Hey! Come back here and answer me!" Riku shouted.
"You need no answers for that question from me, as for the sword it's for protection. There are dangerous things here and they always come out at night. I'd be careful if I were you." And with that the strange boy was gone just as soon as he'd come.
"Hey Riku what was that about?" Sora asked the elder boy.
"I'm not sure." He replied.
The two sighed simultaneously, and kept on walking as the rain began to pour down harder.
They walked for a long while what Riku could only guess was probably an hour when he started to feel as if something was wrong.
A chill ran through Riku causing him to shiver slightly making Sora ask if he was alright, he nodded yes but Sora could see something was wrong.
Suddenly Riku stopped in his tracks, and Sora not paying much attention walked straight into him.
"What is it Riku?" he asked him, but he didn't answer so sora tried to look over Riku's shoulder and the only thing he saw was some person in a cloak standing no more than 5 ft. away from them, in the darkness of night Sora couldn't make out a face but he could clearly see the person was staring at them.
Riku unfortunately had a pretty good idea who it might be, but still in the back of his mind he prayed he was wrong.
Don't do anything Riku just leave him alone. He grasped sora's arm and tried to backing away this didn't seem to bother the person, but when he heard a dull thud behind him he turned to find someone just like the other one but not as tall standing behind them as well, Oh no. now they had no way out.
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I hope that wasn't too confusing or boring for anyone, I'm gonna type the next chapter and put it up as soon as I can but I gotta know what you think about so please R/R I beg of you.
Kingdom Hearts RULES!