Sadistic-neko: Hey everybody! I hope y'all are doing well. This is my first Kingdom Hearts fic so I hope I don't disappoint anybody! Oh, and to those that are following me as an author, I promise that I'll get another chap of Tou-san up soon. This story was clawing away at my brains demanded to be set free and I've been so busy lately that typing has been the last thing on my mind.
Axel: You talk a lot don't cha?
Sadistic-neko: Only when I feel that I need to. (eyes suspiciously) Axel, you can create fire on your own so why are you playing with my incense lighter.
Axel: Because it makes you look like your house is already on fire.
Sadistic-neko: (glares then makes surprised face) Omg! There's Roxas sitting suggestively on a counter in nothing but his underwear! And he's eating sea-salt icecream!
Axel: (turns head quickly in indicated direction) Where!
Sadistic-neko: (knocks redhead out with a random bat, steals back lighter and lights some dragon's blood) That better teach him to mess with me because I'm short. (Turns to readers) Sorry for the violence on such an amazing character. I had to show him his place before he really did light my house on fire. I hope you understand. Well, I don't own Kingdom Hearts and I hope that you enjoy my newest story!
Drip, drip. I ignored the sound as best I could, holding my twin, Sora, close to me. It was hard. The cold was distracting enough as we sat there shivering in the rainy night all alone. We winced when, out of nowhere, a bright light was shining on us.
"Oh my god. Cloud, get over here!" I heard yelled just before exhaustion took over.
The sun was too bright. In an effort to escape it, I pulled my blanket over my face. With a sigh of content as welcomed darkness surrounded I began to drift off again.
"Roxas! Sora!" one of our guardians, Leon, yelled from the bottom of the stairs. "If you don't get down here now you won't have enough time eat before you have to leave!"
At first I was just going to ignore him and sleep until he or our other guardian, Cloud, came up and dragged me out by my ankles. Those plans changed in a heartbeat as I caught a whiff of Leon made. It was my second strongest addiction, blueberry pancakes.
Without a second thought, I leaped out of bed and threw some clothes, surely putting something or another on wrong. I think I broke a record, beating my brother down stairs and skidding to a stop as Leon, or as Sora and I affectionately called him, mom, put the first of the pancakes on a plate. I was practically jumping in my seat as he put it in front of me. Waiting for the syrup to run onto the wonderful breakfast pastries was the only thing that slowed me down. I lifted my head as I heard a deep chuckle right across the table from me.
"You seem well this morning." I swallowed, nearly choked on the huge mouthful, down half of my juice and practically slammed my glass down before looking back up to grin and nod at my adoptive father.
My family really was a piece of work. Cloud was a perfect example of that. The tall blonde man's appearance wasn't even the half of it. His hair defied gravity and there had been times that I swore that his deep blue eyes glowed. Sure, most people were scared of him when they met him, what with his obsession with black and almost emotionless face, but he really was a cool guy. At that moment, though, he wore a white t-shirt and worn jeans, his typical attire for a day at the construction site he worked at.
Leon, on the other hand, was a bit more normal looking. Well, of you ignored the long scar that went in a diagonal line between his eyebrows and across his nose. It wasn't that it was ugly or anything. If anything it enhanced the appeal of his brunette hair that went to his mid back and storm grey eyes. I wasn't even kidding when I told him that was pretty once when I was younger. There were plenty of locals at the bar he tended that would say the same thing.
Personality wise, they were almost the same. Both were so antisocial that it was a miracle for most people to get five words out of them. Sora and I couldn't see it, but we heard other people talking about and had encountered it in public settings. They both were so alike sometimes that it would seem impossible for them to love each other as much as they did. Sure, they had their fair share of fights, but what couple didn't?
Sora and I were in a whole other ball field. We looked bizarrely like them and I was almost as quiet as Cloud. Like him, I also had ridiculously spiked blonde hair that flowed in one direction and blue eyes. Some called me emo, but I just thought that I was a bit of a wallflower. It wasn't like I cut myself and wore ridiculous amounts of make-up and black. Hell, my favorite thing to wear was black and white checkered patterns, like my wrist bands. I could kinda see how they might raise a little suspicion, but I didn't really care anymore.
Sora was the hyper one. It only took him two seconds after waking up to be bouncing like a five year old on sugar. His eyes were the same shade as mine and he had slightly less spiky brunette hair. Everyone on our island loved him.
Cloud and Leon found us thirteen year prior on the streets shivering in the cold. Even though they were struggling to get by themselves considering that it seemed like they showed out of nowhere to all of the islanders, they took us in. There was argument that they were the greatest people in the world, even if they didn't believe, especially Cloud.
"You guys ready to spend the day with Cloud?" Leon asked as he sat down with a cup of coffee and some of his own pancakes. We nodded eagerly, trying not to choke on the food crammed into our overly stuffed mouths. It was the first day that we were going to be able to work with our father figure. It was only small things like handing people tools and carrying some of the smaller things, but we couldn't be happier to help.
"What are you going to do today? Isn't it your day off?" he paused for a moment, considering his lover's question.
"I think I'll just stay here and get some cleaning done. If I wait any longer to wash the boys' clothes they'll be solid grime." His face barely changed, but we could all see the light of amusement in both of their eyes. "Well, you all better get going."
"We'll get out as soon as we can." Cloud stood from his chair, Sora and I following his lead, and gave Leon a brief peck before heading out the door, hand raised and waving lazily. "See you when we get home."
"Bye mom!" my twin and I yelled as we ran to catch up with the elder blonde's long strides.
"Whew!" I wiped the sweat off of my brow as I put the lumber I was carrying down by the worker that had requested it. Man was it hot out!
"Thanks kid," the burly man said lifting one of the pieces up one-handed easily.
"No problem." I looked up searching for Cloud. It was getting pretty close to lunch time and he said that he would meet with us so we could eat together. I was slightly shocked when I found him. He was carrying three times the amount of weight in steel beams on each arm. I knew he was strong, he would have to be to get our hardheaded mom to listen to him, but wow.
"Sora!" he yelled, "What did I tell you about going near the heavy equipment!"
"Sorry dad!" the hyper brunette called back. "One of the men asked me get the tool kit he left."
"Just be careful." He let out a sigh, obvious thinking about the incident from earlier that day. The main reason he wasn't supposed to be around the huge machines was for his safety but everyone else's and the machine's. He had gone up on one to hand the operator a bottle of water and, being the epic klutz he was, tripped. In the progression of his fall, he banged the operator on the head with the bottle, hit several buttons and jerked the wheel. Needless to say, mayhem broke out and the machine almost toppled over. It was a good thing the boss was a good person or Cloud would have lost his job on the spot. "Let's go eat boys."
"Food!" We bolted past him towards the office where cold water and yummy Leon made food awaited us.
We all sat in silence, too much in bliss from the food created heaven. Leon had to be the best cook in the world. That wasn't the case when he first took us in, but man did he get good. I looked up at my other guardian and noticed something odd. After spending all of that time in the heat and carry all of that absurdly heavy stuff and it didn't look like he broke much of a sweat. Sora and I hadn't done any near as much work and we were drenched.
I was about to ask, but I was interrupted before the words could form by a sound that was sure to give me nightmares for months. It was a pain filled scream that froze my blood in my veins. A shiver went down my spine as a chilling, foreboding feeling come over me. It as if something awful and unnatural was waiting for us right outside the door. I felt as though a monster was breathing down my neck.
"Cloud?" I barely was able to squeak out. "What was that?"
Almost seeming unfazed by the sound, he looked out the window and Sora and I joined him. What met our sight was thousands of black creatures with glowing yellow eyes attacking all of the workers. Had the other blonde not have cover both my and Sora's mouths, we would have screamed as one was attack and a crystal heart flew out of him. I was shocked speechless as he turned into one of those horrible monsters. The only thing that kept me from staying in that stunned state until it was too late was the hand being removed and its owner growling fiercely.
My panicked gaze flew to Cloud and I surprised to find his eyes literally glowing. They were an almost radioactive blue burning hotter than any flame I had ever seen. Never had I seen him so enraged. It was then that he pulled his phone out of his pocket and hit a number on his speed dial. All this time he was dragging us away from the window with a painfully tight grip on our arms.
"Their here," was all he said when the other end picked up. It had to be Leon. "They're fine. Yeah, I'll get them there soon, just have First Tsurugi ready when I get there. Load Lionheart, I have a feeling that it won't be long before they get there."
With that, he slammed his phone shut and gave us his most demanding look. There was no question that whatever he was about to was to be heeded with no exceptions. This was serious and he would be damned if we didn't know it.
"I'm going to break the window and distract those monsters. We don't have enough time to run through the building to escape so we'll jump through the window…"
"But," I interrupted, knowing full well that we were on the fourth floor of the building we were in. if we jumped out that window we would end up flatter than the pancakes we ate that morning.
"No buts!" My eyes widened. That had to be the first time I had ever heard the normally calm, aloof man yell. "We are going through the window. As soon as I break you two are to grab onto and hold on as tight as you can. If you fall off you'll be in danger. Do you understand me?"
We both nodded erratically, to afraid to do anything else. This was a side of Cloud that we had never seem and we didn't know what he would do if we upset him.
"Good, now grab hold and don't let go." He kneeled down to let us climb on his broad back and we gripped onto his shoulders for dear life. It was tight, in fact, that my knuckles turned white. Once sure that we wouldn't fall off, he lifted himself effortlessly and turned toward the window. After one glance around, he raised his right arm, palm parallel to the wall the window was housed. "Firaga!"
As if enough weird things hadn't already happened, a humongous fireball flew from his hand and completely incinerated the wall. Without missing a beat or waiting for the flames dissipate, he sprinted toward the carnage and leapt.
I swore my heart stopped for a moment as we sailed through the air and plummeted to the ground. Terror overrode me to the point that I couldn't even scream. I did let out a nervous laugh though when we landed with barely a jolt and the insane man we were on bolted off of the construction cite to our house.
The trip went by impossibly fast. There was no way that any normal human could run the speed that Cloud was going. Buildings, trees, everything became nothing but an indistinct blur. Somehow, though, his breathing didn't change once. It was almost like he was taking a leisurely walk!
By the time we reached our home it was surrounded by the same creatures and I thought that nothing more bizarre could happen. Woo boy was I wrong. That was proven to me when we got close enough to Leon fighting with a huge sword that had a gun barrel on it. The thing looked like it weighed as much as Sora and me combined but he was swinging it around like it was nothing with but one hand.
"Cloud!" he cried out as soon as he spotted us, taking out at least ten monsters with one pass of his blade. "First Tsurugi is on the porch!"
He nodded, practically bulldozed through the sea of black that extended about as far as I could see and dropped us on the porch. I was about to reflexively snap but the words got caught in my throat as he picked a blade that was three times as large as the scarred man's.
"Stay here. Leon and I will fend them off. Do not let even one foot leave this porch!" With that turned around and surveyed our surroundings before yelling out to his lover and leaping an unnatural height into the air. He hovered in the air for a moment, began glowing and came down spreading his light and a shockwave everywhere obliterating everything around it. His aim was perfect considering that it stopped mere inches from the building we were hiding on.
After that point I couldn't tell you what happened. Everything became hazy from the confusion and adrenaline coursing through me. I could see all that was going on near me and yet it was also blinding. The only thing I was aware of was how my two guardians were beginning to wear out and that one of those creatures had gotten past them and was heading right for my brother an me. We both lifted our arms above our heads, trying to defend ourselves at least a little once we realized that there was no way that either adult would be able to get to us in time to save us. Just before it hit us, a blaringly white light filled the area and everything seemed to stop.
When the stars left everyone's eyes, Cloud and Leon looked at us in shock. Both my brother and I were holding some unusual key shaped weapons. Sora had only one. Its base was like a bottom of the typical house key and was yellow while the blunt looking blade extended and had a flat piece at the end that looked like a crown shape had been cut out of it.
I, on the other hand, had two. They were exact opposites of each other. One was white, with slight traces of blue and orange, and had multiple bars for the main part of it. The protrusion that made it resemble a key was much more intricate than on Sora's with multiple elegant twists in the metal. The other one was black and its blade had the appearance of a chain that had its links welded together. Like Sora's, the end piece was fairly solid.
"Keyblades," Leon muttered in disbelief. Before I could respond another of the monsters came up from the ground below me. Panicking, I swung one of the blades that magically materialized in my hand and was surprised when the black thing vaporized as the strange blade hit it.
"Wh-what's going on?" Sora screamed in fear. He never got an answer, for it was at that very time that a black cloud descended upon us and everything went black.