Chapter 1: Devil of the Seas

AU: hey RedHawk09 here. I am a huge fan of Kingdom Hearts, always have been always will be! That being said, I respect the original story and will not rewrite Kingdom Hearts history, or guess at the future. However, I have one problem with KH, why introduced a badass character like Roxas, and made him dissapear forever!? That upsets me a lot considering he technically could be the seventh light they need. Anyway, a little background about this story. The setting is a mix of modern and olden days, namely the weapons will resemble modern day weapons, mixed with olden weapons, and a dawn of steampunk. I will keep the power of the Keyblades in this story, because hey they're kickass weapons. With that in mind, please noted that Sora is still the chosen Master of Light, Riku of Dawn, but Xion is also a Master of light, and Roxas...well I'll let you guys read and find out for yourselves. Also Sora won't be as oblivious as he usually is. Also I may not be able to update as often as I'd like due to college searching. Sorry. Also I'm writing this on my iPhone, just thought I should point that out.

Anyway Enjoy.

(Entry No. 1)
I awoke from a nearly sleepless night, once again. It wasn't even 5am yet and already my body and mind were up. With my eyes still closed I silently curse my body, and what ever power sought to play with me. Sleep had become increasingly difficult to obtain these days. And whatever sleep I could claim, for these past eleven months, have brought me nothing but torturous nightmares. And it had gotten much worse in the last three months. They are more than nightmares actually, haunting memories that I cannot and will not let go. At least not yet. Not until I fix this.
My name is name is Roxas Heart, captain of The Thirteenth Moon, infamous pirate, wielder of the Oblivion, and former Prince of the Twilight Destiny Kingdom. Which is now, regrettably, under the control of my black hearted uncle, and heartless older brother Vanitas. Vanitas! Now there's a man I'd happily kill without a second thought. I know it seems evil to want to end your own brothers life. But believe me, once you, whoever you by any chance be, you will understand why.
I didn't always hate my older brother mind you. In fact he and I were quite close. Considering that out of a family five siblings, he and I both had the same "problem." Our family was not like others, besides being royalty I mean, for each Heart that has ever been born has had the power to wield a Keyblade. A powerful weapon, a helpful one and a dangerous one at that. Now our family is not the only ones capable of wielding these weapons, there are others. They ranged from royalty, knights, civilians, hell even criminals can wield keyblades. How you may ask? Well a Keyblade chooses it's master, and it makes that choice based off how strong it masters hearts is. Yeah, I know, crazy right?
Anyway, Vanitas and I had the same problem that none of our siblings had. We had darkness in our hearts, well more than your average person. This only became obvious when we first summoned our blades, it did not go well. You see a Keyblade takes it shape based on its wielder heart. When Vanitas summoned his, it looked demonic, something straight out of hell. As if the blade was made of the skelton of some metallic monster. And MINE! Mine looked like it followed my brothers, except it looked like the key to hell's gate. Oblivion, black blade, that looked like death in the form of a sword. My father was not entirely pleased by this, for us, HIS CHILDREN, to produce these evidence of black hearts, meant that he could possibly lose us.
In our Kingdom, it was customary for those with dark Keyblades to be removed. They would be sent packing and sent to another kingdom or island that found a balance of light and darkness. But our father loved us, as did our two other brothers, and little sister. Sora, Ventus, and Xion. Sora is my twin brother (though it's easy to tell us apart), Ventus is Vanitas's twin (also easy to tell apart), while Xion is my younger sister...by a week. No idea how that happened.
At first we both wanted to try and rid ourselves of our dark blades and embrace the warmth of the light. For me that never changed, but something changed in Vanitas. After spending a month living with our Uncle Xhenort, he had changed. He became more violent, and more dark.
At first I paid little attention to it. I thought he was upset that we still hadn't rid ourselves of our dark blades. But I was wrong, and my family and kingdom now pay the price. My uncle turned Vanitus completely to the darkness. And had Vanitus aid him in taking the throne from our father. He help uncle kill our father and mother. They would have killed Sora, Xion, and me, had it not been for Ven. Ven fought off our brother and uncle, to give the three of us a chance to escape. We may have been royalty, but we we were trained how to fight like master swordsmen, including Xion.
We escape by stealing our Navy's newest and fastest ship. The Thirteenth Moon. We had only our loyal and most trusted friends with us, we found a new crew for the Thirteenth Moon, and then we became pirates. That's all you need to know about me.
Also whoever gets this, know this. This is my first and last entry, because should I die washed up on some foreign, my last wish is that you help free the the Kingdom of Twilight Destiny. In anyway shape or form.

(Namine POV)
I lazily woke up, in the kind familiar comfort of my white bedroom. Silently glad that my parents were very wealthy, even if they did demand an awful lot from me, especially these days. I silently wished that my younger twin sister, Kairi was the one my parents had set high standards for. She is much more social than I am. But my sister has fallen ill as of late, and our 19th birthday had pasted merely a few weeks ago, and to my parents that meant one thing. Time for me to get married!
I looked for my mirror, and sighed, and gave a weak smile to myself. Even though I am alone i really need the push. A year ago my obvious choice would have been one of the Princes from the Twilight Destiny Kindgom, that was one of the benefits of being a princess of the small Radiant Garden Kingdom. Although we have never met any of them, our Kingdoms were on the best of terms, and had similar ways of ruling. But ever since the coup attack, only one of the Princes remained, and from what I have heard he has a heart as black as coal. I have hopes that the other Princes had survived, but no one had heard from them in almost a year. I sighed heavily, knowing that in a matter of moments my parents will be here to ask me go over a new possible husband.
Ugh, times haven't changed! Shouldn't arraigned marriages against the law or something? Sometimes I wish I was pirate!

(Roxas POV)

After looking over the page I had just written in, I closed the thin, red leathered book. I removed myself from my desk and fetched my clothes. My foot steps lightly echoing off my ships deck, I almost missed the feel of the warmth my old rooms carpet would provide me. I shook my head before more painful memories could come forth, luckily for me, it worked. I sighed, and reached for my clothes. Retrieving my grey cargo pants, checkered belt, black combat boots, my black tank top, placing my sleeveless black vest on top, and finally my black hooded trench coat. I wore this attire no matter what the weather would be like. Keeping my identity a secret was beyond important! Not just for my sake. For my brother and my sister's sakes! Hell even for my crews sake.
I try not to think about the reason why, as I finally put on my trench. I then move back to my desk, grabbing the book, and placing it into the pocket inside my coat.
Recently, we had come across a deadman adrift at sea, the only thing we found on him was notebook, instructing whoever found him how he wanted his remains handle. As terrible as this seemed, I thought it was quite useful. So I decided to get a notebook from the last merchant we found. So I had written my death wish, god forbid it is actually read.
A knock at my door, takes me out of my train of thought. I sigh, knowing that was most likely my first or second mate. I silently clear my throat.
"Come in," I calmly but firmly said. The door opened revealing Sora, accompanied by Xion, both wearing the same concerned expression. Of course they tried to hide it with hollow smiles, but their eyes told me of their concern. "So what's got ya two so worried, this time?"
I lean against my desk with my arms cross, and a monotoned expression. Xion stays quiet and looks to Sora, who coves his mouth with his hand, as he coughs nervously. They were hiding something.
"Well Zexion just intercepted a message from the Dark Navy," he said slowy, "And it looks like, they're planning on attacking Radiant Garden. But they didn't specify a date. What do you want to do?" My expression dropped from neutral, to anger and determination. Radiant Garden, was perhaps one of the most beautiful islands I have ever seen. Now although they had a strong military, it would be nothing compared to what my uncle would send after them. There were little to no Keyblade wielders there, and that could be the cause of their demise.
"Tell the men to set course to Radiant Garden!" I coldly said, "We won't let what happened to our home happen to theirs. Now go!" And with that they left my room in a hurry. I walked I over to my wooden chest, to retrieve my weapons. I didn't care how slim of a chance there being an attack, we are going to help to defend them. And there is also the slim chance, that Vanitus is leading the attack. Along with the chance to get avenge or find Ven. I pull out two Sparrow revolvers, a small dagger, and a set of throwing knives, placing them into their respected holsters in my coat.
I began to head towards the door, thoughts of fighting Vanitus filling my head. I stopped when I head the unmistakable sound my weapon summoning itself. I slowly shift my sight down to my right hand, seeing Oblivion is there is my hand. Reminding me that I may be no different from my older brother, that I too could fall into darkness. I push the doubts that followed aside. I have heard of many dark key bares that fight for side of good. I silently pray that I might have the strength of those wielders. Because if I don't...well they don't call me the 13th Devil for nothing.

(Sora's POV)

After telling the crew to set sail for Radiant Garden, I leaned over the rail of the ship and watched the ocean go by, then I felt a shiver to up my spine. I only got these whenever Roxas summoned his Keyblade. Somehow, he and I are more connected then people know. It probably has something with us being twins, but I don't know. It always pained me that Roxas's Keyblade belong to the darkness, and it had nothing to do with disappointment. It was because of how much it pained him, after his first summoning, he worked harder than any of us, to prove himself. I had always tried to be there, but he is a very private person. I have noticed that as off late he looks more tired than usual, so did Xion. And we were starting to worry about him. But Xion is scarred of our brother, whether she'll admit or not, she is afraid of the dark in his heart. I'm not though. Even if his heart has darkness, I know that there is a light there. He just hasn't seen it yet. I hope he sees it.
"Sora!" I heard a voice shout out my name, I smile, i didn't need to see who it was. I'd recognize the voice of my best friend, Riku. I turned my head with my usual happy smile, he's climbing down from the birds nest. He returns my smile with his trademark grin.
"I thought we were heading to Travers Island?" He asked me, "What changed Roxas's mind?" I felt myself frown, Riku, much like me and Xion, knew a lot about my brother. Especially his "secret" vendetta against our brother and uncle.
"We intercept a message from the Dark Navy," I told him, his grin dropped, "They're planning to attack Radiant Gardens, at some point. Roxas has no desire to let that happen. So as a precaution, we're heading there to offer our aid." Riku knew all to well of the darkness in my brothers heart, and the dangers it presented. You see Riku himself fell into darkness, but for the right reasons. He wanted to protect his family, his darkness granted him a Keyblade. But eventually he became lost in the darkness, so with the help of Xion, we brought him back to the light.
After we rescued him, his Keyblade did not fade away, if anything it changed its form. At first it looked like a black and red bat wing with and evil eye. Now it had clouds at the tip, and angle and devil wings now surrounded the handle. He told me it's name was The Way To Dawn.
This is why I knew Roxas could over come the darkness in his heart. Riku was saved so then that meant that Roxas could too. A frustrated groan from Riku brought me out of my thoughts.
"Please don't tell me that he's hoping for revenge!" He stated more then asked. I gave him a shrug, because I honestly didn't know. My brother is a mystery to us all. Riku, just shook his head, angrily, and started to walk away.
"I'll go have a chat with him then," he calmly stated, "Ya know set him straight." And with that he walked off, were it anyone else, I would have tried to stop him. But Riku is practically unstoppable, and knows what he's doing so I didn't try. I lowered my head, shook it, and sighed. I looked up and noticed my sister on the deck above me, her head following Riku. I smiled, I had always know that Xion liked Riku, which is why I asked for her help when saving Riku. Plus, I know for a fact that Riku likes her. Kinda wish the two would admit their feeling for each other and get it over with for christ sakes. I chuckled and walked towards my quarters.

Will Roxas give in to his darkness? Will Riku be able to talk sense into him? Will Namine's wish come true? The answers to are not that far off in the distance. Stick around for chapter 2 hopefully coming sometime later this month. I'd like to say sorry for how slow this chapter is, but I always like get some of the boring stuff out of the way, mainly the backstory and get everything ready for the action. Anyway review, follow, fav, do something to let me know what you guys think of this chapter. And leave suggestions for this story, because your feedback and ideas can help shape this story. Later!