I felt like starting a new story in one of my favorite game series of all time, Kingdom Hearts, starring my favorite character from said series, Roxas. I've seen a similar idea to this done twice before where Roxas gets shipped off into the past, but I hope that my own twist on the concept makes this interesting for you. For the record Roxas will have a harem in this story. Put down your pitchforks, I don't have any grand reason for this but I feel that Roxas deserves it for being screwed over by cannon at almost every turn, hell, just look at everything that leads up to that last day of summer vacation. I digress, this story will start at Roxas' defeat in Kingdom Hearts II and will then get flung to Birth by Sleep and the story will follow as normal from there. The first part of this chapter has a few exerts from my friend TheUnknownUser2's story "Keys of DxD" with his permission, I also can't describe Keyblades for the life of me so if you don't know what they look like, please google them.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of their partner's characters, worlds or series.
"Talking"
-Written Words-
"Thinking"
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"Looks like I'm back here eh?" a male voice spoke as he took in his surroundings "Dammit! Why can't I just be me? Why do I have to be Sora? Why can't I just leave?" he continued, hating the fact that he'd returned to his Somebody, his other half, Sora, and was now floating in the darkness that was nothingness for the second time.
The boy who had been speaking appeared to be around 16 years old with blonde hair that was spiked at the front in a way that seemed to ignore gravity while the back of it was messy but relatively flat and deep cobalt blue eyes. His clothing consist of a beige short sleeved jacket, which was left open, with a red interior while the outside had two rings of checker print around the shoulders and under the armpit. The jacket reached until just above his abs which along with the rest of his chest was covered by a black sleeveless vest with the Nobody symbol attached to the zipper. As for pants he's wearing gray slacks that were the same beige as his jacket below the knees. He was also wearing black trainers with red laces.
Now you may be wondering what the difference between a Somebody and a Nobody is. Well a Nobody is what you get when a Somebody loses their heart. Nobodies are supposedly incapable of feeling emotions.
"Roxas…" a male voice called from the abyss.
The boy now identified as Roxas 'stood' up straight "Who's there?" he shouted.
The voice just laughed "hehe, well, that's a good question isn't it? You don't know me, but my name's Ven… I'm surprised you can hear me though" the voice said.
"What do you mean?" Roxas asked while trying to find the speaker.
The voice, identified as Ven, chuckled again "Well, no one else in Sora's heart has ever been able to hear me, not even Sora himself. Although, you really should stop trying to find me… I'm not actually here, only my heart is… but that's a story you'll learn soon"
Roxas raised an eyebrow at what Ven said at the end "What do you mean by that?"
Ven's voice resounded once again "You'll see, but first I think you should look down"
Seeing no reason to distrust the voice Roxas did exactly that and saw that he was now standing on a large, circular, white and black platform that was in the shape of a Yin-Yang, completely balanced between the two colors.
The blond cast his eyes around, trying to decipher what the platform was. He knew it wasn't Sora's heart because he's seen that before and it did not look like this, no this was something else and it was confusing him "Where are we?" he asked.
Ven was silent for a moment "Well Roxas, just summon your Keyblades and you'll see…" he said.
Seeing no reason not to, Roxas called Oath Keeper and Oblivion to his hands, gazing upon them fondly.
He had only learned about them on the last day before he got locked away in the fake Twilight Town but they were still crucial parts of who he is. The Keyblades of light and darkness definitely had a different meaning for Sora, but to him they were a representation of Axel and… someone… it still hurt his head whenever he thought about the white Key in his left hand.
As soon as Roxas finished admiring Keyblades the ground beneath him scattered upwards like a rose, filling the void with the white and black petals. It was so bright that Roxas had to cover his eyes, and when he uncovered them he was in awe at what he saw.
The platform he was standing on now looked like a stained glass image split in two with Twilight Town as the top half, and The World That Never Was as the bottom half, as its background. The outside of the platform was now styled with the roman numerals for one to thirteen set at an equal distance from each other around the edge. Towards the bottom left of the platform there was a set of three circles in which laid the faces of Axel, Sora and an unknown black haired girl.
Towards the top right there was another set of circles though this time with five of them. Curiously enough, Roxas only knew the identity of one of the faces in this set. The faces were of an ocean blue haired girl with beautiful blue eyes who was smiling softly, a wavy pink haired girl with light teal eyes whose face was stoic, a fiery red haired girl, who seemed familiar, with cerulean blue eyes and was smiling brightly, a girl with silver hair that's covering her left eye leaving only her right eye showing, which was a piercing red, her face belaying little emotion, and a blonde haired girl with cerulean blue eyes and was also happily, this was Naminé's face.
It was after observing this that Roxas finally looked down, he had already determined that this was somebody's platform of heart, now he just needed to see whose.
"Wha-what?" to say Roxas was surprised would have been an understatement. There, falling out of the coat he wore in the Organization into his current attire, with Oath Keeper and Oblivion in hand, was Roxas himself.
Ven full out laughed at the supposed Nobody's reaction "Ha ha! That's right Roxas, this is your heart. You've always had one, it just wasn't quite strong enough yet. But now…" he said, trailing off at the end.
Roxas continued to stare at the platform in silent awe until Ven spoke again "Now then, I have a reason for bringing you here," he began "Roxas, I'm going to send you back in time" he said.
Roxas cleared his ears with his little finger, "I'm sorry, you're going to have to say that again. I thought I heard you say that you're going to send me back in time"
Ven chuckled "No, you heard me right, I'll be sending you back in time… well I guess it's better to say I'll be sending you to another timeline. That way you'll be able to interact with the world around you without fear of creating a paradox" he said.
Roxas took a moment to process this before nodding, "Okay, but why me? And how are you going to do this exactly?"
Ven seemed to be thinking on how to answer judging by his momentary silence "I… I'm sending you because I think you're the only person who'd be able to save all the worlds. As for how… well, like this…"
Suddenly Roxas' body started to scatter from the feet upwards in white and black petals. Roxas, realizing what was happening, quickly asked "Will I ever see you again?"
Ven laughed, "Of course you will, even if I won't remember you! After all, I'm at the start of this all!" he said cheerfully just as the last of Roxas had vanished.
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~13 Years Earlier~
A young boy was sitting on the edge of a cliff, gazing happily at the stars of The Land of Departure.
The boy was nearly a carbon copy of Roxas. In fact the only differences were in clothing and that he looked a little bit younger. The new arrival had a shoulder pauldron sitting on his left arm and his jacket was black on the left side. The newcomer also did not have the Nobody symbol on his vest and instead had two leather straps that crossed over his chest in an X shape connected by a heart shaped buckle.
This boy's name is Ventus. He'd been watching the meteor shower for the past twenty minutes. He was just about to fall asleep when a strange meteor caught his attention.
It was moving in strange ways, for example it did a loop-the-loop and then jerked backwards. It also seemed to be getting closer.
"Huh, that's weird, I think I can hear a voice coming from that strange meteor…" Ventus thought before checking his ears. Sure enough he could hear a voice from the strange meteor that had gotten a lot closer and was now headed straight for him.
Ventus' eyes shot open as he jumped up and started running, "AHHHHHHHH" the voice shouted from the meteor as it made contact with the ground where Ventus had been sitting just moments before.
Cautiously, Ventus inched his way closer to the impact zone, expecting to find some type of space rock. So he was surprised whenever he saw a human standing up out of the small crater.
The boy who'd crashed walked a few steps forwards before he looked Ventus in the eye and the two of them froze, they were almost completely identical.
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And Ima end this here.
Before anyone says it, I know Ven should NOT be able to do what he did in this chapter but... I needed a plot device and I couldn't use young Xehanort because I set it in Sora's heart so I thought, "Hey? Why not Ven?" as so I used Ven.
The five faces at the top right of Roxas' platform of heart (I like it better than Station of awakening) are indeed Roxas' harem. PM me if you can figure them all out, don't leave it in a review in case some people don't want it spoiled to them. To anyone who knows who the third person is immediately, Put down your torches because your pitchforks should already be down. I have a reason for why it's going to happen instead of what you probably want. You'll see it when we get there, I guarantee you it will all make sense. Oh and also whenever it comes time for basically everything other than BBS, I'm pulling a "let's push events back a couple years so this all makes sense" in other words Sora's going to start his journey at 16 instead of 14, scale everything else from that. Also please note, I'm just going to say that the dark realm is exempt from the bounds of quantified time and prevents physical aging while within… This is to appease anyone who can figure out the identities of the harem.