Hi everyone, this is my collection of linked Omakes based on KingdomKat's excellent Kingdom Hearts story A Tale of Two Hearts. Everything written in her story is considered canon in this, unless stated otherwise. Nothing in this story is to be considered canon in her story unless stats otherwise. As of this date (19.01.2018) nothing in this story contradicts anything mentioned in A Tale of Two Hearts.
This is the first time I am posting something I wrote and English is only my second language, feedback would be appreciated.
Once upon a time all the worlds and stars that you can see were connected, forming something of incredible beauty.
Dragons sleeping on mountains of treasures in their lairs. Castles in which wizards, sorcerers and mages studied their craft flying high among the clouds. Coral cities filling the bottom of the seas with song and laughter. Ships sailing, flying, diving among the stars.
These were the early days of creation, before it became what it is now.
For two siblings, the Angle of Light and the Beast of Darkness, drawn in by its' beauty, claimed creation for themselves.
"There shall be no place for darkness to stain this world for I will be the Light."
The Angel proclaimed its' challenge to the Beast.
But the Beast would not yield without a fight, as the Angle descended into creation, sword readied to purge the Darkness, it bared its mighty fangs ready to tear into the Angle.
And if at this fateful day these beings would have met, then creation would have been broken all too soon.
For there was a third sibling, a younger brother who lived among the mortals and was of light and darkness. He did not want creation for himself but for the mortals to life their lives as they saw fit.
So when the Angel and Beast prepared for battle, a Knight clad in armour both black and white, holding a sword made of brilliant light in his right hand and a gauntlet of pure darkness on his left, did the same.
Before his siblings could exchange one blow he appeared between them, driving his sword deep into the Beast. His gauntlet grasped for the Angle, creating chains of darkness to bind them to the Knight.
A heartbeat later they were gone, transported to a barren wasteland at the outskirts of creation.
Using his sibling surprise the Knight grabbed the still chained Angle and throws it into a nearby mountain range.
Drawing his sword out of the Beast he gracefully sidesteps its' wild tail swing, and parries his mighty claws. A pitch black gauntlet hits the Beasts' head with the force to shatter mountains, preventing it from digging his fangs into its' brother.
Stunned by the hit the Beast reels back, trying to regain its' footing, but to no avail, as the Knight keep attacking without mercy.
The Angle now free of his chains tries to rise into the air, readying itself to retaliate for the attack, only to be struck down again by a powerful lighting of sorcery the Knight conjures.
At this the Beast abandons the fight to retreat into its' realm of darkness.
Seeing the Beast retreat the Angel shouts out in anger.
"How, how could you alone defeat the two of us!"
The answer is a chuckle.
"I walked among the mortals for many years, many times I lived as one of them. Learning how to fight against beings as strong, or even stronger as my mortal self, while you just lived in your realms never challenging yourself, or forcing yourself to grow."
Its' brothers' amusement only fuels the Angels anger.
"Why, why would you fight me, can't you see the wonders I could create! You should aid me, together we could rid this world of darkness, make it pure!"
"I travelled this world for many years, and I tell you now that purity is not the answer to its' problems. The mortals have the ability to choose for themselves and I will defend their right to choose as long as I life."
The knight explains in a calm voice.
"Now go, go back to your realm and never forget, that neither you nor him are to fight in creation ever again. For I shall defend it."
And so creation was granted a respite, for the Beast and Angle heed their brothers word and did not fight in creation again.
However, this did not stop them from teaching mortals their ways, thus creating the first creatures of darkness and warriors of light.
Like their patrons the creatures and warriors fought each other without mercy, plunging all of creation into an all-encompassing war, shattering the world.
The Knight refused to partake in the war, as it were the mortals choosing sides. But as the world shattered he intervened, taking the pieces and keeping them from getting completely destroyed. Thus creating the worlds we now live in.
This act of compassion costed him much of his power weakening him for many years to come. But he never regretted his loss of power.
"What happened to the knight after he saved the worlds dad?"
A small boy with messy brown hair and sky blue eyes asks a man who can only be his father, for they share said hair and eyes.
"I bet he kept travelling between the worlds going on adventures."
An equally young boy with silver hair and light green-blue eyes interjects before the man can answer.
"Well Sora, Riku is not wrong. The Knight kept travelling between the worlds and the legend has it that you would be hard pressed to find a hero's tale which he did not partake in. However, it would be even harder to find a story in which he is mentioned."
The man answers leaning back in his chair watching the embers of the campfire rising to join the stars of the night sky. Listening to the waves gently washing against the shore of play island he waits for the unavoidable follow-up question.
"What do you mean by that dad how could a magic knight be part of the story without someone knowing?"
Sora asks confused, a side-glance to Riku shows the other boy is just as confused as his son.
"That is quite simple. He knew that this stories were not his stories, so he was never the hero. He was the wandering bard that would tell the heroes of a long forgotten magic weapon. He was the old knight explaining to a little boy the virtues of a true hero so that he would grow up to be a hero. He was the traveling merchant who told the old wizard of the talented young woman, three villages down south, that can use magic to heal the sick.
All this and more, until he found a reason to stop his journey."
"Why would he stop; he could see all the worlds, have endless adventures? I would never stop."
Riku asks aghast.
"He found a reason to stay. The legend says that he fell in love with a beautiful woman, but this is a story for an other day. Get your sleeping backs it's time to sleep, your mothers would do unspeakable things to me if they knew that you are still awake."
He says, a wistful smile on his face.
"Oh, come one dad one more story pleeeeaaaase."
"Ok, ok well it all began with a boat sailing into the harbour …"
