Welcome to my second fanfiction, a Kingdom Hearts fic (my first) called Downpour. A story about weird experiments, stolen memories and a bunch of quite possible angst, reppressed sexual desire and of course yaoi (don't like, don't read). Warning: It's a bit long and I tend to put too much information in one chapter, if any changes are needed please review and tell me any dislike and likes and such. Thanks to my three reviewers for the renewed interest in the story as well.
Edit: Chapter has been Edited and Updated
Chapter I: Black Rain in Twilight Town
In this little world of Twilight Town, many weird things happen: people suddenly disappear, innocents go mad without reason, and unexpected things always seem to happen. I, Zexion Matsumoto, am a detective whose specialty is the unexpected, born with abilities far from normal, I have dedicated my life to pursue the unknown in search for answers about myself, this world, and the reason the darkness seems to be swallowing us whole.
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It seemed to be a Monday night like every other and yet very uncharacteristically, the rain poured down with fervor on the city streets of downtown Twilight Town, shrouding it in total darkness. The young detective's boots on the concrete sidewalk would have echoed if not for the thunderous sky over the emptiness of the town. He wore a black trench coat, zipped up tight over the rain, hood over his head; under it a dark blue dress shirt, equally as blue jeans and of course his weapon of choice "A small dictionary…deal with it…" in his back pocket.
"This really is odd…Twilight Town isn't usually so dark…even when it rains…" he thought as he walked, looking for a place to stay in until the rain subsided; he shivered over the cold and cursed at himself for leaving his umbrella back at the office.
He finally stopped at his destination, looking up at the neon sign, 'The Freeshooter', a small café owned by Xigbar, local chef and the best ex-cop around "He'll probably deny this but, he accidentally shot himself in the eye, the bullet ricochet from an unknown surface, never grabbed a gun again, which is why he quit…"
He opened the door, and if possible, shivered even more from the coldness of the establishment. People looked over, bewildered; no one in their right mind would be out in that. He removed his hood and revealed his pale lilac hair, which covered the whole right side of his face; while his only visible eye was a deep blue itself.
"Welcome back" a young girl smiled, coming up to him.
"Naminé…" he said, teeth chattering.
"I see everything went well, although I highly doubt you counted on the weather" a young girl of piercing blue eyes and blonde hair with a soft voice and expression spoke to the young man; she wore a white blouse with a checkered skirt and a necklace with a small card as it's pendant.
"Hey! Get the boy a towel would ya? He must be freezing his butt off" said the owner, Xigbar from behind the counter; he wore an eye-patch over his right eye and a scar on his left cheek, his only eye was a yellow color. His hair was long with patches of gray here and there, black mostly; he appears laid back and a little bit eccentric, but he's one of the few loyal people you'll meet around here who can make a decent smoothie also; he wore a large white apron, full of stains over a wife beater and jeans.
"Right" She nodded and to the back to find a towel.
As he waited he looked around; the café was empty, except for a few people and a man he knew slightly well, Vexen, a scientist who was not only snobbish "A ten on the snob scale…" but he also seemed to deal in very shady business, and like always, his table was full of papers and his suitcase. While he looked around the door bumped into his backside and caused him to stumble, he turned and glared at the person who wore a grim look on his face "Watch it" Zexion hissed.
"Oh…sorry Zexion, I didn't see you there…" it was Roxas, Naminé's older brother, he wore a checkered hood over his head, and a black umbrella in hand; he moved past Zexion and sat on the counter, he sighed loudly and put his head on the cool table.
"What's with him?" the young detective asked the returning blonde, he was usually the grim and sour one, though Roxas wasn't the cheeriest fellow in the world, right now he made Zexion look like jolly Saint Nick.
"Hmm?" she looked toward the counter and saw her brother "Oh, Roxas…" she said, handing the detective his towel "Well, he's been pretty down since Axel moved away, it's like he took his happiness with him, it's sad really, not even sea salt ice cream helps him…"
"Sea salt ice cream!" Roxas cried out, it was his and his best friend's favorite ice cream, even if Axel didn't like it at first.
"Hey blondie, stop with the dramatics, you're scaring my costumers" Xigbar told him, handing him a cup of hot chocolate.
"Yes please, some people actually have important work to do" Vexen said from his table, annoyance written all over his face.
"No one asked you" Xigbar retorted, while Vexen only glared and went back to his work.
"Thank you" Zexion told the girl, giving the towel back.
"Sure" she smiled "Do you want something to drink?" she asked.
"All right, give me the usual"
"One hot chocolate with whipped cream and a small scoop of vanilla ice cream coming up" she giggled; no one would look at Zexion and think sweet tooth.
The young detective sat on a booth near the window. He saw how the rain poured down hard and the sky seemed to keep getting darker, he dismissed it quickly though, he couldn't control everything or do everything, so trying to change the weather by thought was not going to change anything. He slumped into his chair and massaged his eyelids, remembering what he had done earlier.
~o~
He had been running through the Sunset Terrace on the other side of town, though today it looked more like Very Dark-Stub your toe on a rock-Terrace, after what seemed to be a pitch-black dog with yellow eyes. It finally stopped running when it saw it had nowhere to go, it turned around and snarled at his pursuer, its paws and fangs stained with blood.
"Nowhere to run…" Zexion breathed out
He had seen the dog ripping out at a person, a little girl, the monster seemed to have been trying to rip the girls heart out, and succeeded, but Zexion wouldn't let that thing live after that.
As he took a breather the black dog rushed and lunged at him with great speed, Zexion's chest as its target.
"Not a chance!" he quickly took out his small lexicon out of his back pocket, which grew to normal size in his hand "Protect!" he summoned a shield in front of himself and the dog smacked itself hard at it, a normal animal would have bled, but all the animal did was whimper and get back up "What the hell is it?" the young detective thought.
The animal, if you could call it that, tried again, but Zexion dodged it this time, landing near the small monument of the town clock tower. He pressed his hand on the words of his lexicon, and out came a thin rapier sword.
"C'mon, I dare you" he smirked
The dog snarled at the dare and began to zigzag around, and though Zexion moved with good speed, his impediment from his right eye was notable, the dog attacked from the right and managed to knock him down.
"Ah!" he yelled out, the dog trying to get his fangs on him, but he kept him back with his arm "Aero!" he casted a wind spell, which swirled around him and knocked the animal back "I'd better be careful…this thing is smart…" he stood defensively while the black dog seemed to smirk and mock him with its grin.
"I'll make you laugh…" he then flicked his sword slightly "Fire Flash!" he then sent a wave from his sword, licked with flames toward it, the animal didn't seem to expect it and was engulfed in the blast; when it cleared, all that was left was the burn mark "Nothing?" he breathed out "Not even blood…or a carcass…" he kept on as he walked over and analyzed the mark "…Hmm?" he then looked upward and saw the sky roar suddenly and rain began to pour, and seeing as the mark began to wash away he left, offering a silent prayer for the girl that lost her heart.
~o~
As he came back to reality, Zexion found his hot chocolate waiting for him and Naminé sitting across from him, smiling.
"So tell me, did the thing that attacked you look something like this?" she asked, flipping over her sketchbook for him to see, he was amazed at the detail she put into it, the black dog (who looked more wolfish than anything) with its piercing yellow eyes.
"It scares me how you do this…" he stated; Naminé usually asks people to describe things for her and she sketches exactly that, but she has an odd ability, among others, of looking into people's eyes and draw what they are thinking.
"Well you're an open book when you daydream, at least for me" she added, taking back her book "So, what happened?" she asked, adding something with a red pencil, he knew what she meant.
"The thing attacked a little girl, you'll probably find out tomorrow in the news" he began, sipping his chocolate and giving the 1-in a-million chance smirk-smile "It took out her heart…" he said grimly.
"Her heart?" she looked at him, shocked "What for? And only that?"
"Only that, but, the heart I speak of is more of the light in people's hearts, not the organ itself, understand? Making it even weirder…" Naminé blinked, she then looked through her sketchbook and found something she drew two weeks ago "Do you mean this?" she showed him a picture of many beady eyed creatures that seemed to swarm over a person, and a pink, shining heart floated out from him as his face contorted in pain.
"Exactly…" he blinked "You really are a scary person Naminé…" she only giggled at that comment.
"Just as long as you don't call me a 'witch' like most people do, I won't hurt you" she added, leaving the booth and going toward another brave costumer that came in.
Everything seemed fine now, thought the pale haired detective, but as he happily drank his hot beverage someone screamed outside, and a pack of those black dogs seemed to be running amuck outside.
"Stay inside, lock the doors and above else don't panic!" Zexion ordered, Naminé ushered the people to the back with Xigbar, Roxas was too zoned out to move, and Vexen hissed at being interrupted, though seemed very curious about what was happening.
Zexion walked outside and saw at least 5 of those things walking around, the same all of them, though one, seemingly the leader, was larger and seemed to have a dark mane behind him, his yellow eyes looked normal, not beady, and he had an ornate design on his head and a symbol on his hind left leg.
"Ahhh!!!" someone yelled beside him, it was Roxas with a kendo stick in hand.
"Hey! Roxas!" Zexion called out as the blonde boy bashed his wooden sword into one of them and smacked it into a parked car "Are you crazy?!" he went up to him and shook him "Do you have a death wish or something?"
"Leave me alone! You wouldn't understand…" he looked like he was about to cry again, but instead turned around and bashed another one who was coming up behind them "Besides…I need to take out my anger on something…" he stated,
"Fine…" he sighed "Stay close to me and stay sharp" he told him, Roxas nodded while Zexion took out his lexicon; the dogs gathered around them, the leader simply watching from a distance, the other four circled them.
"A book?" Roxas asked "My sister told me that you used a book, but, I thought she was kidding" he chuckled.
"Well, it'll probably last longer than your wooden stick…" he extended his left hand "Crash! Shocking light…Thunder!" his arm swirled with energy and from his finger tips a surge of lighting was blasted, hitting the ground as the black hounds dodged the blast.
"Whoah??? How…" but the young blonde didn't have time to react as one of the hounds charged at him, he rolled to the side to dodge it and stood back close to his friend.
"It's called Magic, not everyone can do it though…" three of the four hounds leaped at them, but Zexion used his protect spell once more and they bashed themselves into it.
"Nice!" Roxas smirked, looking at each of them, they looked bizarre, and as if their limbs were out of place "They're hurt?"
"I guess so…" Zexion didn't know what to make of it, but they seemed to be, though they quickly regenerated and growled "…Guess not…" he said in a huff.
Then the two decided to go on the offensive, Roxas charged in and began bashing the monsters with his kendo stick, while Zexion tried again and again with his Thunder spell but missed every time.
"Watch out!" the pale haired one alerted, Roxas got tackled from behind.
"Ah! Get off!" he growled, his heart beating fast as the monster tried to eat his face off; the kendo stick wasn't lasting long either "Help!" he cried out, but Zexion had his hands full as well, the Alpha dog seemed to be smirking; The hound managed to scratch Roxas here and there, and he felt weak every time, as if something was going to burst out of him "Ahhh!!" he yelled, frustration, anger and fear mixed in it.
"Damn it!" Zexion cursed out loud; his lexicon's pages began to turn by themselves, it's master's anger surging through the pages "Magnet!" he called out, a light shot from his book and the three hounds near him got pulled into it, he then ran toward Roxas, but the Alpha dog stepped in.
"His heart belongs to us…do not interfere…" the leader said.
"What?" Zexion stared, with his good eye in shock: did this thing just speak? But he quickly took back his nerve, Roxas was in trouble "Out of my way…" he growled, but then the other monsters had jumped down; the spell wore off and the pale haired mage was boxed in.
"Dammit! Get off!" Roxas yelled once more, smacking the animal, who whimpered with every blow, the thing growled once more then tried with it's fangs to make his prey shut up, Roxas looked with wide eyes as it got near "Axel!!!!" he screamed in his head, but then a something crashed and everything went silent; the monster fell with a thud next to him, bleeding "Huh?" he looked to forward and Zexion turned as well.
"All right you punks, it's time to get out of my friggin' town!" it was Xigbar, a handgun in his hand.
"Roxas!" Naminé called out, running toward her brother "Are you all right?"
"Not really…" he smiled and then decided to faint with a slight smirk on his face; Naminé stood by him and tried to move him.
"Fall! Chilling Hail! Blizzard!" a chilling breeze blew around Zexion and a block of ice crashed on top of the monsters, except the Alpha, who dodged it; Zexion ran back toward Roxas and helped Naminé, while Xigbar kept a close eye at the Alpha.
"Well…this wasn't what was expected…it seems I'll go hungry today…" it said, and disappeared into black spot on the floor, leaving it's four pack members dead on the ground.
"…I thought you'd never take up a gun again" Zexion huffed, looking at Xigbar.
"Special occasion…" the man said "Now, let's get this kid inside…" both he and Zexion took Roxas inside, and after offering a free cup of coffee and two pieces of cake, Vexen agreed to tend to Roxas' wounds.
"He'll live, get him to a hospital as soon as possible" was all he said after he was done, and then proceeded to leave the place in a hurry, reminding Xigbar that he owed him.
"How are you feeling?" the blonde girl asked the detective.
"I'll be all right, and you?"
"I'm still a little scared…I couldn't stop Roxas from charging out like that…and he almost…" she sniffed and tried to stop herself from sobbing, "I'm a horrible sister…"
"No you aren't, so quit crying, he'll be fine, and you'll be able to take care of him, all right?" Xigbar said reassuringly, Zexion was never good at that sort of thing.
"Will you be all right here?" he suddenly asked.
"Sure" the man with the eye patch answered.
"Good, I'll clean up the mess outside and leave, thanks for everything" he told him "Call me when he comes to" he told the girl, who nodded.
As Zexion left, the rain seemingly stopping, he pondered what the hell just happened: He got attacked by a pack of black dogs or wolves, the big one seemed to have intelligence and could talk, Roxas was almost killed and Xigbar shot a gun after two years and 5 months of not doing so "It's definitely been getting weirder and weirder…"
As Zexion walked toward uptown Twilight Town, he noticed the new building, a tall one, almost as tall as the clock tower; it belonged to a company known as Shinra, which was based at Radiant Garden. "They say weird things happen to those mixed up with them…even though they provide many with technology and such…the rumors of mad experiments never cease…"
He walked away from the building, as he did though he thought he'd seen someone on at the top looking down "I really am tired…" he thought and left.
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