The Darkness Within
Prolog
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Two very familiar people sat next to each other in the darkest of places, one that nobody would ever want to end up at, but to them this place was an everyday thing. One was a silver haired boy with bright aqua-blue eyes that seemed to stair off into the darkness with a hopeless expression. Next to him was a mouse, and in his white-gloved hands was a strange weapon shaped like a golden key, which was known as a Keyblade. The silver haired boy sighed, which was about the only noise he made anymore, since he had long given up on talking to his mouse friend. There just wasn't anything else to talk about anymore, considering he had been stuck in this place with him for most likely around a year now.
You'd think that after a few days in this strange darkness without food and water they would have been dead, but not in this place. Here food and water was not needed, it was like the darkness itself was feeding you, keeping you there to live forever in an inescapable world. The silver haired boy could describe it with only one word: hell. There was nothing to do but keep walking and searching for the thing that was most likely never there, and not only did you not have to eat, but you didn't have to sleep either. It wouldn't matter anyway since with your eyes closed all you could see was the same thing, darkness.
In the beginning the boy had tried thousands of times to summon up a rip in the world, thanks to the powers Maleficent had given him, to try and get out, but it failed every time. He hoped that maybe his powers where finally gone, that he didn't have to live with them anymore, but no such luck. He still had the power to control the heartless, and he used that power to keep heartless away from him and his mouse friend. He guessed that having the powers were still good to have; otherwise they would have been in thousands of battles with the heartless by now. They might not have been living to this day either if it wasn't for the powers, but that didn't mean he liked having them.
"I wish you would cheer up Riku," The mouse said, "You're only downing us both you know."
"Sorry Mickey," Riku apologized, "It's just... I'm losing hope of ever getting out of here. I'm sick of looking at complete darkness every damn day! I'm tiered of looking for a way out, because there is no way out!"
"Of course there's a way out, we just haven't found it yet... that's all," Mickey said. Even the cheery mouse was beginning to think the same thing, but one of them had to keep the spirit alive in the group.
"I guess..." Riku trailed off, but Mickey's words weren't convincing him anymore, he had heard it to many times to still believe in them. Mickey frowned at his lack in enthusiasm as he stood.
"Well, no use in staying here. Lets keep moving." Riku stood as well. Mickey tapped the end of his Keyblade to the heel of his yellow shoes making an orb of light appear on its tip. Riku closed his eyes for a moment, not used to the light, before he fallowed Mickey through the darkness. After a while of walking through the darkness, the heartless decided to rear their ugly heads.
"Riku, it looks like your up," Mickey said as he stopped. In front of him where hundreds of glowing, yellow eyes waiting for the two to come to them. Riku walked around Mickey and held out his hand. His aqua-blue eyes seemed to glow in the darkness and the oncoming heartless disappeared one by one. Once they where all gone Mickey smiled up at him and walked on. Riku gave Mickey a faint smile before it turned back into a deep frown that he wore almost all the time now.
He hated being able to control the heartless, it was like he was their ringleader, and they'd do anything he asked of them. Something was bothering him though. When he had first arrived in Kingdom Hearts he could have dismissed such a number with ease, but now it was getting much harder. He didn't know if the heartless were getting stronger, or he was getting weaker. A part of him hoped that his powers were weakening, but the other part was afraid, afraid that he wouldn't be able to dismiss the heartless anymore if he lost the power. If that happened it would leave him and Mickey to fight for their lives.
"Mickey wait!" Riku said as he placed a black-gloved hand on Mickey's shoulder to stop him, "You hear that?" The two fell silent as Riku glanced around the darkness, but didn't hear anything else.
"What was it?" Mickey asked.
"I...I don't know..." Riku said as he pulled his hand away from Mickey, "Maybe I'm just losing it."
"No, wait! I hear something... footsteps!"
"It's probably a heartless," Riku said, "Lets just go."
"But it sounds like boots, and they're starting to get louder," Mickey said as he looked around, pointing his Keyblade at where he thought the footsteps were coming from. Both Riku's and Mickey's eyes widened to find the outline of a human figure stepping out of the darkness and into the light Mickey's Keyblade was creating.
"Who are you?" Riku demanded as he stepped out from behind Mickey and glared at the on coming figure. When the person was in the light fully Riku could see that by his form this person was a man, but his face was hidden by the shadows casting down on him from his black hood. All that could be seen of the man was the bottom half of his face, the chin and lips. The rest of his body was concealed by the black robe he wore.
"Are you Riku?" The man's voice was deep and dark. His eyes stared at him through the shadows with an evil gleam, but Riku couldn't see them.
"What if I am?" Riku spat.
"Then you are needed."
"By who?"
"You'll find out soon enough." The corner of the man's lips rose into a smirk before he began started to advance towards Riku.
"Get away from me!" Riku yelled taking a few steps back. The man lunged forward at a lightning fast speed and punched Riku out of Mickey's light and into the darkness before either of them could stop him. When Mickey tried to swat him away with his Keyblade the man simply jumped up into the air, avoided his attack, and flew off into the darkness in the direction of where Riku was. Mickey quickly fallowed hearing Riku's agonizing shouts of pain as he fought a losing battle in the darkness. Once Mickey reached them he found Riku lifting himself off the ground with the man hovering in the air not to far away.
"This battle has nothing to do with you!" The man yelled as he turned to Mickey. In the shadow that had cast over most of his face Mickey could see the man's light blue eyes glowing at him with rage. With the wave of his hand Mickey was pushed back by some unknown force, knocking the Keyblade out of his hand. When the Keyblade hit the ground the light went out, leaving all three of them in darkness. Mickey crawled on the ground feeling for his Keyblade having to listen to Riku's cries of pain in the background.
"Got it!" Mickey shouted as he grabbed the handle and the light flicked back on, "Riku! Where are you?" Mickey began to worry when he didn't hear the battle anymore. He ran around in the darkness, not knowing where to look.
"Are you looking for your friend?" Mickey stopped and turned around to find the man with Riku hanging limply under his arm.
"W-what did you do to him?" Mickey asked in horror.
"Don't worry King Mickey, he's only unconscious," the man laughed as he tossed Riku's limp body onto his right shoulder, "After he wouldn't fight back anymore I simply knocked him out."
"Put him down!" Mickey yelled as he charged at him, but once again the unknown force knocked him back.
"Come get him if you dare, your highness," The man laughed. Mickey hopped to his feet and charged for him once again, but this time the man put a new force on him. Mickey stopped when he couldn't lift his feet anymore and slowly he sank to the ground until he was on his hands and knees.
"Let him... go," Mickey growled as he forced his head to look up at him fighting against the force on his body.
"I'm sorry, but like I said before, he's needed," The man said as a dark vortex appeared behind him, "It was a pleasure meeting you, but I'm afraid I'm in a bit of a rush." He slowly walked backwards into the vortex and disappeared.
"No! Riku!" Mickey shouted.
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Author: So how was that? Did you like it? As you read you can see that this is going to be a continuing to Kingdom Hearts. Yep I can already hear people whining out there now "not another one," but sorry I had to. *Grins*. It's kinda what I think the next one is about. I'm just having fun with it a guessing at some things that I might think happen, but not all of them. Well, I say anyone who is writing a story about the second one has got a chance of being right. I'm just doing this because it's fun to guess, and even if it's not right it doesn't matter. ^-^
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. If I did then this really would be the next game, but I don't, so it's not. I don't own Squaresoft (Square Enix, which ever you want to call it by) or Disney either. I don't own anything in later chapters, but I'm not telling you what they are cause then it would ruin it. *Grins* I don't own Riku either. *Sobs* This is the only time I'm going to say this so you better be listening to me! Okay yes, I will be saying this again in later chapters, to clarify the world I don't own so be warned. I didn't place this at the top because I just don't like to do that... I don't know why. I just like to talk and babble on after my chapters. ^-^
Author: Okay, now that I have said that you can review... I'm not forcing you to, you don't have to, but I'd like you to. Tell me what ya think of it, was it good or bad. If I get at least one review, or more, I will update because it's more than I think I'll get. The next chapter will be longer, I promise. This one was short only because it's a prolog. I'm also sorry if my spelling sucked, that's one of my weak points, but I am trying to improve. It would also be great if somebody could tell me the mistakes I made so I can go back and fix them. It would do me a ton of good. *Grins* Tune in next chapter to find out what happens to poor Riku.
Riku: Something bad probably, you authors are all twisted and evil like that. Always putting someone else through some kind of pain.
Random person: I thought you didn't own Riku?
Author: I don't. o.O Riku what are you doing here!?!? You're going to get me in trouble!
Riku: I know. *Smirks* I got my ass kicked in front of who knows how may people-
Author: Probably nobody.
Riku: ... Yeah probably.
Author: You're not supposed to agree with me! What ever happened to moral support?
Riku: I just got my ass kicked by a strange man thanks to you! My pride is severely damage. Like I'm going to give you moral support! I'm not leaving until you apologize!
Author: Review if you feel the need to! *Walks off*
Riku: Squaresoft's going to be looking for me you know! *Runs after Demon lost in Darkness*
Prolog
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Two very familiar people sat next to each other in the darkest of places, one that nobody would ever want to end up at, but to them this place was an everyday thing. One was a silver haired boy with bright aqua-blue eyes that seemed to stair off into the darkness with a hopeless expression. Next to him was a mouse, and in his white-gloved hands was a strange weapon shaped like a golden key, which was known as a Keyblade. The silver haired boy sighed, which was about the only noise he made anymore, since he had long given up on talking to his mouse friend. There just wasn't anything else to talk about anymore, considering he had been stuck in this place with him for most likely around a year now.
You'd think that after a few days in this strange darkness without food and water they would have been dead, but not in this place. Here food and water was not needed, it was like the darkness itself was feeding you, keeping you there to live forever in an inescapable world. The silver haired boy could describe it with only one word: hell. There was nothing to do but keep walking and searching for the thing that was most likely never there, and not only did you not have to eat, but you didn't have to sleep either. It wouldn't matter anyway since with your eyes closed all you could see was the same thing, darkness.
In the beginning the boy had tried thousands of times to summon up a rip in the world, thanks to the powers Maleficent had given him, to try and get out, but it failed every time. He hoped that maybe his powers where finally gone, that he didn't have to live with them anymore, but no such luck. He still had the power to control the heartless, and he used that power to keep heartless away from him and his mouse friend. He guessed that having the powers were still good to have; otherwise they would have been in thousands of battles with the heartless by now. They might not have been living to this day either if it wasn't for the powers, but that didn't mean he liked having them.
"I wish you would cheer up Riku," The mouse said, "You're only downing us both you know."
"Sorry Mickey," Riku apologized, "It's just... I'm losing hope of ever getting out of here. I'm sick of looking at complete darkness every damn day! I'm tiered of looking for a way out, because there is no way out!"
"Of course there's a way out, we just haven't found it yet... that's all," Mickey said. Even the cheery mouse was beginning to think the same thing, but one of them had to keep the spirit alive in the group.
"I guess..." Riku trailed off, but Mickey's words weren't convincing him anymore, he had heard it to many times to still believe in them. Mickey frowned at his lack in enthusiasm as he stood.
"Well, no use in staying here. Lets keep moving." Riku stood as well. Mickey tapped the end of his Keyblade to the heel of his yellow shoes making an orb of light appear on its tip. Riku closed his eyes for a moment, not used to the light, before he fallowed Mickey through the darkness. After a while of walking through the darkness, the heartless decided to rear their ugly heads.
"Riku, it looks like your up," Mickey said as he stopped. In front of him where hundreds of glowing, yellow eyes waiting for the two to come to them. Riku walked around Mickey and held out his hand. His aqua-blue eyes seemed to glow in the darkness and the oncoming heartless disappeared one by one. Once they where all gone Mickey smiled up at him and walked on. Riku gave Mickey a faint smile before it turned back into a deep frown that he wore almost all the time now.
He hated being able to control the heartless, it was like he was their ringleader, and they'd do anything he asked of them. Something was bothering him though. When he had first arrived in Kingdom Hearts he could have dismissed such a number with ease, but now it was getting much harder. He didn't know if the heartless were getting stronger, or he was getting weaker. A part of him hoped that his powers were weakening, but the other part was afraid, afraid that he wouldn't be able to dismiss the heartless anymore if he lost the power. If that happened it would leave him and Mickey to fight for their lives.
"Mickey wait!" Riku said as he placed a black-gloved hand on Mickey's shoulder to stop him, "You hear that?" The two fell silent as Riku glanced around the darkness, but didn't hear anything else.
"What was it?" Mickey asked.
"I...I don't know..." Riku said as he pulled his hand away from Mickey, "Maybe I'm just losing it."
"No, wait! I hear something... footsteps!"
"It's probably a heartless," Riku said, "Lets just go."
"But it sounds like boots, and they're starting to get louder," Mickey said as he looked around, pointing his Keyblade at where he thought the footsteps were coming from. Both Riku's and Mickey's eyes widened to find the outline of a human figure stepping out of the darkness and into the light Mickey's Keyblade was creating.
"Who are you?" Riku demanded as he stepped out from behind Mickey and glared at the on coming figure. When the person was in the light fully Riku could see that by his form this person was a man, but his face was hidden by the shadows casting down on him from his black hood. All that could be seen of the man was the bottom half of his face, the chin and lips. The rest of his body was concealed by the black robe he wore.
"Are you Riku?" The man's voice was deep and dark. His eyes stared at him through the shadows with an evil gleam, but Riku couldn't see them.
"What if I am?" Riku spat.
"Then you are needed."
"By who?"
"You'll find out soon enough." The corner of the man's lips rose into a smirk before he began started to advance towards Riku.
"Get away from me!" Riku yelled taking a few steps back. The man lunged forward at a lightning fast speed and punched Riku out of Mickey's light and into the darkness before either of them could stop him. When Mickey tried to swat him away with his Keyblade the man simply jumped up into the air, avoided his attack, and flew off into the darkness in the direction of where Riku was. Mickey quickly fallowed hearing Riku's agonizing shouts of pain as he fought a losing battle in the darkness. Once Mickey reached them he found Riku lifting himself off the ground with the man hovering in the air not to far away.
"This battle has nothing to do with you!" The man yelled as he turned to Mickey. In the shadow that had cast over most of his face Mickey could see the man's light blue eyes glowing at him with rage. With the wave of his hand Mickey was pushed back by some unknown force, knocking the Keyblade out of his hand. When the Keyblade hit the ground the light went out, leaving all three of them in darkness. Mickey crawled on the ground feeling for his Keyblade having to listen to Riku's cries of pain in the background.
"Got it!" Mickey shouted as he grabbed the handle and the light flicked back on, "Riku! Where are you?" Mickey began to worry when he didn't hear the battle anymore. He ran around in the darkness, not knowing where to look.
"Are you looking for your friend?" Mickey stopped and turned around to find the man with Riku hanging limply under his arm.
"W-what did you do to him?" Mickey asked in horror.
"Don't worry King Mickey, he's only unconscious," the man laughed as he tossed Riku's limp body onto his right shoulder, "After he wouldn't fight back anymore I simply knocked him out."
"Put him down!" Mickey yelled as he charged at him, but once again the unknown force knocked him back.
"Come get him if you dare, your highness," The man laughed. Mickey hopped to his feet and charged for him once again, but this time the man put a new force on him. Mickey stopped when he couldn't lift his feet anymore and slowly he sank to the ground until he was on his hands and knees.
"Let him... go," Mickey growled as he forced his head to look up at him fighting against the force on his body.
"I'm sorry, but like I said before, he's needed," The man said as a dark vortex appeared behind him, "It was a pleasure meeting you, but I'm afraid I'm in a bit of a rush." He slowly walked backwards into the vortex and disappeared.
"No! Riku!" Mickey shouted.
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Author: So how was that? Did you like it? As you read you can see that this is going to be a continuing to Kingdom Hearts. Yep I can already hear people whining out there now "not another one," but sorry I had to. *Grins*. It's kinda what I think the next one is about. I'm just having fun with it a guessing at some things that I might think happen, but not all of them. Well, I say anyone who is writing a story about the second one has got a chance of being right. I'm just doing this because it's fun to guess, and even if it's not right it doesn't matter. ^-^
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. If I did then this really would be the next game, but I don't, so it's not. I don't own Squaresoft (Square Enix, which ever you want to call it by) or Disney either. I don't own anything in later chapters, but I'm not telling you what they are cause then it would ruin it. *Grins* I don't own Riku either. *Sobs* This is the only time I'm going to say this so you better be listening to me! Okay yes, I will be saying this again in later chapters, to clarify the world I don't own so be warned. I didn't place this at the top because I just don't like to do that... I don't know why. I just like to talk and babble on after my chapters. ^-^
Author: Okay, now that I have said that you can review... I'm not forcing you to, you don't have to, but I'd like you to. Tell me what ya think of it, was it good or bad. If I get at least one review, or more, I will update because it's more than I think I'll get. The next chapter will be longer, I promise. This one was short only because it's a prolog. I'm also sorry if my spelling sucked, that's one of my weak points, but I am trying to improve. It would also be great if somebody could tell me the mistakes I made so I can go back and fix them. It would do me a ton of good. *Grins* Tune in next chapter to find out what happens to poor Riku.
Riku: Something bad probably, you authors are all twisted and evil like that. Always putting someone else through some kind of pain.
Random person: I thought you didn't own Riku?
Author: I don't. o.O Riku what are you doing here!?!? You're going to get me in trouble!
Riku: I know. *Smirks* I got my ass kicked in front of who knows how may people-
Author: Probably nobody.
Riku: ... Yeah probably.
Author: You're not supposed to agree with me! What ever happened to moral support?
Riku: I just got my ass kicked by a strange man thanks to you! My pride is severely damage. Like I'm going to give you moral support! I'm not leaving until you apologize!
Author: Review if you feel the need to! *Walks off*
Riku: Squaresoft's going to be looking for me you know! *Runs after Demon lost in Darkness*