Author's Note: Hey guys! night . scare here, also known as yoshi ftw, presenting my Kingdom Hearts story, Connections of the Heart, for the millionth time. This is the last time I'm editing this story, I swear! Or at least until I decide I hate it again. I'd love to hear what you all think of it, so review, favorite, whatever you'd like and enjoy!
I suppose darkness isn't something we should fear.
Without the dark, there can be no light. Without the bad, there can be no good.
The hearts of every person contain darkness; whether it devours them completely or the light overcomes the darkness is up to them.
Sometimes though, one can't help but to let the darkness eat away at their heart.
No one is capable of fighting the darkness once they let it in.
It doesn't matter how strong a heart is; it only takes the tiniest of cracks to allow the darkness to slip in and consume you entirely.
I didn't know how powerful the darkness was then.
Much like the human heart, the heart of a world will easily succumb to darkness once it's been infiltrated and then it's only a matter of time before the world will crumble.
So many hearts taken and worlds destroyed, yet neither I nor the people of my world had a clue as to what was going on outside of our tiny planet, that is, until they came.
The creatures from the darkness who ruined my world, who ripped the hearts from the people I loved and cared about.
I remember how dark it was that day, but darkness was nothing new to my world which was shrouded in it since the beginning of time. However, there was something so very wrong about the darkness that covered my world that day. The swirling storm clouds were a bad omen that no one acknowledged and the thunder drowned out the screams that echoed from miles away where the creatures had already invaded.
It wasn't very long before millions of pairs of dull, lifeless yellow eyes began to appear from the darkness. It was like a swarm of lotus. They came so fast and they spared nothing and no one. I'm not sure if anyone besides me got away from the world with their heart still intact.
The thought of being the sole survivor of my world terrified me. I didn't want it to be reality.
I suppose that's why I always saw him, heard him. Maybe it was my mind's own self-defense mechanism trying to protect me from the truth.
The truth that he was gone.
I never understood the meaning of his last words to me before the darkness consumed us both; those five simple words that would linger in my mind for the rest of my journey.
I'll always be with you.
If I knew then what I know now, I'm not sure how different my journey would have been, but I believe in my heart, I wouldn't have stopped looking for him because I still have hope that he's out there somewhere, waiting for me.
I'll always be with you too.