Destiny. This is his destiny. To fall at the hands of the darkness. Terra feels the darkness swimming over him. At least Master Xehanort is gone . . . but at what price?
Ven sees the opposite. All white, but not light. No, something else, something perhaps even worse. It is nothing. He can't speak, can't hear anything. He is being erased, just as he asked of Aqua, on the beach. If this is what it feels like to vanish, he regrets asking her to do it less than three days ago.
And Aqua, she watches her friends vanish, seemingly dead, from the battlefield. Master Xehanort is gone. The apprentice is gone. But she is alone. Her friends, her greatest friends in the worlds, are gone. She falls to her knees in the light of Kingdom Hearts. Her armor barely remains in fragments. A solitary tear falls from the corner of her eye.
Mickey looks down on the Third District, where Donald and Goofy have just met the keybearer, Sora is his name. Mickey's keyblade appears in a flash of light. The length of it easily dwarfs him. The Star Seeker. He examines his keyblade before looking up at the sky, where he sees yet another star blink out. True to it's name, a shiver runs down his keyblade at the loss of another world.
Her blue eyes look at Riku. Xion whispers something unheard except by Riku. She reaches up and pulls away his blindfold, and a slight smile goes across her face at the sight of his sea-green orbs. With one final breath, she fades away into the darkness.
On the beach of Destiny Island, Sora talks with his best friend, Riku. Both of them have been through so much in the past year and a half.
"Hey Riku, what was that, the door to the light?" Sora asks.
Riku faces him, and points at Sora's heart. "This."
"This?" Sora says curiously, placing his hand over where Riku pointed.
"Yeah," Riku says nodding. "It's always closer than you think."
They both sigh, and watch the sun start to sink below the horizon. "Sora! Riku!" Kairi runs along the boardwalk, and catches her breath. She looks up at them. "Look." She holds up a glass bottle. In it is a letter. With the seal of King Mickey stamped on the outside.
"From the King?" Sora grabs the bottle, pulls out the cork, and dumps out the letter. He drops the bottle, and unrolls the letter. He scans his eyes along the words, his face a blank. Riku and Kairi look over his shoulder, Riku looking eager, while Kairi looks worried. Sora looks up from the letter, up at the clear blue sky.
Author's Notes
First big Kingdom Heart fic. I've done a few oneshots, but this is quite extended. This is the only part that's done in present tense. Also, a lot of the chapters in the beginning are quite short, less than or about 1000 words, but they'll get longer later. I've prewritten a ton of the chapters already.
And, in case you didn't catch that, things from Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, 358/2 Days, and Coded will be playing a HUGE part in this. But since I've already written a ton of this, I don't care if something released contradicts what I've written, I'm still going to update it. At least, considering anybody actually reads--and reviews--this thing.
In case you didn't catch that, that means that reviews are quite appreciated. I'm not going to say "I want three reviews before I update again," I'm not that mean. But still, I would be very encouraged by reviews.