Summary: A mysterious group of warriors suddenly start terrorizing the worlds and it's up to Sora, Riku, Kairi, Aqua, Terra, and Ven, to put things right. Sequel to Reconnect Kingdom Hearts. Full Summary Inside.
Summary (Full): A few months after the final defeat of Xehanort, a mysterious group of warriors suddenly start terrorizing the worlds and it's up to Sora and Aqua & their Keyblade Apprentices; Riku, Kairi, Terra, and Ven, to put things right while trying to figure out who these strange warriors are. Sequel to Reconnect Kingdom Hearts.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix. Also this is a musical, so I do not own the songs included either.
Pairings: (Romantic) Sora/Kairi, Aqua/Ven, Implied Roxas/Namine. (Friendships) Sora/Riku/Kairi/Aqua/Ven/Terra friendship, Implied Roxas/Axel/Xion friendship. There will be others though but no slash.
Author's Advice: This story is a sequel to my story "Reconnect Kingdom Hearts" and as such it is suggested that you stop, turn around, and read the aforementioned story before you read this one.
A/N: This story has been sitting in a folder on my computer since long before "Reconnect Kingdom Hearts" (Or RKH) was even started. At first it didn't even have Aqua, Terra, or Ven in it but now it does. Like I said I don't own the songs in the story either. As in RKH I'll signal when a song is about to start by listing the name of the song and what it's from, usually a Disney movie. The lyrics might be changed for the sake of fitting in the story, so when that happens, simply cue up the song on YouTube or whatever media player you prefer if you have it, and follow along while mentally substituting the changed lyrics.
One last thing. For continuity sake with RKH, a number of the ability and Keyblade names used in the story were the Japanese versions. For example instead of Shot Lock in America I used Shoot Lock. The reason for this is because BBS hadn't been released in America at the time. So to avoid awkward name changing, I'm sticking with the names from the first story.
Okay, rant over, enjoy…
The Keyblade…
…a mysterious weapon wrapped in intrigue and smothered with super secret sauce. It is a weapon of either Light or Darkness, dependant solely on the person who wields it. It is said that the Keyblade chooses its wielder, and that the wielder is chosen by the strength of their heart. The Keyblade can also open or seal the keyholes that lead to the hearts of the worlds themselves.
But among the Keyblades, there is one that stands above them all, a Keyblade forged of a heart of pure light, and a heart of pure darkness. A Keyblade that wields the very power of Kingdom Hearts itself…
…the X-Blade…
The X-Blade has been forged twice in the course of recorded history since the worlds split apart. The first was when Ventus, or simply Ven as he was known to his closest friends, once the apprentice of the corrupt Keyblade Master Xehanort, ripped the darkness free from his heart, creating a being made of pure darkness known as Vanitas. Despite the efforts of Ven and his friends Aqua and Terra, Xehanort successfully created the X-Blade using both Ven and Vanitas. The two beings battled each other within their heart, until Vanitas was destroyed but at the cost of Ven losing his heart. Aqua, in an effort to rescue a fallen Terra who had become possessed by Xehanort, sacrificed her Keyblade and armor to save her friend, sending herself into the Realm of Darkness. For ten full years, the three Keyblade warriors remained lost in time…
…But there was still hope…
Sora, a young boy who had unknowingly accepted to carry the remnants of Ven's heart within his own, rose up and defeated Xehanort's Heartless and then a year later he defeated Xemnas, the Nobody of Xehanort. During these adventures, Sora's friends, the once fallen Keyblade wielder, Riku, and the Princess of Heart, Kairi, eventually gained access to Keyblades of their own and together with Sora, they helped to defeat the Darkness…
…but their work was not finished yet…
Sora soon received a message from King Mickey Mouse, a companion of Aqua, Ven, and Terra's from long ago and also a wielder of the Keyblade, informed Sora of his duty to try and restore the three missing Keyblade Wielders. Sora set out alone on this journey, accidently ending up in the Realm of Darkness where he encountered Aqua. The two managed to escape the Realm of Darkness together, ending up outside the home of King Mickey's former Master, Yen Sid. There the wizard informed them of their mission, that Sora carried Ven's Heart and it was Aqua's duty to train Sora to become a true Keyblade Master. The two set out and after much trials and tribulations, managed to restore Ven to the worlds…
…but in doing so, they had doomed the worlds…
They had unknowingly set in motion, a plan conceived by Xehanort to forge the X-Blade once again but with himself wielding it. To do so, he required a heart of pure light, the heart of a Princess of Heart…Kairi. After being forced out of Terra's body, he possessed Kairi's body, creating the X-Blade and began plunging the worlds into darkness…
…But he had not won yet…
With newfound resolve, Sora, Aqua, Riku, Ven, Terra, King Mickey, and Sora's Keyblade wielding Nobody, Roxas, tracked down Xehanort to outside the door to Kingdom Hearts itself, where they battled the Lord of Darkness for one final time. In the end, the combined efforts of the seven Keyblade Wielders proved victorious as they used the Door to Kingdom Hearts itself and the light within it, to purge Xehanort from Kairi's body, destroying the Lord of Darkness's heart once and for all.
With the X-Blade shattered and Xehanort dead, Light could finally shine through once again. Sora, now a Keyblade Master, returned to his home, the Destiny Islands, with his two new apprentices, his best friend Riku, and his girlfriend, Kairi, leaving Aqua behind in her homeworld, the Land of Departure, with her best friend Terra, and her boyfriend Ven, as her apprentices…
…It has been three months since that day…
In an Unknown World…
It was a world covered in endless dunes of brown sand with towering brown mesas and cliffs. It had been forgotten and it was preferred by many that it be left this way. However, it wasn't completely forgotten, as a lone armored figure approached in silence towards a towering castle sitting alone in the shadows of the mountains. The figure stopped and looked up at the castle, his blue eyes glancing over its design.
The warrior looked like a knight, clad head to toe in red armor with yellow or black lining. He had a set of khaki coverings over and around his legs, opening slightly at the front in the shape of an A. His helmet had two tall yellow metal horns pointed straight up, and the helmet covered all but his face, confining his long white hair to a space behind his neck but blocked by a tall collar. He carried a triangular shield on his left arm and a short sword with yellow spiked grip and a red tassel at the end of the hilt in his right hand.
The castle, however, was simple. A large brown stone building that looked as if it had been carved into the mountain itself. There were several small towers and minarets around the castle but it looked heavily disused. The warrior sensed the arrival of another like him and returned his gaze forward. Before him stood a figure in a black robe and hood. The warrior recognized the uniform but couldn't place where or how. The figure turned and beckoned for him to follow. The warrior did not hesitate, following him inside the castle through the front doors. Past the doors he entered into a single great domed room with only a single beam of light emanating from a hole in the ceiling, casting large black shadows against the walls. The figure ahead of him vanished into these shadows.
"Is this it then?" A man's voice asked.
"I hope so." A woman's voice replied in an obviously bored tone.
"We are few indeed. I'm amazed we were even able to find the third." A teenaged man's voice said.
"Do not speak of me as if I were not present." The warrior finally spoke.
"Oops! Sorry new guy!" a young girl's voice giggled.
"Be nice, Keep. He's only just arrived. We should at least be friendly." Another man's voice said to the girl's in a gentle tone.
"Okay Ion. I will." the girl's voice replied.
"I hope you will forgive me for being so straightforward, but you're rather handsome." A woman's voice said gently, the smell of flowers drifting through as she spoke.
"I would appreciate being told where I am and why I'm here." The warrior said.
"Our apologies. We did not mean to be so rude, brother." A man's voice with deep tones said. The Warrior arched his eyebrow.
"Brother?" the warrior asked.
"That is a discussion for another time. We have other matters to deal with." A woman's voice said with an air of authority.
"Then by all means, shall we get on with it?" A gruff man's voice said. The room started to illuminate and slowly revealed eleven figures standing about the room, either staring at him or nothing at all.
The first figure, ahead and to the right was the black hooded figure from before. To his left there was a short young boy with spiky teal colored hair in a black shirt with silver lining, and a pair of strange looking silver metal "wings" on the seams of his shoulders. The "feathers" of the wings were square spaces that made them look like the square battlements on a castle wall. The boy had baggy white shorts, with more of the wings on black metal plated boots. Slung over his right shoulder was a large five pointed Shuriken with a hole in it that allowed him to easily put his arm through it and carry it on his shoulder. Tattooed on the boy's right shoulder was a strange symbol shaped like two feathers twisted around on a gust of wind.
To his left and the warrior's 3-o'clock was a man in his late teens with a black scarf and hood over his head, hiding his eyes and hair but not his face. The hood flared backwards near the top, giving the illusion of having batwings. He wore a black jacket with a purple diamond shaped gem on the chest and two gray chain patterns down the front, running parallel to each other along the zipper before splitting off to the sides at the end of the shirt. He also wore long black pants with a variation on the gray chains spiraling down both legs of his pants. That wasn't the odd part about him though.
Crisscrossing in an X at the front of his waist and held together by a single black crown shaped buckle with three points on the crown, was a long and actual gray chain that ran to his left, the gray gradually becoming whiter and shinier until it finally connected to a young girl around three or four years old with shoulder length snow white hair with blue and yellow ends. She had a small tiara around her head, though all you could see of it was the crown jewel due to her hair. The crown jewel itself was an evenly level four point star that appeared to be overlaying a smaller white one turned like an X. The larger star was blue in the center and yellow on the ends while the smaller one was simply white. She wore a simple silver chain necklace with two metal hearts dangling from it. She wore a simple white kimono over a pair of white shorts and no shoes. The chain running between her and the other man also wrapped around her waist like an X but was held together by small star shaped buckle with five points.
To her left and the Warrior's 5-o'clock was a balding middle aged man with only a ring of brown hair around the edges of his head and a long Fuu-Manchu moustache in a simple khaki kimono, hakama, black obi sash, and a tattered and torn white haori with faded red lining. On the back of his haori was a symbol known to Keyblade wielders as the Mark of Mastery.
To his left and the Warrior's 7-o'clock was a young teenaged man with a short black hair and a scarred face. He wore what appeared to be a cloak that hid the rest of his attire. The cloak looked like a purple and red dragon's wing on his right while the left was a long white angel's wing. He had a hideous looking eye patch over his left eye on his otherwise handsome face. The eye patch looked like it was a gaping open cat-like eye with a vivid cyan color as a part of a dusty red and purple scaled dragon like background.
To his left and the Warrior's 9-o'clock on the other hand was someone who was the total opposite. A strikingly gorgeous young woman in her mid twenties adorned with flowing blue hair that looked as if it were a crashing wave on the shore. She had a floor length dress that hid her feet completely and adorned with a myriad of different flowers and even a butterfly or two that seemed to be alive. Her dress sleeves exposed her shoulders and opened up in a bell shape near the hands. She also had a few flowers in her hair and her eyes sparkled like the reflection of light on the water. She had a small hairpin shaped like a yellow star shaped fruit with two small green leaves on the second and fifth points.
Once again contrasting, to her left and the Warrior's 10-o'clock was another woman, about the same height and age, but starkly different. She had shoulder length black hair and empty silver eyes. She had a sleeveless white dress that went down until about halfway down her thighs and had black thorn like decorations on it that looked like something akin to Xemnas's final form. Spiraling from her shoulders down past her hands were long decorative tassels shaped like nobody thorns. Dangling from a black and white checkered choker around her neck was a simple metal X.
To the Warrior's 11-o'clock was a tall, muscular looking man in his late forties with curly brown hair with matching goatee. He wore a dirtied brown tank top under a battered breastplate of brown colored metal. On his arms was a pair of long and bulky brown gloves that reached the middle of his upper arms. He had baggy dark brown pants with large muddied black boots. He was also leaning on a large grey war hammer. He had a tattoo on his right shoulder that looked like a reddish rock fragment with brown armor plating.
Finally, dead ahead of the warrior was a woman in her mid to late twenties with long shoulder length grey hair and blue square wire framed glasses over her aqua colored eyes. She had a stern looking expression and a piercing glare that was completely contrary to her attire. She wore an eloquent blue dress shirt with raindrop shaped cufflinks. She had on a pair of long yet tight knee length dark blue pants and a pair of tall black socks with white and blue tennis shoes. On her shirt was a set of unique inward crescent shapes with multiple strange looking rivets in each crescent.
He could tell there was at least one more figure in the shadows behind the woman but he could not see anything of it.
"I can sense that we are all of similar blood and heritage. I know what I am and what each of you are. But how and why we are here like this is unknown to me." The warrior said as he looked each of the others over.
"We shall explain that to you in time, brother." A deep male voice said behind the warrior. The warrior turned and saw, standing behind him, between the fifth and sixth figures, was a large man, covered head to toe in silver metal armor with blue jewels, a dark blue cape, and a helmet with two, long silver horns that noticeably extended past his shoulders. His face was completely hidden by the helmet, but there was a pair of glowing yellow eyes peering out from within the helmet's eye slits.
"Brother?" the warrior asked.
"You and I are brothers by blood. Don't you feel the connection?" the silver armored warrior asked.
"I do, but I sense darkness lingering around you, but not possessing you." The warrior said.
"I sense the light lingering around you in the same manner, brother." The silver warrior said.
"Then why are we here? What is our purpose?" the warrior asked, turning to look at all of the different people gathered there.
"We know our born purpose. Don't you know yours?" the flowered woman asked sweetly.
"I know mine, milady, but I do not know my purpose now as we are each standing here, nor do I know the purpose of this gathering." The warrior asked.
"We are gathered here to determine our purpose since we each gained these human forms. That is why we are gathered here." The hooded figure said.
"Do we have any answers yet then?" the warrior asked.
"We have none." The cloaked teenager said, closing his lone visible eye.
"Then do we have any leads on where to find the answers?" the warrior asked. The little girl then giggled.
"He sure asks a lot of questions, huh, Ion?" the girl asked the man attached to her. The man smiled sweetly down at her and chuckled slightly.
"He does, doesn't he?" The hooded man replied.
"We each possess fragmented memories of our origins. We remember the first time we manifested in a physical form and where. I suggest we search the worlds we originated from, and examine the hearts of those worlds to find the answers." The balding man said.
"Some of us cannot remember those worlds." the silver warrior said.
"Why the hearts of the worlds?" the warrior asked.
"Because the Heart of a World possesses vast and untold knowledge within it. Accessing it will provide us with answers or clues as to how we came to be." The balding man replied.
"What of the Heart-Bound? What if they discover us?" the burly man asked.
"HAH! Those guys are nothing compared to me! I'm so powerful I could beat 'em all easily with my hands tied behind my back!" the boy declared boastfully, earning a disdainful look from the grey haired woman.
"Silence, Wind! We do not need your long winded speeches!" the woman said as the boy glared at her.
"You're just jealous of my superiority to you, Rain!" the boy declared, earning an annoyed glare from the woman and the burly man.
"Oh would you just shut up already!" the burly man shouted at Wind.
"Sha! Mind your anger." The cloaked boy shouted, his cloak flaring up slightly, briefly revealing a skin tight black bodysuit with a sort of white skirt around the waist.
"Wind, dear, we know you are superior to us, but perhaps if you allowed Rain to speak?" the flowered woman said sweetly as Wind grinned.
"Sure, okay Des." Wind replied, running a hand through his hair.
"Anyway, if the Heart-Bound discover us, it will make no difference. In fact, it might even benefit us if we were discovered by them." Rain said.
"NO!" A pair of voices, one male, the other female, shouted from the shadows as a long grey chain lashed out and ensnared Rain by the throat. Rain quickly struggled to pull at the chain as it wrapped around her neck but to no avail.
"If the Heart-Bound discover your existence, they will attempt to destroy you! Destroy them before they do so!" the voices ordered in unison before the chains inexplicably loosened from around Rain's throat and clattered to the floor before disappearing back into the shadows.
"Destroy the Heart-Bound? I kinda like the sound of that." The hooded figure said, holding out its hands and allowing a pair of glowing blue swords to appear in its hands.
"They are irrelevant to our survival. There are others who can take their place." Ion said as Keep looked worried. Rain nodded in agreement.
"Then let us depart for the worlds of our origin, and learn what we can from the hearts of the worlds themselves. Dark, you shall go with your brother. Ion, you and Keep will go." Rain said as the four people in question nodded.
"Des, you and Beco will be a pair." Rain said as the flowered woman and nobody woman both nodded.
"Sha, I don't do this to you intentionally but…you and Wind shall go." Rain said hesitantly as the burly man's jaw dropped in disbelief.
"YAH-HOO!" Wind cheered as Sha started sweating.
"You've-…-got to be kidding me!" He groaned.
"They're not my orders, Sha." Rain said regretfully as Sha sighed in defeat.
"Why me?" he asked.
"Dawn, you and I are a pair as well." Rain said as the cloaked teen nodded.
"Which leaves Seeker and I. But we have received separate orders from the master." The balding man said as Rain nodded.
"Yes, I know. Then that means the rest of us should leave immediately." Rain said as five Corridors of Darkness opened up in a semi-circle. Soon all of the others were entering their Corridors and disappearing, the Corridors closing up behind them.
"We have our orders. Let us go brother." Dark said as he walked past the Warrior towards the last remaining Corridor.
"Wait, your name is, Dark?" the Warrior asked as Dark turned and nodded.
"Yes. It is because you and I are the same, both in name and origin, yet while you are of the light, I am of the Darkness. Perhaps Light would be a fitting name for you, brother." Dark said as the Warrior pondered.
"I already have a name. But seeing as how we have the same name, Light would suit me well as a nickname." The Warrior said as Dark nodded.
"Then let's go brother. Your world of origin lies beyond this passage." Dark said as they both walked into their Corridor, unaware of what lay on the other side.
(Music Cue: Sanctuary (Orchestral Version) – Utada Hikaru)
Star Tours Traveler Presents…
...a Kingdom Hearts Fanfiction…
…Inspired by the Kingdom Hearts Franchise created and owned by Square Enix and the Walt Disney Company…
…A Sequel to the highly reviewed Kingdom Hearts Fanfiction: Reconnect Kingdom Hearts…
Kingdom Hearts: The Second Darkness
End Chapter 1.
Please R&R…
I own all of the characters revealed in the first chapter (to a degree). I'll explain what I mean later on. By the way, if anyone with a Deviant Art profile wants to try their hand at drawing any of them, I'd like to see what you guys come up with, just please let me know if you decide to give it a shot, and send me a link when you're finished. However there are at least three characters that are based off of other pre-existing characters from other franchises. I'll explain later in the story.