Rai: So, uh, LS5 is writing another fanfic to bog himself down with. Maybe he'll find one that he can stick to one day. This time it's about Kingdom Hearts. Enjoy.
Rantixoas
The Castle that Never Was- Another day. But is it really day? You can never tell, what with our moon always being out. Every other world I'd been to had a spherical moon, but ours was shaped like a heart- like, one of the things I don't have. I don't understand why we want them so bad. I feel confused- but Axel tells me that nobodies like us can't feel. But if I could feel, how I feel right now would be confused.
I'm walking to the white room when something I've never seen before walks down the corridor, turning the corner I was preparing to round myself. It was wrapped completely in black, darkness seeming to flow from every pore in its body. It had spiky hair that was the same shade as the rest of his body, but was clearly defined and unkempt. Its hands ended in lengthy claws, almost as though it was just an oversized shadow. And its eyes were empty, almost pale blues. I could only tell that it was blinking because said blues filled with black on occasion.
"Um... hi?" I tried, looking at it with a somewhat friendly smile. "I'm Roxas."
"Roxas?" its voice was nearly the same as mine, with a sort of second voice coming with it. "That could be my name..."
"Huh?" I asked, looking at him with confusion- sorry, I can't be confused. Suddenly he, for I assumed it was a he now, looked sharply to his right.
"Trouble," he muttered, turning around and dashing in the direction I'd previously been going.
"What? Trouble?" I asked, worried, deciding against my instinct to follow him. I ran after him, observing how his hands stretched out, along with his arms, as he ran.
3-3-3-3-3
"What's going on?" Axel asked, looking around with a certain peculiarity in his eye. "What are you guys up to, huh?"
The dusks replied not, instead opting to prance around the white room in their fluid way, staring with apt consideration at the hallway leading into said room. Around thirty of the had suddenly appeared, floating around the room as though waiting for something.
"Odd, isn't it?" Luxord mused. "Perhaps the superior wishes us to strike them down?"
"With pleasure," Xigbar grinned, his arrowguns materializing in flashes of purple light. "I'm in the mood to blow off a little steam."
The sound of hurried footsteps was reverberating in the hallway before a figure shrouded in black skidded to a halt in the room.
"What... is that?" Axel asked, staring at said figure comprehensively as it panted. Why was he hearing double voices? The dusks clambered their way over to the new entry with rushed, purposeful movements.
Time passed as the dusks squared off against this strange person. It stood stone-still, dull sapphire eyes darting around the room. It then slowly raised its hand.
That was all it took for all heck to break loose.
The dusks bombarded the creature with their bodies, enwrapping while uttering threatening hisses and soundless howls. Axal, Luxord and Xigbar simply stood back, amazed at what they were seeing. What had set them off?
Suddenly, each of the dusks flew off in different directions, revealing the creature's hand, thrust forward and glowing a dim gray.
"Hey!" Roxas called from the hallway as he bounded into the room, gasping for breath. "What's going on?!"
"That's what we're trying to find out," Axel told his shorter friend, never taking his eyes off the strange being a few paces away from him. "Dusks think this guy's a threat."
The being lowered his arm, roaming in a jerky way to the middle of the room, never fully lowering its guard. The dusks floated downwards before they were almost at ground level, jetting across the floor towards it. T leapt up when they were upon him, almost hitting the twenty-feet-up ceiling before falling back down to the floor. The dusks pursued it rapidly as it dashed past Axel, going horizontal as it turned and ran around the glass wall in a panicked way.
"He needs help!" Roxas cried, summoning his keyblade and leaping towards the dusk nearest to him.
"Roxas!" Axel shouted, making the blonde pause. "We don't know anything about him aside from the fact that the dusks are after him. We can't pick a side right now."
"But..."
"Personally, I say we shoot 'em all up and ask questions later," Xigbar said, aiming his arrowguns at the creature as it bolted past him.
"Hold it, number II," Luxord ordered. "Leave it for now. Unless Saix or the superior command us to do so, we'll do nothing."
"Fine, fine," Xigbar muttered as the guns disappeared. "But don't say I didn't tell you so."
The figure was still running circles around the white room, gradually picking up speed on every pass. Suddenly, one of the dusks got wise and leapt in front of it. Yelping with surprise in that bi-voiced way, it slashed its hand out, causing the dusk to disappear.
"I wish you no harm!" it tried, leaping to the ground and raising its arms in defeat. "Let me be!"
Paying no mind, the dusks swarmed the creature. Axel had to hold Roxas back as an ear-splitting scream/howl blasted from the being's gaping mouth.
The dusks reacted to the sound by retreating rapidly, leaving the creature standing in the middle of the room once more. Its mouth, only just now open, revealed rows of sharp fangs that chilled the room's habitants to the bone.
The dusks attempted once more to attack- their final mistake.
The being moved as a blur of controlled slashes, somersaults, and leaps, shredding the dusks apart and leaving a thick trail of shadow behind it, fangs gnashing.
As soon as it was finished, another cloud of dusks materialized, lunging towards the creature. It bent down on all fours before standing, it's arms reaching for the ceiling as it scream/howled once more. Shadows erupted from the ground, shades of black and blue tainting the room as what seemed to be a gravitational pull yanked the dusks towards the creature, which upon being touched, ripped apart the dusks that weren't viciously eviscerated by the darkness. And then all was still.
The four nobodies gaped silently at the creature as it slowly turned towards them. It slowly raised an arm, and to everyone's surprise, a dark corridor opened in front of it.
"I have no business here," it whispered. "I'm leaving."
With that, it vanished into the corridor of its own creation.
"I think we should tell Xemnas about this," Axel muttered.
3-3-3-3-3
After that strange experience, the rest of the day went by pretty normally- up until the end. I did my mission and went to the tower, just like Axel and I normally did. Upon reaching the top where we always sat, I saw someone sitting in my spot.
It was him.
"Hey!" I shouted, and it looked my way without hostility. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm safe here," he responded, turning his head to the sunset calmly. "Nothing attacks me up here."
"Why were the dusks after you?" I asked him, cautiously walking up to him. He patted the spot next to him with a claw, gesturing for me to sit down.
"Don't ask me," he shrugged. "Guess I just looked appetizing."
"Who are you, really?" I asked, not sitting down.
"I'm a nobody, just like you," he responded.
"What?!"
"It's true."
"Well..." I stared at him, at a loss for words. "What's your name?"
"Well..." he looked up at my face, a smile on his own. His mouth was actually proportionate to his head, unlike the Cheshire Cat style I'd expected. "Considering who I was in my past life, I guess you could call me...
"Rantixoas."