Chapter 1 - Storyteller
It was during the same time Sora was having his adventures. There was another Keyblade wielder, in another world, having his own adventure against the Heartless. His name was Spike. He was 19 years old, quite handsome considering the world which he came from, but above all he was a Keyblade wielder. In his world the Keyblade has somewhat of a history, it is said that the first Keyblade wielder came from this world yet nothing is known about him in his world of origin. Spike had long blond hair from where he had not cut it for some time, he hadn't had the chance to cut it since he joined the Resistance against the Heartless and their emperor, Jirak. Jirak was the ruler of this world and had one day stumbled across a book about a legend. The legend of the Heartless. He studied this book of his, then one day he discovered a way to summon Heartless which is what he did. He summoned legions of Heartless to do his bidding, the darkness of these creatures had corrupted him to such an extent that his long white hair had become jet black and his baby blue eyes had become a shade of brown so dark that they now looked as black as night. This all happened 50 years ago.
Fast forward 31 years to the day that Spike was born, his father had been killed in the war against the Heartless. After making it to Jirak's chambers, he was gutted by one of Jirak's nameless henchmen. Being the first to get as far in to Jirak's castle, he was regarded as somewhat of a hero among humanity and regarded as a villain by the Heartless. Spike's mother was a young farm girl named Herty, she lived in one of the only places in the world that the Heartless had not attempted to destroy for it was fairly worthless. Herty worked on her father's farm, tending to the cattle every morning at 6am was hard work on this new mother but she did it for the love of her son. Spike used to ride the cows when he was very young, he would ask his grandfather every day for him to pick him up and put him on the cows back. Spike led a happy life. Until he was 15.
On Spike's 15th birthday, the Heartless destroyed his grandfathers farm. It wasn't known why they did this, there were rumours that the first Keyblade wielder had come back and that they sensed his heart there so destroyed the entire farm in hopes of finding him. Spike's grandfather led Spike down into an area beneath the house, an area which was safe from Heartless as a wizard had cast a spell on every house in the areas untouched by Heartless to create an area in which the Heartless could not go. With Spike safe, his grandfather went back to fight off the Heartless. He failed. His heart was taken by the Heartless as he tried to protect his daughter, his daughter watched as his body disappeared and his heart was corrupted by the darkness inside as it became a Heartless. Then she watched as the Heartless from her father took her heart too. The farm was wiped out, the only survivor was Spike. As he woke up the next morning he could hear that the Heartless had left so he went up to see what had happened and cried as soon as he saw it. Darkness. For miles. It was all there was. Everything had been destroyed by the Heartless and nothing had been left as it was. There was barely anything left of a single building, all that Spike could see was a dead cow. As he stood crying, looking at what was his home, that's when it happened, his Keyblade appeared before him. He knew it was his. Somehow he just knew. He picked it up and vowed to destroy every Heartless he saw, which he did until he was 17.
Spike was 17 now and had been travelling the world killing Heartless to become stronger, strong enough to end Jirak's reign on this world. He had found several "Keychains" which appeared to give his Keyblade different attributes when attached to it, and today he would get new one which he would keep with him till the day he died. As he fought Heartless, he saw eyes that he recognised in one of them. They were the eyes of his grandfather. He wasn't quite sure that he should destroy this one as it used to be his grandfather, but then he remembered his vow to destroy all Heartless, and he remembered what he had been taught by his mentor, Hiroshima. He had told him, "Heartless are not who they used to be, they do not even keep their memories. The are merely a corrupted Heart." Spike destroyed the Heartless of his grandfather and began to walk away, but something caught his eye. Where the Heartless had been there was a Keychain, it resembled both Spike's grandfather and Spike's mother. Spike attached it to his Keyblade and continued to destroy Heartless. After a few hours however, he broke his vow of destroying all Heartless. As he was fighting some, he heard a voice.
"Please! Spike! Stop!" The voice pleaded. Spike began to grow weary at this voice, unsure of where it was coming from.
"Who's there?" Asked Spike, the reply did not come for some time until finally, "I'm over here" the voice came as a Heartless stood up.
Spike readied his Keyblade and prepared to destroy the Heartless, but then asked "But… how can you speak"
The Heartless replied "I have been here a long time Spike, over time any Heartless could learn to speak. I want to tell you something"
Spike put his Keyblade down and sat on the rock, "Talk… but try anything funny and you're gone"
"Thank you" the Heartless said to Spike, "Now please listen, I am not evil. I was cursed in the time of the first Keyblade wielder. That is how I became so humanoid"
Spike looked at the Heartless and realised he really was quite humanoid, he looked like a human but with bright yellow eyes and skin the same colour as that of the Heartless. The Heartless' mouth had also become quite humanoid but was still very similar to the Heartless, as had the hands and feet.
"Okay. So what are you trying to tell me? That you're a Heartless cursed to look human?" Spike retorted,
"No no no… much more than that" The Heartless replied "I was not only cursed to look more human, but also to have light in me, a conscience, a soul and a mind. I'm more light than I am darkness"
"I see. But I don't care" Spike said standing up "You're still gonna be destroyed"
"No! Please let me help you. The Heartless can't hurt me because I am already one of them. I can also get you in to more places than you can go now." The Heartless said,
Spike sat down again, "Explain"
The Heartless began to talk again "There is a place called Kingdom Hearts, the place where all hearts are born. There is a Keychain there that you will need if you want to succeed in your fight"
Spike look at his new Keychain he had got from the Heartless of his grandfather, it looked like his grandfathers eye, when attached to his Keyblade it changed it's appearance to a grey coloured Keyblade with soft edges, rather than the sharp, jagged edges that most of his Keychains gave his Keyblade.
"…But you can not get in to Kingdom Hearts yourself, only beings of pure darkness, like Heartless, can get in. So I can get in for you and give you the Keychain." The Heartless finished.
"So what's in it for you?" Spike asked suspiciously,
"I'm hoping that I might learn something more in Kingdom Hearts about myself. About why I was cursed with light, and if I can redeem myself for what I have done in the past. I have been around a long time, destroyed many villages, destroyed an entire world by myself once. I want to find a way of restoring that world and those villages. I think the key to doing that lies within Kingdom Hearts"
"What's your name?" Spike asked,
"Hikari" the Heartless answered,
"Well… Hikari… You're lucky I believe you about your curse, and that you actually do want to restore the places you have destroyed. It's clear you're fighting the good fight." Spike said,
"So I can join you?" Hikari pleaded,
"Yeah. But if anybody tried to kill you for what you are. I'm not sure I will be able to protect you. There's a large resistance against your kind, I have not joined them because I have my own reasons for doing what I do, and I don't need help from them. I have my Keyblade."
One year on, the Resistance begged Spike to join them and offered to give him lots of money, so he did. Some of them could not accept Hikari though, so the scientists among them did certain tests on him to confirm he did have the curse he claimed to have. The tests resulted positive, he had told the truth and was accepted in to the Resistance. Spike met the leader of the Resistance, he was named Laguna. He and Laguna became good friends, it was not clear why but people thought perhaps they had similar pasts as neither of them would talk about theirs. One day when some Heartless came to fight the Resistance however, this all changed. Laguna had been leading his men in to battle and was changed in to a Heartless, but not before he threw his Badge of Leadership to Spike. When the new Heartless was formed, Spike gave him a nod and sliced him in half with his Keyblade.
"I have some bad news." Spike told the men, "Laguna was taken by the Heartless. He's gone now"
"So who will take over?" Hikari asked, "I read the books of this Resistance's past and it said that he who wears the badge is the rightful leader of us"
"You mean this badge?" Spike asked as he took the Badge of Leadership from his pocket and showed it to the men. As he held the badge out, the thousands of men in the Resistance kneeled before him. They kneeled before their new leader. Spike had inherited the trust of the Resistance to lead them in to battle.
One year on and it's the present day.
"So what's our plan?" Asked the Sergeant,
"Simple," Spike smirked, "Today, we're going to save the planet."