The 15th Key
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My name is Grey. I have black curly hair and tan skin. Let's cut to the chase. My existence is a pitiful one. For starters, I'm an orphan because apparently my biological parents couldn't take care of me. I'm pretty sure they just wanted to ruin my life in the future, since life hasn't been very good for most of my life. I mean don't get me wrong, most of my foster parents were OK Everything always starts out fine in the beginning. We're all happy and loving life. Until that dreaded day that comes every year, my 13th of January, the unluckiest day of the year, especially for me. That's where all the happiness stops. Some kind of tragedy always happens on my birthday. The house catches on fire, gas explosion, murder, unexplained death, disappearance. Everyone that comes to close dies. It's painful to go through that every year. it makes me feel like my birth was a forbidden and dark thing. So now, i keep everyone at a distance. Of course, these mysterious deaths were not just overlooked. People were suspicious of me being the only survivor every time. Soon, they didn't look at me with pity, but with hate and suspicion that I had killed all those people. People started rumors and to make fun of me, calling me murderer, a freak, and anything else they could think of. So that's how I got here walking to the park in my black hoodie, jeans, and black and white Nike's listening to Golden Time Lover by Sukima Switch, on my Metropcs phone. It was my birthday today, so I skipped school, knowing anybody close would get hurt. I feel bad for the orphanage paying for the private school since not I'm going at all. They provide me 3 meals a day, a place to sleep and some job references. I have a job as a taxi operator taking calls and sending out taxis. It paid well but I have to work through the night. Also the Orphanage closes at 10:00 and you'll be outside the entire night waiting for someone to answer the doorbell at 4 in the morning. So I Leave my window open and climb the tree next to it to get back inside. So in short I have to talk to people on the phone( which gets tiring) until 4 in the morning, sleep for two hours, get ready for the hell they I call school, get ridiculed, have boring classes, get ridiculed some more, lunch, more classes, more ridiculing after school, then get ready for work. That's how my life went everyday, until today. Anyway back to the real story. I'm walking across the street when out of nowhere, I see a flash of black out of the corner of my eye. I jumped back just fast enough to dodge the attack. In front of me was this short, black monster looking at me with its yellow, beady eyes. It had a sphere head with what looked like antennae on its head with a small body scraggly claws and feet I stared at the creature, half in terror and half in interest. It lunged at me and i all i could think of was blocking with my arms i closed my eyes waiting for the attack to come. Though it never came. I opened my eyes and saw complete and utter darkness. I looked up, or at least what I thought was up. I was falling upside down, slowly. what I was falling toward was a stained glass window. I inspected closer to see it was me in the stained glass! I leaning was holding a giant black key. My eyes were closed too. Surrounding my picture were 10 small circles with blacked out silhouettes in them. I eventually flipped my self up right in the air and finally landed on the stained glass. I ran to the edge, almost falling into the dark abyss. I turned around and went into the center of the glass pillar. Then a voice started to speak. Though I wasn't hearing it from behind or even around me. No, it was more like it was speaking into my mind. It said " Do not be afraid. Your subconsciousness has traveled into your heart to awaken your true power. First you must pick 2 things that you think will be important on your journey" As he said this, in a triangle pattern at the edge circle, three white lights shined and three pedestals rose from the them. On the first pedestal was a sword, the next a shield, and finally a staff. "Will you pick strength, defense, or magic?" First I ran up to the sword and pulled it out of the pedestal. Now here was the hard part magic or defense? Defense is good for blocking and all,but with magic I could make a shield stronger and faster and I could do a lot more with it. So I took the staff from the pedestal and returned back to the center. The pedestals flashed and disappeared. The staff and sword flew out of my hands and fused together into a ... keychain. It was a star shaped keychain with black and white patterns on it. As I was about to ask the voice what it was, I was interrupted by another of the black monster. I getting ready to fight them with my fists when the keychain my hand started glow with white light and a dark aura around my hand. It started to shake so violently I had to let go of it. The keychain levitated in front of me, and from it a blade was formed in the shape of a key. "The Keyblade, Twilight's Awakening, is now your's."
( Note: I wouldn't be able to describe the keyblade even if really tried so if you want a good look at the keyblade follow the link: morelikethis/52528714?offset=360#/d2ncc9d
I grabbed it out of the air in my right hand and took my fighting stance. It jumped at me and I back stepped. I took the opening and came at it with a downward slash. When suddenly it faded into the ground and went behind me. I did a 180 degree turn slash, making it dissipate into black smoke. Three more came out from nowhere. I caught the first one by surprise and killed it instantly. The second one jumped at me and i slashed before it hit the ground. The last one jumped at me as well. This time my instincts took over. I grabbed the monster by the face and burned it to death with dark fire. I looked at my left hand in amazement and tried to recreate the magic from a moment ago. I focused the idea of black fire into my left hand. Finally, a small little flame appeared into my hand. I was kind of disappointed because of how weak it was and excited because I was doing magic. My attention was switched back to the voice. " Child, you now have two choices. If you go through the black door you will return to the moment the monsters attacked you and your heart will succumb to darkness and you will become one of them. All your pain and sorrow will end in an instant " It said. " However if you go through the white you will come back to your world with your Keyblade." You will then go on a perilous journey where all your suffering and despair will be increased by tenfold, your skills and determination will be tested, and where you will face your greatest fears. During the course of this journey you will learn about yourself, others, and your parents. Then when everything is over, there's a small possibility that this will end happily." So the decision is yours, Go on your journey or give up and become a Heartless." I started to think about which door to take, then mentally slapped myself for even considering the black door. I started to walk to the white door. "Remember you can never turn back once have made this decision" it said as I reached out for the handle. I turned it and opened it only to see more blinding light( this becoming an annoying trend) and walked into the light. I opened my eyes my to see I was back in the real world. I summoned Twilight's Awakening to my hand and slashed at the Heartless where it stood. I looked at the sky and clouds coming from the direction of the orphanage. I started to run to it as fast as I could. The road was full of crashed cars and Heartless Any spaces between was literally full of heartless. It looked like a river of darkness flowing from the orphanage. As not get caught in the darkness I jumped from car to car being careful not to get grabbed or fall. I eventually made it to the orphanage to find a horrible sight. The orphanage was no longer there and in it's place was a swirling tornado of darkness, wind, rain, and lightning. This was the storms epicenter. Rain drenched my hair clothes and clothes. Lighting struck and thunder rang out around me. Wind blew into my face and body almost like it was trying to keep me away. With one final leap, I forced myself into the tornado. Inside was a dark portal where the heartless kept coming out of. I charged forward slashing my way to the portal, while trying to think of way to close it. Just then I was hit with humongous black fist making me fly about 10 yards. I wiped the blood off my mouth and looked up. There was a giant heartless with a heart shaped hole in its chest and what looked like dreadlocks(?)on its head. Same beady, yellow eyes. It was so dark in the tornado I didn't notice it. On it's shoulder was a person in a black cloak. He yelled "Foolish Keybearer did you really think it would be so easy to get to the portal?!" Even you if you do close it, this Darkside(big one) here will just open another one and by the look of things the Shadows (small ones) are about finished with your world. As he said this hordes of Shadows went running into the portal. The man in the black cloak himself turned and entered his own portal. I charged after him to only to see another giant fist coming, I jumped out of the way. He got his fist stuck in ground, this was my chance. I jumped onto his hand and ran up his arm. I was filled with such hate for these abominations. I was tired of getting struck down, being made fun of, being blamed for things. I was sick and tired of it all. My powers, reacting to my hate and anger, awakened. My body started to glow a purple and black aura. My keyblade engulfed itself in the same purple and black aura. I leaped over its head and then came back crashing down. "Dark Impulse!" I yelled as I cut through it's body like butter. Then my power dissipated and I felt so tired. I fainted as the planet was engulfed by the darkness. The last thing I saw was a flash of silver.
Riku"s Point Of View
I was sent from Radiant Garden to investigate the massive amount of Darkness coming from Twilight Town. What I saw as I neared it was terrible. The whole planet was engulfed in a world wide hurricane of darkness. The ship detected faint life signs at the eye of the storm. I activated the afterburners and went diving into the atmosphere. I aimed the ship through the eye which was already starting to close. If I didn't hurry the eye would close and and this world would disappear, and us along with it. I landed and ran out of the ship looking for whatever had survived the Heartless invasion. I squinted my eyes to see an unconscious boy in the distance. I ran over to see if he was okay he had few bruises, some ribs that were broken, but besides that he was okay. I put him on my back and started to carry him back to ship. I looked up to see the eye becoming even smaller. Once inside I sat him against the wall and started the engine. I shot toward the eye which was now barely big enough for ship to go through. As we went through the opening, one of the wings was ripped off. Sending us spinning off into space. I started the stabilizers and we stopped spinning. I went to check on the boy he had been thrown a bit but concussions or anything. I wrapped him in a blanket. As I sat back down in the pilot's seat, I watched as the eye completely closed. Then with planet completely covered in darkness, it disappeared and became part of the Realm of Darkness. I contacted the Leon and told him what happened and if he could come tow us back to Radiant Garden. An hour later he came and connected our ships and started to take us back. I looked back at boy and he was still asleep. I could only guess how he had survived the Heartless. Though I am sure my guess is a pretty good one.
Grey's POV
I jumped out of bed and... wait how did I get in a bed. I was in a bed in what looked like a guest room. I was in a my underwear and a white shirt, and original clothing was on the bedside table washed, dried, and folded. With some eggs, bacon, and a chocolate chip muffin. I changed into my clothes and took the muffin. Then I walked out the door and started walking down the hallway from my room. I made as I turned the corner there was women there walking in my direction. She had white skin and brown hair and had a ponytail tied with a pink ribbon. She was wearing a pink button sweater with a light pink shirt. " Oh I was just going to check up on you" she said. My name is Aerith Gainsborough and I'm the nurse. I also washed your clothes for you." "Thank you" I said. " Could you tell me where I am and how I got here?" Well for your first question we are in the City of Radiant Garden, in the Restoration Committee's base of operations the Hollow Bastion." Why does it have such a foreboding name like Hollow Bastion?" I asked. "Well" she said "we haven't come up with a new name for it" " What about how I got here?" "Riku rescued you from your dying world and brought back here to the castle. You were still asleep so we undressed and put you to bed. That all happened yesterday. I used some magic to speed up the healing process. Even so you healed pretty quickly." she said with smile. You should go meet with the others in the Dining Hall, they would like ask you some questions about what happened yesterday." Okay." I said and she walked past me down another corridor. As I started walking I remembered I had forgotten something important. I had forgotten to ask where the Dining Hall was. "Well I'll just have to try to find it myself."
**********************************20 Minutes Later*********************************************
"Why did I ever think I would be able to find my way around here?" I said as I walked down hallway. The hallways all looked the same and it seemed as if I had been walking around in circles. I finally saw a sign that said Dining Room and cried out in joy. Just as I was about to open the door, I got hit in the face with it. I looked up to see. Two guys and a girl looked down at me in surprise The one of them had silver hair and a white sleeveless jacket with a yellow collar and a black shirt underneath. He had on blue jeans with white sneakers with black stripes on the side and and a yellow toe cap. The guy next to him had long brown hair in bangs parted in the middle and a black short sleeved jacket with a white fur collar and the same lion symbol on left sleeve. He black gloves and black jeans and a brown belt black shoes. The girl had black hair parted on the left side. She had on a dark grey unzipped combat vest with two zippers on the left breast. She had on a navy blue tank top with a white floral pattern. She was wearing dark tan shorts, black socks and dark tan converse boots. On her right wrist she had white wristband , a dark grey finger-less glove on her right hand, and a black headband with white lining (not a sweatband). The girl smacked the brown haired man in the back of the head. "Look what you what did Leon! You hit the kid square in the face with door!" she said " Yuffie, you were the one who started to run out the door to meet the new kid." said Leon who was still rubbing his head. "Oh" Yuffie said with a guilty look on her face. "Sorry Leon" "You should be saying sorry to the kid, who's still on the floor" pointing down at me. "I'm fine really, just a little sore" I said getting up and dusting myself off. "So are you the people who Aerith told me about?" I asked. At this point the guy with the silver hair moved forward. "I guess we are. My name is Riku and you have already met Leon and Yuffie." Leon is the chairman of the Restoration Committee, Yuffie is vice chairman, and I'm a Keyblade wielder. he said with grin " Wait you're a Keyblade wielder" I asked surprised "Yes I am" and with that he held out his hand summoned is Keyblade.
The guard of the blade was made up of an angel wing and a demonic wing in a circular fashion at the top of the guard and the bottom of the blade was a blue eye with a black cats eye. The blade was a straight and fully extended demon wing. On the back of the blade was a closed light grey angel wing. The key chain was a black heart with red lining on the edges.( if you really want a picture of the characters, weapons and whatnot just search it on Google "Way to Dawn" he said with a smile on his face. "I guess I'm a Keyblade wielder too" they stared at me in with questioning looks until I summoned Twilight's Awakening to my hand. Leon and Yuffie looked surprised, but Riku still had a smirk on his face. " Looks like I was right about how you survived the invasion. Let's go somewhere more private." We walked down some corridors until we came to a door at a dead end. we walked into a bare study. Leon walked past us and stood in front of the wall. He took the glove off his right hand and pressed it against the wall. A secret hand scanner in the wall scanned his for his handprint. "Voice Recognition Password" said the computer oddly sounding like a person. "Lionheart." said Leon. When he said that a rectangular part of the wall moved to reveal black walkway, which we went through. it lead to a big computer room with a window overlooking the actual room, which was enormous. The computer keyboard was huge with a big sized screen. At the keyboard was an older man. He had a muscular build. He had on a white t-shirt and his pants were up to his rib cage, which I found weird but didn't comment on. To each his own. He had blond blond hair, goggles on his head and black shoes. He had also had a toothpick in his mouth. He ignored us we entered the room. "Hey Cid whatcha doin " said Yuffie walking over to monitor to investigate. At this point, he looked over at Yuffie, then past her to see the rest of us. Oh hello, Yuffie, Riku, Leon, and... who's the kid?" "Um, actually we haven't asked him anything yet we wanted to go somewhere a little more secure to talk." "Okay then first off tell us your name and what happened that day." I explained everything that happened up until I reached the Dining Room. "So there was a man in a black cloak, who seemed to be controlling the Heartless?"
End Chapter one
So what do you think this was a school project for English class. This fic was sorta brought up by my want to finish "The Twin Keys" but not wanting to continue something that I made when I was 11. Also don't expect chapters this big all the time , this whole "chapter" was written in a week. abrupt end I know but this was literally
