"The heart is a peculiar thing Xehanort, it is delicate at the same time the strongest part of us. It contains our light."

"And our Darkness. Master Ansem." Xehanort said.

"Yes but we must not let it consume us, we must live in a balance of light and dark." Ansem replied. "We have not even manage to grasp the heart's true potential. Imagine what this discovery may bring. It may even help us cure your amnesia. Now come, we still have much to learn. Are you ready to start the experiments?"

"Yes master we'll start at once."

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I woke up with a cold sweat. "Damn, who are these people. I've never met them but they seem so familiar." I got out of my bed and stumbled to the door still a little groggy from last night's whiskey. I took a look at at the mirror and saw a man with heavy dark bags in his green eyes, a big unkempt bushy beard followed by a matching moustache that curled upwards at the ends with a couple strands out of place and his long messy hair spilling over the red headband on the man's head. The man was wearing a gold and black pirate's coat with red coating the inside. I smiled at the reflection and ran a hand through my hair. I opened the door and fell on the deck of my ship. I rolled and fell on the sand of the beach since my ship has been beached for years.the ship was almost vertically in the ground from the left side up.

I got up and picked up a nearby whisky bottle and drank the few drops left before stretching.

What's on the agenda today. I took my notepad out of my pocket and looked at yesterday's to do list.

Wake up

Drink

Train Sora and Riku

Drink

Hang out with Sora and Riku

Drink

Go to sleep.

All were crossed out so I ripped the page out and looked at today's to do list and it was identically the same. So I dug up my stash of booze in the sand and started drinking. A couple minutes later on cue the trio of Sora, Riku and Kairi came running towards me. Sora and Riku neck and neck trying to trip the other while Kairi was just enjoying the wind in her hair. The two weren't paying attention and stomped on me as I was relaxing making me spill my drink.

"I win!" Sora and Riku said in unison. I hit both the kids on the head.

"Idiots" I said glaring at the two who were wincing in pain, Kairi laughing.

"You're already drunk?" Riku asked.

"Nope, that's the problem. Anyways you two ready" I asked shaking off the growing hangover and the two boys pulled out wooden swords. "Alright let's get started I said pulling out my rusty blunt cutlass with one hand while taking a swig of alcohol from the other. Kairi sat on my ship as she watched us train. I blocked, parried and dodged their strikes getting nicked every now and then. I would also strike one of them after each swig I take. Eventually I ran out and threw my bottle at Riku's head and it bounced off hitting Sora's before landing on the sand.

"Ouch! That was a dirty move!" Sora said holding the spot on his head where the bottle had hit.

"Some people won't fight clean so we'll have to be ready for anything" Riku said. The two were always like this, Sora being a carefree soul and Riku being the serious older brother.

"Alright, training is over what's the plan for today."

"Well we were thinking of the outside world." Sora responded.

"Yeah, we want to build a raft and sail the seas like you did." Riku said. I saw a glint in all their eyes, it was time for them to move on. I always felt like their big brother so I was happy with their decision.

"Well you're gonna need more than a raft, you'll need a ship. Good thing we got the best one right here." I said patting my ship.

"But it's destroyed" kairi said. With a smirk I stood up and gathered my strength and started to lift the ship. The kids watched in awe as I did the impossible. And lifted the boat so that it was now out of the sand and level on the beach. A big hole was revealed from when I crashed into some rocks.

"All we need to do is patch this hole up, get some food and we'll be ready to set sail tomorrow." I said.

"How did you do that" Sora said still in awe.

"Oh that, I've always had such strength maybe I was some gym freak before my amnesia. Or maybe I was a giant in a past life" I said giving a hearty laugh.

"Well if that's all we need to do then let's go what are we waiting for!" Riku said before running off with Sora close behind. I stopped Kairi before she could run off as well.

"What about you Kairi, remember anything before coming to this island?" I asked her.

"No, whenever I try to remember my mind gets all cloudy." she said.

"Figures, alright on you go lassy. If you hurry I might make you my first mate" she got excited and ran. Too bad that spot is reserved for Riku or Sora. I took out my notepad and crossed out the things I already did. "Guess it's time for another drink."

One Hour Later

I was on a tree drinking looking to the ocean when I noticed Riku, Kairi and Sora. The two boys made a bet that whoever won a race would get to share a paupau fruit with Kairi. I laughed and the two ended up getting in a tie anyways. They started arguing when they changed the bet to who would be the first mate.

"Hey now, I get to decide that" I said approaching the two. "And whoever lands a hit on me tomorrow morning when I'm sober will get that position." We all laughed knowing that I'd never be fully sober.

The rest of the day was spent repairing the ship but we needed some wood and I knew just where some were. Right in the secret place. Me and Sora made our way over to the small hole and found just what we were looking for. Sora got distracted with the drawings on the wall and decided to add more to his art. I was standing above him as he drew a hand giving Kairi a Paupau Fruit. I smiled at the kid's affection for the girl. Those two were always close ever since she arrived on the island.

I stopped smiling when I felt a strange presence near us so I turned around and standing in the shadows was a hunched man in a brown cloak. I couldn't make out his face due to the lighting and his hood covering his face. "Who the hell are you?" I asked

"I've come to see the door to this world." he said "This world has been connected."

"What are you talking about?" Sora asked.

"Tied to the darkness, soon to be completely eclipsed. You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."

"So you're from another world!" Sora said. I couldn't believe it, i've been across the seas but never across worlds it's ridiculous.

"You have much to learn, you understand so little."

"I'll show you, I'm going to go out and learn what's out there!"

"A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing, can understand nothing."

"Well I understand that I can probably kick your ass." I said.

"Ignorant fool, you don't even know who you are let alone what you are. "You two will soon learn your destiny. Until that day you two will remain nothing." And he just disappeared right before our eyes. A single blink and he was gone.

"Let's head back Sora. Don't worry about that guy he's an asshole." and we headed back. The ship had been repaired. All we had to do was set out and sail, but it was nearing nighttime so we decided to go tomorrow morning. Sora and Kairi went to go hang out but Riku stayed. We were inside the ship in the captain's cabin. I was trimming and grooming my beard and hair not having done that in a couple years.

"Hey old man, do you really think we can find a whole new world out there?" He asked.

"Hey I'm almost 20 I'm still in mt prime. And to be honest, I'm not really sure. I can only remember that I did sail the seas and didn't find much. Other than that I don't remember a thing. I guess tomorrow we'll have to see. So how's it look?" The beard was trimmed down all way down a quarter inch and my hair barely reaching my shoulders where it once reached my lower back.

"Well now you don't look so old now. Just the eyes."

"Yeah well not much can fix that" I said taking a swig from a nearby bottle. We sat on the ship looking at the sun set but the boy decided to head home after I decided to blackout.

I woke up in the middle of the night due to the ship sailing off due to a hard storm so I got onto the deck tied a rope to the mast and went on land and pulled with all my might. But due to my drunken state I didn't tie the knot hard enough and it came undone. I watched as my ship sailed away without me.

I fell to my knees, now I only have my cutlass as a reminder of a past I can't even remember. I decided to go crash at Sora's but a couple of small shadowy figures with antennas surrounded me. I took out my cutlass and cut them down but my sword wasn't very effective and I barely held them off. More just kept coming so I ran out of the cove closing the door to it behind me. Ahead I saw Riku and Sora talking so I went to them. The two were being enveloped in darkness so I jumped to them trying to save them but me and Sora were swallowed.

After a moment of darkness a small light grew and the darkness was gone and the light took form in a large key like sword that Sora was wielding.

More of the shadows surrounded us. "Alright Sora let's do this, I taught you everything you know now take up arms and fight" I said. Back to back we fought off the shadows but his key sword was more effective at dealing with them.

"I think I know where they're coming from!" Sora said and ran off. I followed behind and we came to the secret place but the hole was replaced with an elegant white door. Inside was Kairi, the wooden door behind her opened and a strong wave of darkness flooded in pushing her to Sora's arms but disappeared upon impact. We were both blown out of the cave.

I lifted my face from the ground and we were on a small island above us a black hole. And underneath it was a large shadow. This has to be a drunken dream!

The large shadow had a heart shape cut out of its body and charged and fired balls of darkness at us. Sora blocked two shots and I blocked a third but my cutlass was disintegrated. I had no weapon, the shadow raised its hand with a ball of darkness forming in his hand and he slammed it down spreading that darkness around the hand. Sora started smashing the hand but he didn't notice the smaller shadows forming from the darkness behind him.

I grabbed a nearby branch and used it to push the shadows away. The large shadow pulled his arm back and Sora helped me dispose of the little ones. The large shadow smashed his hand down again except this time he hit Sora and his arm went through the ground. Sora was knocked out so I tried to pick up the keyblade but it disappeared. I look back at the large shadow and it had a large ball of darkness that looked like it was about to explode. I don't know what it was but instinct drove me to jump into that ball. I felt extreme pain but the ball started to shrink and stabilize and soon it was in my hand, I was standing on his hand and we were facing one another. The dark ball turned into a complete black version of Sora's keyblade and it also gave off a faint teal glow so I jumped and slashed the shadows face.

I landed on the sand next to Sora to see the shadow get sucked up into the black hole. Soon Sora and I were getting sucked in. I grabbed his hand and held onto a piece of wood but it too was sucked in. And for a while we were floating in darkness, and then I blacked out.

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Traverse Town

I slowly woke up and took a look at my surroundings. I was laying down on a couch in a room with a big brick oven that wasn't lit. There were also posters around but I couldn't make them out in the dark room. I saw light coming from a door so I walked towards it but I stepped on a trap door and fell through the floor. "Christ kid where in the heck did you come from." I heard in a southern accent.

I looked to where the voice came from, I saw an old man with blonde hair and goggles resting on his head. He had a toothpick sticking out from his mouth. "Hey old man where am I?" I asked.

"You're in Traverse Town kid, speaking of kids do you know a kid with spiky hair?" the man asked.

He must be talking about Sora. "Yea he's a friend of mine."

"Well you better find him, kid ran off looking for his friends." I got up and headed for the door. "be careful out there kid, there are heartless out there."

"What's a heartless?" I asked

"They're monsters that take different shape but have one goal in mind, to steal people's hearts." sounds like those black creatures from the island. I heard a loud gunshot noise from outside so I went to investigate. I saw a man holding a huge sword/gun pointing it at Sora who was unconscious. I reached for my cutlass and found nothing but the black keyblade from before appeared in my hands. I slashed it at the man and sent him back. "Who are you?" the man asked with a glare before looking at my keyblade. The a look of surprise appeared on his face. "You have one too"

I responded by attacking him again. We exchanged strikes but I was gaining the upper hand. He backed away and pointed his sword at me. "Take this!" a fireball formed at the tip of his sword and fired it at me. I quickly blocked it with my keyblade and reflected it back at him. He wasn't expecting this and the blast knocked him on his ass. Before he could get up I pointed my keyblade at him. "I got some questions for you" I said before I felt something hit me in the back of the head, hard. "I told you you'd need my help" said a female voice.

"Tsk, it was just that guy, he surprised me. He's also pretty strong too." Once again I started to fade out of consciousness.

Author's Note

This story has been in the making for a couple years now. I never got around to publishing it until today. I've got real big plans for the future so let me know what you guys think. Leave a follow and favourite if you want more. Other than that I'll see you guys next time.