RIPMYHEARTOUT: PROLOGUE - HEARTLESS
Heartless: (noun) those without hearts.
Creatures of darkness, they feed on the blood of humans in order to survive.
Characteristics:
Pale skin, sickly or frail appearance, inhuman strength, they reportedly lack emotion, and use their aesthetic appeal to lure in their prey.
Weaknesses: None known.
Roxas closed his biology book with an audible thud. It was such bullcrap, what their teachers fed to them about heartless in school.
The heartless. They had taken over Radiant Garden about three years ago, renaming the city Hollow Bastion, and plunging it into darkness.
They weren't creatures. They were people – or, at least they had been once. People who had been transformed into more beautiful and deadly versions of themselves. In fact, that was the one thing his book was right about.
The first thing: they were gorgeous, but you couldn't let that fool you. Any one of them could kill you without a second thought.
But, the blond mused, toying with the frayed edges of the cover, the book was wrong about one rather important fact.
The heartless didn't feed on human blood. They fed on human hearts.
Roxas knew all too well what the heartless were capable of.
After all, he was one.