Kingdom Hearts
Heart of the Key and Soul of Time
By: Dragon Drow
Key and Soul Chapter 1: Dreams and DestructionDarkness surrounded two men as they fell. One had spiky brown hair, while the other had long silver hair. Strange coloured lights began to surround the two men and separate them. The men reached for each other, but they were two far to reach. It seemed that everything was pushing them away from each other. As if nothing wanted them to be together. Soon the two men fell onto a stain glass circular floor that was cut in half. "Sora!" The silver haired man called.
Sora turned to the silver haired man. His brown hair barely bordered his face.
"Riku! Are you alright?!" Sora called to the silver haired man.
Just as Riku was about to answer, the stain glass floors under them turned a blood red colour, and began to separate. The darkness seemed to squander away from a bright light that seemed to fall between Sora and Riku. The two men noticed that a person with red hair and star cheeks fall between them. The darkness began to follow the person as they were falling.
"Find the one with red hair and star cheeks. They have the blood of the worlds in their veins," a deep echoing voice ordered.
And then…
Sora awoke suddenly in a sweat. His dark blue eyes looked out the window of his small wooden room to see that the summer sun was already high in the sky. After a moment of examining the many messy piles of books and clothing sprawled across the floor, Sora got up and walked over to the closet. He opened the dark doors, and examined what few bits of clothing that was actually on hangers. The first article was his yellow swim shorts. Today he was not going to the beach, so he put the shorts back in the closet. The second article was a simple white t-shirt that had "I 3 Riku" imprinted on it. This was a somewhat serious occasion, so Sora put the shirt back in the closet. Third was a small piece of red fabric that could possibly be female panties. Nothing of that nature was happening so that was put back in the closet as well. The final article was a black jacket with dark green lining. A bronze laced short cape was attached to the collar of the jacket. With an agreement in Sora's mind, he took the jacket off the hanger and threw the hanger onto the floor. He searched the piles and found a dark red t-shirt, and black baggy pants with light green spirals that went down to his knees. He changed out of his pajamas and into his new clothing. Sora examined himself in his small circular mirror.
"Sora! Hurry up already!" Riku's calm voice yelled from below.
Sora quickly grabbed his brown gloves with red and green lining and his silver chain necklace with a silver crown on it and ran out of his room, and down the wooden stairs.
Downstairs, Riku leaned against a wooden support beam and waited. His dark purple sleeveless vest covered his black sleeveless shirt. A sliver belt held up Riku's dark purple pants that were skin sight from his waist to his knees, and baggy after a black band around Riku's knees. Long silver wings were stitched on the baggy part of the pants and the black bands around Riku's knees. Riku wore a purple fingerless glove on his right hand that had a small silver wing tied around the wrist. On his other hand a long black band was wrapped around his hand, and tied between Riku's index and middle fingers. His purple and silver shoes tapped on the wooden floor. Sora ran down the stairs, and apologized for being late.
"It's alright, but Kairi went to meet us at the market," Riku replied.
Sora nodded and put the silver chain over his head. Riku turned towards the front door. His long silver hair rolled down to his back. Riku's light blue eyes stared at the clear blue sky.
"We should get going," Sora interrupted.
Riku agreed silently, even though he really didn't want to go shopping today. The two friends left the house.
Outside, Sora and Riku climbed down a ladder and headed to the small dock, where a shaky wooden raft was tied to a post. Sora questioned for a moment about the durability of the raft, but then again he was going with Riku. He climbed onto the raft, while Riku untied it from the post. Riku jumped on the raft, picked up the paddle, and steered the raft north.
As the raft moved shakily through the raging sea, Sora once again questioned the stability of the raft. He turned to Riku who paddled through the water as if it didn't even move. To get his mind off the raft, Sora stared at Riku. Nor did he question how there could be so many violent waves on a cloudless, sunny day with no wind. It seemed that Riku's silver hair dancing in the wind soothed Sora.
"It wasn't this rough when I sailed here," Riku pointed out.
Sora mumbled at the mention of the water, and the weak wooden raft. Riku noticed Sora's disappointment and turned to him.
"Don't worry so much," Riku replied, "We should be back to the main island soon…"
Riku's attention turned to the small patch what was the large island where most of the people on Destiny Islands lived. It was outlined in bright red flames. The sky around the island became the blackened colour of coal. Sora stood on the raft, and summoned his silver keyblade. He ordered Riku to keep rowing towards the island. Sora wasn't about to let his home be destroyed without a fight again.
Sora and Riku landed on a beach. Although they were only a few minutes, many buildings were destroyed, or had ashes laced on the white bricks. Sora jumped off the raft, and headed into the city. Riku paused and looked up at the sky.
Can't anything ever stay peaceful? Riku thought.
The ashes of the sky seemed to move toward the center of the island. As it moved, the ashes rained down onto the city. The terrifying screams echoed through the streets. Riku couldn't allow innocent people to be hurt. He ran the same way Sora did, but something seemed wrong. Riku paused and looked up at the sky. For a brief moment, a bright star shined through the ash. Yet it took the same amount of time for Riku to realize that something was falling towards him. He rolled out of the way as the object crashed into the ground. Riku looked up to see a familiar golden handle of the keyblade. But he just saw Sora run off with it. As he examined it closer the blade that was stabbed into the ground was clear, with silver sand running inside the blade. Riku pulled the blade out of the ground. The end was shaped like a keyblade. The strange silver sand spread back down to the handle, and was trapped at the top. A small slip of white paper hung off the handle.
"Use the Time wisely," Riku read quietly.
Although Riku was thankful to have a weapon at his side, the bad grammar of the note didn't help him understand what was happening. He ripped off the small note and ran after Sora.
At that time, Sora ran through the city. The buildings were still burning, and the people lay on the ground lifeless. But there was no sign of what had caused this event. As he came closer to the large fountain at the center of town, a tall woman with long blonde hair, and a red dress came into view.
"Lady! Get out of here!" Sora yelled.
The woman didn't move. Her long locks didn't even move in the wind.
"Run!" Sora ordered.
Once again the woman didn't move. Sora ran right up to her, and reached for her hand. In a quick flash the woman's slender hand grabbed Sora's thin throat and lifted him up with ease. Sora kicked the woman, but his foot ached afterwards. As if he had kicked stone instead of flesh. The woman turned her head right around with a crack, which creeped out Sora. It only lasted a moment, because Sora noticed that the woman's skin was completely made of stone. Even her unblinking eyes were the same light grey colour. Sora gasped for air, but the woman's grasp was unreeling.
"SORA!" Riku's calm delightful voice called.
Riku ran towards Sora. The woman turned to Riku, but her eyes seemed to be drawn to his new keyblade more than Riku himself. She released Sora, and ran towards Riku. The woman was rather fast, even though her steps echoed like real stone. In a second, Riku's keyblade cut through the woman's neck, as if it was butter. The woman's head fell to the ground, right after her body. Sora and Riku stared at the body expecting it to get back up, but what happened was far more gruesome than ever expected. The dark red blood slithered down the woman's eyes. The same blood spilt from her ears and neck. It lavished the stone road. The more Sora and Riku watched, the more the blood leaked out of the woman's body.
Riku noticed that some of the tall palm trees were being sucked into the ground leaving a patch of bright green energy moving about. He shook Sora to get his attention off the woman's body.
"Something is wrong here! We are facing an enemy we can't fight without hurting others, and Destiny Islands is being destroyed!" Riku yelled.
Sora thought for a moment then nodded in agreement. A strong wind blew by for a second. Sora turned to see a very familiar red and yellow gummi ship hovering over the ground. The door on the side slide opened, and Donald reached with his white hand for Sora. He wore the same dark blue jacket and hat from before.
"Sora! Grab my hand!" Donald ordered in his memorable high-pitched voice.
Sora did as he was told, but also reached for Riku. He would not leave Riku again. Riku reached for Sora's hand, but the gummi ship was already rising and too far apart. The two friends called for each other and their world, their home was beginning to be sucked into it's self. Riku watched as the gummi ship went out of sight.
Sora, please be safe, and come back for me, Riku's heart whispered.
Suddenly someone grabbed Riku's waist and lifted him up off the ground that quickly disappeared under him. Someone threw him into the sky.
"You'd better be safe. The worlds depend on all three of you," A warm sweet voice said.
There was a blast of the bright green energy that quickly drained back to the center of where Destiny Islands used to be. Riku was once again left in darkness, but he wouldn't be corrupted like last time.