Prologue: A New Era Arises
There I was, sitting, looking at the blue sky…wondering if things had to be the way things were. Wondering…wondering…wondering if there was something I could do…to stop the pain…inside of me. I thought I could take a dip in the ocean, to relax. I got as far as my waist and I fell into the salty water. I don't know how I fell; I could feel the ground under me the whole time.
I sank deeper and deeper to the never-ending pit of darkness. I couldn't breath; I couldn't do anything other than sink deeper and deeper. I tried to get back to the surface, but something was pulling me downward. I looked to see what it was, but there was absolutely nothing. All I felt was the pulling of the water, wanting me to go deeper and deeper. When I thought I was a goner for sure, I felt ground once again. I could breathe clearly but when I looked up, I saw water. Where I was at, it was just like I was outside on a dry afternoon in the summer.
I was in the center of this huge platform and it was shaking! I stood my ground, or at least tried to. I almost fell but the vibration suddenly stopped. I controlled my balance; I looked up to see why the platform was shaking so violently.
I saw three kinds of different weapons: a sword, a staff, and a shield. Naturally, I walked over to the swords and picked it up. The remaining two weapons just disappeared after I backed away from where I picked up the sword.
After that, some sort of dark shadow-like creature arose from the ground. I walked over by one, but that one jumped backwards. The others around me jumped up and started to attack me. I decided to fight back; I slashed one in the throat. I just kept slashing and hacking at them. I don't know where they came from or what they are, all I know was that they wanted to hurt me and hurt me severely.
Once they were all gone, I noticed something strange…their blood was black, jet-black. I had it all over me, all over the place.
Then the weapons came back with the two remaining weapons that I did not choose: the staff and the shield. I walked over by the shield; I was just about to grab it when I heard a voice…a young guy's voice…about 17 years old.
"Don't take that one, take the staff!"
I turned around and saw a boy with brown hair and blue eyes. I stared walking over to him when he suddenly disappeared.
I decided to listen to the boy and to take the staff. Once I grabbed the staff, it disappeared out of my hands.
Stairs then appeared right in front of my eyes. "What the…" I walked closer to the stairs. I walked up them and they lead me to a small island with four people…waiting…waiting for me!
They all turned their face to see me. There was a girl with red hair and purple eyes. There was a boy that had Silvery-white hair and teal colored eyes. Another boy that had blonde hair and green eyes and the last person was the person from before, the brown haired blue-eyed boy.
"What…who are you?" I asked the brown haired boy, blue-eyed boy from before.
He walked over to me and said, "I am the key bearer, Sora." He paused and pointed to the red haired girl, "That is Kairi, princess of heart." The Red haired, purple-eyed girl came up to me, "Nice to meet you, could I ask your name?"
I smiled at her. I really wasn't a use to people being so friendly to me, "Hello, I am Ruki." I paused for a second or two…I looked around to see where exactly I am, "Where am I and what am I doing here?" I noticed that it was an island of some sort, a very small island.
The silvery-white haired boy came up to me when Sora and Kairi backed down to answer my question. "Why are you here, you ask? Only you can find the answer, you must look deep within yourself to find out." He paused and said, "By the way, welcome to Destiny Island."
The blonde haired, green-eyed boy looked confused, "Hey, I got here before her and she knows more than me!" He walked by me, "Your name is Sora and your name is Kairi."
I looked at the blonde haired, green-eyed boy and sighed, "Yes, for crying out load…just pay attention!" I looked at the silvery-white haired boy and asked, "But I never caught your name."
The silvery-white haired boy looked and the blonde haired, "I never gave it out." He then looked at me, "And…" he walked over to the railing of the edge and looked down, "I will not be ever giving it out." He got up on the railing and dove into the water below.
I become wide-eyed, "Is he allowed to do that?" I questioned Kairi and Sora. I walked over to the railing and looked down.
Sora came over by me and looked down also, "Yes, he is. Here on Destiny Island there are no rules." He paused, "And that is just Riku. He kinda has a hard time trusting everyone nowadays because of what happened to him a couple of years ago."
I looked at Sora, "What happened to him that made him this way?" I was curious of what had happened, maybe a little too curious. I knew I shouldn't have asked that question, but it was hard just to keep it in my thoughts.
Sora shook his head; "We really don't talk about it here at all." He sighed, "But it looked like we are all going to have to…due to you two being here." I knew Sora was referring to me and the other boy here.
I turned around to see Kairi and the blonde haired boy, but everything was beginning to get fuzzy. I turned towards Sora and still everything was fuzzy. "What is happening?" I questioned, "Everything is fuzzy"
Sora smiled, "It is time to go back." Sora paused and walked over to the blonde haired boy and Kairi, "Goodbye Ruki," Sora said, "Maybe we will run into each other sooner or later."
Suddenly, everything was completely white. I had no idea what was happening so I just went along with it. In a few seconds I could see color once again. I was on the platforms like earlier, but something was different. This one had the people I had just met on it other than a picture of a young woman.
"Do not be afraid of the darkness." A mysterious voice said. This voice sounded like no one that I knew.
I turned around to see if the owner of the voice was somewhere on the platform, but no one was there. The voice then said the same thing once again. I was getting a little bit scared, but not as scared as what I was going to encounter.
My shadow became taller and taller. Just after it reached its limits of the platform, it began to come alive. Once it grew much taller, it began to transform into something so horrible, so ugly, and so strange that its hands started to glow in a blackish-reddish color.
It looked at me, stared me down and I was totally helpless, until suddenly the sword from earlier appeared in my hands. I kind of figured that ever since I got my weapon in my hand, might as well put it to good use.
I ran up to the gigantic monster, that looks like it came from a child's nightmare, and started to slash it with the weapon. This monster was different than the ones I faced earlier today, those had blood…this one had none, but it was getting weaker and weaker every time I hit it with the sword.
Finally, it fell to the ground…dead…I think. My sword disappeared, the monster disappeared…I disappeared! I disappeared into a thick darkness that when I lifted my arm to see my hand, all I could see it the darkness.