Prolouge!

Discalimier: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts... you really don't wanna know what would happen if I did.

PLEASE READ THIS!

CONTAINS SPOILERS TO BIRTH BY SLEEP AND A FEW OTHER GAMES (I also will not be including Xion, and please, I have only ever played Birth By Sleep; none of the other games so if you could point out mistakes that aren't vital to my story plot and go easy on me, I don't know any other persons character apart from Mickey and Aqua. Please can you give me a timeline for the games; like important events and character deaths; thank you!)

Also the first few chapters will be shorter than the rest, 'cause it's just the introduction really :)

Aqua sat in the Realm Of Darkness, she felt empty. She had given up on escape what seems like an eternity ago and with that hope of escape went the hope of ever seeing her friends again. She had her knees tucked up to her chest, her arms crossed ontop of her knees and her head layed on them. Her eyes that were once filled with joy and happiness now held nothing but deep regret, sorrow, hopelessness and emptiness as she gazed across at the black waves rolling back and forth, lapping at the sand like a thirsty dog; but she wasn't really seeing the waves. As time passed she didn't age or change, her clothes were just as clean and still fitted her perfectly, her hair remained the same length and colour. Instead she lost pieces of her memory to the darkness that was threatening to absorb her; images that were once vivid, clear and sharp were now nothing but blurs of colours and noises.

She wasn't sure how long it had been since she saved the oldest boy of her little group from falling into eternal darkness...what was his name again? Terry? Terrence? Terro? Terra... yes; that sounded right, Terra. Then there was the younger one, his name lost on the tides that trapped her here; but she remembered him in different ways, one with black hair one with blonde; one with blue eyes and one with golden. None of it made sense to her. She stopped trying to remember because it hurt the small amount of heart she had left that hadn't be crushed. She had gotten rid of the keyblade which she carried with her, the one that wasn't hers- by throwing it into the ocean and watching as the tides carried it away from her, the same way they carried away the light in her heart and let the darkness begin to embed itself in it's place.

She wasn't scared of the unversed that lurked here, nor those weird shadow fiends with glowing yellow eyes that were unfamiliar to her; because she knew she was safe on this beach; all the time she had been sat here not a single one of the monsters had approched her. How long had she just sat here staring out at the black waves, dull moon, grey sand and granite rocks? She didn't know (like with most things these days.). She had told herself she would sit down to rest for a few minutes; but then the truth dawned on her. Then those mintues became hours, then hours became days and those days turned into months. She had spent the first few weeks just studying the environment; and,in a surreal way,found it quite beautiful. After that she simply sat and thought, never once moving.

The ocean, it looked so tempting, but she had avoided it until now because it was made of darkness and she remembered being told by someone close to her that darkness equalled evil. Now, however, the darkness didn't bother her and she actually found it's sinister prescence comforting. She decided she had been tempted long enough and stood on her feet; leaning on one of the granite boulders for support seeing as her legs were screaming out in agony as she attempted to put them to use.

After the unbearable pain became ever so slightly duller she allowed her legs to guide her into the opaque waters. She started at ankle deep, looking down as the water drifted playfully around her and relaxing her muscles; making her advance to knee deep the blue clothes tied to her sides by a white ribbon entered the water, being dyed grey in the proccess. Before she knew it she was in up to her chin, and finally letting her head fall under the surface.

'Why is fate so cruel?' She thought to herself 'Why I am still trapped in a world so horrible when I have been told I am noble and kind?'

Her oxygen was becoming scarce and she knew it, but she wasn't quite ready to surface yet. Suddenly a bright flash of light caught her eyes from just a few feet away. Upon closer inspection was identified as a door of light; her eyes widened, She began to swim towards it, not wanting to be stuck there anymore, but her vision was getting blurry thanks to the lack of oxygen in her lungs. With a final lunge/stroke she managed to graze her finger-tips against the pure light before she lost conciousness, but that was enough as her body was engulfed in the warmth of light and taken from the Realm Of Darkness.

Aqua's blue eyes fluttered open gently only to shut again as something unfamiliar to her now,blinded her. Quickly pinching herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

'OUCH! Ok; definatly not dreaming.' She thought. So that meant...for the first time in what felt like foreverr, a small genuine smile crept onto her lips.

'I'm...free.' She whispered in a hoarse and scratchy voice that hadn't been used in a long time. She couldn't believe it, she was no longer restricted to a beach or certain death and she revelled in the warmth of the sun and the light that graced her graying flesh, but her troubles were only about to get worse as a group of Heartless began to approach her, hiding in the shadows. Aqua snapped her head up as the feeling of negativity overtook her feeling of joy; meaning it was probably Unversed.

'Show yourself!' She ordered weakly, and-to her dismay- they did. The Hearless leapt at her from the shadows, landing straight on her and knocking her body to the ground; frantically she tried to summon her keyblade to her side, but it wouldn't come to her; that's when she remembered she left the keyblade she had had in the Realm Of Darkness. Unable to summon a keyblade, she began to kick and punch them off of her but that didn't work either for her hands and feet just went straight through them.

Aqua began to panick badly as the creatures advanced to her chest-straight over her heart- and began scraping their claws against it; Aqua fought but she couldn't win. A sudden pain overtook her causing her to writhe on the ground in pure agony, screaming and crying; when she felt that she could,she opened her eyes and just in front of her hovered a tiny ball of light with small tendrils of darkness snaking around it. She tried to reach out for it but it quickly sped off and Aqua's vision went black as the Heartless scrurried away back to the shadows.

How did I do? If you think Aqua's OOC then think of it this way: She's been sat in the Realm Of Darkness for 11 years with no-one there for her, having to fight off monster and just being alone; could even the PUREST hero survive that without a single doubt for escape (and in a realm of pure darkness, if you doubt it's no doubt that your going to start having darkness infest your heart!)

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