Kingdom Hearts: Fate's Final Fantasy Chapter 1: Prologue: Twilight Path, a kingdom hearts fanfic

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Kingdom Hearts: Fate's Final Fantasy

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Prologue(disclaimers) Revised 8/4/09

Book One Summery: Sora has been fighting only one side of a multifaceted war. People are showing up out of nowhere, and stars are starting to disappear again. Old and new acquaintances and friends will guide Sora, Kairi, and Riku along with several others down a path to end all paths… or to save them, depends on how you look at it. (Based upon KHI, KH: CoM, and KHII)

Book Two Summery: As the pieces fall into place the war within Kingdom Hearts between Fate and Destiny truly begins. Leaving the islands with Riku, Sora and Kairi will soon meet their shadows as their silent protector continues her eternal fall from grace. Time is short. (Based upon KHI, KH: CoM, and KHII)

Book Three Summery: TBA (Based upon KHI, KH: CoM, and KHII)

Book Four Summery: TBA (Based upon KHI, KH: CoM, and KHII)

Book Five Summery: TBA (Based upon KHI, KH: CoM, and KHII)

Disclaimer: This disclaimer is for this entire story. Kingdom Hearts is owned by Disney and Square Enix. All Final Fantasy characters are owned by Square Enix, and all Disney characters are owned by Disney. Should an addition to the disclaimer need to be made, a "additional disclaimer" will be placed before the chapter and this one will be changed as well. Also just a side note seeing as KH 358/2 days just came out, though I havn't played it, this story can now be claimed as AU as it has nothing to deal with this new game or the ones that will follow.

AN: If you've played any of the classic FF's you know that there is always a battle going on that suddenly escalates to saving the world/universe. Sora's been doing that all along though, but… I've got a trump card (several actually). Yeah, this is gonna be epic. Though it'll probably take me forever to finish.

This will be a Five book series (I think), not sure how long each is going to be, so more like arc's than books, but still. They are (more than likely)…

Final Rest, Hero's Legacy, Fate's Legacy, Fate's Fantasy, Final First

A few forewarnings. Not so many Disney worlds, there will be a lot of focus, on FF characters, and of course the main gang. There will be a lot of ff8, some ff7 and ff10. Never played nine but there will still be some as I know roughly what happens. There will also be a some reference to Dissidia, though not much, though similarities may shine through

OC haters, no flames! Riku x OC haters, no flames, besides it IS necessary for the story, (cause I'll tell ya now, It screws shit up!) kay?! Without further ado, I give you…

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Kingdom Hearts: Fate's Final Fantasy

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Prologue

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Twilight Path

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You don't know me yet, but I can assure you, that you know of me. So little you know, so little you understand. You laugh and cry as if it matters… it doesn't. Not in the end… not when we all die anyways.

This infernal incessant hand that moves one space per second is driving me mad. Hmm… not that I haven't been there before… Always in my head I hear a tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

The worst part about it is that it doesn't exist. The previous moment, the current moment, the next moment: they mean nothing, rather they are one in the same. The Fate live in the hearted void: time means nothing there, rather it does not exist.

Tick-tock, the clock wont stop, it won't begin, it does not exist… yet. I can see in my mind the castle above the orphanage, I can see the clock tower, the broken bell, the gear works, the broken wood steps… tick-tock. My mind is forever in agony, sometimes, it is so soft, I can almost forget it's there. Sometimes, it's so strong I collapse. I hear it while I sleep, while I dream, I can never escape it.

If you've traversed the eight path, you know of what I speak… and to answer you're question… No, I am not her: not she who created this mess. But I have been her many times before. The more times through, the less it became a plight, and the more it just became a self fulfilling prophecy. Ultimicia was to exist. It didn't matter who, it didn't matter when. But Ultimicia was a fixed character in the future, in the present, in the past. I was not the first, nor was I the last to fill that role, but I have carried that title more times than I care to admit.

I will not bore you with the specifics… not yet anyway. Trust me, the time will come when you understand who and what I am, what I have consequently become. I am so, very old, and so very tired, sometimes I just want to give up… but then I realize that I can't.

I have watched things progress in this universe, I have seen the consequences of multiple tears in the space time continuum. It couldn't hold any longer, and now we are faced with Four universes coexisting on top of one another. Three subdivisions holding the strings together that they once held apart. The voids between universes, traversed by the heroes of the eight path, were only the light and the dark. The void of hearts remained untouched.

The void is the epitome of nothingness. Once the idea of nothing is held in place, nothingness exists no more. But in the void of heart, nothing still existed, time still held unmoved. It is here that I received my training after my death. For in this universe, few really die.

There are two sides, save existence, or destroy it. I am not Ultimicia. There are two realms of battle, Corporeal and Inexistent. I am one of four Inexistent that fight in the Corporeal worlds, the rest fight a never ending, never beginning war.

I have watched over Sora, Kairi, and Riku for so long. To make sure they remained safe and could continue to save the universes place. They rest now, they so deserve to have the time to themselves that they have left. Because it doesn't matter which side you're on, the end result is the same. It's just how one gets to that point in time, and what happens afterward that become a question. I am not Ultimicia.

Forever condemned without a knight. Tick-tock, it wont stop, not until I'm dead. Sora, Mickey, please don't do something rash. Your fight is over…

But I forget who I'm dealing with… Fine… so be it. You won't like it… not one bit. This is where the thoughts of a freshly graduated SeeD cadet truly finds it's place of truth.

There is no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views.

I'm not evil.

I'm not Ultimicia.

I fight what I… no, what Ultimicia created.

I'm not good… trust me.

But what I do, I do to save us all, not just in these four universes but all of them. Time will be reset and this rip will be sewn before it is ever opened. But if I give up… Time will be reset and Fate will no longer exist. Chaos will be the only directive, the only order. 'Coincidental' meetings, happenings, chances, battles… they are orchestrated to move life forward without harming the capacity to choose. They would no longer exist.

Hate me if you want… You will find out just why you may soon enough. But this is the path I travel, and I do this for all existence. To follow the twilight path into night rather than follow the dawn path into day.

Forgive my methods, but time is short.

Tick-tock

Tick…

Aerith awoke with a start. That same dream, it was nothing other than the ordinary sound of a clock ticking, with the last one missing it's conclusion. Each night an additional second was subtracted. Each night the dream terrified her more and more, it was a nightmare.

Time was short.

R and R!