HEARTLESS

Darkness. That was all Sora saw when he opened his clear blue eyes. Darkness. He was standing up and when he tried to move his arms around, he found that that were tied above his head. With, guess what? Darkness.
'Well...' Sora thought, trying to yank his wrists free. 'Somebody must not want me to leave.' In the black that surrounded him, Sora noticed a few small blue creatures edging closer to him. They seemed to hunch over, looking around hurriedly. They're eyes were the strangest looking, in an odd design. They didn't look like Heartless. Sora didn't know what they looked like.
"Do you like them, Sora?" A cold voice rang out.
"Huh?" Sora looked around. "W-Who's there?" He demanded.
A tall boy stepped out of the shadows, looking exactly like Sora. Except for a few differences. This boy's hair was black, he had on a body suit that reminded Sora of Riku's, except this was red and black. The thing that made Sora a little disturbed, besides his situation, was the boy's eyes. They were a cold, sharp yellow, staring into him. 'Who... is this...?' Sora thought, staring back.
"I said, do you like them, Sora?" the boy asked again.
Sora guessed he meant the little blue creatures. Sora gulped down a little nervousness and answered, "N-No... It's rather unsettling. Whats going on? Who are you?"
The boy smirked, walking closer to him. "Vanitas. These are my Unversed. I call them Floods."
"Vanitas...? Unversed?" Sora repeatedly, absently staring into Vanitas's eyes. It was almost hypnotizing. Sora had to shake his head before looking back at Vanitas. "What do you want with me? why am I here?"
"You sure ask alot of questions, Sora," Vanitas murmured, almost amused. "Unfortunately for you, I can only tell you this-" He paused, waving the Unversed away. "Xeha- I mean... Ansem needs you in a certain... 'condition' for him to carry out his plan. So he's ordered me to do just that."
Sora's eyes widened, fighting against the darkness coiled around his wrists even more. He choked out, "A-Ansem? H-He's supposed to be dead! Gone! I... I killed him!"
Vanitas snickered, playing with Sora's hair absently, causing the brunette to glare at him. "You really are dumb, you know."
"What?" Sora growled, jerking his head back.
Vanitas shrugged, continuing on. "Ansem is very well alive. He still exists in Riku's heart."
Sora cut him off, "i know that. Riku looked like him at The World That Never Was."
"Which brings me to this. It's Riku's darkness that's keeping Ansem alive. You could kill him as many times as you wanted and he would just keep coming back as long as Riku's alive," Vanitas finished.
"..." Sora was at loss for words. 'So.. All this time.. Riku can't escape from him?' He thought.
Vanitas must've gotten bored with Sora's sudden silence. He waved two Floods into existence. "Well, say good-bye to your heart, Sora." He glanced down at the small Unversed, which were wrapping themselves around Sora's legs tightly.
Sora glanced down at the Floods, almost yelling at the other boy. "What? My heart? What could Ansem want with my heart?"
Vanitas smirked a little. "You'll find out soon enough. Now I'd like to get on with this," He said, grabbing a piece of Sora's shirt and ripping it down the middle. After this he pressed a hand over his heart.
"N-No! Stop!" Sora yelled, jerking around.
Vanitas ignored him, jabbing his hand into Sora's chest. Sora cried out in pain, trying to free himself while yelling at Vanitas. Vanitas quickly found his heart, wrapping his fingers tightly around it and ended up yanking it out.
"ARRGHHH!" Sora screamed, jerking around violently. he choked out words, barely managing to form a sentence. "G-G-Give.. it b-b-ac-c-ck!"
Vanitas ignored him, staring at Sora's heart. "Hm... I don't think I should totally trash this, might come in handy," he muttered to himself. Raising a hand up, he created a small container of darkness around Sora's heart, soon it disappeared. "Sure, I'm gong against Xeha-Ansem's orders but I don't care..." He trailed off, looking at Sora with sudden interest. "Hm...? Now what?"
Sora wasn't any regular Heartless by now, he still looked human. Pain was ripping through him- His entire skull burned as his brown hair slowly faded into a pale white. The clear blue iris was now replaced with a striking amber. His skin hurt all over as the shade grew slightly darker. The most striking change- A Heartless emblem suddenly morphed onto his skin, over where a heart once was.
As Sora's screamed died down to nothing but silence, Vanitas noticed one last thing. A few small teardrops were working its way out of the corners of Sora's eyes. Vanitas smirked, lifting his chin up and speaking softly, in a mocking tone.
"Don't cry, Sora... Being a Heartless won't be so bad... Or will it...?"

**Earlier**

Where was Sora?

That was the only thing going through Riku's mind. He and his friend had been hanging around by the Paopu tree, just watching the sky boredly. Sora had gotten tired and decided to take a nap on Riku's arm, which he didn't mind much. Everything was peaceful, as it usually was after they're long journey with Nobodies and Heartless.

Until the most bizarre thing happened.

Riku was dozing off himself and almost did, if he hadn't noticed Sora was slipping away from him.

"Huh..? Sora?" Riku yawned, opening his eyes to see what was going on. He almost wished he hadn't.

"Sorry, but your friends coming with me," someone had said, hoisting Sora up over his shoulder. A mask covered their face so Riku couldn't see who was kidnapping his friend. Something that stuck out to Riku was the fact that this guy was wearing a body suit similar to one we wore when Ansem had taken him. Except it was red and black, a little different from Riku's.

Riku growled, already summoning Way to Dawn, "What are you doing? Put Sora down!"

The masked boy held one hand up, opening a Dark Corridor, then switched it so it was facing Riku. "Such a shame I can't fight you... Oh well, that time will come. Until then, I can't have you sniffing around." With that, a blast of darkness shot from his hand hit Riku right in the chest.

Riku staggered and fell onto the Paopu tree trunk, grimacing. "Argh..." Suddenly remembering Sora he called out to the masked boy, "Get back here!"

But he was too late. The masked boy was gone, the corridor along with him.

And so was Sora.

Riku grit his teeth, staring down at Way to Dawn, muttering mostly to himself. "Sora... I'll find you, I promise."