Adventure Begins With Darkness:

Star lights fill the dark black sky. The stars shine with a wondrous light and glow a magical white. The random order of the stars placed in the sky makes it seem so alive yet they remain still and motionless, giving off wonder to those staring upward at the sky. As glorious as they are, the number of them is what really strikes the mind of thoughts and possibilities of life else where then here. So many worlds to look at yet they are all in the same sky. So many worlds wrap around our world, and our world wraps around many other worlds, joining with other worlds to become a part of a night sky to another world. And to think as you gaze upon those shining worlds that share one sky, they are all gazing back at you. It is like our worlds are already connected some how. And not just our worlds, but our hearts are to, sharing that same feeling of wonder and adventure. Having that same deep feeling of being moved by something so wonderful and something so simple as gazing upon the night sky, into the hearts of other worlds as they gaze back a yours.

But what if, as you gazed upon these worlds that seem so peaceful, darkness was present. And while you remain safe on your world, the very shining glorious world you stare at was in distress, was being taken over by some evil darkness and at that moment dying. How would you know? How would you feel? What would you do? Would you be scared, fearing that since your world is connected to that dying world; yours would have the same fate? What if it was your world, dying and being filled of darkness? How would you feel then? Would you think of your world, or the other worlds that are connected to you? Would other worlds care if yours is dying? After all, if each world shares the same sky, then each world shares the same fate. Fore every adventure begins with darkness.

A young teen age boy by the name of Fray lies on his bed with his eyes shut. His hands are behind his head with one of his legs propped up. By the look of his facial expression, he is not sleeping but thinking. He looks disturbed on what he is thinking and seems to not give up on these thoughts, as if replaying an event in his mind that makes him slightly angry. As he lays there the moon light is the only light shinning into his window which is on the other side of his room. His room is fairly big, with a black computer desk which has a laptop placed on it and a few cans of soda placed around the laptop. The way the moon's light shines on the wall it looks to be an aqua color. His floor is rugged with some imprints on it here and there, as if he changes his room around from time to time. He is clothed and lays there with his sneakers on and his blankets tossed to one side of the bed bundled up. Out of frustration he breathes heavily as if annoyed with what he is thinking about.

"Why did she mean by that anyway." He speaks out loud to himself as he keeps his eyes closed and still looks slightly mad. He begins to think of his conversation he had with a girl named Kate.

"I don't know what I want Fray! I'm just... just... I feel trapped Fray. Like if my heart is somewhere else, but my body is still here."

"What are you talking about Kate? We have each other, we have our friends, we have our families. What do you mean your trapped? Is it because me you feel trapped, is it?" Fray asked with concern and confusion in his eyes. She simply lowers her head at his question.

"No. Its... Your life is prefect Fray. You carry no burdens. Its like, your free." She says softly and with a slight smile at the end of her sentence.

"What ever it is Kate, I'm here for you. And that is never going to change. We'll stay together here, you and me Kate. We'll pull through. Trust me." Fray tells her with a smile of comfort. She slightly raises her head to meets her eyes with his blue eyes, which she always gets lost in them as they give off some kind of peace to her.

"No Fray. That can't be." She speaks softly. Fray's face becomes slightly shocked by her comment.

"I tried to give you my heart Fray, but... My heart is not with me anymore. Its somewhere else, out there." She tells him softly and smiling as she looks up at the stars coming out in the dawn sky light. Fray looks even more confused and frustrated. He couldn't reply to that, so he follows her lead and raises his eyes to the stars and gazes at them by her side.

"What did she mean by that? Why can't she just tell me the truth?" Fray asked himself as he lies on his bed. He sighs; still eyes closed, and continue to think.

"It is some where else, out there" He thinks what she said and starts to think of this thought. He starts to remember all the times he looked at the stars. He remembers himself lying on his roof above his bed room window. His house is only one floor so falling off wouldn't hurt that much. As he remembers he slowly starts to drift off to sleep, making this thought become some kind of dream it would seem. He lays there on his roof, gazing up the stars and looking at the countless number of them. His eyes then focus on a star which he stares at for while, like if something is calling him to keep staring at it. As he stares, something begins to happen. Its bright shinning light begins to fade and die down. He stares more at it intensely as it pluses, as if dying or losing its shine. Bit by bit it starts to fade away and die down, and bit by bit his heart become more troubled. Until finally the star vanishes, leaving an empty space where that star should of been.
"It is some where else, out there." Kates voice echoes out as he sits up and begins to look about concerned and slightly frighten.

"All those stars in the sky are many different worlds Fray. But ya know, even though there are so many stars, they share one sky Fray. As well we share one sky to those stars. One sky, one fate." The voice of Fray's uncle tells him as he starts to dream of when he was a little boy.

"Whats a fate uncle?" Fray asked his uncle as he gazed at the stars.

"Well now, fate is something very important. Its something you'll have to figure out what is it when your older. But just remember, no one can ever give you fate, but you'll always receive fate. Alright, Fate." His uncle replies with a smile.

Fray smiles back but suddenly, he is a teen again and in front of his house. He sees himself and Kate standing there face to face. Then, a pink glowing heart rises out of Kate and floats into the air. She smiles and mouths the words "I'm sorry." Fray watched as she turned into a dark black figure. He watches his house starts to become engulfed with darkness. Everywhere around them starts to fill with darkness, spilling out slowly and swallowing everything in sight. Fray starts to panic and begins to run as he watched his other self get eaten by the darkness along with Kate.

He runs down his street as the darkness begins to pick up its pace and chase him, eating the trees, light poles, telephone polls, cars, houses, everything. As he runs part of the darkness behind him starts to take the shape of him, like an evil version of himself but completely black and with yellow circle eyes. Two of them were created from this darkness and race after Fray, catching up as he runs with all his might. His heart races with fear he continues to get chased.
Then, the darkness around him races ahead of him, and starts to zoom towards him from the front with two dark forms of him self chasing him from behind. He starts to scream no and get away from me. He panics as the darkness rushes towards him with such speed. Suddenly the darkness tackles him and starts to cover him as he kicks and screams, like if being caught in a web of dark matter as it engulfs his body. He continues to kick and tries to break free but the two dark forms of him catch up and leap towards him with death in there eyes.

He screams and shouts more when suddenly he wakes up in his room with a shout as he quickly sits up and pants a little. He looks towards the window and sees his front yard and the moon with all the houses, trees, and so on. Giving a sigh of relief he wipes away the sweat from his forehead and looks down at his bed calming his pants and breathing normally. He then looks forward at the end of his bed and his heart snake to his stomach as his eyes widen in disbelief. At the other end of his bed there stood a Shadow Heartless. It stared at him but did nothing. Frozen in fear and shock, Fray stared backed, waiting to be attacked or even killed by this dark black being. But it did nothing and stared, as if waiting for him to do something. Fray finally snaps out of it after several minutes and swallows hard as he starts to think about moving towards it.

"Wha...What do you want?" Fray asked fearfully but showing some confidence. After not getting a reply Fray swallows again not sure on what to do next.

"Are you... going to kill me?" Fray asked lowering his voice as he mentioned the killing part. Again, the heartless didn't reply. Fray looks around to see if anything else would randomly pop out and kill him or if there were others. Still frighten but some how a little sure that it won't attack him, he decides to move slowly towards it. Trying not to startle it somehow he moves slowly and gently by first getting into a crawling position. With his hands and knees he begins to move slowly towards the heartless which is now looking around his room as if its not really concerned for Fray. Moving one limb at a time he makes his way towards the heartless but slowly, trying not to make loud noises.

"I'm not going to hurt you... okay... so just stay calm... I'm not going to hurt you... I'm a nice person... okay..." Fray starts to talk to the heartless to some how make it feel safe around him, though it seems like the heartless already feels safe with him there from the start. Finally, Fray is within touching distance of the heartless. He swallows hard as he looks upon the strange being. He slowly raises his hand towards the heartless.

"I'm not going to hurt you..." He tells the heartless as his hand nears it. Suddenly the heartless moves towards Fray and makes his hand touch its head. Fray slightly scared tries to back away but as his hand touched the heartless a bright white light shined from the heartless, slightly blinding Fray and made him shield his eyes with his arms. The bright light could be seen from houses far away. The light soon dies down and Fray slowly uncovers his face. His eyes soon set upon a black cloak type robe. Fray looks up and sees now a man with a black hooded long robe standing on his bed.

"Every adventure begins with darkness." The man, known as Wizdom, tells Fray.