FULL SUMMARY:
Sora and friends have lived in peace for a year, but when a secret society of Dark Keyblade Masters reappear after lying in the shadows for half a century to revive the true culprit behind the disasters that have befallen the worlds in the last decade, Sora must take up a new weapon, the Ultimate Keyblade that caused the Keyblade Wars so long ago, play bodyguard to a bratty princess, save the girl he loves, his friends, and become a True Keyblade Master.
Kingdom Hearts
Shattered Unity
Prologue: Denizens of the Dark, Letters from a King
Sora, Hero of Light, Protector of the Worlds, Master of the Keyblade. Guardian of Kingdom Hearts.
You have had your glory. You have made your mark on the world.
You have made it far. You have become a real hero.
Because of me.
[Everything is born from sleep}
I have spent the last ten years hiding. Waiting for my master to return to me.
[Like their creation after destruction, what was there after the Keyblade War?]
My fellow apprentices are coming. We were great warriors once.
[I can see it… the darkness that sleeps in your heart]
Thanks to our master.
[You should know him… the masked boy]
We were the Lucid Key Elite.
[Travel the worlds! Destroy _, the one who disturbed the balance!]
I was the best of the best. I was created from the darkness in HIS frail heart. And when I tried to become one with him… all we wanted was the ultimate weapon:
{X-Blade}
[YOU SHOULDN'T EXIST!]
Your heart is strong. You were born with the ability to intertwine the fates of anyone who comes in contact with you. It was only natural that the remains of my broken self retreat into your darkness.
[I'll never forgive you…!]
Now my friends are coming for me and my dear master.
[XEHANORT!]
And that cute redhead is coming with us.
I am the Dark Soldier. I am the first Heartless.
I
Am
You
I am
VANITAS!
(SONG: Over the Hills and Far Away by Nightwish)
intro
Upon a beaten shore covered by fierce rain, dense fog, and swirling storm clouds stands a young man with wild brown spikes, blindfolded and wearing a black coat with red heart symbols on the chest and back. Waves crash around him as the sound of drums beating in the distance catches his attention.
They came for him one winter's night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.
He cocks his head slightly. He tightens his headband as thunder crashes overhead. With a flash of lightning an image of a younger version of him on a small islet, surrounded by dark creatures. An older boy with silver hair is sinking into a pool of darkness with an outstretched hand. He reaches out to his friend.
They marched to the station house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they led him to the dock,
he knew that he'd been wrong.
"You stand accused of robbery,"
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an alibi,
tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom.
In the young boy's hand there is a flash of light and a strange key shaped weapon appears in his hand. It has a keychain on the end of it in the shape of a mouse head. As his friend vanishes ha red haired girl appears before him. She mouths something soundlessly and fades away as he cries out her name. A huge monster rises from the darkness and the image fades to him and an anthropomorphic duck and dog standing in a mechanical palace, facing off with the silver haired boy, wearing a strange armor and a sorceress in black surrounded by green flames.
Over the hills and far away,
for ten long years he'll count the days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a prisoner's life for him there'll be.
He and the silver haired boy battled with the Keyblade and a similar weapon but with an essence of darkness surrounding it, as the lifeless body of the red haired girl lay in the middle of the floor. The silver haired boy dropped to a knee and vanished in a plume of black smoke. The brown haired boy grabbed the weapon and pierced his heart with it. A shining light went into the red head and she jumped up to see the boy fade away. He was replaced with a small dark being. She embraced it and he returned to a human form. He turned away from her and he and the duck and dog were staring a man with white hair and an overcoat with an emblem on it.
He knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His heart beats like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he spent his final night of freedom..
The boy is floating in a dark abyss as the man is floating across from him. The two battle with the powers of light and darkness. The duck and dog join him and the man was overwhelmed. The man reaches towards a massive door and the darkness pours from it. The boy does the same and light replaces the darkness, washing over the vile man. He and the duck and dog attempt to shut the door with his silver haired friend on the other side.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he'll be.
Over the hills and far away.
A mouse king appears with his own key and the two use their power to lock the door to darkness. The silver haired boy stand on the other side and mouths the words "Take care of her," The brown haired boy nods and turns to see the girl in question. He runs to her and they exchange words. The piece of ground she stands on breaks away and they share their last words for a long time:
"I'll come back to you, I promise!" "I know you will!"
Over the hills and,
over the hills and,
over the hills and far away.
He and the Duck and Dog stand at the doors of an imposing castle. The image turns to static, but an image of a blonde boy and girl appear before it flashes to the boy and his companions outside of an old mansion, him being much taller and wearing black traveling clothes. He pulls a star shape charm from his pocket and thinks of her,
Solo
He, the duck, and the dog charge through a white castle, battling white husks and men in black robes with strange weapons. They are joined by the red headed girl, the silver haired boy and the mouse king. They meet with a man in a black robe with silver hair and an expressionless face. Their comrades dissolve away and it is just the two boys, weapons drawn. The boys stand in a white realm of nothingness. The boys look towards each other, nod and attack. The man battles using red beams of light as they fight with alarming speed and grace. The brown haired boy takes his friend's weapon and scores some critical hits with both weapons. They join hands at the hilt of his Keyblade and a beam of light shoots out. The image fades to a beach covered in darkness.
Each night within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the letters that she wrote.
One day he'll know the taste of freedom.
The silver haired boy picks up a glass bottle and passes it to his friend. He opens it and reads the letter, a smile gracing his tired face. He looks up to see a massive door of light opening up before him. He stands up and assists his friend. The light washes over them and the scene changes to the red head standing on her home beach with a worried look on her face.
Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms she swears she'll be
The mouse points to the sky as two blue streaks fall from the sky. She smiles more widely than she ever has. She runs to the shore and shouts their names. The blue streaks hit the water and two heads pop up from the water and swim quickly towards her. The brown haired boy is there first but is tackled by his companions.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms he swears he'll be.
She giggles as the silver haired boy swings the mouse around in his arms as there are sounds of laughter. The brown haired boy finally wrestles off his friends and their eyes meet. He pulls the charm out of his pocket and holds it out to her. She smiles as he says: "We're back!"
Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms is where she'll be.
She accepts the charms but before helping him up she replies: "You're home."
Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.
The boy, now older, in his black clothes and blindfold smiles as he remembers his adventures fondly. He turns to face a blonde girl with glasses and a beret holding a white rabbit like creature. They smile and wave as he walks towards them, and his most difficult journey yet.
Over the hills,
over the hills and far away.
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In the Dark Meridian sat a black cloaked figure, staring out into the dark sea. He was approached by a young girl with blue hair and strange clothing, consisting of black and blue, high-collared halter top, and two pink, intersecting belts over her chest, and black shorts. They both seemed to be in a darkness induced haze.
"Who are you?" she asked him.
He looked at her warily, seeming to study her with tired eyes.
"Why hello," he said slowly, ignoring her question. "It's not often I get visitors."
"Please, call me Aqua," she said, ignoring his statement. "Why are you sitting all alone in the Realm of Darkness? How did you end up here"
He studied her face and could see that she had resisted the darkness far better than he had so far. He looked off into the ocean's depths before he spoke again.
"Well," he said, trying to think of a response that his fading mind could handle. "I can tell you this is my second time on these shores."
Then he realized that he had forgotten.
"But unfortunately much like the first I don't remember who I am or whence I came. Everything was washed away in whatever currents carried me here."
"That's too bad," said Aqua, apparently hoping he would be able to lead her out. She looked out into the darkness that he was staring at and sat down in the sand.
"I know I've been here a long time," she said. "Wandering through the endless hours… unable to escape."
He glanced at her from under his hood.
"You wish to return to your own world?" he asked.
She slowly nodded once.
"It's my friends. I'd promised I'd be there for them."
"Your friends" he repeated. He looked back out to sea. "Somewhere in the scraps of memory I have left, you remind me of a boy I once knew. He is very much like you. True to his friends and kind, he travels the many worlds and fights to keep the light safe."
That caught her attention. She turned to look at him.
"Keep the Light safe?" she muttered. Then she spoke louder, almost demanding. "I've been away to long. Did something happen out there? Are the worlds in danger?"
"Sad to say, they nearly fell to Darkness more than once. But at every turn that boy arrived, Keyblade in hand to save the day."
She gave a start and made a noise of questioning.
"Wait a sec!" she exclaimed, smiling brightly. "Are Is his name Terra or Ven?"
The man slowly shook his head.
"Neither of those I'm afraid."
She sighed in disappointment.
"I should have known…."
She drew her knees up to her chest and crossed her arms on top of them.
"How long has it been since I met him…?" he said, pain in his voice. "At least a year now. Perhaps more. Back then my heart was clouded with vengeance. I did terrible things, both to him and his friends. I brought unhappiness to more lives than one. I felt something had to be done. Was that why? A means of clearing my conscience, or perhaps out of a sort of scholarly instinct? While the boy slept his long sleep, I his the results of my research inside him, transplanting the data to where it might best serve a purpose. In fact I would like to believe, maybe he can set things right. A boy like him who touches so many hearts, he could open the right door, and save all those people whose lives I've managed to ruin. So many are still waiting for their new beginning, their birth by sleep. Even me."
He looked at Aqua.
"Yes… even you."
She pivoted her body to face him and asked him a question.
"What's this boy's name?"
"His name is… Sora."
The man on the rock did not look away from the sea as a tear rolled down Aqua's cheek, a smile across her lips as she stared into the pale moonlight.
"Sora…"
The Keyblade Wielder in question was staring into the twilight sky of Destiny Islands with a look of determination in his sky blue eyes, a message in a bottle in his hand. He turned when he heard his name called. Riku, Keyblade Master of Darkness was walking towards his best friend a look of equal determination in his pale green eyes, though they were concealed by his pale silver bangs. Sora was sitting on the paupu tree, brooding about the message at hand. Riku leaned against the trunk.
"Riku," said Sora quietly.
"Your mind's made up?" asked Riku.
Sora looked back into the sea. Riku was asking if Sora had decided to go on his next journey on his own, or to take them along.
"Yeah."
He smiled slightly.
Kairi, a beautiful girl with red hair and blue eyes walked up and stood next to Riku.
"Sora," she said.
She looked at him expectantly and he looked back at her.
"Kairi," he said, hopping off the tree and standing there. "I…"
"Yeah," she replied, looking at the ground. Neither of them were good with words. He chuckled and closed the distance.
"It's just, they really need me," he said, referring to the people being washed away by encroaching darkness. "And I am who I am.. because of them."
The last part was said with a bit of over eager determination, something Sora was well known for. Riku chuckled at his friend's excitement. Kairi took Sora's hand in hers and placed something in it. Her Thalassa charm.
"See you soon," she said.
Sora nodded and pocketed the letter before turning away from his friends and began walking away from the islet. But one may ask… what was in this letter?
(A/N The following is intended for North American and other English audiences and is a summary of the events of Kingdom Hearts: Coded, a Japan Exclusive that takes place after KH II and before the events in this fic. Everything in this summary is completely canon and is intended to inform our readers and to avoid confusion.)
The year after the fall of Organization XIII had been peaceful. Sora, Riku and Kairi had made it home and had readjusted to Island life rather quickly. The Disney Castle hierarchy had been stabilized and King Mickey had returned to the throne.
Shortly after returning to the castle, however, Jiminy discovered a message in his journal: We must return to free them from their torment." To investigate this message, King Mickey digitized the contents of the journal and went into the simulated world to investigate; awakening a virtual Data Sora on a virtual Destiny Islands to carry out the contents of the journal to uncover the identity of "them".
As Data Sora awoken on Destiny Islands, he encountered numerous "bugs", which took the form of red and black blocks, covering the whole world. Upon eliminating the Heartless and destroying the bugs, Sora traversed to other worlds infected with bugs to return them to normal, following a cloaked figure upon orders from King Mickey.
Meanwhile, Heartless began appearing within Disney Castle, and everyone found themselves trapped in the room. To their surprise, they were saved by Data Sora. Suddenly, the cloaked figure revealed himself to be Jiminy's Journal taking the form of Riku, and explained that they were no longer in the real world, but the data world. Sora was sent off by the Journal to discover his true identity, only to encounter Maleficent and Pete from the real world.
Having apparently survived the destruction of The Castle that Never Was, Maleficent was at a loss with her plans with the Heartless gone, her control over the darkness weakened, all her allies save for Pete defeated, and still without a base of operations. Desperate to make yet another comeback, the dark fairy sent Pete to Disney Castle to spy on the king and bring her up to date on events. Pete eventually entered the journal world when Mickey turned the journal into a data world to find answers to unsolved questions. Maleficent was summoned into the data world by Pete when he was sent there. Together they decided that they could use the data world to forward Maleficent's original plans to find Kingdom Hearts and fill the worlds with darkness. The pair planned to build up a huge army of Heartless under their complete control by using the Journal's data on the creatures and then send them into the real world to conquer Disney Castle and the rest of the worlds. Maleficent planned to either destroy Mickey or simply leave him trapped in the Journal's data world.
Maleficent destroyed Data Sora's Keyblade and summoned Heartless to attack him. Mickey and the Journal arrived to save Sora, but the Journal was abducted by Maleficent, with Mickey giving chase. Sora made his way through Hollow Bastion, aided by Donald and Goofy. They encountered Pete, who summoned the Journal and took control of him with the bugs to fight them, but Sora still managed to defeat the Journal, who falls unconscious.
Mickey arrived and informed Sora that unless the bugs are destroyed, the Journal will never awaken. Sora decided to find a way to awaken the Journal, and entered Riku's data world, losing his abilities in the process. The two visited various worlds from the Data Riku's memory and find their way back to Hollow Bastion, where they fought and defeated Maleficent. Meanwhile, King Mickey discovered that he will be returning soon to the real world, but the Journal, once completed, will have to be erased, which will mean the end of Data Sora's memories. When the time comes, Sora requests more time in order to save Pete and Maleficent, who are still in the data world. Sora finds them fighting Sora's Heartless.
Apparently, as a symptom of the secrets that were hidden within the journal, the digital recording of Sora's Heartless gained new life and spawned the Bug Blocks which spread throughout the Data Worlds.
After clearing the Bug Blocks from the data Hollow Bastion, the Journal revealed to Data Sora that the digitized version of Sora's Heartless was the source of the Bug Blocks corrupting the Journal. While Data Sora had been exploring the Data Worlds and gained new power, the digitized Sora's Heartless was corrupting the other data, changing them to make itself stronger. Data Sora attacked the digitized Sora's Heartless, but instead of releasing hearts it released the minds of slain Heartless, which it reabsorbed, increasing its power exponentially. Data Sora attacked it again as it took the form of AntiSora, and just as the Heartless was about to win the fight, King Mickey appeared and helped Data Sora slay it. Maleficent and Pete were killed before anything could be done.
Sora defeated Sora's Heartless and Mickey returned to the real world, erasing the Journal. A new message appeared claiming that a new door to a new world has been opened, which was the data of the data world added into the Journal. Mickey, realizing that this quest may be too dangerous for Data Sora as he has no memory of it, requested to be taken into the Data World once again.
Finding Data Sora in Traverse Town, Mickey took him to Castle Oblivion where Data Sora is confronted by a young man wearing a black coat. He told Sora that if he wants to know the truth, he must move forward on his own through the previous worlds he visited destroying bugs. During this time, he realized that even if he doesn't remember someone he's met, there's still the sadness of having forgotten them which the figure attempts to warn not to let it consume him. Sora disregards this message and fights the figure, revealed to be Roxas.
After losing to Sora, Roxas gave him a card as Mickey appeared. Sora opens the next door to find Naminé, who reveals the bugs to have been an unintentional side effect of her attempt to restore Sora's memories. She then reveals Sora's nature as the "Key that connects everything" through his ties with herself, Roxas, Xion, and Axel. Furthermore, Naminé told Data Sora about three figures also tied to Sora's heart who are the ones referred to in the message and need his help. Mickey bids farewell to the Data Sora and promised Naminé that he will inform the real Sora of this.
Mickey, knowing that this is a journey only the real Sora is capable of taking on, sent him this message:
I wanted to tell you immediately.
There are memories asleep inside you.
Those memory fragments connect to the future.
Sora, Riku, Kairi,
the truth surrounding the Keyblade,
passes through numerous connections,
which are inside your hearts.
Sora,
it all leads to you, and everyone is waiting for you.
The only one who can heal their sadness is you.
It's possible that your travels up until now,
compared to the next trip, may have been easy.
Everything thought to be accidental was really connected,
and the door to a new adventure already seems to be opening.
-Mickey
(A/N: END OF CODED SPOILERS)
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Author 1: There is the prologue, complete with theme song and the ending video to Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Hi I'm Rockabilly2000
Author 2: And I am Kailyn.
Together: And this is our Amazing Horse Fuun Saiki!
Fuun Saiki: You guys suck!
Rockabilly: Whatever spaz. This fic has been under plot construction for months…
Kailyn: and you guys get to enjoy it, as long as Rockabilly can keep up with updates!
Rockabilly: I hate you.
Kailyn: Take it away Fuun Saiki!
Fuun Saiki: This Kingdom Hearts fan fiction will take place over 26 worlds, several of them not worlds per say, but separate realms from the three in the canon games, sometimes involving time travel. Only three will actually be Disney worlds. 5 will be KH worlds, 13 will be from various games, movies and anime that these jerks consider to be fairly popular. 2 worlds are original that they pulled out of their asses for s**** and giggles.
Rockabilly: Language Fuun Saiki, language!
Kailyn: We will sing the song!
Fuun Saiki: Don't you dare!
R&K: LOOK AT MY HORSE, MY HORSE IS AMAZING, GIVE IT A LICK, IT TASTES JUST LIKE RAISINS-!
Fuun Saiki: THE AUTHORS OF THIS FIC OWN NOTHING IN IT EXCEPT FOR OCs AND TWO WORLDS!
I HATE YOU ALLLLLLLLLL!