AUTHOR'S NOTES: Yes, this is the revision of "[Kingdom Hearts] Phantom's Journey" with a better plot and major change in characters. I felt it is fitting since I was unsatisfied with the original product, and decided to redo it entirely with a brand new concept.
ARC I:
Antinomy
Chapter I:
QUESTIONABLE EXISTENCE
The world we live in today is separated into two factions; Light and Darkness. These factions divide us from each other and springs conflict upon the other. The Light Faction, wishes to keep the balance between them and Darkness on equal balance. However, the Darkness Faction wish to upset that balance, in order to achieve greater power by conquering the Light Faction. Thus, they created the Calamity Project, a mission with the main objective of eliminating the Light Faction. In order to accomplish this task, the Keyblades were the key to doing so. These mysterious weapons were passed down from our ancestors, the key weapon ideally forged to vanquish the Light. As always, there was a traitor among the shadows, a special blacksmith became a renegade and escaped, passing the knowledge of the Keyblade towards the Light. Now, each faction has a based academy specializing in training the youth of today into full-fledged Keyblade Warriors. Light begets darkness, darkness begets light. They can't live without the other, and they can never work together. Therefore, an everlasting battle. This follows the story of Kazu Yuuki, an elite soldier who lacks an identity.
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"Ahh!" Someone screamed. I felt a strong gust of wind push me back, at the same time, I saw a faint silhouette of someone fly by me. I quickly turn my head in 180 rotation, my eyes locked on the person that slid across the stone floor. Carelessness will get you killed without a second thought; I was taught that in the academy. We were on a scouting mission, tasked to wipe out a Boss Heartless. Heartless were supposedly the darkness within people's hearts, we defeat them to gather materials for Keyblades, that's as far I was told. We were in an open field, no trees for miles, only grass and Heartless to sneak up on us. I turn my head towards the direction the body came from, and there it was: a Boss Heartless. A colossal one at that, the Heartless was difficult to see, because it had jet black skin, it's eyes shined a bright yellow, and it had big wings, but I doubt it would be able to fly with that weight it would need to pull.
"Kazu Yuuki, eliminate the beast in front of you and gain its rare materials." the mission advisor's voice rang into my ear via the earpiece I was wearing. "Understood," I spoke back into my mic. I open the palm of my right hand and summon Two Become One, my Keyblade. The Heartless seems to have been severely weakened by my squadmates, I assumed I was only a backup just in case something bad happened. In any case, I sighed to myself and ran up to the Colossal Heartless, it's movements were slow so I had nothing to worry about. It's hand attempted to punch me, I dodge it and jump onto its hand. Regaining my balance, I ran up its arm, I reached it's shoulder and jumped high into the air. I pointed my Keyblade towards the Heartless, "Firaga." I cast a magic spell. The orb of fire that formed at the tip of my Keyblade, launched itself at the Colossal Heartless, striking the head, and it evaporated into black smoke and sunk into the ground. I defeated it. I fell back to the ground, landing on my two feet. The recoil that I felt from hitting the ground circulated throughout my entire body. The Heartless dropped the materials, my team collected the fourteen Dark Shards it dropped.
Dark Shards are drops that we collect from the various Heartless that appear all over the land, we use these resources to make the Keyblades and expendables, such as potions.
"Good work, Yuuki." My squadmate patted my back roughly.
"It's nothing too much.. just a simple task that I wasn't needed " I replied to him.
"Well, we have to trail back, see you." He said waving goodbye to me as he and the others walked off.
"See you," I said, then trailed back to the academy on my own.
The academy, a school that has a training program and missions for each individual student to accomplish as homework, in addition to regular courses. These training sessions were considered important in our society, physical exams would be held for such sessions, testing our progress as soldiers and how well we are able to think on the battlefield. Students would struggle to try to balance regular studies and combat studies. The purpose of this academy is to train talented soldiers to send onto official missions into the Light Faction in the preparation for the final stage of the Calamity Project. Even though we were still in the academy, the higher-ups send the top students on these "important" missions and sometimes, assist the average students on basic scouting missions. It sounded like our army were so desperate for troops they have to send out students in the middle of training, by that logic, we aren't that well organized. But I guess it was alright since many troops were a loss in the first stage of the Calamity Project. The Calamity Project's purpose is to gain control of the Light Faction to increase power and land, but major casualties arose from the first mission; many soldiers were killed. So we, the youth, were forced into the academy to train for the mission, and around 25% of the students in the academy were taken from the Light Faction's main city during the raid at a young age. I was one of those students that were taken away, I won't elaborate on this.
"Kazu Yuuki." A familiar female voice spoke into my headset.
"Yes," I responded.
"Report." She ordered.
"Colossal Heartless defeated, a total of fourteen Dark Shards procured."
"Return to your room and rest up. Await further instructions."
"..Understood." I agreed, without a second thought.
I returned to my dormitory room at the academy. I took off my scouting uniform and left it on the floor in a mess. I then changed into my sleeping clothes, just a shirt, and jeans. As ordered, I rested on my bed and waited till I drifted off into sleep.
END
Next Time:
"QUESTION YOURSELF"
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is the end of the first chapter, let me know what you liked and what you didn't like, and some tips on how I should improve this. Take care!
