Okay. For those who read and reviewed the previous "Door to Darkness Anthross", I'm sorry. I didn't like how the last one was going. So I'm re-writing it. Hope you like.

Talon

We Live!

Nightshade

How long has it been since he wrote us?

Sam

Too long... /Shakes fist threateningly/

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The darkness swirled, rose and fell in an ever-shifting tide of blackness. Yellow, souless eyes faded into view one minute and vanished the next, ever on the hunt for something foolish to venture into their domain, for them to sate thier hunger on. The landscape was barran, not a hint of life anywhere. Not a blade of grass, no rivers to flow, yet there was evidence of rivers long since dried up, deep channals and water carved valleys dotting the area. The unfertile rock underfoot crumbled if anything heavier than a shadow walked across it. And this was rarely the case. For this was the realm of darkness, the world of the evilest creatures to venture forth out into the twilight worlds beyond.

The Heartless.

In the center of this dead world, a single eddifice stood. Obviously made by hand rather than the environment, it was once beautifully carved and decorated in bright colours, ornate handles and sweeping images painstakingly chissled into the strange wood like material.

It was a door with two halves, shaped like a heart, with three keyholes, one on each door and the third connecting them. Centuries, possibly millenia inside this inhospitible land had corrupted and twisted the designs that someone in the past had poured his heart and soul into and now it was crumbling, a deeper darkness, If that was possible, marking where the peices once stood. Three chains criss-crossed over the outside, one white, one black and the other a neural grey. It was obvious to any outside observer that somebody had put as much effort into sealing this door than someone had making it.

Outside the door, the darkness began to twist and dance. It clumped together, sprouted limbs, taking shape. Eventual, te inky darkness melted away to reveal several... people. Some of them were human, or at least, human in appearance. Others were clearly not. A creaure that was made of what looked to be cloth or perhaps sack, was writhing beneath his "Skin". A faint buzzing, crawling sound was coming from him. Next to him, a large barbarian warrior, with a hawk on his shoulder rested his hands on his blade, nose wrinkeling in disgust of the apparition before him. Over nearer the door, a man with a vicious hook for a hand was cleaning the fingernails of his remaining limb.

Only one of the sudden arivals looked concered aout thier whareabouts... A certain Black Witch, Maleficet, the EX-leader of the group created to unlock Kingdom Hearts. The group that was defeated countles times by the KeyBearers and their cronies. She looked up to the door in fear and tried to cower behind a rock. All of a sudden a booming voice was heard, echoing off the countless cliffs and rocks, causing countless Heartless heads to turn their way.

Maleficent... You have BETRAYED me AGAIN! You have FAILED me, AGAIN!

She threw herself to her knees before the door and clasped her hands together, begging.

"Please Master, I had no choice! Those Brats with the Keyblades-"

Silence! I care not for your excuses...

"But master-"

I said SILENCE! Now... Do you know the punishment for disobeying me?

Maleficent shook her head, trembling all over her body. She would rather have faced countless KeyBearers at this point, then to stand before her tempermental leader...

Your punishment... From Darkness you arose...

A group of Heartless appeared next to her, running their claws down her body softly. Maleficent let out a pityful wail and struggled againt them.

...And from Darkness shall you return!

The Heartless attacked en masse, clawing, cleaving, tearing and shredding. They tore away at her mortal frame to reveal her heart... her bright pink, shining heart, filled with pure light. It floated up towards the door and was drawn towards it, like a Black Hole. It touched the door and sunk into it, turnng black as it did so. The black mist rose and took a new form, one entirely made of Darkness... A large black dragon with a red heart crossed out, its eyes an eriee yellow, void of emotion and dead to all.

Ursula the Tentacled witch let out a snort of laughtler.

"Serves her right! Bah, she wasn't good enough for us..."

Nor are you Ursula...

The sea squid turned to the door and let out a yelp of surprise. Collapsing to the floor and grovelling, she went on.

"Master... I am a good and Loyal servent... please, give me one more chance!"

I have given you far too many chances... ALL have had too many chances!

The remaining villians stopped watching Ursula grovel and turned to the door in disbelief. They pleaded and wailed, but the presense behind the door had already made its decision.

I gave you power... I gave you the HEARTLESS, and STILL you fail!

Several heartless, no less than the ones that they used to command clambered on top of them, biting and clawing, slicing and dicing, hacking and chewing...

Now... NOW you will serve better... Serve me... As Heartless...

Wen the heartless fell away, they had transformed into horrific beasts, all with crossed out hearts, all black, all with dead yellow eyes...

You... Find me a vassel, worthy of serving me...

A single Shadow Heartless leaped up and crouched low, bowing towards its true master behind the door. Flattening on the ground, its shape wavered slightly, before fading out of existance...

A mortal will nothing but rage, hatred and fear in his heart... A mortal with no love, or friendship, or compasion... He must be... Pure Dark...

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Well? What d'ya think, better or worse? I thnk it sounds better... And looks better, now I have a better computer to write on...