Prologue

I met my dad recently Riku; my real dad; great man, I take after him a lot. He was someone to remember. His past however is a more interesting story. The X-Blade, have you heard of it; it's said that it exists alongside Kingdom Hearts. It's said that a keyblade war was fought over such a blade. Thousands of Keyblade Wielders died for it, though that's not quite true. My dad, you see, fought in this war. In fact, he's the only survivor relatively speaking. He told me the details about the war, what transpired from his perspective.

Hundreds of years ago, there was tension between five keyblade masters. The details of that tension were unknown to him. He remembers two keyblade masters very clearly, one was dressed as a bear who he called Aced and the other was dressed as a unicorn named Ira. Conflict between the two of them seemed to grow as they would walk through the street and immediately fight with each other, something to do with distrust and a missing page which at the time my dad had no idea what that meant. The other masters got swept up in their conflict coming to blows with each other in the middle of the street. My father couldn't believe what he was seeing he questioned if there was even a point in staying there as he no longer felt safe.

There was a friend my father would talk to every now and then, called himself Pridis. They had different masters but found time to meet after missions. He was quite the proud Keyblade Wielder according to dad. He was even strong enough to fight on par with the other masters, well that how he felt at least. But the most interesting part of this was the fact that he informed my dad of a way to avoid conflict with the masters, a secret group that called themselves the Dandelions. Sounds kind of ridiculous to me but my father seemed eager. However, he was denied access to the group by his Master Ava. She said that he has strong darkness in his heart and couldn't let him in the group. My dad was heartbroken. Now stuck in the middle of this fight, the Keyblade Wielders all started fighting amongst themselves on their master's behalf. The conflicts got more and more violent. Eventually, all out fighting took place. He remembers a bell ringing which started the conflict and everyone just fighting. Many keyblade wielders were killed in Daybreak Town, many more were severely injured. Eventually this fight spread all out to the farthest corners of the world.

The climax of the fight occurred in this vast wasteland. Everyone was killing people right and left. The keyblades that they wielded fell down in the ground powerless. No one was spared. During the peak of the conflict my father came across his old friend Pridis. It was weird for him to be there as he was under the impression he escaped. He was wrong. Pridis was there to fight the five masters, but what was even more strange was that creature of darkness were there to back him up. The original Heartless; some of these heartless, however, held keyblades of their own making it more surprising for him. He slaughtered the masters leaving their keyblades behind. He then looked and saw my father. He smiled at him. As he approached my father, my father asked what was going on. Pridis explains that this was all an accident. He got his hands on something called to Book of Prophecies handed down to him by a man he calls the Master of Masters. This book explained that the world would fall to darkness and the light of the world would expire. He says that he was the first keyblade wielder to let darkness in his heart leading to his Charithy becoming a Nightmare. I have no idea what my father meant by Charithy and Nightmare but he says it's unimportant. What's important is that when his Charithy became a Nightmare, this sold doubt in the minds of all the Foretellers. This doubt lead to anger and frustration which lead to violence and eventually the war they are currently fighting in right now. Pridis explained that this wasn't what he wanted but it was forced on him. It's hard to believe that this whole entire war was started because of a single mistake. He explained that the Heartless behind him are the result of him sinking deep in to the darkness and corrupting others. He then tells him that light is forever lost and that darkness is the way to go. If the world will sink into darkness, than becoming darkness is the only way to survive. At that moment a bright light shined down upon them and the battle field. My father knew right away what that light was, the light of Kingdom Hearts. What's more astounding is that the hearts of all the fallen wielders all flowed up towards Kingdom Hearts gathering at a single point and thus merging with the light. That was when my father saw it descending down from Kingdom Hearts, the X-Blade.

My father scrambled towards the key along with his old friend Pridis; the Heartless Pridis controlled couldn't follow however as the light caused them great harm. My father grabbed the X-blade, held it directly in his hands. From what he described, it was empowering, full of energy. Pridis looked at the amazing blade amazed by its power. He wanted it for himself. He demanded my father to give him the blade but my father refused saying this was the only way to keep the light from fading. Drawing his keyblade, Pridis fought with my father. The power of the X-Blade proved too great for even Pridis to attend to. Realizing this, Pridis summoned more heartless this time of great sizes and strengths, all of whom had keyblades they wielded. My father fought hundreds of them valiantly but in the end the overwhelming numbers of these Heartless proved to be too much. Being backed into a corner, Pridis demanded that he give the X-blade to him. My father weighed his options and decided on one small gamble. He took his own keyblade and shattered the X-blade. Pridis was greatly heart broken by this as the moment the blade shattered, the world started breaking apart. Pridis angered by this was about to strike my father down, but he was saved by a cloaked man carrying a black Keyblade with the image of a ram and a blue eye in it. The figure turned to him and he could barely make out a smile from him. The worlds start breaking a part and Kingdom Hearts disappeared into the darkness. As the world was being swallowed up, fragments of the X-blade separated scattering all over. One fragment entered my father's keyblade transforming it. It took the shape of a black hole with a purple light in the middle with the handle guard made of black angle wings and the blade part being completely black taking the form of a thick rod with the teeth taking the shape of a heart with the words Guilt written inside. The words glowed red shining brightly. At that same moment, darkness swallowed my father and he found himself in a world devoid of light, the realm of darkness. Time stood still in that world as he found that his heart was frozen in time and his body no longer ages.

My father stayed in this world for years as the outside world was reborn. He returned to the outside world later on only to discover how different things are. All the worlds are separate now and independent of each other. Basically how the worlds are right now. It turns out that the shattered pieces of light from the X-Blade were split into twenty pieces. Seven of the fragments were made of pure light and inhabited seven princesses, one of them being my mother at the time. The other fragments were of thirteen darknesses merging with 13 different keyblades transforming them into what my dad calls the Keyblades of shadow. Of course one of the Keyblades of Shadow was his own Keyblade he dubbed Guilt for the word Guilt inscribed on it. My father said that it has unique properties that other keyblades didn't have, though he didn't tell me the specifics. Of course none of that mattered to my dad when he met my mom. Upon meeting her they instantly fell in love and of course gave birth to me, their only daughter. The one that inherited the light from my mother becoming the next princess of heart. Thinking on it now Riku, I really wish I had the chance to be with my father and mother more. Of course that's impossible now with everything happening to Sora. I just hope that Kairi doesn't get hurt by all this.