Kingdom Hearts III: Out of the Ashes Rise the Rest
by FangedWriter
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Kingdom Hearts, unless you count the first game, CoM, and the second one, plus a player's guide. The characters, locations, ideas and concepts of Kingdom Hearts do not belong to me.
Hi everyone! New fic! Okay, this one is set as a KHIII. It's about everyone's descendants. Won't say much up here though. Hope you enjoy! (By the way, if anyone gets an alert now, and you've read this before, all I'm doing is fixing a dang typo. From what I hear, that comes out as an alert?)
The city lies in an early night setting. In truth, no one here could remember it ever being day. The sky simply varied whether or not it had stars.
Skilled orange eyes studied the streets.
Finally, the owner of those eyes leaned back against the higher part of the roof and sighed. A hand, wearing a glove that stopped at the knuckles, reached upward and pulled silver hair back away from those eyes.
The person startled at the sound of a phone, instantly hating the reaction to it. The same hand reached down for the phone and held it up to the person's ear.
"What?" The person asked.
"Any luck?"
"No, not yet. Told you it was too soon, but you sent me out anyway."
"You claim your plan's so special, so why hasn't it worked yet?"
"Was Hollow Bastion built in a day? No. Same goes for the plan. It needs time. Another day or two,'' the person told the voice on the phone. "Don't get impatient."
"Are you ordering me? I've got news for you, Nitya; you are simply a hired worker. Nothing else. You can be fired."
She laughed.
"Yes, I may be, but so are you. You are a hired worker to our boss too, and you can be fired just the same. Besides, if I'm fired, all deals are off, right? I can still shut down the plan simple enough."
There was silence on the other end.
"You are so lucky it's me in charge of you. Manton would have you killed. He's got enough problems with Erebus without you adding your attitude to it."
Nitya smirked.
"Who's this Erebus?"
"You're not to tell Manton I told you, you hear?" The voice demanded.
"Yes, I get it. Won't tell. Sheesh."
Nitya grinned, imagining the glare she was getting from the speaker.
"Erebus is some guy e-mailing Manton lately, offering the perfect deal if they pair up and do the Keybearer in together."
Listening, she frowned.
"Know if Manton plans to take it?"
"He thinks about it, but he won't tell me either way."
"Pity. Now, Pete, would you like to let me go? You've got your report and I've got things to tend to."
"Fine, but I'm telling you now that Manton will not be happy to hear that he's gotta wait."
"Well, that's how it works,'' Nitya said simply, shrugging out of habit.
She hung up. The light from the cell phone screen lit up her face, playing across her tan skin. She changed the settings so the phone would vibrate instead of ring.
There were things to do now of much more importance than sitting on a rooftop, and an unexpected call could bring it down around her.
First things first, she had to get out of this portion of town, back to her own base.
Orange eyes carefully checking the streets again, she jumped from the roof, landing easily.
Instantly she lapsed into thought as she walked the familiar paths.
Either Manton was stupid and really believed that there had only ever been one Keyblade, or he was smart and did not tell his workers about the others. She hoped it was the latter. She didn't want to have to teach the boy everything.
She was disappointed to an extent that Manton believed Erebus to be a male. Sure, typically a male name, but it was a female behind it now.
Lastly, Nitya found herself thinking of what Pete had said about Manton killing her. Indeed, witch's son you may be, but you can't kill what really doesn't exist, can you? She thought, a smile tugging at her lips. And what a surprise you'd get, boy.
Nitya exited the peaceful first district of Traverse Town and entered the unruly second district. Here, Heartless still roamed in packs out of Manton's control. he was still perfecting his powers yet as it was and they were simply beyond him. For now, the second district was supposedly off limits to all of his people, but she came anyway. As far as she concerned herself though, she wasn't one of his people. She wasn't even like any of them.
This was base.
She sat down on the fountain's edge for a moment, gathering thoughts. Everything was at a delicate stage now and she had to be careful. One slip up anywhere could mean her certain doom. Manton may not be able to kill her as far as she knew, but she knew he would be able to do damage of some kind.
She stood up, unwilling to allow herself to sit too long. There was work to do yet, work that really mattered.
There was the matter of a certain hotel she had to visit.
Nitya picked her way around the second district, with the same ease as the first. She encountered Heartless only twice, and she sent both packs scurrying quite easily.
She carefully opened the door to the hotel. The desk attendant was asleep and did not as much stir when she closed the door behind her. Silently she made her way next to the man. The list of guests sat beside his arm, as it always was.
She scanned the small guest list. She fought a grin on her face.
They were here. Good. Just like their parents when the time came.
Nitya made for the rooms they were in, having memorized their names already, intending to sneak a peek at them.
Suddenly, halfway down the hallway, she sensed something wrong. She stood still for a moment, listening intensely. There was no sound behind her at all, but she knew enough tricks of the trade to know that it didn't matter.
She turned slowly, hands by her weapons. She froze.
She studied the man standing there, and he simply let her. He wasn't human, that much she knew by how sudden she had felt his presence. No, he had actually appeared somehow.
For once Nitya didn't know if she trusted her eyes.
Could he really be like her?
Never really tried suspense before, I hope I didn't do too bad. Let me know what you think! I'm guessing some of you will be able to tell who Manton is exactly and Nitya, judging my description and such. The first chapter will be less dark and include the children of some favorite characters! I might be taking a break from here to do one more chapter of Life at Kingdom High, that is, unless I get a lot of reviews here! Then I'll do the next chapter right away. Please review! It helps me when you do!
