Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Love
Destiny Islands. A long time ago...
Two children sat at the edge of the dock. Staring at the sunrise. One had bright white hair that went to his shoulders, the other, a girl, had blackred hair that went to the middle of her back. Both children had bright eyes, the boy, yellow, and the girl, pink.
"Do you really think this world is too small ?" The girl asked her friend, the boy, Xehanort smiled in return, her youthful face made his heart soar
"With you, Blackie, any world is just right." Xehanort replied. Blackbird was his closest, no his only friend. He loved her with his life. And he felt brave around her, strong and intimidating towards others. With his spiky hair and brash attitude, the girl took a liking to him when they first met
He couldnt help but remember that fateful day, He'd just turned twelve, and he had, in a manner of speaking, grown up. So as he wandered the town he saw a girl, no more than his own age, being chased by a group of evil looking men. He recognised them as the castle guards. "Stop theif!" screamed one guard as Xehanort rounded a corner he stopped and stared.
The girl was, even at his age, beautiful, bright pink eyes, she carried a pair of strange looking almost smokey daggers in her hand joined at the pommel. She easily dove over a stack of fruits and grabbed a hanging awning pole as she easily vaulted out of the guards reach. Xehanort stared, this girl was good.
He blinked howeever when she turned from a blocked alley ahead and directly for him. The guards shouted and crashed into each other briefly "You, stop! Stop her!" The guards screamed., The girl dove behind Xehanort and peeked out from behind the tall boy. Her daggers disappearing from her hand
"Make me!" The girlshouted at the guards as they got to their feet and advanced on them. Xehanort at the brief moment of the girl touching him. She wasnt his mother, but she just touched him! The guards stopped a good two or three paces from Xehanort and the girl. The boy raised his arms as if in surrender. The guards had swords, really weird looking blades too for that matter.
"I dont want to fight, but what's going on ? Why are you chasing her ?" Xehanort asked the guards. Some of them easily recognised him as the son of a rather powerful family in the area and they knew that with him there, they had no chance to get the girl and take her to the prison for stealing. He had no weapons. On him, just his wits, and his rank compared to the soldiers.
"She was caught stealing munny from a vendors shop." asaid the guard who was originally called to the scene. "I tried to ask her if she had truly stolen the munny when she fled the scene, so that told me enough." He pointed an accusing finger at the girl. "She stole munny from a respepctable merchant."
"I did not, I told you I dropped it!" The girl retorted. Xehanort raised an arm to quiet her. He didnt like that the soldiers were really just picking on a homeless girl
His yellow eyes stared at them, there ewas anger slowly rising up. And the soldiers knew that if he called upon his own bodyguard who was no doubt lurking nearby. "I do not care if she stole or simply got ewhat was stolen from her. But what I do care about is you Captain Wutai" Xehanort said, "You were bored I can see that clearly, so you chose to pick on someone who sought only to recover what was lost and accused her of stealing."
"But she did steal!" Thundered Wutai at Xehanort, he advanced a step but Xehanort kept his arm in front of the girl. "And I intend top bring her to justice."
"Do you really value your job over the homeless ?" Xehanort asked, his yellow eyes staring him down. One by one the other soldiers knew that the boy had a point and let. Going after a girl who, for all intens, was simply getting her munny back after it was taken from her was not something they took a child to prison for.
Soon it was just Caoptain Wutai, Xehanort, and the girl. "Care to press your luck against me ?" Xehanort asked the much larger, stronger man.
For a long moment Wutai was quiet, finally he put his weapon away. He pointed at the boy "You win, this time, but if I ever catch her alone, shes going to jail." He then stalked off on his own, without his prize
Their friendship grew each day siunce then, and most times he find her wandering the city of Distinos and they'd sneak aboard a vessel headed for the Islands to the south. They'd spent weeks doing it, perfecting their craft at getting to the islands, sneaking supplies for themselves to move there at some point.
But now, they were watching the sunrise, and watching for a ship. Xehanort had at one point told his parents his plan of sleeping out on the islands for his birthday. His parents agreed and even got him a ticket, but he didnt want to go alone. He wanted to take his friend, Blackie, with him. The girl wore a dark red and black smoke like dress, her black hair tinted with blood red made her rather pretty as well.
As they grew up they became closer. Now the watched the sunrise. Blackbird, as her name was when she introdfuced herself to Xehanorts family, was a sweet girl. Yet Xehanorts father didnt like the look of her. Such a pretty seemingly ageless girl. Something was off about her
"You really think so ?" Blackie then asked
"I know so, with you, anything is just right" Xehanort said
The two watched the sunrise. "I hope you are right, for both our sake" Blackie thought softly.
Seven years later and Xehanort turned twenty two, and Blackie turned twenty one, both were adults, and that was when their live became not as easy as they had once hoped.
He watched as the ship faded int the sunlight. His only friend, his closest confadant, his... betrothed, was torn from him, all over her magic, and his magic. He had been facinated by her magical abilites since they were kids and she showed off. But she had to keep it secret from adults. Because of what her magic was. It naturally scared the adults and masters. It was infact really why the soldiers wanted to take her to prison, to use her magic for their own gain. Or worse.
But there had been a fight in the marketplace of Distros. And she was in the middle of it, now a young woman, two guards laid dead, their blood simply forming into a sword in her hand. A beautiful weapon as Xehanort tried to calm the crowd more guards filled into the area and the captain, once again it was Wutai, the damned man wouldnt leave them be.
Stepping forwards closer to the cleared area of people to both Xehanort and Blackie, Wutai smirked. "Well well well, what do we have here ? Oh... attacking the Guard I see ? Both dead by your hands girl ? Yes I remember you, I tried to arrest you had this young man not saved your life. But now. Now you have witnesses, not even his family can save your life from the gallows!" He drew his sword. Just as Xehanort also drew a sword. Seemingly from thin air his mystic blade formed.
"You will not harm her!" He said sternly.
"You have no power here Xehanort, step aside, or shall I bring your corpse to your mother ?: Wutai said to him
"Leave him be!" Blackie shrieked, her sword snapped up. Gone was a fragile scared girl that Xehanoirt had saved all those years ago. In that girls place was a woman, defiant, and beautiful. "He had nothing to do with this, and those men tried to rob me and forced my hand!" She said
"My mind would do nothing of the sort, wtich!" Wutai shouted at her. He turned back to Xehanort who never moved. He was not going tlo el his friend fall to lies. "I say it again, boy, move aside, this does not concern you."
"Anything that concerns Blackbird concerns me!" Xehanort retorted. That even made Blackie look at him in brief shock as Wutai started laughing.
"Dont you get it lad ?!" Wutai laughed. "She is a wtich! Look at her!"
Xehanort lowered his sword and looked towards the love of his life, those bright vibrant pink eyes had a sense of power behind them, something he loved even as a child. "Is it true ?" He simply asked her.
At first she didnt answer. But then she took a deep breath and let it out. A simple nod. Then. "Blood is fuel." She looked downwards at his question, but as she spoke she looked directly at him. Bright pink eyes, glittered with raw internal power.
Xehanort snapped up his sword, but not at her, Blackbird stared as Wutai halted his advance, Xehanorts glasslike sword at his neck. "I say it again, Captain, Wutai, you and your men, stand down. Or I will strike you down myself."
Wutai smirked and pointed at Blackbird. "You heard it from her own mouth, she is a witch! Look at my men at her feet! Do you not believe me ?"
"Your men, chose their fate." Xehanort said simply. He looked at Wutai down at the tipl; of his blade. "Just like you and I, and Blackie, we can choose our fate. And I chose my fate, to be with her. And if you want to hinder us. Well, that is your choice." Xehanort said.
He lowered his sword and stepped closer to Wutai, eye level with the man he said simply. "I encurage you to think very carefully on your choice." Behjind him Wutai could see Blackbird drawing the blood from the fallen soldiers into her twin swords. Formingi the two weaopons seamlessly into one single beautiful blade soaked in blood.
For a long moment there was silence. Finally Wutai nodded. "You are right. We each choose our own fates. And if that is your choice, Then I have to agree. We will spare her, on one condition"
"Name it" Xehanort said.
"She leaves Distros, she leaves everyone, and lives alone. Execept for you." Wutai said. Blackbird heard the condition, and her heart sank, she loved that city. But she nodded.
Before Xehanort spoke she said loud enough. "Agreed, tomorrow at sunrise, I will leave, until then, I will remain with Xehanort. And you will not hinder us. So long as we agree to both parties terms"
Wutai smirked, finally he had the boy right where he wanted him as Xehanort turned and stared, one day left ? There was so much they could still do! "Agreed. We will take our leave, and none of my men will come near you. But they will watch, and iif you miss the time to leave, they will try to kill you." At that, he motioned his men to stand down and take the dead, allowing Xehanort and Blackbird to be alone
As the street refilled with people Blackbird dispelled her sword into nothing but it simply floated behind her, but within reach. The black rusting bloodstained blade was harmless until she drew it to fight with. She went right to Xehanort and hugged him, he hugged her tightly in return.
"You didnt have to do that" Blackbird said softly
"For you I'd do anything" Xehanort replied just as softly. At that point Blacbird giggled briefly "What is it ? Whats so funny ?"
"I never thought I'd be sailing into a sunrise, normally we watch it happy." Blackbird replied. It made Xehanort smile, the two went t ofind something toeat, the horrors of that morning forgotten. But over the course of the day, unwanted lering and jeers were aimed at the pair.
At a table for a late evening meal. Xehanort spoke up. "Where will you go ?" He knew there were other worlds out there besides the Islands.
"I dont know. But I promise you this, when you and I meet again, we will both be strong enough to face our enemies." Blackbird replied, placing her hands ontop of his, he took them, and looked into her eyes. And nodded
"Agreed." He said.
The night passed in a blur. And when the predawn hours came, it found Xehanort standing at the seaside. Watching the sky slowly grow brighter. "This land is just too small."
"Been up long ?" Came a soft voice. He turned and saw her, Blackbird stood there, same outfit as the day before. The blood that was spilled looked... well drier, but still present. "You know, in the case we never see each other again in this life, We will see each other in the next one. But I will aim for a land, or world, at random. Like how I wound up in Distros. And when you can, you'll find me there."
The two shared a deep kiss. As much as Xehanort wanted to propose marriage and force her to stay, Wutai's troops were watching them. He took her to the boat she was to take and helped her aboard. Then he stood there and watched her ship sail into the sunrise.
He spoke louder as her ship faded from view. "This world is too small" One day, he would be strong enough, and they were be together again
Aqua's eyes snapped open and she sat bolt upright where she had fallen asleep. Fighting with herself, within herself for control, to keep Xehanort out of her heart and mind. To leave her alone. She was failing.
"I see you are starting to see my memories" Xehanort said simply as his ghost formed. He turned to look at her "Good, then it means we are getting closer to becoming one."
"The darkness never interested me!" Aqua said to him as her masters old keyblade formed in her hand. "I will fight you if I must!"
"That wont be needed here. Foolish girl" Xehanort said simply. "There is nothing for you to destroy, no darkness but what is around you." Xehanort said simply as he faded away on the wind. Aqua screamed and the keyblade disappeared, her hands went to her head as Xehanort tried once more to take her over, body and soul. She fought him as hard as she could before passing out.