Chris: Hey there! Since I really hate doing this since its kind of a waste of time-
Rodney (interrupting): Come on! I just died again!
C: Stop interrupting and keep leveling up Sora!
Chris:… ok… their still playing Kingdom Hearts… anyway, since this is a waste of time doing the disclaimer thing-
Ashley (interrupting again): It's not a waste of time! If you don't do it, Square Enix will sue you for your life and your powers!
Chris: THANK YOU FOR SPOILING MY STORY! *chases after Ashley*
*ten minutes later*
Chris: Well, I really hate doing this disclaimer thing, so I want someone else to do it. Hey Cloud!
Cloud: … what…
Chris: do the disclaimer thing and I'll give you… a… a photo of Tifa!
Cloud: … … … Not Interested.
Chris:… … … Anyone?
*Random SHADOW HEARTLESS* : *squeal squeak nudge nudge poke*
Chris: thank you. He said: "Chris Talonflight (aka ME) does not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy and is not affiliated with any of the bands that are used as soundtracks for this fic. This is not intended to advertize, and the songs are merely intended as ambience. So please don't sue." Please enjoy the FanFic, Kingdom Hearts, Light of Happiness! (Note: if anyone is interested in seeing the cover for this that I designed, PM me)
Chapter One: Chris Vasquez: Endgame.
The boy raced through the corridors, killing any and all resistance. He turned a corner.
"Well Sora, I didn't expect to see you here."
The boy bristled. "Riku, give me back Kairi!"
"Huh." The older boy, Riku said slowly. "Face it. You're nothing but the messenger boy." Riku disappeared in a portal of darkness. A large group of Heartless appeared around Sora. Sora summoned his weapon. Heartless flew apart beneath his keen blade. Suddenly, a Largebody hurled itself at him, crushing him beneath its huge weight. The room went black.
"Ahh!" I threw the remote across the room. "I keep on dying at this part!"
Huh… Keyblade…. The game is awesome… I lay back on my bed, taking a momentary break from my Playstation 2. It was always the same game: Kingdom Hearts.
Boy, do I wish I was Sora. Huh, I thought to myself. Like that will ever happen. Or maybe Riku, he's always been cool.
Noticing my hunger, I jogged downstairs. Nothing good in the fridge. Oh well, might as well get the group together. I dialed a number on his cell phone. "Hey, little Chris, what's up?"
My friend, who incidentally shared my name, Chris, but everyone always called him C, replied over the noise of his guitar. "Hey big bro, I'm just strumming with Rodney here. Did you hear about his friend? She's pretty cute."
"I'll see about that when I get there." I looked out the window. The sky seemed prematurely dark. Strange, I could imagine this same weather in the last level of Destiny Islands in Kingdom Hearts. "Hey dude, isn't it supposed to be sunny today?"
"That's what the weather said."
"Look outside." I grabbed a bag with everything I might need in it that I always kept ready and yelled to my older brother. "I'll be back here tomorrow, don't wait up for me!" my older brother Michael was always cool, but significantly more interested in himself then me.
As I jogged down the city streets, I noticed a distinct absence of noise. Pure silence. The gloom made me nervous, my nerves tensed to the limit. Something about the silence was oppressive. Why is it so silent? New York should always have some noise… I was intensely glad I had taken karate classes, even though when I put up my hood I looked so much like a serial killer that people were scared to mess with me.
I nearly rammed the door open to C's apartment. C was strumming his guitar, while Rodney and a girl were talking animatedly while playing, guess what, Kingdom Hearts.
"Seriously?" I asked as I sat down. "I keep on dying on this part of Hollow Bastion. I wish I had the Beast." I studied the girl. She had black hair just past her jaw line, a white t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, a small tattoo of a keyblade I had seen on Deviant Art called Lurebreaker on her shoulder, black jeans, and a spiked bracelet. Her eyebrow was pierced. Definitely a contrast to my black hooded sweater, with a black jacket over it, and a pair of torn up faded dark blue jeans. She was full-figured, and her strange, purple eyes had something about them that seemed familiar. Something that was… no, it couldn't be…
"Who are you?" I asked in a strange voice. C stopped his playing for a moment to look at my awed face.
The girl looked at me, slightly flattered, slightly amused, and more then a little confused. "Hi, my name is Ashley. Who are you?"
Breaking from my trance, I held out my hand. "I'm Chris. Also known as Talonflight by these weird people." I said jokingly. I turned my attention once more to the screen. "Its too bad Kingdom Hearts isn't real. What an adventure that would be."
"I'm kind of glad it isn't." Rodney said. "I don't have a death wish because I can't make portals."
"Are we so sure that it isn't real?" Ashley said, half joking, half serious. "The Heartless might just have not gotten to us yet."
I groaned. "Please don't tempt me. It's bad enough getting to play it and not being able to experience it."
"Well…" Ashley glanced at the dark sky. It looked like night, even though it was only three in the afternoon. "I'm just saying."
"Oh, by the way, have you guys heard about the event of the Tame Heartless?" I pulled out a sheaf of papers from my bag. "Supposedly, when Sora doesn't kill Kairi when he's a Shadow Heartless, he inspired another one to do the same thing. Some Shadow Heartless became far more powerful then just a Heartless and saved Ventus's life in Birth by Sleep-"
"Dude, I'm telling you, that don't happen. Heartless are killers. Sora was merely an aberration." Rodney interrupted. Each of us carried a bag with them at all times. My bag contained a copy of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, as well as a copy of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories and 358/2 Days, and an advance copy of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, plus my blood-red scarf and sketchbook and an extra pair of boxers. C had in his bag a portable version of the Playstation 2, food, and extra picks, while Rodney had a portable mini TV and a lightning bolt ring, all in case we got stuck somewhere for the night and were bored. Yes, we were the ultimate Kingdom Heart's obsessed people.
"Whatever." I looked outside. "Mind if I crash here for tonight? I'm too lazy to walk back home."
"Dude, you're the most in shape of any of us, the best at fighting, and the tallest, and the fastest. You have no right to say you're too lazy." C laughed it off.
"Well, I'm gonna crash." I headed for Rodney's room, glancing back occasionally to look at Ashley. Before I went to sleep, I looked at Rodney's collectable broadsword and katana: Basher and Bladesinger, the weapons of thunder. Well, if he can have his imaginary weapons, then so can I. I thought. With that, I drew a picture of myself, holding Riku's sword from Kingdom Hearts one: Soul Eater, in one hand, the power of Darkness exuding from me. Then I drew another picture of myself, wounded, desperate, and holding Last Chaos, a darkness keyblade I had invented from my mind. I placed then in my pocket, and fell asleep.
They're good guys, my friends are… good guys… I fell into oblivion.
* * *
Something moved in the night. I sat bolt upright and looked at the clock. 11:50 pm… I slept awhile. That or this is a dream. It sure feels like one. I got up and looked out the window.
"Jesus Christ!" I yelled. Something black with yellow eyes had hurled itself at the window! I stumbled back, waking up a sleeping Rodney. C darted into the room.
"God, Chris, did you see outside?" he yelled. He was still holding his guitar. I grabbed my chain from my jeans.
"Rodney, get your things and be ready in the living room." I ran upstairs, thinking we had thieves in the house. Ashley wasn't there. I listened for any sound. I heard the latch to the roof opening and closing.
"Why is it always me…?" I muttered as I ran up the stairs and onto the roof. I saw Ashley standing there, staring out onto the street.
"Come back inside Ashley!" I called. "It isn't safe!" I looked up at the sky, and saw a vortex pattern appearing. I recognized it instantly. "Oh no… Oh no…" (Cue song: "Valentines Day" by Linkin Park)
I had seen that pattern in the sky in Kingdom Hearts, in the level in which Destiny Islands had been invaded by Heartless. Only here there were no Keyblades or powers, only us. And the Heartless.
So this had to be a dream, right? Gotcha.
Rodney and C barged up onto the roof. Rodney had his Katana in his hand, and his broadsword sheathed across his back. "What's happening?"
"Look" I said. On the ground, the little puddles of Darkness were appearing, with the two yellow orbs for eyes.
Rodney merely nodded. "It looks like Ashley was right all along. We're all dead." He drew his other weapon. "Thing is, I'm not going down that easy."
I nodded. "We can't just accept our fate and die". I was sure this was a dream. It had to be. And that was the type of thing that was said in dreams, right?
I grabbed my heavy chain. "C, you got anything?"
"Only my guitar." He hefted it.
"Ash?" I asked. Then she turned and faced me with hollow eyes.
"It's happening. It's coming."
"Ash, snap out of it." I tapped her face.
"This world has been connected." She said slowly. "Tied to the darkness. It is here to kill us."
"Whatever we knew is gone now. It's up to us. Stop talking like Ansem. I mean, Xehanort's Heartless." I said while trying to wake her from her trance.
She snapped out of it. She grabbed a knife. Jeez, this is a dangerous girl. I thought. "I'm ready". She said.
"Let's go."
Suddenly, a Neoshadow leaped up to where they stood. It bowled Ashley down, knocked Rodney out of the way, and headed for C.
This is it. I want to wake up. I thought, and launched myself into a karate kick. It connected, and I lashed out with the chain. It disappeared. But then a large group of Neoshadows appeared around us. What a sucky way to die in a dream.
Suddenly, a Shadow leaped towards them. It charged up a blast, and destroyed the group of Neoshadows in a volley of black lightning. Then it grabbed me and my friends, and we were engulfed in its teleportation move. Hold on, even in a dream, Shadows aren't supposed to be able to do that… What the he- was my last thought before blackness took me like a thief takes a poorly guarded jewel.
Down in the streets, people screamed as heartless made short work of the world that its inhabitants called Earth. People cried out, and people died. Then in a flash, the heart of the world was found, and six billion people were wiped out, and a planet was removed from existence. A singe white form shot from where the world used to be: the remains of a nobody. And a single corridor of darkness shot from it, leading to another world.
Yes, I know, this has happened before. But it gets better, trust me. Nothing happens anymore that is consistent with the Kingdom Hearts timeline. Review!