(Sora's Pov)
It was entirely pitch black. That was all I could see, no matter where I looked. The only light was from the platform that I was standing on. I remembered falling into the ocean and reaching the bottom before I took a single step. When that happened, a bunch of doves appeared and flew off and the platform had appeared.
"Where am I?" I thought.
"Choose a weapon." A strange voice called out to me.
"Who are you and what will happen?"
"In time you will know. Now it is time for your destiny to start."
The next thing that I know, the ground started shaking and three pillars appeared from the ground, each carrying a weapon. I saw a sword, a shield, and a wand.
I didn't know which one to choose from. I thought the shield wouldn't be strong to use for offence and the wand didn't look like it could do some serious damage.
"Well, I guess I'll take the sword." I thought.
I made my way to the pillar, jumping up on top of it and retrieved the sword.
"Now what?" I said aloud.
"Now you must give up another weapon. Choose carefully, these shall be your new powers soon." The voice called out.
"I don't understand."
"It's hard to explain right now, but ask your mother about this. Then it will all make sense."
"My mother? What does she have to do with this?"
"Everything."
"Okay, okay."
Looking at the other two weapons, I had decided that I would get rid of the wand. I wasn't fond of it. As soon as I reached its platform, I started to wonder how I would get rid of it. All of a sudden, a bright flash of light appeared and the next thing I know, the wand was gone.
"Now it's time for you to fight." The voice said, calling out to me once more.
"What?" I asked, not sure if I heard it correctly.
"Here they come; the rest is up to you.
"Wait!"
I saw something move from the corner of my eye and as I looked around I saw that I was surrounded by weird looking, black creatures of darkness.
"What are these things?!" I cried out.
There was no reply this time. All of a sudden, one of the creatures jumped out to attack me. I quickly pulled my arms up to block. The next thing I heard was something being destroyed. I looked at my hands to see what happened when I saw the sword. I guess when I put my arms up to block, I had slashed upward with the sword and it had it sliced the creature in half. I quickly got into my fighting stance and prepared for the worst.
Some of the creatures started to attack me but this time I was ready. Multiple of the creatures tried to overpower me, but they couldn't and ended up being destroyed. Some were smarter than the others and tried to attack me from behind. I destroyed them to; unfortunately one had gotten a luck shot in and scratched me on the leg.
"Gosh freaking darn it!" I screamed in pain.
Pretty soon the rest of the creatures were destroyed. Once I made sure that none would surprise attack me, I started to look around for a way to leave.
"Great now what? I thought once I defeated all of those things. I would get to leave this place" I thought.
As soon as I was finished ranting, stairs appeared. They seemed to lead out of this place.
"I bet that's the way out of this place," I said happily, "Destiny Islands, here I come!"
I ran up the endless staircase, hoping to get out of this strange place. It had taken a while but I had made it up to the top and I was surprised at what I saw; another platform.
"I thought this would take me back home, not leave me stranded!" I yelled.
That's when I noticed my shadow had grown really long. It soon stood up and it looked like me but had a heart shape hole in its chest. I ran to the stairs as fast as I could but they had disappeared and I almost fell of the platform. I turned around only to see my shadow looking down at me.
"I really hope that this is just a bad dream." I thought.
My shadow roared at me and started to attack to me. I knew I couldn't hit its head or anything that high, so I went for the legs, but it wasn't working. It suddenly shoved its hands into the platform and the strange creatures that I fought before started coming out.
"Oh no," I thought, "If it has backup then I'm done for."
I ran up to the hands and started striking the creatures. But to my horror, they kept coming out faster than I could destroy them. I was losing more and more stamina with every strike. When I went to strike down another creature, I missed and my attack hit my shadow's hand. My shadow pulled its hand out as if it had touched something very hot, and roared in pain.
"So that's how I'm going to kill this thing." I said to myself.
Unfortunately, my shadow wasn't going to give me another chance to strike its hand. It now kept its hands far away from me by keeping them in the air.
"Now what?" I thought, "I can't jump that high."
I started to run around my shadow, looking for another place to strike that would do a lot of damage. But I couldn't find anything. Unfortunately I was too busy looking for another place to strike that I didn't see the giant hand coming towards me. My shadow basically swatted me away like a fly. I landed on the ground with a loud thud. It hurt too much to move so I lay there, waiting for the killing blow.
"Mom, I'm sorry, but it looks like this is the end." I said aloud.
All of a sudden, I had a vision. I was standing in the ocean at Destiny Island. As I looked at the shore I saw my mom. For some reason, her appearance changed; she now had blonde hair that looked like gold and red eyes that looked like the best rubies that money could buy.
I caught a glimpse of my appearance in the ocean and when I looked at the water to see my reflection, I saw I had the same color of hair as my mom, but I had yellow eyes that looked like a darker shade of amber. When I looked back up to the shore I saw that my mom wasn't alone. There were a lot of people standing next to her. There were boys and girls who looked the same age as me. Though there were some who were younger than me and older than me. But the man who was standing next to mom surprised me a lot. He had dark chocolate brown hair and dark amber eyes that were the same as mine. They were waving at me to come onto the beach but I was hesitant.
"Haxe, come on, let's go home." My mother called out to me.
I was about to walk up to them, but what my mom had called me, made me confused. I was wonder why she had called my Haxe other than Sora. Before I could do anything, I soon found myself back on the platform with new found determination.
"No." I thought, "I want to know who those people are, I want to protect people from whatever's going to happen."
I slowly stood up and grabbed my sword. As I looked at the dark creature and yelled at it;
"I won't lose to you!"
As I charged right at it, I didn't notice that the blade was glowing. When I got near my shadow, I felt a new power growing inside me. I went with my instincts and jumped. I jumped higher than I have ever done before and as I within striking range of its head, I slashed at it multiply times before landing on the ground. When I turned to look at it, I saw that it had a look of shock and surprise on its face before it was destroyed. The second it was destroyed, snowflakes of light started to fall down.
"You have done well young one." The voice said, returning back to me.
"How long have you been there?" I asked it, trying to control my temper.
"The whole time."
"Why didn't you help me?"
"I had to test you. Look at your sword."
I looked at my sword and saw that it had changed. It now had a light amber color and its power felt as though it was in-between light and darkness. Almost as if it were twilight.
"Whoa, what does this mean?" I said as I managed to get a sentence out.
"It means that your power has begun to awaken." The voice said, "But you are not ready to use that sword yet. Here, take this it will help you control your new powers."
Soon a bright light consumed the sword. When the light faded away, my sword was gone. In its place was a strange key shaped blade.
"That is a keyblade. It will help you." The voice said.
"I feel weird." I told the voice.
I got a strange feeling and I slashed forward with my left hand. In its place was another keyblade. I then took the two and slammed them together and their forms changed. The one in my right hand was black and dark looking, while the one in my left was white and light looking.
"Impressive. It seems that you managed to call forth oblivion and oathkeeper. But it will take you a while to summon the kingdom key, let alone dual wield." The voice told me.
"So those are their names. What did you mean by it would take me a while to summon it?" I asked.
"Once you leave your heart, it will take you a while before you can summon the kingdom key." The voice explained, "It may also take you a while before you can dual wield."
"Wait, you mean to tell me that this place is my heart?" I said in complete shock.
"That's correct; this is the perfect place to test you. Now it's time for you to return back home."
"I can't wait to summon the keyblade when I get out of here. Riku is going to be so jealous."
"Hold on there. You can't go around showing the keyblade to everyone."
"Why not?"
"I could bore you to death by telling you all the reasons and going into full details, but let's just say that enemies that you'll encounter will attack you more and more if they know who you are."
"So how do I protect myself?"
"In time you'll be supplied with some armor, but not right now."
"Aw, I wanted to see what the armor would look like."
"Quit complaining and get ready to return back home."
"When do I leave?"
"Right now."
Out of nowhere a huge black pool of darkness appeared beneath me and started to suck me in like quicksand. I started struggling to get out, but it was pointless. Soon the pool had engulfed me and all I saw was darkness.
I thought I heard waves in the darkness but I wasn't sure. I had closed my eyes before I was engulfed and was scared to open them. I gathered up my courage and opened them. When I did, I saw bright, sunny blue skies. I sat up, yawned, and stretched before lying back down. All of a sudden a face came into my view, scaring me.
"Whoa!" I said as I quickly shot up.
"Sora you lazy bum. I knew I'd find you snoozing here. My best friend Kairi said.
"No, I was somewhere else." I replied, "I was at this battlefield in my heart where this huge pool of black stuff swallowed me up."
Kairi just sighed and said;
"Sora, I know that you don't like school, but this is almost a lame as what you did last year."
"I'm telling you the truth."
"Hey" a voice call out to the both of us.
We both turned our heads and saw Riku running up to us.
"So it looks like I'm the only one enjoying the last day of summer vacation." Riku said when he made it to us.
"Hey Riku." Kairi and I said at the same time.
"So how do you guys think we should end summer vacation?" He said.
"Maybe Sora could take us to his battlefield?" Kairi said as innocently as she could.
"Battlefield? What battlefield?" Riku asked, confused.
"Sora had a dream where he got swallowed up." Kairi replied back to him.
"I swear I'm telling the truth. I said, "I took on my shadow that was taller than me and after I destroyed it, I was swallow up."
"Are you trying to get out of school again?" Riku asked, frowning, "I think you had a better chance at doing that when you hid under your bed last year."
"I 'm not trying to get out of school."
"Sora do you, or do you not know if that was real?"
"I don't know, it felt so real; the adrenalin, the fights, the cut."
"Where exactly did you get cut?"
"On my leg."
"Well I don't see any cuts on your legs at all."
After Riku said that, I quickly checked my legs. I saw nothing at all.
"I guess you're right Riku. Maybe my mind doesn't want to go to school." I said to him.
Kairi sat down next to me and said;
"Don't worry Sora, will always be there for you."
"Come on, why don't we go enjoy our last day of summer." Riku said before getting up and taking off and heading to the Paopu Tree.
"No fair!" I yelled out to him.
Kairi stood up and asked;
"Are you coming Sora?"
"Yeah, I'll be there in a sec." I told her.
"Okay," and with that, Kairi headed to the tree.
Once she was gone I looked back at my legs.
"I could've sworn that it was real." I mumbled to myself.
That's when I noticed it. A very tiny scar. You would have to look very carefully to see it. But once I saw that, I knew that the dream had been real and soon I would be put to the test.
Hey guys, Shadowless15 here and as you can guess I'm still alive. School kept me busy so I haven't had a lot of time to get the other stories published. But I'm close to finishing up the next chapters in "An Endless Ocean" and "The Town's Secret". I would like to thank Victinis Victory for following me and to everyone else for being patient with me. College is hard and I don't have that much time to type for fun. I hope that all of you will enjoy this new story, it's one that I wrote two years ago. I had found it a week ago. Anyway, like always, review and don't forget to give me an OC and ideas "The Town's Secret". You guys are awesome and I will update as soon as I can. Shadowless15 out.