Prologue: Visions

The entire area was nothing but darkness, that much was certain. The boy had no idea what had happened or where he was. He knew he wasn't blind, he could see his dark-peach hands and the red sleeves of his shirt if he put them in view as well as his red, grey shoes and the blue legs of his jeans when he walked, but everything else was nothing but a black abyss. He walked forwards slowly sticking his arms in front of him so he could feel any walls he would run into, hoping that there weren't any areas he could fall to his doom in. The boy thought about his current predicament. What took him here? Why was he brought here in the first place? The last thing he remembered was him trying to sleep in his room, but when he had opened his eyes, he was somehow in this place. Hopefully he was the only one having this strange problem, he would never want to think about his friends and family being in the same situation he was in.

Eventually, the boy soon saw a faint light, as if wherever he was at was, instead of just some abyss of darkness, some kind of tunnel. Even though the boy wasn't walking toward it, the light came closer and closer, making the area go brighter as it did until the void was engulfed by a blinding light. When the light dimmed, the boy appeared to be in a mysterious hallway painted completely in white. He still had no idea where he was, nor what took him here but at least the boy could finally see where he was going. As he walked forward through the hall, he saw several odd statues of what looked like strange, cartoon-like characters. He had no idea who they were of and why there are statues of them here. As the boy approached the statues however, the statues were given color as if some mysterious force painted them when the boy went near them. He proceeded forward until he reached the end of the hallway where he saw a giant, wooden gate with a white symbol in the shape of a heart in the center. The boy heard a faint, strangely familiar-sounding voice coming from the other side of the large door that stood before him, but it was too quiet to hear whatever it was saying. The boy tried to respond to it, but for some unexplainable reason, he couldn't let out a single word. The boy started to get worried but he soon decided to move on anyways, he needed to know what the on earth was happening.

He pushed open one of the gates, letting out a blinding light like the one previously. When it faded, the boy saw that he was now in what looked like a train station. The entire area was nothing but white, much like the hallway before. The boy continued to move forward until the ground began to shake. As they boy tried to keep balance, three pedestals started to rise from the ground around him, each of them having an object floating above them. Over the first one was a white, crystal heart, much like the one painted on the door he just passed through. A black flame hovered over the second one. For some reason, the flame was making the area around it darker, not brighter. Over the last one was what looked like a white flame and another black flame converging.
"Darkness is nothing without the light." A disembodied voice said as the boy looked around, confusingly trying to find the source of the voice "Yet, Light could consume everything without the darkness resisting it. One cannot exist with the other and while it seems otherwise, the two always finds coexistence. Light is never always affiliated with good, nor is the darkness always affiliated with evil. It is possible for both forces to be used by either, maybe even both."

The boy had some odd feeling about the voice he was hearing. He was sure he heard it before, but he couldn't remember where. As he tried to remember where he might have heard the voice from, the converging flames began to grow. engulfing everything in the area. The boy ran as the flames continued to expand more and more, becoming bigger and bigger. He tried to go past the gate he had passed before, but re soon realized that there was nothing but a blank wall. It was like the gate teleported him here by some unknown force. As the boy turned closing his eyes in preparation of the flame burning him to death, the voice said one other thing, "Remember this,"

The boy opened his eyes to see he was some how teleported back into his hometown. Even more confused about what was happening, he walked around where he was until a pile of scrap metal fell from the sky. There were no signs of where these piles of scrap had dropped from as there werent any buildings near where the pile had fallen, but for some odd reason, they started to shake.
"There are more worlds out there than you know," The mysterious from before voice began as the metal started to fly in the air, as if some unknown had grabbed a hold of it. "Their evils are starting to become one." The pile of metal started to combine, creating a strange robot made out of the metal from the pile. Soon, two more piles fell from the sky. "Soon they will strike as one." The other piles formed into the same robot the one before them did. "And if not stopped, they will rule as one." The eye the three robots lit up as they turned to the boy. The robots soon began to run to the boy as if intending to harm him.

The boy turned and tried to run away from them, his head still trying to process what on earth was happening. Suddenly, as he got to the middle of the road, he suddenly ran into an invisible force field. He turned to see the robots were closing in, preparing the sharp, blade-like tips of their arms as if to strike. However, as the boy closed his eyes, preparing for his fate, he heard a metal slam nearby. He slowly opened his eyes to see an odd sword in front of him, it's blade somewhat dug into the ground, implying that it somehow fell from the sky, much like those robots. "They are after you," The voice continued. "They fear your potential power. They will find you and they will try to kill you. But all is not lost, soon, you will have to fight back." the boy grabbed the sword's handle and pulled it out of the ground. As one of the robots lunged at the boy, the boy easily dodged it and swung the sword at the robot, cutting it in half. The robot exploded soon afterward.

The boy was shocked by this, he never was taught how to wielding a sword, let alone practice, but it was like he somehow knew the basics already. This just confused him even more, but now was not the time to contemplate about what was going own. The other two robots charged at him. The boy ducked their attacks and slashed the other two in half. "They are much more stronger than you could ever imagine." The voice added. "By yourself, they could easily eliminate you. But admist all the evil in the cosmos, there also lies sparks of good souls." Soon, as if the whole town was just a hologram, the area faded and he now stood on the top of what looked like a platform made of stained glass. He noticed something surprising about the stained glass's design, particularly the person near the center of it.. The person in the center... It was him!

However, they boy had little to know time to think much else about it, as a giant pile of metal fell to the center of the room. The scrap metal, like the previous three piles in the illusion made to look like his hometown, hovered in the air and combined into a group of the same robots from before. Roland easily destroyed these robots, in fact, this seemed too easy. A dark energy flowed to the center of the platform. The energy roze from the ground, forming into a strangely shaped mist. "There is one evil that is powerful enough to pull the other's strings." The voice said. "He is the one that fears you the most." Suddenly, the mist spread it's arms out. "He fears your power," His left arm transformed into a large, floating robot claw. "He fears your potential," The right arm of the mist turned into a second robot claw. "And he wants you to fear him," The rest of the body transformed into a floating robot body with a menacing, beast-like head.

The mechanical beast made an echoing roar, making the entire platform quake. The boy had lost his balance from the intense vibrations, making him drop down onto the platform. Somewhat afraid, the boy got back up, preparing his sword for fighting this large, menacing opponent. The robot swung one of its claws at the boy, who instinctively jumped out of harm's way. The boy, surprised to see he was able to jump so high landed on the robot's other claw, slashing it. As sparks flew the boy jumped once again as the damaged claw fell to the ground. The robot yelled as as it tried to punch the still airborne boy with his still functioning claw. The attack easily hit the boy, pushing him near the edge of the platform.

The boy hit the ground hard, but got back up surprisingly quickly. The attack definitely hurt like heck, no doubt about that, but his body somehow still had more than enough strength to keep fighting. He had expected that the damage was much worse. He ignored it for now and focused on fighting the robot that was trying to kill him. The downed claw suddenly rose back up and opened up, almost like it was preparing to slash at the boy. The boy had attempted to dodge the attack, but it hit him anyways, cutting parts of his shirt. He managed to land on his feet. He looked at the tears in his shirt, noticing that there weren't any wounds or even cuts for that matter. What's happening? Had he suddenly, somehow, gone crazy?

The other claw prepared to attack the boy again. This time, however, he dodged it, stabbed the hand when he got the chance, more sparks flying as it stopped functioning. The robot yelled again swinging its other claw above the boy, who was able to dodge this attack as well, stabbing his blade into this claw much like the other. Even more parks flew as the claw dropped down. The mech screamed as it shot fire out of its mouth. The boy leaped away from the fire and and then jumped towards the robot, landing on top of the head. The boy took his blade and stabbed his sword into the robot's head. Massive amounts of sparks flew as the robot was finally defeated in a large explosion. Unfortunately, it was so intense that not only did it eject the boy far away from it, but it also completely destroyed the platform, making the boy fall into the void below. The boy tried to scream but, once again, no sound came out. He didn't notice though, as he still continued to try and scream even though he couldn't make any sound. "Even when all seems lost," The voice began, "There will always be hope. Remember all that I have said… Roland," as the boy continued to fall, the voice repeated this name.