A New Blade To The Struggle

An Over Whelming Darkness

Riku and Sora looked out the window to where Hotaru's world once was. Now nothing was there, her world had fallen to darkness, and hopefully she wouldn't. Riku had done that once, and it wasn't a good thing, in the end since he had, it had helped, a little.

"Where do you think Hotaru ended up?" Sora asked.

"Who knows?" Riku asked.

"I ended up in Traverse Town, do you think she might be there?"

"She could be anywhere, there are lots of worlds, all we have to do is hope that she ened up on one that we know, and that the darkness didn't consume her." Riku said, he left the 'like me' part unspoken, but all threee of them knew what it was there.

"Let's get lookin'!" Mickey said. "Okay, now, Sora, you said that you ended up in Traverse Town, let's go there first, since there's a likely chance that's where Hotaru ended up."

Sora and Riku nodded, then Mickey started off too Traverse Town. In reality, they were going in the completly wrong direction, but they didn't know that.

A while later Sora, Riku, and Mickey landed at Traverse Town. Sora looked around, everything seemed the same, but nothing had a dark tinge to it anymore.

"Let's split up. We can cover more distance, and then probably find Hotaru easier. Since we all know the worlds well enough." Riku said.

"I'll take the third district." Sora said, then ran off.

"I've got the second." Riku said, he followed Sora, Mickey was left with the First and some side places.

"Sure, I get the places where there are all sorts of nooks and crannies." Mickey muttered, then walked off to started looking.

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Hotaru smiled, she was helping the Doctor with a new expirament. She nodded when he told her to go get something, then ran off to get it. He was asking for Deadly Nightshade, what he was going to use it for, she didn't know, but whatever it was, this Deadly Nightshade was deadly to her, so she made sure to walk while taking it back.

Suddenly the hairs on the back of Hotaru's neck stood on end. She turned around and looked around, she didn't see anything, but whatever it had been, she didn't like it. Without another word Hotaru walked off a quick pace, not wanting to kill herself with the Deadly Nightshade.

"What took you so long?" the Doctor asked when Hotaru walked in.

"I thought I felt something that was watching me, I stopped to look." Hotaru answered.

"Don't dawdle again." he ordered.

"I wont." Hotaru said.

"Now, go stand out in the hall." Hotaru nodded, and walked out. Suddenly Hotaru got the feeling again, she looked around but didn't see anything.

"Hotaru, there you are!" Jack said, Hotaru jumped, every time she was alone, she got the sence of impending doom, and there was no way that she liked the feel of doom.

"Did you need something?" Hotaru asked, ever since she had come to Halloween Town she had busied herself to do things, and no one could figure out why.

"No, but Sally wants you to come eat." Jack answered.

"Oh, will you tell the Doctor then?" Hotaru asked. "He's using Deadly Nightshade, so I can't go in there." Hotaru explained quickly.

"Sure."

"Thanks." Hotaru said, then she ran off. As she walked to Sally and Jack's house she knew that she was being watched. There was no one in the shadows, maybe it was the shadows themselves.

Hotaru stopped walking and then looked directly into the shadows, there she noticed that there were two glowing yellow eyes. Heartless! Hotaru thought.

"Do not be alarmed." a man's voice said from behind Hotaru, Hotaru whirled around and tired to hit him with her keyblade. "Ah, so that's why the Heartless aren't attacking you, you are a kayblade wielder."

"Who are you? What do you want with me? How did you know where I am?" Hotaru asked.

"I am someone that you will know more about later on, when it's actually an important fact. I wanted to know what was keeping the Heartless from attacking you. And to answer your last question I found out where you were because I can see what the Heartless can see. Any other questions."

"Are you with the Heartless? How do you know what a keyblade is? What are keyblades?"

"Ah, so the answer to that question would be yes. In a way, yes I am with the Heartless, I know what a keyblade is because I didn't live on a seculded planet, and kayblades are the keys to world's keyholes, they keep the darkness from the hearts of the worlds. You, yourself have darkness in your heart. It's trying to consume you. What are you feeling?" the man asked. Hotaru wasn't going to answer, but before she could stop herself she was answering.

"I'm feeling anger, and hate." Hotaru answered.

"Why?"

"The Heartless took my world from me, my family from me, my friends from me. That is something that I cannot and will not forgive." Hotaru answered, her blue eyes were glaring at the ground.

"Ah, so it was your world that they recently consumed. The Heartless do try to get out of being control, no doubt you saw Darkside, am I right?"

"Yes, what do you mean that the Heartless try to get out of being controled?" Hotaru asked.

"You see, my world was consumed as well, I went through much the same thing you're going through. Doing things that I normally wouldn't do to get my mind off not having a home, family, or friends. In the end I gave my heart into the darkness, and I could control the Heartless. Hotaru, you can do the same thing, you'll even get unimaginable powers. If you choose to give into the darkness, then you can control them, and make them do what you want. Whatever you want." he explained.

Hotaru considered it for a moment. It was a juicy offer.

"How do I know you're not lying?"

"I don't lie. It's not in my nature." he answered.

"That's not good enough."

"What's your heart telling you?" He poked the spot where Hotaru's heart was beating. Hotaru looked down as he took his hand away.

"That you're not a bad man, and I should listen to you." Hotaru answered, out of the corner of her eye she saw a blinding flash, and three figures appear, before she saw who they were she had already started to give in. Darkness, take me. Please, I wish to be with you. Hotaru thought.

The man who Hotaru had been talking to smiled wickedly. In that instant Hotaru knew what this mans name was, Trickery.

"NO! HOTARU!" Riku and Sora yelled together.

"It's too late. She's mine now. You can't have her. With her I will be able to control the Heartless completly, and I will also be able to unlock the worlds that you have already locked."

"Let her go!" Sora yelled.

"I don't think so. Hotaru, open your eyes." Trickery ordered. Hotaru did as she was told, instead of her once bright features, hers were now dark, her eyes, instead of being bright blue were a dark, stormy blue. Her hair didn't gleam, and there was a look of emptyness on her face. "Look at these three, these are the three that abandoned you, and let your world fall into darkness, and let everyone you knew be turned into darkness. What are you going to do to them?"

"I'm going to hurt them." Hotaru answered, her keyblade appeared in her hand, even her keyblade looked dark. "Prepare yourselves." Hotaru ordered.

"Hotaru! This isn't what your heart wants!" Riku yelled at her.

"Shut up." Hotaru ordered.

"Riku, nothing is going to get to her, the darkness has taken her." Mickey said.

A cruel smile spread across Hotaru's face.

"No, I control the darkness, all of it's minions are at my beck and call." Hotaru said. As an example Hotaru lifted her hands and all the Heartless from the world came to her. They were facing Sora, Riku, and Mickey. "Even the three of you stand no chance against me."

"There's no other way, we must fight her, and win, only then will she go back to normal. We must unlock her heart from it's cage." Mickey said. "Riku, you're the only one that can do it." Mickey added.

"Why?" Sora and Riku asked at the same time.

"Only someone who has been in darkness before can unlock someone's heart when they're in darkness." Mickey answered.

"Then how did I come back?" Riku asked.

"You brought yourself back, you grew tired of the darkness and wanted the light. In the end your desire won out against the darkness." Mickey answered.

"Blah blah blah." Hotaru said, cutting into the conversation. "It's time to fight." Hotaru charged at Sora, Riku and Mickey, she was fast!

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Aki- Okay, chapter 3 done.

Disclaimer- I don't own Kingdom Hearts, the people who made the game, the movies, and whatever else was used in this game, I don't own.