Chains of Heart~
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Rated T for Bleud(Blood), Veolince(Violence) and Language!
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Chapter 2: Dive of the Heart pt.1~
The sound of a pulsing heart echoed in my head as that was the only thing I heard for a good five seconds before feeling the ground vibrate seconds later, I slowly opened my eyes to see everything blurry and all hazy as I saw something move, but I couldn't tell who or what it was still. Soon my vision began to focus more ever so slowly as the blurred figure began to take shape—it was a boy who looked like he was still in high-school, not to mention that he wore what looked like a uniform. He had tri-colored hair and had some sort of gold pyramid item hung around his neck as he clutched it in his bare hands and showed a frightened look on his face. Soon his friends ran over and looked over to something I couldn't see, they were talking but I couldn't hear them from this far.
The sound of a slight explosion boomed loudly as the force of whatever crashed ahead of me hit me and the small group of high school students, they were pushed back forcefully and fell onto the ground as they quickly sat up and began to move back from something. I turned my attention to what they were looking at as my vision was now fully focused and everything was crystal clear.
Billows of smoke clouded the empty street for only but a few seconds before fading away and revealing familiar enemy mobs emerging and rising from the ground as they hissed and glared at them and me, their glowing yellow eyes shined brightly as I knew what they were—NeoShadows; a stronger shadowed entity of the Heartless, let alone that those things are Heartless but a second evolved form of them.
My eyes widened as I quickly got up and sat on my legs as I looked about to see more NeoShadows and Heartless lunge and attack a few gamers that were trying to fight back only to be clawed at and taken down for a few seconds before getting them off and running away from them with bloody claw marks and bloody gashes. Some of those people were citizens! Why are they attacking normal people?!
"GET AWAY!" Shouted a familiar voice as I spotted Immortal running away from the NeoShadows that were chasing after him, he looked like he was badly hurt from them! Even his clothes looked bad! And the wounds looked real?! But how?!
"Shit! There's too many!" Utorak screamed as he aimed his pistol at an on-coming Heartless and pulled the trigger and gotten a perfect headshot on it as it burst and splattered a black substance everywhere as if it was made out of water before turning into black smoke and fading away instantly.
"Oh my God! OH MY GOD! RUN ALEKS!" Sly screamed as Aleks charged by him as Sly brought out his infamous Tesla Gun out and shot multiple white lightning bolts at the NeoShadows and heartless that fell victim to it, some of them vaporized and faded away instantly!
"Didn't freakin' expect you to bring your Tesla Gun out in the open!? Do you have enough batteries?" Nova asked as Sly's grin grew wider as he obliterated most of the Heartless that were in the area along with blasting a few holes within empty cars and empty buildings. Some cars were cut in half while the other half was gone, and some of the buildings had large pieces blown off or melted straight through.
"HEY! Don't destroy most of the city Sly! We need to hide behind something in order to freakin' survive!" Diction shouted as Sly looked around and saw the damage that he accidentally did with the Tesla Gun alone.
"Sorry!" he cried out from afar as he, Aleks and Nova ran back over to the rest of the group who were hiding behind a massive thick wall that was still standing even though it looked destroyed. Gassy popped out from there and shot a few bullets at a few more Heartless that were still alive, he quickly dived back down and into hiding again as he reloaded his gun.
"Well, at least Sly's weapon cleared away almost all of them." Kevin brought up as Sly flashed that sappy smile again.
What is going on?! Why are they attacking the citizens? I thought they were only supposed to attack the gamers?
"What are those things?" the tri-colored haired boy asked them as his friends hid as well and tried not to get spotted by the monsters that were out in the open.
"Those things are Heartless, not the kind of mobs you want to be around with—they're very hostile." Steven spoke he was trying to be the lookout.
"But why are they attacking the regular citizens? They don't have the virtual gear you guys have!" Spoke the girl with short brown hair.
"I don't know! Something must've happened when we played the remade version of that Kingdom Hearts game for the Virtual Console!" Max spoke as he handed over a handful of bullets for Nick as he took them and reloaded his gun.
"I hope they're alright!" Toby brought up as they fell silent after that. Aleks looked out to see if there were any survivors—only to spot me across the street and is out in the open for all to see.
"Ali! What the Hell are you doing over there?! You're out in the open!" Aleks screamed at me as I was startled from him shouting at me. I looked over to him with a dumbfounded look on my face as my mind began to process what I should do.
Soon Strippin and Martyn were seen running away from something as they turned over onto the open empty street we were on as they hauled ass over to us, they almost lost balance here and there as as Martyn skidded to a halt and stopped right in the middle of the open street as he looked over to his left. He panted heavily before breathing in sharply as he paled, the look of fear was written on his face, but the fire in his eyes clearly gave everyone the idea that he was being brave. He soon had enough energy to run once more as he quickly came down the street trying to catch up with Strippin.
"GET OUT OF THE STREET! A BAM IS CHASING AFTER US!" Martyn shouted as they ran past the others who were still in hiding as they listened and followed right after.
"Hold on! What's a Bam?!" spoke the male blonde that had a Brooklyn accent as he and his friends chased after them. Just as he asked that question, a loud and bold screech was heard from afar as this made everyone stop dead in their tracks and standing out in the middle of the empty street. They all looked back to the front where Martyn and Strippin came from only to see a massive Heartless charge out in the open and ram into the front of the building that stood before it. The building crumbled and broke apart as the massive monster literally backed up and looked around before spotting us from afar. My eyes widened in fear as I knew what that thing was: An Arc Behemoth Heartless that stood thirty feet tall.
This thing had a massive body, with a huge barrel-like chest that tapers into its back end. It's dark grey-blue fur shown on the underside of its body with light blue flames at the top which extend to its shoulders and legs, its front legs were bigger than the back legs. A very light blue decorates its forearms, and the feet are black with more flames extending onto the forearms. Its four feet all have a circular pad on the bottom, with two inwardly facing claws on the front. Its jagged mouth extends outwards into two large inwardly curving tusks, which are colored black. The forehead is flat and the eyes sit facing forward, as its yellow eyes glowed just like the other Heartless. And a conical, grey horn sits at the top of the head, facing forward at a slight angle. The heartless symbol was seen on the underside of its chest.
The massive monster roared loudly before glaring down at the group. I instantly sat up and made my way over to them as everyone shoulders slumped over in fear as the bravery they stored up inside them diminished within an instant. My fox ears lowered instantly as I felt my tails lower and curl inward in fear. I've faced some massive monsters in the Abyss and in the first kingdom Hearts game, but that thing alone scared me and made a bit of my courage diminish as well-especially since that it looked real enough, and the fact that I don't want to get trampled by that thing.
"Oh wha-What is that? What is that?!" Kevin asked as he slowly began to back away from the frozen group and trying to get out of the middle of the street.
"THAT is a Bam! A shorter word for: Big-Ass-Monster!" Pbat shouted.
"Oh Jesus-Tap-Dancing-Christ! How are we going to take that thing down?" Sly asked out-loud.
The Arc Behemoth growled deeply and loudly as it took a massive step forward, making the ground vibrate and glass shatter instantly and showers down upon us like a shower of bullets.
"Oh bloody Hell…" Utorak spoke as he readied his pistol.
"Oh this isn't good…" Kevin muttered as the thing as ready to charge at us, it crouched just a bit and sat there for a minute before charging straight at us!
"DEFINITELY NOT GOOD!" Sly screamed loudly.
"RUN!" Aleks shouted as he and everyone else ran away from it, all except one person… And Max saw this and screamed out at that person:
"ALI! What are you doing—you're going to get killed by that thing!" Max screamed out as everyone ran into a safe and sturdy building. I brought out my sword that looked very familiar to me; I recognized it but couldn't say it off the bat. I firmly held onto my new sword as I glared at the Arc Behemoth, and instead of running away I charged at it and ignored the cries of my friends as my new weapon gleamed an electric blue light.
"Ali! ALI!" Everyone—except for the tri-colored boy and his friends—cried out as I jumped up onto the hood of an empty car, then ran and jumped onto a broken part of a building, performed a long five second wall run diagonally before jumping up onto another higher building, and then running over to the edge and jumped off of that and lunged at the Behemoth as I held my sword up and behind me and swung as hard as I could and brought down my sword over the Behemoth's face as I closed my eyes tightly and—!
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My eyes snapped open as I gasped loudly and panted heavily as if I was struggling to breathe, I sat up on my legs and hugged my arms. I saw nothing but darkness all around me again just like before, but this time, there was a good amount of light for me to see that I was on a familiar massive illuminated stained-glass pillar.
"Ali! You're awake!" someone spoke to my left. I turned to see Sly and the others who were worried about me while a few of them looked around. I blinked at him and smiled lightly as he extended his hand to me as I took it and was helped up.
"We tried to wake you up for a while now; you looked like you were having a nightmare." Martyn spoke as I looked over to him before looking up at the pitch black sky above us; a concerned look was seen on my face.
What was that? It looked so real…
"Ali? What's wrong?" Kevin asked.
"… When you guys said that I looked like I was having a nightmare, I wasn't really." I said to the three as they wanted to know more. "I don't know what I saw but … it looked real… I'm not even sure if it was a dream or not." I said to them as the rest soon came over and heard my explanation of what I just saw before I woke up.
"Wait what?" Kevin spoke out in his slight Draven-like tone as everyone looked speechless or shocked.
"Are you sure it wasn't a dream?" Strippin asked me.
"I don't even know anymore. It looked real but at the same time, it seemed impossible." I replied.
"Sounds like a future vision to me." Steven spoke out.
"Steven there's no such thing as a Future Vision!" Aleks brought up.
"There are people out there that can actually see bits and pieces of the future!" Steven retorted.
"Yeah, but Nostradamus is dead Steven! And even if there are people like that out there, then why aren't they here?" Sly asked.
"But we've got Ali! She just might be able to see things like that and warn us beforehand!" Steven brought up as I blinked and lowered my fox ears a bit.
"I don't think I can—"
"Alright! Alright! Let's change the topic and figure out where we are!" Nick brought up as everyone looked about.
"Yeah umm—we're in the strange place that's surrounded by darkness, let's see if we can find a freakin' sign around here." Nova spoke as he spun around once seeing no sign anywhere. "Uhhh—Nope! I don't see anything."
"Nice going Sherlock, but we established that once we woke up here, remember?" Seamus spoke.
"This is Dive of the Heart." I spoke out as everyone except Sly looked over to me.
"You know this place?"
"Yeah. This is a Tutorial area, this is where we choose a weapon and leave a second weapon behind in order to continue on from here." I explained as Sly was nodding his head in agreement.
"Yeah I remember this place; this was in the first Kingdom Hearts." Sly brought up as I nodded to him.
"Alrighty then, since these two know what to do, you two lead the way." Martyn spoke as Sly and I nodded and looked around first.
I glanced down at the stained glass to see what the image was, but it was nothing but the outline and empty white spaces. I frowned from this and looked over to the west and walking toward the edge, just when I got close, a stained glass pathway glowed and made its way up to another passive pillar further ahead.
"Found it." I called out to the others as I lead the way towards the next pillar. Most of the guys were trying to push either Toby or Steven off the pathway and out into the darkness below, but there was an invisible wall that kept everyone from falling out from both sides. Sly and I made it over to the next pillar that shined a forest green colored light as the rest of the gang came over.
We all walked over to the middle of the area and waited for a few seconds.
"So much to do, so little time..." Spoke a mysterious voice that startled everyone except Sly and Ali. "Who's there?" Nova called out as silence filled the air for only three seconds.
"Take your time. Don't be afraid." The voice spoke again to the confused group as they looked around.
"The door is still open for those who know the way. There are New-Comers here and few more in waiting and the door for them is still shut." The voice brought up. "What door?" Nick asked Sly and Ali as they smiled to him. "You'll find out in a bit." Ali spoke.
"Now, step forward New-Comers. Do you wish to continue and journey forth onto a path that you will walk among starting at this point forward to the very end?" The voice asked them. They looked over to one another and remained quiet for a few minutes, and all but one wanted to ask the unknown voice a question that gotten both Sly and Ali's attention:
"What about Ali and Sly? Have they already done this before and have to do this again from the beginning?" Strippin asked.
"Those two may have already started their journey, but they won't walk on their path alone—for you all will begin a new journey and will walk on the same path till the end. However," The voice answered as it paused for a few seconds before speaking up once more: "The road you all will take will depend on only one person's decision; whether the chosen one will walk the Road to light or the Road to Darkness is up to them. But if the other members who follow along choose not to follow his or her path, they can take a different route and avoid the complications the chosen one will face or follow their own roads but still be by the chosen ones side." The voice replied as I blinked and looked over to Sly who also had the same blank but slightly confused expression I had.
"Who's this chosen one?" Kevin asked as he stepped forward.
"That question will be answered once you all answer mine." The voice spoke.
The guys glanced at each other again and nodded silently to each other before looking over to Sly and I, we both saw their answer shown in their eyes: A pure but courageous 'Yes'.
Sly and I glanced at each other again and both smiling at one another as we both knew our answer already. Sly and Ali nodded quietly to their friends as they smiled back and watched Ali take four steps forward paused and looked back to her friends.
"Step forward with me guys, it's the only direction we have to face and move onto the path that we must tread." I said to them as they listened and did the same thing I did and stood beside and behind me.
Suddenly, trapezoid stones appeared before the group. Soon three balls of light shined just above the stones as a sword, a shield, and a staff were seen once the lights faded away.
"A power sleeps within you all ... If you give it form ... It will give you strength. Choose well." The voice spoke out. Ali walked over to the trapezoid stone that had the staff hovering above it. Nova, Kevin, Steven and Toby followed after her and reached out their hands to get the staff.
"The power of the mystic, inner strength, a staff of wonder and ruin. Is this the power you seek?" The voice asked them as they looked over to Ali.
"You guys don't have to do exactly whatever I do; this is what I always go with when it comes to this game alone." I replied as I accepted it and the staff disappeared from my grasp.
"Perhaps, but most of us would follow with whatever weapons, class or power you have anyway." Nova said as he and those who gotten the staff accepted it afterwards.
"Your path is set." The voice said. "Now, what will you give up in exchange?" It asked as Nova, Kevin, Steven and Toby followed after Ali and picked up the sword.
"The power of the warrior, invincible courage, a sword of terrible destruction. You give up this power?" The voice asked as Ali nodded and the sword disappeared from her hands. They did the same thing as their swords left them.
Ali and her followers walked away from the stones and stood in the middle as the others decided:
Sly, Aleks, Martyn, Strippin, Seamus, Cave, Antvenom and Sky picked up and accepted the sword, and then went and gotten the staff and accepted that as well, but Strippin decided to get the shield instead.
"The power of the guardian, kindness to aid friends, a shield to repel all. You give up this power?" The voice asked him, Strippin accepted as the shield left him afterwards.
This left Gassy, Nick, Pbat, Ze, Utorak, Chilled and Nanners as they went over to the sword, accepted that and also accepted the shield just like Strippin did. They were all ready.
"Your path has been set, be prepared for what comes to you at all times." The voice brought up as the trapezoid stones suddenly broke apart, soon the floor shatters underneath them as they freaked out and fell down into the darkness.
"Oh God-Dammit!" Utorak shouted as they didn't see another massive stained glass pillar that shown a familiar picture this time—It was a portrait of Cinderella. Everyone slowly descended down and landed on their feet as they stopped freaking out and realized that they were safe.
Soon everyone's weapon screen appeared before them.
"You all gain the power to fight, now pick your top four weapons; those will be the ones that you regularly choose to use in combat—and will have infinite uses. If you choose a gun or any hand-held weapon, they'll be infinite, but you'll have to pick up or buy ammo on a daily basis. As for swords and shields, those will also have slight infinite uses but will wear out gradually and at one point will break, so choose wisely." The voice said.
"Would an enchanted weapon count?" Aleks asked.
"Yes. If a weapon you choose happens to be enchanted, then it'll be a greater help to you and your allies." The voice replied.
"Aw sweet!" Steven cheered.
"Oh hey-my Tesla Gun is here! Hmmhmhmm!" Sly spoke and giggled as an evil chuckle escaped his throat; everyone showed a concerned look on their faces.
Oh we all know how Sly is when it comes to his Tesla Gun, it gets crazy sometimes! One time he tried to test it off by trying to hit a bird, but instead of hitting that he also forgot that the multiple blue lightning bolts can stretch very far and can go through anything and leave a lot of holes and a few small craters on the ground after the damage is done. Though he doesn't mean to leave craters and damage the whole place on purpose, and he doesn't mean to shoot his Tesla Gun at us … Most of the time.
"But leave one space in your inventory empty, for your true weapon will come to you soon. Your true weapons will not break or wear out; your weapons were made for you alone." The voice brought up. Everyone chose their weapons and was ready to test them out.
I tapped my index finger over my top four weapons:
My enchanted Nightsilver Bow that shoots infinite arrows, a mini bowie knife that was kept hidden in my back skirt pocket (for cutting purposes), and two twin silver pistols that wrapped around my hips, and a replica sword of the Master Sword that was strapped to my back.
I finished my list as we brought out our basic weapons as I brought out my replica Master Sword, we were learned how to fight, heal, restore and regain Mana.
Soon, the monsters arrived as we were all prepared for this part. I gasped lightly at the sight of the monsters—it was the Heartless, only in their small forms, the same monsters that in that dream or vision I saw before I woke up.
"There will be times you may have to fight, but no matter how many enemies there are along the way, you must keep your light burning and your heart strong." The voice spoke out as we all lunged and attacked rather quickly.
I slashed away one before leaping into the air, performing a back flip and landing perfectly on my feet before doing a quick spin-slash attack, getting four on-coming heartless that leaped at me. Gassy, Nick and Utorak had their guns out as they shot at the heartless that were further away from them. Almost everyone was shooting at the heartless as Nova and Kevin performed thunder attacks. Sly was doing a lot of combos in the air before knocking them back down onto the ground as Immortal did a quick one hit kill move with his "Gravel King's Heart" sword. Took us about merely four minutes to get rid of them all.
"Well, that was quick." The voice spoke as I blinked and paused for a second. I know that voice from somewhere, but from where exactly? I can tell it was a male voice, but the name of the guy that's talking to us was throwing me off—I know what the guy looks like, but his name is on the tip of my tongue but nothing's coming out of my mouth! My brain is not processing fast enough! This is going to bother me all day, I can feel it. And when I see him, I'll blurt out his name, I know it'll happen!
"Since you all know how to fight, let's speed things up now to get you all going, hmm?" The voice spoke as a door suddenly appeared behind us. It was the same door that was in Kingdom Hearts 2, the one that Roxas goes through before he faces the giant nobody. But the door was transparent for us.
"Ready to go visit someone familiar who appeared in Kingdom Hearts 2? He's just beyond this door and high up in his tower." The voice spoke as the transparent door became real as the sound of something being unlocked was heard seconds later. The doors slowly opened on their own as everyone saw a portal made out of light and looked promising to the gamers. Everyone made their way over and into the portal as the doors closed behind them and they were teleported to another area.
Wait … I thought we were supposed to face our first boss monster before leaving that place? I guess some things were changed in this version as we finally arrived in a familiar place as we all looked up at the large tower that stood tall before us all. It was YinSid's Tower.
"Oh boy here we go; we're going to see him again." Sly spoke to me as I nodded my head to him, we then lead the way for the others as they followed us to the top of that very tower. Sly and Ali were expecting to run into heartless that was supposed to appear in the tower once they stepped into the tower, but not a single Heartless appeared.
"Well, here we are—at the very top!" Sly spoke up.
"Hey wait a minute!" Kevin said as everyone looked over to him. "He never answered my question back there." He brought up as they blinked and stayed like that for a second or two, everyone except Ali shrugged their shoulders.
I was still amazed by how this game looked so real as I walked on ahead and forgot about my friends behind me and wandered into a familiar room; a large wooden table stood in the middle of the massive room, a massive empty chair stood behind the desk, bookshelves full of spell books slightly surrounded the right-hand side of the room. The rest of the room was slightly empty, but another door that leads to another room was seen on the right hand side.
He wasn't here? Did he leave the area and went somewhere?
"Hello? Is anybody here?" Toby asked out loud as everyone else came into the room. Just as Toby said that, I felt a pang in my chest and felt a faint presence that began to grow and burn within my heart like a flame—someone with strong magic and had quite an aura was heading this way.
"The fire rises." I spoke out trying to imitate the voice of Bane from Batman.
"What?" Nick spoke out after me as he tried not to laugh, Gassy chuckled a bit from me trying to impersonate Bane-which I was working on.
A second later, a magic circle appeared in front of the wooden table before something within it began to take shape; but the light was so bright that it caused everyone to shield their eyes from it. The light and magic circle faded away seconds later as everyone uncovered their eyes to see a familiar Disney character stand before us.
"Greetings Virtual Gamers from the real world, I assume that your paths have been set by now have they?" He asked us as I smiled and tried my best to hold back the tears.
"We believe so, but we're all ready to face our journey together, YinSid." I replied back politely as he smiled and bowed his head a bit to me.
"Alisa the Shadow/Illusion Fox Chain, it's an honor to see you." YinSid spoke as I blinked.
"How did you know name? I didn't…" I asked him before quietly stopping myself as he chuckled lightly from my question.
"You're starting to become famous from that very day you were born and from the incident that happened to you two years ago in your world." YinSid brought up as I stiffened up and paled a bit from the last thing he said, my fox ears lowered a bit and my tails curled inward in shame.
Two years ago, my family, my families' neighbors—the Nightwish Family and I gotten into a bad tragedy that nearly got a few of us killed. It was supposed to be a regular birthday party, but then something went wrong and then it just happened so fast and ended within an hour. The killer shot himself right afterwards, but both the Nightwish Family and the Shidou Family lost an important friend that week. Most of the Nightwish Family has the scars to prove it; my dad has two, one on his left arm and the other on his chest. I too received a scar from that incident, but I don't want to talk about it. But sadly, I don't remember much of that incident; I remember pieces of that incident, but everything else was in a haze and I remember waking up in the hospital. But I can't even look back to those broken and hazed memories without even looking away in fear or crying from how bad it was. It was a tragedy that should've never happened.
"I'm sorry Alisa; I was unaware that you hate looking back at those memories." YinSid spoke as his voice pulled me back to reality; I shook my head to him quietly.
"No no, I'm alright; I'm still trying to remember what exactly happened that day. But I…" I stopped myself and shook my head again before faking a smile to everyone.
"I'm alright, but let's just push that aside for now. No one should be sad at this time." I brought up as the others stayed like that for a bit before smiling and starting to go back to normal.
"If that is what you wish Ms. Shadow Fox." YinSid spoke as I nodded to him.
"Now then, we must discuss about the journey ahead of you all along with a new Battle Tactic that you all must learn." YinSid spoke as we all blinked and were confused on the new tactic that we have to learn. We're always use to fighting alone sometimes, however, some of us tend to jump in and try to either "Steal the kill" or "Assist".
He snapped his fingers and twenty chairs appeared behind us in a puff of smoke, we all sat down and listened to what our objective was in this version of the game.
Ta-dah! The first part of the 2nd chapter is done, yay! I hope you guys are ready for chapter 2 part 2, cuz that's when everything begins ;)
Also, if you guys can't pronounce Ali Shidou's name, here's how it is pronounced: Ali (just like "Ally" ... No not the Ally Bank lol, it's just Ally. Her actual name is pronounced "Alyssa") and Shidou (like "she-dew" like "Dew" drop.) and there you do, you got her name right with my help :D
Now then, Although I did say that I tend to work on ahead, I only went up to this chapter. So that means that the next part of the chapter will take a bit, let alone the fact that the next part is where Yugi and the others appear, and then the scene changes from them to the Gamers-HOORAY!
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, the next one's on the rise! So until then, I will see you all in a little bit. Byee!~ :D