Kingdom Hearts: Key to Evil
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Prologue: Day 3: Morning
Sora's room
BOOM!
Sora wakes up as morning arrives, today brings very little light and no warmth brushing his face. He sits up and stretches his arms while yawning the remaining sleep out of his system. He looks out the window and noticed it stained with condensation and raindrops, he reaches out for it to wipe off the mist and sees that the sky is covered in dark clouds, more thunderous booms from the storm were heard with some flashes of lightning. Sora watches the window and gazes at the dark clouds in the sky. Thunder booms and lightning flashes loudly and brightly, it was truly a magnificent sight to see in Sora's eyes. He then decides to take a walk and leave the room.
Outside
Sora leaves the house, the rain pours down on him, his spiky brown hair became wet and droopy causing the bangs to cover his head but his eyes still visible to he can see where he is going. The streets are empty due to the bad weather, but Sora doesn't care as he enjoys the rain and the thunders booming, some of the flash of lighting is like fireworks to him. Ever since he can remember parts of his childhood and the returning memories of his lost past, he loved the lightning and the thunder. Even the gust of wind blowing hard is soothing to him.
He closed his eyes as he feels the wind, the rain caresses his skin and listen to the booming thunder and the crackling lightning. Lightning strikes the ground but none of them struck Sora, it is as the Gods are trying to smite him but cannot. Mostly everyone would be afraid of the storm, but Sora feels no fear within him from the storm's presence. He opened his eyes and looked up into the dark clouded sky and smiled slightly maliciously.
"Oh, this storm feels nice" said Sora in a relaxed tone as he listened to another boom from the thunder. "I like this weather more than the sun"
"Hey Sora"
Sora turns to see Kairi walking in the rains, with an umbrella in her hand. Normally people wouldn't go out during a storm, but Kairi is brave to get out, despite the weather.
"What are you doing up this early, and out here in the rain?" said Kairi
"Couldn't sleep" said Sora "Besides I love the rain, the sound of thunder is soothing, I even like the lightning strikes and the gust of wind blowing down. I reminds me of something…I don't know what"
"Well come inside or you'll catch your death" said Kairi as she then takes Sora's hand and brings him to her house.
Kairi's house
Kairi took Sora inside her house, her home looks simple and comfy, Sora stands by the fireplace where a cooking pot hangs over the fire.
"There you go, the fire will help dry you up" said Kairi " You might want to get those soaking wet clothes off. I'll get you a towel"
Sora couldn't help but blush at what Kairi said, luckily she didn't notice the blush. If she did, she would mistaken it as a symptom for a cold. Sora took off his shirt and them his shorts until he is nothing but his underwear. He places them next to them so that they can dry up.
Sora then watches the burning fireplace, the flames dances beautifully in the fireplace while heating the wrought iron cauldron hanging over the fire. Sora loved the fire, it's warm, beautiful and exciting as well by the way it dances beautifully. It's like he is watching dancers dancing thought the beat of beautiful music. He starts to see an image in the fire, the image shows an armoured figure waltzing with a woman with light brown hair and blue eyes. Sora watches the image clearly until it vanishes when Kairi arrives with a towel and wraps it around him.
"Here you go" said Kairi "Would you like some soup?"
"Well I did miss breakfast" said Sora
Kairi smiled as she then grabs a bowl and ladle and heads for the cauldron, she scooped some hot soup in the bowl and gives it to Sora.
"Careful, it's hot" said Kairi offering Sora the bowl of hot soup.
"Thank you" said Sora as he then carefully drinks the soup. "So, you live here on your own?"
"Uh huh" said Kairi "Mr Oswald gave me this place and the I don't have to worry about rent, he insisted in paying for it"
"Master Oswald did that?" said Sora
"Uh huh, he even gave me some lessons of using the sword" said Kairi "but I'm not good like you and Riku are"
"Well we were under his training as long as I can remember, I don't remember how long I was under his tuterlage but know enough that I'm his student and him my teacher"said Sora "…but sometimes I wonder if I learned more than just swordsmanship"
"Sora, I heard from Oswald that you had amnesia when you were young" said Kairi "He said that you don't remember your family"
"That's right" said Sora sadly until Kairi put her hand onto his, he turns to her and sees her smile.
"I'm sure you'll remember your family" said Kairi "Memories are a wonderful thing because they live forever in your heart. I don't remember my family either, but I know in my heart that they love me."
"That's nice" said Sora "But surely you have something to remember them by?"
"No, I don't" said Kairi with slight sadness "I was found by Mr Oswald when I was young, he and Mrs Ortensia raised me until they give me this house. They were sweet, and I am grateful to them…because I met you"
"Uhh" said Sora as he is speechless and looked away with embarrassment.
Kairi giggled and also blushed, they remained silent but enjoy each other's company for a little then ther moment ended by the sound of knocking on Kairi's front door.
KNOCK
KNOCK
KNOCK
"Kairi, are you in?"
"Oh" said Kairi as she then heads for the door and opens it to reveal Oswald with Riku, Tidus and Wakka. "Oh Mr. Oswald, what are you doing here?"
"Just checking if things are alright with you" said Oswald until he noticed Sora draped under a towel "I see Sora was out in the rain again"
"Yep" said Kairi "Not just any rain, in a storm"
"Well Sora does love looking out the window when a storm comes" said Oswald "Anyway, since Sora is here it'll save me the trip of going to his house. Can I have a word with him in private?"
"sure?" said Kairi as she then heads for the other room "Would you guys like something to eat"
"Yeah sure, I'm starving" said Tidus
"Thank you" said Riku
The 3 teenagers head for the other room to give Oswald and Sora some privacy, Oswald sat down by Sora and starts talking to him.
"I noticed that you are starting to regain your memories" said Oswald "What can you remember?"
"nothing much, only glimpses" said Sora as he watches the fire "I've been hearing voices that I am familiar with, I think voices of my father"
"I see" said Oswald listening carefully.
"Master, we've been having this conversation everytime when there's a strom brewing." said Sora "Why are you interested in my past?"
Oswald sighs as he was expecting this, he knew that Sora would one day ask him that exact question.
"There is something I have to tell you…but not right now" said Oswald as he then stands up "I'll tell you when the time is right, what's more important is the return of your memory."
Sora sighed at this; for as long as he can remember, Oswald tried to help Sora regain his memories of his family and past. Normally young children wouldn't remember anything at a young age, but Sora had suffered amnesia and the memories of his family, friends and those he knew suddenly vanished. He doesn't remember what happened to him that would cause amnesia. Could something terrible have happened to him in the past?
"Oswald…do you know what happened to me?" said Sora "Do you know my family?"
Oswald nod at this and turned away to the window, looking out at the storm.
"I did" said Oswald "I knew them"
"knew?" said Sora noticing the past tense of his master's answer.
"I'll explain when you are ready" said Oswald as he opens the front door and prepares to leave. "Kairi, I'm heading off now."
"Ok, see you later" said Kairi from inside the kitchen. "Tell Mrs. Ortensia hello for me"
"Will do" said Oswald before turning to Sora "Soon, my boy. You'll get your answers, later"
After that, Oswald left Kairi's house and closed the door behind him.
Sora is still confused at this, he is getting more curious and curious about this.
Later
Sora left the house the moment his clothes are dry, and the storm ended. He decided to take a walk through the streets of the village, but the visions are starting to show as Sora keeps seeing a young boy running away laughing and vanishing before his eyes. Not to mention the voices that he knew before but couldn't remember who's voices they are. This is giving Sora a headache, he starts holding his head in pain and crouches on the floor trying to resist the pain.
Then suddenly a few white creatures that looks like they are in white hooded jumpsuits appear out of nowhere and flowingly approaching towards Sora from behind. Sora is in too much pain to notice them; the creature then attacks Sora and send him rolling on the ground. Sora looks up to see who attacked him and noticed the creatures that attacked him a couple of days ago. He then starts to growl angrily, and he raised his gauntlet and it created a horn-like sound, a group of brown imp-like creatures. The brown creatures then start attacking the white hooded ones. Then suddenly Sora wields a dark sinister key-like blade with gothic-style teeth. The blade is all black and beautifully crafted, Sora then charges at the white creatures as he then starts to shout out their names.
"DAMN YOU NOBODIES!" shouted Sora as he swings his blade the creatures known as the Nobodies. The Nobodies void life and purpose, they are just nothing but emptiness when the heart was taken away, leaving nothing but a hollow shell of a body. Sora continues to battle against the Nobodies while more of them arrive.
While Sora battles the Nobodies, Oswald watches this in the rooftops. He grins at this as he knows that Sora is regaining his memories. It won't take long for him to be fully recovered from his amnesia. The storm then starts to get worse as the rain pours heavily down, thunder booms louder and lightning flashes brighter. The skies turn darker and darker as if the world is getting consumed by darkness and chaos. Oswald notices the abnormality of the storm and stands up.
"The door is opening" said Oswald "I must inform everyone, it's gone for us to return back home"
Oswald left the area while Sora battle against the Nobodies with his new brown creatures and this evil-looking key-like sword. Sora battle more and more against the Nobodies one by one, not caring that he is outnumbered. Then suddenly Sora noticed the dark shadowy creatures emerging from the ground.
"Heartless" said Sora while thunder booms and light flashes.
The Heartless approaches Sora to attack him, Heartless are those who had lost their hearts to darkness, their bodies fade and reform into dark abominations, like living shadows. Heartless comes in many forms and sizes, the same goes with the Nobodies. Sora roared out loud as he swung his blade at the Heartless and the Nobodies. More and more he battles, the rain starts to slowly flood the village as the storm is getting worse as the streets are flooded by the length of Sora's ankles.
Meanwhile Oswald takes the rooftops as the flooding gets worse and worse, he noticed the villagers are evacuating up to the hills. Then he noticed Riku, Tidus and Wakka but no sign of Kairi.
"Where's Kairi?" said Oswald
"She's at the island" said Riku "She said that she is waiting for Sora to come, knowing that he goes there, rain or not"
"Is it time, Master Oswald?" said Tidus
"Yes, the door is opening" said Oswald "This world is at the brink of destruction, we don't have much time. Head back to Greenvale and wait at Spree"
"Yes sir" said the 3 as they pull out their key-like swords and aims it in their air, they blast out a beam of light and it opens a portal. Riku, Tidus and Wakka each pull out a piece of metal and puts it on their left shoulder. They touch the armour and they get engulfed in black light. Each of them in clads of dark armour. Tidus's is dark yellow and black with the "Zanarkand Abes" insignia on the chest. Wakka's is dark orange and yellow with a black pointed "X" on the chest. Riku's armour is dark blue and silver.
They then toss their swords into the air and transformed into gliders, Riku, Tidus and Wakka gets on them and starts flying up into the portal which takes them to another world known as "Greenvale" Oswald pulls out a key-like blade with a bronze coloured blade with a sinister crown-like tooth. He draws a large circle in their air and opens a portal. Oswald enters the portal and left this world.
While the 3 teenagers and Oswald left, Sora's battle with the Heartless and Nobodies is starting to end as there are only a few of them left and at the brink of oblivion. SOra noticed the rising of the water up to his knees and this starts to worry him because Kairi is in danger. He finished off the Heartless and Nobodies and rushed to Kairi's home to see if she escaped the flood.
Kairi's home
Sora arrives at Kairi's room, it's flooded halfway. The furniture floats at the surface and the fire is doused. Sora swims through to locate Kairi.
"Kairi" shouts Sora as he looks for the auburn-haired girl "Kairi!"
Then he noticed a letter floating on the water, he carefully picks it up to read the contents. The writing is smudged up but still readable.
Dear Sora
I am at the island, meet me there if you want to see me. We can have a picnic while we watch the lightning together.
Kairi
Sora then tosses the note and swims out the house and heads for the island.
Destiny Island
Sora sailed to the island though the rough waves caused by the violent storm. The island is slowly getting consumed by the sea and sinking down into the deep. Sora needs to be quick if he wants to save Kairi, the shacks were blown down by the strong winds and some of the palm trees are torn off by their roots. Even the Paopu tree is destroyed, Sora calls out for Kairi but the wind was too loud for his voice to reach. He looks into the beach, but she is nowhere to be found, he then noticed something strange, at the entrance of the cave is a silver door. He approaches the door and touches it, he then uses his key-like sword to open it and enter the cave.
Cave
Sora rushes through the tunnel to the other side, he reached the end and saw Kairi looking at the door.
"Kairi" said Sora with concern
Kairi turns to Sora, her eyes are void of any light and half closed.
"S-Sora" said Kairi quietly and emotionlessly
The door then bursts open and a huge gust of wind blew out of the door, Kairi was blown away and towards Sora, Sora reaches out to catch her, but she vanishes the moment she is close to him. Sora widened his eyes at this before is blown away from the huge gust.
Outside
Sora collapse when he was blown out of the cave, he stands up to notice that small parts of the island is levitating in their air. Sora looks up to see a black hole in their sky and sucking in sand, trees, wood, stone, everything is being sucked in.
"What is that?" said Sora
"This world is being consumed by darkness"
"Huh" said Sora as he turns to see the masked figure from his dreams, in his arms is Kairi unconscious but quietly saying Sora's name. "Who are you?"
"You don't know?" said the masked figure "Not surprising, it was 10 years ago since that humiliating moment where we're split up in 3 parts. My name is Vanitas, your darkness reincarnated and 1/3 of your powers."
"1/3 of my powers?" said Sora
"That's right" said the masked figure known as Vanitas as he takes off his mask to reveal his face. He resembles Sora except for the black hair and golden eyes. "10 years ago, the 3 keyblade masters Eraqus, Xehanort and Yen Sid killed our father and extracted your powers and sealed us away so that you reign will never stain their kingdoms. But during the extraction, your memories were fragmaneted, bearly anything remains in you while larger chunks are within me and the other 2.
"Who are the other 2?" said Sora
"Now why would I tell you that?" said Vanitus, "You'd think I'd return as nothing but a power source which failed you into killing the bastards that shamed us, shamed you? I think not."
Vanitas then turns and walks away, Sora then notices Kairi in Vanitas's arms. This angered Sora and he charges at him, he swings his Keyblade at Vanitas but missed as he only hit an afterimage as the masked teenager appeared behind him.
"Too slow" said Vanitas before he struck Sora from behind.
"GAH!" screamed Sora as he collapses on the ground with a gash on his back, Sora slowly turns and glares at Vanitas "Give me Kairi, now"
"No" said Vanitas "I no longer take orders from you, Sora. I'm glad those 3 Keyblade masters freed me; I am free to do whatever I like. Why would I take orders from a broken-down bastard of the Overlord who's too weak to defeat 3 measly warriors"
"Take that back" said Sora "my father is a great man"
" So, you managed to remember him, impressive " said Vanitas "but your amnesia is still affecting your mind. If you want Kairi back, come find me when you are fully recovered, regain your memories and techniques you forgotten. And then come find me, I'll decide if you are worthy enough to reclaim me back into your barely blackened heart, fight me when you are completely evil"
After that Vanitas vanished in a swirl of darkness, the Heartless surrounds Sora. Anger starts to consume Sora; his Heartless took Kairi into the darkness. He then roared angrily and summoned a huge hoard of brown creatures. He and the creatures start barbarically massacring the incoming Heartless. Each Heartless slaughtered and the hearts are released, but they are absorbed by Sora's Gauntlet. Sora is not aware of absorbing the hearts that he got from the slain Heartless, is anger temporally took over his mind as he massacred the Heartless with no mercy. Once every Heartless left is slain and the hearts are absorbed, Sora dropped into his knees with his Keyblade stained in Heartless blood and pursing in evil energy.
"RAH!" shouted Sora as he raised his Keyblade into the air and blasted out a dark beam of light into the sky, the storms die out and the seas calm down. But the skies are still covered in dark clouds and rain pours down onto Sora. Sora is now equipped in dark armour with a tri-pronged helmet with a visor made of black glass, Sora slowly stands up and looks at the view of the now destroyed village that he lived for 10 years, is memories are partially returned but parts are still missing. The Heartless named Vanitas has Kairi as his prisoner and waits for Sora to fully recover from his amnesia. He draws his Keyblade and swings it vertically to rip open a portal "Father…I'm coming home"
Disney Kingdom
Donald Duck is running in panic, he just received a letter from the King and is heading to the gardens to tell Goofy the bad news. Donald is at the gardens where the hedges are trimmed into figures of anthromorphic animals dressed up as the brass band. Goofy is by a giant hedge in a shape of a castle, taking a nap from his hard work guarding the castle with the Royal Guards.
"Wake up, Goofy" said Donald loudly to Goofy "Wake up, this is serious!"
Despite the loudness of Donald's voice, Goofy is still asleep and snoring peacefully. This angers Donald as he yelled loudly and casted Lightning on Goofy to jolt him up.
"WHOA!" yelled Goofy as he got zapped and instantly woke up, he yawned and turns to Donald "Hey there Donald, G'Morning"
"We have a problem, Goofy" said Donald until he looked around to see if the coast is clear and whispered to the Captain of the Guard "But don't tell anyone."
"Huh, Queen Minnie?" said Goofy
"Not even the Queen" said Donald shaking his head and crossing his arms
"Daisy?" said Goofy
"NOOOO, its top secret" said Donald angrily at Goofy's stupidity
"Oh, G'morning ladies" said Goofy
This stunned Donald and nervously turns his head to see the Queen of Disney Kingdom and her Lady in Waiting behind them. Donald laughs nervously as he has a lot of explaining to do.
Cliffhanger