A Change of Fate

Chapter 9: Hunter of the Dark

Flashback:

In the realm of darkness, a blue-haired woman named Aqua was fighting a monstrous creature with Red Eyes as it charged her from the darkness around. The Heartless beast finally revealed itself to have the form of a giant demon lion. It had powerful claws and a long tail with spikes. With great effort, Aqua finally defeated the monster and its lion form was destroyed. Aqua continued wandering the Realm of Darkness aimlessly while unbeknownst to her, a Beast she fought changed into a Possessor Heartless with Red Eyes which floated away and it found a small escape to another world. The Red-Eyed Possessor appeared inside a cave where it found two white swords impaled in a white boulder. By instinct, the Red-Eyed Heartless possessed the two swords turning them instantly black…

About a day later… Drex's POV

"Hey Brendan, what are you doing…?" a brunette girl asked.

"I found something, look!" I said.

I found cave and inside it were two black swords stuck in a white boulder. I went to grab the swords when my sister stopped me.

"Don't touch those; you don't know what they are!" She warned me.

"Come on what could happen?" I said.

The swords easily came out of the white rock and the shadow blades gleamed in what little light was in the cave. Suddenly, the swords twitched and smoke and shadows enveloped around my arms, legs, and body. I couldn't fight it and the last thing I saw was my sister mercilessly swallowed by darkness as I was as well. Next thing I remember were images or flashes of my world being enveloped by this darkness I unleashed. My family was gone, my life was over, and I keep feeling that dark power trying to control me, tempting me with promises of power... it was beastly. Then the next thing I knew I was being recruited by Xemnas when I awoke in the Dark City.

End Flashback.


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Back in the Dark City, Drex's eyes were still glowing red as Luxord, Xaldin, and the Dusks looked on at the scene. They were all still entrapped in a swirling dome of darkness.

"It seems as if Drexbann is about to play his trump card." Luxord said amusedly to Xaldin.

"Then let's finish him before he plays it then." Xaldin responded.

Before any of them could attack, Drex raised his swords upward towards the sky and the swords shattered into a million pieces. The pieces encircled Drex until he was completely enshrouded in darkness. Drex's swirling cloud of darkness then was infused with the swirling edge of the dark dome. The Dusks, Luxord and Xaldin could not locate Drex at all. All they could see were two glowing Red Eyes staring at them all.

The Hunter of the Dark was reborn as it revealed itself by pouncing onto the horde of Dusks. It's demon lion form cutting through the Dusks like they were wet tissue paper with its claws. With a roar, and a spinning slash attack, the Hunter of the Dark finished the rest of the Dusks off. It had its Red Eyes locked onto Xaldin and Luxord next. Those two did not want to wait any longer in attacking. Xaldin threw a lance at the beast, but it didn't even scratch it. Luxord tried using his card tricks, but the Hunter merely cut his cards to shreds. The Hunter then pounced onto Xaldin, holding him down with its claws which were impaling his chest. Still holding Xaldin in place, the Hunter fired a ball of darkness from its mouth and it obliterated Xaldin into nothingness.

The Hunter then searched for its next victim and found Luxord trying to penetrate the wall of swirling darkness with his cards, trying to escape. The Hunter charged at him, Luxord saw the Beast coming at him and used his cards to make a shield for himself. The Hunter of the Dark used its claws and sliced the shield into shreds, leaving Luxord on his knees looking at the Beast. The Hunter then fired another ball of darkness at the Gambler and Luxord was obliterated as well. The Hunter then let out a loud roar in victory, and looked around for more enemies.

With Luxord defeated, his cards released Xion, Roxas, and Axel. Roxas was still not awake, Axel was still clutching his side, and Xion was caressing Roxas as if not a second had passed since they disappeared. They looked around only to find that they were surrounded by darkness, and there was this monster staring them down with Red Eyes.

"What is that?!" Xion exclaimed.

"It sure doesn't look friendly!" Axel stated.

"Axel you're injured! Take care of Roxas, and I'll finish this monster!" Xion shouted.

"Xion, be careful!" Axel said as he took Roxas and backed up as far as he could.

Xion summoned her keyblade and took her battle stance at the Hunter of the Dark. The Beast let out a loud roar then it fired a third ball of darkness from its mouth. Xion just barely deflected the ball of darkness right back at the Hunter, and it was hit. The Beast cried in pain, but then without warning, it charged towards Xion at full speed. The Hunter knocked Xion down and she dropped her keyblade.

"XION!" Axel shouted in distress.

The Hunter was about to deliver the final blow to Xion by slicing her with its claws, it seemed like the end... The girl screamed and closed her eyes afraid to face her demise... but it never came... She opened her eyes to see the Hunter's claws inches from her face, not moving at all… In fact, The Hunter of the Dark was completely frozen. Xion moved herself away from the statue-like Beast, and picked up her keyblade.

"Xion, finish it while you still can!" Axel commanded.

Xion was about to finish the Red-Eyed Monster when suddenly, the Hunter was completely shrouded in darkness. After a minute or so, the darkness dissipated, leaving only Drex as he fell to his knees with his swords in his hands. Drex tossed the black swords in front of him in disgust. With the swords on the ground, the Red-Eyed Possessor came out of the swords to escape which made the swords pearl white once again. Xion saw this and with one strike destroyed the Red-Eyed Possessor. After it was obliterated, Xion went up to Drex to help him up.

"Drex! Are you alright?! The monster was you?!" Xion said in a panic.

"No, I'm not feeling too good... and maybe I should've mentioned something about that…" Drex answered with a smile still on his knees.

The white swords then disappeared, and Axel slowly made his way with the still unconscious Roxas towards the other two friends.

"Come on guys, let's get going and find our way out of here." Axel advised.

Xion and Drex looked at Axel and they nodded. Then the swirling darkness around them disappeared and they could see the half-finished Kingdom Hearts and the castle in the sky again.

Xion helped Drex get back up but he put all of his weight on her since he just passed out.

"We have to find a place for us to rest. Should we go to Twilight Town?" Xion asked.

"We don't have a place to stay there, no shelter. I know a place..." Axel said as he weakly opened a dark corridor. The four of them went in and then it closed up. Seconds later, Xigbar showed up upside-down to where they just were.

"As if. They can't run forever..." Xigbar chuckled. He then disappeared again.


The four of them came out next to a two-story house made of stone and it had a red roof. They could see many similar houses all around them.

"Wait... where are we?" Xion asked

"I know it as Radiant Garden, but this world is now called Hollow Bastion." Axel answered as he opened to the door to the house carrying Roxas inside. Xion followed with Drex.

Axel laid Roxas down in nearby room in the bed and headed to the kitchen. Xion laid Drex down on the couch in the living room. Axel came back with four yellow bottles.

"Here are some elixirs, one for each of us." Axel offered.

Axel and Xion both drank one and they felt immediately better. They placed one next to Roxas and one for Drex for them to drink when they woke up.

"What do we do now?" Xion asked the pyro worriedly.

"Let's wait here until they both wake up." Axel answered as he took a seat in a chair.

"Axel, whose house are we in?" Xion wondered.

"It's my house." Axel simply said.


A/N: So to clarify Drex's swords were possessed by the Pureblood Heartless, "Hunter of the Dark". I'll explain all of this more in the next chapter. Hope you guys enjoyed it. You know what to do, review, fav, let's keep this story going. I think this is the halfway point but I don't know yet. Happy Reading.