Plans Part II
Everyone looked up towards the top of the mansion. Hideya, Sora, Riku, and Kairi turned and readied their weapons. Gigamesh turned his head slowly, eyes wide in surprise.
"So this is the last one," Riku asked.
"Shuyin, how good to see ya," Hideya said.
Shuyin payed little attention to them and spoke directly to Gilgamesh. "You never did have the composure to stand against Hideya, did you?" Gilgamesh made a sound of disgust.
"Shuyin," Gilgamesh said slowly. In the blink of an eye Gilgamesh teleported up to the mansion roof.
"He can still move," Kairi asked in shock. Hideya was the only one of the four not surprised.
"Shuyin, help me. You said that their was one way to stop us from fading. Bring me their. I want it. KIIIIIINNGGGDOM HEAAARTS!!" Gilgamesh took a deep breath, anxiously awaiting a response.
"I told you, I know how to open it, I just need more power to do it." Shuyin's face stayed the same but Hideya sensed the same half truth behind his words as he did when he told Gilgamesh he could be king of their new world.
"Then let me take over your body," Gilgamesh suggested. "I could use both our powers to open the door."
"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" Gilgamesh gasped. "You've been planning that all along. Did you think I didn't notice?"
"...What ever do you mean?"
"Form the first moment Genesis and I found you, it wasn't hard tell that all you desired was power. You goals, so empty in respect to mine. You disliked me from the very start, how I brought you to your knees with a single stroke of my blade. It was then that you planned to take my power as your own, wasn't it?" Gilgamesh gasped again, his eyes widening in the realization that Shuyin had him figured out. "You asked to join us, to 'assist in our plans whatever they may be,' in order to get close enough to me to one day take my power from me. But you missed a crucial fact; Genesis and I sought you out first."
Gilgamesh made a sound that showed that his anger was rising. "Shuyin!"
"No matter how many Heartless you took into your self, or how many foes you defeated, you never gained the knowledge of how much weaker you were from Genesis and I."
"What are they talking about," asked Kairi. " I thought that they were all close in strength to one another."
"Foolish girl. Gilgamesh is too weak to be considered an ally of mine. He was always a pawn. Both of them were pawns."
"What the hell do you mean, Shuyin," Gilgamesh roared. "I did everything you ordered without fail for the past four years. How can I be so much weaker that you?"
"You failed to count the number of Heartless that made up Genesis or myself. It takes one thousand Heartless to create a humanoid Heartless, and two thousand to gain the powers needed to command other Heartless. You Gilgamesh, are made of exactly three thousand, forty-two Heartless. Genesis however, was made of exactly five thousand, eleven Heartless. So even though Hideya had help from the strength of the Heartless in defeating Genesis, he would have had no trouble fighting you on his own."
"If you knew that then why didn't you give me any help?"
"Why? Because I wanted him to defeat you this whole time."
"...What?"
"I knew it," Hideya interjected. "You never planed to give Gilgamesh anything close to a throne in you world. You played him like I played all of you."
"Played me," Shuyin said now looking at Hideya. "Everything that has happened up until now has been all apart of my plan; even you betrayal."
"Are you telling me that losing Genesis was even part of you plan?" Hideya had no idea what was going on anymore.
"Of course."
"Your lying," Riku said. "Your trying to confuse us."
"Fools, take a moment and listen. Let's start with the current situation. I wanted Hideya to defeat Gilgamesh so I could take his power."
Gilgamesh could not control himself now. The more he heard that he was just a pawn in Shuyin's plan the more his anger rose. "DAMN YOU! SHUYIN!" Gilgamesh created a large ball of dark energy in his hand that looked like Hideya's Dark Orb of Destruction without lighting and shot it at Shuyin. It hit creating an explosion and a lot of smoke. When it cleared Shuyin was still standing. His hand was out to his side in the direction of Gilgamesh. "You used... only your hand to block it?"
"Even your most powerful attack can never hurt me. You want to know why? The reason is because I am made up of seven thousand Heartless."
Everyone gasped at this statement. Now Gilgamesh could see what Shuyin was planning. "..." Before Gilgamesh could speak he was stabbed through the chest by Shuyin's sword. "Arg!" Shuyin swung him out over the side of the roof and held him their.
"So once I absorb you, I'll have over ten thousand Heartless in my body." Shyuin's sword began glowing a dark blue. When this happened Gilgamesh screamed in pain. "Darkness, come onto me!" His screams grew louder as Gigamesh slowly faded into nothingness, his color and mater flowing into Shuyin.
After a minute Gilgamesh was completely absorbed into Shuyin. Shuyin's head reared back and every muscle in his body tightened. The air seemed to become heavier as time passed and when Shuyin once again had control of himself the four on the ground were sweating. Shuyin smiled at the feeling of the power flowing through him. "Now the rest of my plans can finally be complete."
"What, couldn't stand to have Gilgamesh rule your world in your place," Sora asked, spite filling his voice.
"You think this is about who rules a world? I couldn't care less who ruled my world," Shuyin's voice sounded defensive. "No, I have a different goal."
"What," asked Kairi genuinely curious.
"I want to recreate the world first taken by the Heartless two thousand years ago."
"Two thousand?" Sora was so lost now. "The Heartless appeared thirteen years ago."
"Shall I take this story to the beginning? Very well. Two thousand years ago my heart was lost to the Darkness when I lost the person closest to my heart. The woman I loved, Lenne. She and I were shoot for invading a underground weapons bunker. She died right before my eyes and when I died soon after my heart was so full of anger that it fell totally into Darkness."
"Why do you care that she died," Riku demanded. "You don't have a heart."
"No, but I have my memories. After I became a Heartless I was driven by a hunger that could not be curved unless I took the hearts of others. After a few years my hunger could not be satisfied even if I took ten hearts. It was then that I started consuming other Heartless. When that curved my hunger I did it more and more until I started changing form. After one thousand Heartless were consumed I regained my human form. The next thing that happened was I found the hearts of the world.
"When I found my way to another world I was confronted by my nobody. Confused by the sight of myself I defeated what stood before my and took from it everything I could. It was then that I regained my memories."
"That's right," Kairi said. "Nobodies can remember their true name. I guess they can remember their old life too."
"Exactly," Shuyin replied. "And when I did, I wanted nothing more then to see Lenne again. I figured if my world fell into Darkness then her Heart must have too. The only thing I needed was a way to retrieve it from Kingdom Hearts. That too was in my memories; and that is where my whole plan begins. You see, on my world their were two stone tablets that held a the knowledge of Kingdom Hearts. The first was a poem, it read 'Form the Darkness the Light was born, and to the Light the Darkness went. The Light itself went to the Darkness, but the worlds began anew each time. Always repeating, the same story told a hundred ways. The story begins to refined balance for that is the worlds' true goal. How will it be told this night? And who commands its telling? You or I?' So it was this that I tried, bringing the worlds into Darkness in the hope that they would begin anew and I would be back with Lenne. But that was not the case. My world did not even return with the rest. I tried again, and allowed the Goddess of Light to take the worlds into Light but still my world did not return.
"After that I gave up trying for a thousand years. I spent the time searching for a new way to create what was lost. I then came across another Heartless like myself. He was sitting in the Realm of Darkness, hovering over a book, trying to find its secrets. It was Genesis, and he was reading the original Loveless. When I approached I asked what he was looking for in those pages. When he replied 'The Gift of The Goddess,' I told him that I knew the name of the human that would be bestowed the gift."
Hideya began to figure out what was happening. "How?"
"The inscription on the second tablet was the name of the Gift Barer. The name it said was Mamochi Hideya!"
Everyone gasped. No one spoke for a few seconds. "Who mean," Sora started.
"Yes. From the first day Genesis started working fore me we were seeking Hideya out. The only problem was we had no idea where to find you. After about a thousand years of searching fortune was on our side and we found the one Heartless how could give us the answers. Xehanort; or Ansem as he wanted to be called."
"You worked with Ansem," asked Riku.
"No. When we found him he wanted nothing to do with us. The only thing he wanted was to find out everything about the mysteries of the heart. But he was interesting, a Heartless that had the same power as one like Genesis or myself, but had given his heart willingly to the Darkness to get it. When we would not move from his path in taking the heart of a world he attacked us. I took him down with a single stroke but told him I would not destroy him if he did one small thing. That was of course, find you, Hideya."
"So everything Ansem did was for you," asked Riku.
"No, not everything. He acted on his own will but he was looking for what I told him too as well. And he did find out which world you were on Hideya, and told me right before he fought with Sora."
"And how did that fit into your plans," Kairi demanded.
"The world Hideya resided on was taken by Ansem and Sora needed to restore them so I could find you.
"Genesis and I then recruited Gilgamesh just so I could take his power. After waiting four years until you were old enough to handle the Gift, we came for you on your would."
"Well you should have told Gilgamesh who I was or that fool could have blew your only chance of getting me." Hideya was glad that amidst all of the confusing information he could still make fun of Gilgamesh.
"Now did you think I made a mistake? In order for you to obtain the Gift of The Goddess, the purest form of The Light's power, your heart had to be heavy with Darkness. To do this I sent another one of the Heartless who served me. Solf!"
Hideya could not believe his ears; Shuyin really did plan out everything. Hideya's thoughts were jumbled and incomplete. Nothing made sense anymore. "...What?...He?"
"The process he put you through for four hours was used by him to raise the strength of the Darkness in your heart. Then when the world was swallowed by Darkness you would be fit to be given the Gift.
"Then bring him out," Hideya demanded. "Prove to me that he was one of you."
"You already destroyed him. He was the Large Heartless you fought at The Radiant Garden."
No one had any doubt that Shuyin was telling the truth. After a moment Riku spoke up. "So how did the defeat of Genesis fall into your plans?"
"His defeat, and Hideya's sealing of the two worlds, were meant as a test to see if Hideya had fully awaken the Goddess' power. Genesis knew from the moment we found you that I was going to use him for this, and was more than willing to do what ever I asked." Shuyin bowed his head for a moment thinking to himself. "Now that you understand everything it's time for the final part of my plan to begin. I will defeat all of you in the Realm of Darkness and use Hideya's power to create my world and bring back Lenne!" Shuyin turned around and opened a dark portal before him. "Feel free to lock this world before you come to face me. The door should me in this mansion's basement." After those words Shuyin entered the portal.
"He just left," Kairi said confused. "Why did he even bother taking worlds if he would just stop caring now?"
"He only did it to keep Gilgamesh under control and to get you three involved," Hideya said angrily, not at Kairi's utter lack of understanding of the situation but at the realization that even with his clever planning and secret messages Shuyin was still a step ahead. He then turned to face the others. "You three go lock the door, I'll open the path to Shuyin!"
Authors note: Ok, longer than I expected, but I really got into it. How did you like that chapter? I decided that making Shuyin the mastermind behind everything was a good idea and I hope you all liked it too. The next chapter, Chapter Eleven; Final Confrontation, Extinction, and Rebirth. The will's of the Key wielders, Hideya, and Shuyin to win the battle will be tested, and the extent of the powers possessed by Shuyin and Hideya will be displayed and tested. This will be the final chapter before the epilogue. Please keep reading and review.