I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Hence, fanfiction.
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Garasu no ori ni towarareteita
Tokenai omoi kizutsuita mama
Modoru koto nai kurayami no mukou
Hikari ga yashashiteiru darou
Riku sat in a forgotten corner of the Dark City, brooding over his loss. Not only was his best friend sleeping with a heavily fragmented memory, but he'd just lost a spectacular fight to Sora's ghostly shadow.
DiZ had told him that bringing back Roxas was the key to waking Sora. So Riku planned not to come back until he had the Nobody under his control. However, there wasn't much left he could do to become stronger. If he were to fight Roxas again, right now, he'd probably lose again. The only solution was to find some way to overpower him.
Riku thought back to what he learned from his time in Castle Oblivion. He thought of what DiZ, the King, and Naminé had taught him. "If you can face the darkness unflinchingly, you will never again know fear." Naminé had said that to him while he was fighting Zexion, disguised as Sora, on the recreated Destiny Islands. "I've tempered the darkness in your heart." The shadow-Ansem had told him that when he granted him the power of darkness.
That's it! Ashamed that he hadn't thought of it earlier, Riku remembered how he'd carefully used the power of darkness to fight his way through Castle Oblivion, and how he'd eventually used it to defeat the Ansem inside his heart. Even though he'd beaten him, Ansem and his darkness were still deep inside him, and he could still call upon the great power they held. As long as he was neither afraid nor in reverence of the darkness, he could freely wield it as his weapon.
Concentrating with great effort, Riku willed the darkness in him to come forth. As he did so, he felt his body changing. Hair that was once full of volume shrank and hung loosely behind him. His figure, which had been slim but muscular, became large and bulky. Riku pulled back one of his gloves to see that skin that had once been so pale was now darkly tanned. He got up and found a puddle of water to see the reflection of his face in it. His eyes that used to be deep turquoise were now dark gold.
He was a mirror image of Ansem, seeker of darkness. However, if this was what it took to wake Sora, Riku was ready and willing to do it. Filled with a new resolve, he decided to exercise his new ability to use the corridors of darkness as he set off again on a journey to find Roxas.
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Yaay! All done!
Gawd, this song is so depressing. It's like, 100 percent emo and 50 percent nonsensical. I'm lucky I found one verse that makes some semblance of sense.
So anyway, I like this one 'cause it reminds me of the "Another Side, Another Story -deep dive-" cutscene. You know, the one where Riku says "Why do you have the Keyblade!?" Other than that, it's just another track. Although I was hoping I'd get to use this song at some point.
Lyric translation-
Imprisoned in a glass cage
These wounded feelings will not thaw
I will go quietly beyond the darkness
To where the light most likely reaches (1)
(1)- The translation I found for this line says "to where the light most likely reaches," but the word "yasashiteiru" is in it, which has to do with being kind. So, I think the actual translation is "to where the light kindly reaches." If anyone who knows this better than I do would like to enlighten me, that'd be great.