Foreword: Hi everyone, ready for another tale? :3 I would like to thank ShadowArtist13, p3paula, NO Gears (Lea), XionTheBlackRose, DecidedFate13, Shiori Yomu, GrooGirl, WritingBookworm, pinkchocola and Anonymous for their reviews. Also, to everyone who has favorited or followed this story. Thank you for all your support :) And Lea, this one's for you after all the terrible things I did in the last one xD
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Brother's Grimm, or any of either's characters and storyline.
Warning: Just a little heads up for everyone, this story contains boy x boy. I just wanted you all to know since all my tales up to now have been girl x boy pairings. Also, I apologize in advance for a very OOC Saïx. Now, onto the story :D
Hello, dear reader. My brother, Vanitas Grimm, and I are glad that you like these little tales of ours. This one is called The Blue Light. Enjoy. And remember, those who continue to work will be rewarded in the end.
The Blue Light
Once upon a time, there was a soldier named Lea who had served King Xemnas loyally for many long years. When the war ended and Lea could no longer serve because of the many wounds he had received, King Xemnas said to him, "You can go home now. I no longer need you. There will be no more money for you, because wages are only for those who earn them."
Because Lea did not know how he could earn a living, he sadly walked the whole day long until he came to a forest in the evening. As darkness fell, he saw a light. He approached it and came to a little house, where a witch lived. Her name was Larxene, and she lived all alone in the little house in the forest.
"Give me a night's shelter and a little to eat and drink," Lea said to her, "otherwise I will perish."
"Oho!" She answered. "Who gives anything to a runaway soldier? But I will have pity and take you in after all, if you do what I ask of you."
"What do you want?" Asked Lea.
"For you to dig up my garden tomorrow." Larxene responded.
Lea agreed, and the next day he worked with all his might, but could not finish before evening.
"I see," said Larxene. "That you can do no more work today. I will take you in for one more night if you will cut up and split a stack of wood for me."
Lea took the entire day to do this, and that evening Larxene proposed that he remain a third night. "Tomorrow I have only a small task for you. Behind my house there is a dry well into which my light has fallen. It burns blue and never goes out. I want you to get it for me."
The next day, Larxene led him to the well and lowered him down in a basket. He found the blue light, and gave a sign that she should pull him up again. And she did pull him up, but when he was close to the edge, she wanted to take the blue light from him.
"No," he said, sensing her evil thoughts. "I shall not give you the light until I am standing on the ground with both feet."
Larxene became furious, let him fall back into the well, and walked away. Poor Lea fell to the damp floor without being injured. The blue light continued to burn, but how could that help him? He saw that he would not be able to escape death. He sadly sat there for a while. Then, he happened to reach into his pocket and found his tobacco pipe which was still half full.
"This will be your last pleasure," he thought, pulled it out, lit it with the blue light and began to smoke.
After the fumes had wafted about the cavern, suddenly there stood before him a little black dwarf with steel blue hair who said, "Master, what do you command?"
"Why should I command you?" Cried Lea, bewildered.
"I must do everything that you command." Said the dwarf, looking at Lea with his one glowing yellow eye.
"Good." Said Lea. "Then first help me out of this well."
The dwarf took him by the hand, and led him through an underground passage, and he did not forget to take the blue light with him. Along the way, the dwarf showed him the treasures that Larxene the witch had collected and hidden there, and Lea took as many as he could carry. When he was above ground, he said to the dwarf, "Now go and bind the old witch and take her to the judge."
Not long afterward, Larxene came riding by on a tomcat as fast as the wind and screaming horribly. And not long afterward, the dwarf was back.
"It is all taken care of." He said, bowing. "The witch is hanging on the gallows. Master, what do you command now?"
"Nothing at the moment." Answered Lea. "You can go home now, but be ready when I call you."
"It is only necessary." Said the dwarf, "for you to light your pipe with the blue light and I shall be there to serve you."
"Before you go," Lea called. "What is your name?"
The black dwarf turned his one yellow eye on Lea and smiled at him. "I am known as an Anti. But, you may call me Zexion." With that, he disappeared before Lea's very eyes.
Lea returned to the city from where he had come. He moved into the best inn and had beautiful clothes made for himself. Then he told the innkeeper named Cid to furnish his room as luxuriously as possible. When it was finished, he summoned the black dwarf and said, "I served the king loyally, but he sent me away to starve. For this, I want revenge."
"What am I to do?" Asked the little man, his one yellow eye gleaming.
"Late this evening, when the king's son, Saïx, is lying in bed, bring him here to me in his sleep. He shall do maid service for me."
Zexion said, "That is an easy thing for me to do, but a dangerous thing for you. If you are found out, it will not go well for you."
At the strike of twelve, the door opened and Zexion carried in the king's son.
"Aha, is that you?" Cried Lea. "Get to work now! Go fetch the broom and sweep the room." When Saïx was finished, Lea called Saïx to his chair, stuck his feet out at him and said, "pull off my boots." Then, he threw them in Saïx's face and made him pick them up and clean them and make them shine.
Saïx did everything that Lea ordered him to do without resisting and silently with half closed eyes. At the cock's first crow, Zexion carried the prince back to the royal palace and his bed.
The next morning, after Saïx had gotten up, he went to his father and told him that he had an amazing dream.
"I was carried away through the streets as fast as lighting and taken to a solider's room. I had to serve as his maid and wait on him, and do common work, sweep the room and clean his boots. It was only a dream, but I am still as tired as if I had really done it all."
"The dream could have been true." King Xemnas frowned. "I will give you some advice. Fill your pocket with pickles, then make a small hole in your pocket. If you are carried away again, they will fall out and leave a track on the street."
As King Xemnas was speaking, Zexion was standing in the shadows nearby and heard everything.
That night, when Zexion once again carried the sleeping prince through the streets, a few pickles did indeed fall out of his pocket. They did not leave a trail, however, because the cunning dwarf had already scattered pickles in all the streets. And once again the king's son had to do maid service until the cock crowed.
The next morning, King Xemnas sent his people out to look for the track, but it was to no end, for in all the streets there were poor children gathering the pickles and saying, "Last night it rained pickles."
"We must think of something else." Said King Xemnas. "Leave your shoes on when you go to bed, and before you return from there, hide one of them. I will be sure to find it."
Zexion overheard this proposal, and that evening when Lea again wanted Saïx brought to him, Zexion advised him against it, saying that he had no way to protect Lea against such trickery. If the shoe were to be found in Lea's room, it would not go well with him.
"Do what I tell you." Lea replied, and for a third night Saïx had to work like a maid. But before he was carried back, he hid a shoe under the bed.
The next morning, King Xemnas had the entire Twilight Town searched for the shoe, and it was found in Lea's room. Lea himself, following Zexion's request, was already outside the city gate, but they soon overtook him and threw him in prison.
In his haste, he had forgotten to take along his most valuable things: the blue light and the gold. He had only one ducat in his pocket. Standing at the window of his prison and weighted down with chains, he saw one of his comrades, a man named Ventus, walking by. Lea knocked on the glass and as Ventus walked by, he said, "Be so good and bring me the little bundle I left at the inn. I'll give you a ducat for it."
Ventus ran forth and brought back the desired things. As soon as Lea was alone again, he lit his pipe and summoned Zexion.
"Have no fear." The dwarf said to his master. "Just go where they lead you and let everything happen, but take the blue light with you."
The next day, Lea was tried, and although he had done nothing wrong, the judge still sentenced him to death. As he was being led out, he asked King Xemnas for one last wish.
"What sort of a wish?" King Xemnas asked.
"That I might smoke one more pipe on the way there." Lea answered.
"You can smoke there." Answered King Xemnas. "But do not think I will let you live."
Then Lea pulled out his pipe and lit it with the blue light. As soon as a few rings of smoke had risen, Zexion was standing there. He had Retribution in his hand and said, "What does my master command?"
"Strike the false judges and their henchmen to the ground for me. And don't spare the king either, who has treated me so badly."
Then Zexion took off like lightning, zip-zap, back and forth, and everyone he touched with Retribution fell to the ground and did not dare to move. King Xemnas became very afraid. He begged for mercy, and in order to save his life, he gave Lea the Twilight Kingdom. Prince Saïx and Lea lived together happily ever after with Zexion watching over and protecting the two of them whenever the pipe was lit with the blue light.
And thus concludes the tale of the soldier Lea, Prince Saïx and Zexion the black dwarf. How was it? My brother and I hope you enjoyed our little tale. Come back soon, and perhaps there will be another story waiting to be told...
I really hate Xemnas right now. And I guess Edgeworth was the prosecutor for that trial :D Or they didn't get Phoenix to be Lea's defense attorney.