Notes and such. : Hello!!! Hi there peoples. I'm back with a new chapter to add to your nightmares. Hooray!! Fear for the masses. (l.o.r)
Ch:11 the half hearts. Who and what.
Atticus stood there in his doorway with a bemused expression on his face. The moment of surprise when he had found his door open had passed and was now replaced with a slight nervous excitement. On one hand Sora had snuck into his room without permission and was asleep on his bed. On the other hand there was Sora…asleep on his bed…defenseless.
"God he's cuter when he's sleeping. NO bad Atticusno taking advantage of the sleeping beauty… yet."
He walked over to his bed and sat down beside the sleeping boy. He couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He had a whole lot of responsibility, and he didn't ask for any of this. But the keyblade had chosen him for a reason. At least he had something to work towards, finding his friends. But still even with all the pain he Knew Sora was feeling he knew he would try to look like nothing was bugging him. Without really thinking about what he was doing he moved his hand up to Sora's cheek and stroked up and down with his gloved fingers. Sora whispered something unintelligible and rolled over.
"to think that this kid is the key to everything. He seems so innocent…and soft…wait no stop thinking like that! Then again…"
Slowly, his face red with a deep blush, he slipped off one of his gloves to reveal a hand as pale as every other part of him, except for his nails. They where long and sharp looking like a woman's and jet black, with a red line running down the middle of each one. Slowly he placed his hand under Sora's chin, and with the tips of his fingers lifted his face slightly. He could see tears at the corners of his eyes (another bad dream).
" Sora, I know your friends are out there somewhere, until the time you can find them though you can lean on me."
With that being said he moved his head down till he was an inch from the sleeping boy's face, his lips slightly parted as he dreamt.
"Please trust me"
Atticus closed the gap between them his eyes half shut and his heart racing…
(KNOCK,KNOCK)
The heavy sound of a fist slammed against the front door of the apartment. Atticus froze and opened his eyes looking down at sora, he realized what he had just about done and practically flew off the bed his face redder than fire. He took a deep breath and with that made his way to the door.
" At least Soras a deep sleeper"
He walked to the living room and opened the door to reveal leon standing there, yuffie behind him with an ice pack over her eye.
"what the hell happened to you yuffie?" she rolled her good eye and walked inside.
" what do you think happened? I had a little run in with one of your old friends in the park. If leon hadn't shown up I would have gotten worse than a black eye."
She made her way to the kitchen and sat down at the table and laid her head down. Leon walked in and leaned against the fridge.
"Where's Sora? We said we'd tell him what's going on" as if on cue Sora walked in rubbing his eyes and greeted them with a huge yawn.
" Hey guys, yuffie where'd ya get that shiner?" leon just shook his head and looked over to atticus with a "we'd better get this over with" look. Atticus nodded.
"We promised you some explanations sora, if you're going to be the keyblade master there are a few things we have to tell you that we haven't yet. We had been hoping we wouldn't have to bring this up so soon but it seems our hand has been forced so to speak."
Sora scratched his head in confusion.
" I have the feeling I'm not going to like this" he had sat down at the table beside yuffie and was starting to feel very anxious. He defiantly did not like the oppressive air about the company tonight, and as he had learned from dealing with the heartless and anyone involved with them if it was something bad, it was probably really' really bad. Atticus gave one last look to leon, then began.
" I won't sugarcoat this too much, we have a problem that puts quite the wrench in our plans to fight the heartless. For some time we have been noticing that some heartless had been acting differently from the others, instead of hunting humans and searching for world hearts, they seemed to be organizing themselves, watching, and waiting. To our surprise we discovered that these heartless where being ordered around by an external force"
Sora put up his hand to stop Atticus.
"Wait, wait I thought that they were brainless shadows, no real thoughts, like insects. What could make them follow orders." Leon gave sora his usual indifferent look.
"Shadows with brains, that's what. There are other things lurking in the darkness besides the heartless. And these things have an agenda. We don't exactly know what they are, but what we do know is that they are smarter than your average boogie man."
With being able to help himself sora interrupted again.
"But who are they; they've been following us haven't they. I thought I had just been seeing things." It was atticus who answered him this time.
" They call themselves the brother hood of the half hearts. Our general observation has led us to believe, that just as the name implies, they're some kind of half heartless, half human cross species. How they came into being we don't know, and we haven't real worried about it until now."
"Why's that Atticus?"
"Simple sora, they haven't been able to do anything. You see for reasons unknown they are, as a rule, usually bound to the void."
"What's "the void"
"The shadow side of each world. The place where all its darkness culminates like a garbage dump for all a worlds' evil and negativity. It's also what the heartless use to move from world to world. There are exceptions to this though. They can manifest themselves in the light side of a world if it is either A: about to be consumed by the heartless therefore flowing with darkness. Or B: it's so full of evil and greed and hate that there is no difference between light and dark. Unfortunately it would seem they have found a way around this. And we have a felling we know what they are after too."
" what, what do you think they want Atticus?"
"Again very simple…the key wielder. They want to get rid of the key, or worse, you."
End ch11
Notes and such: dun dun dun… the plot thickens. Tune in next time for countuing story. Same bat time same bat channel (l.o.r)
