Okay, confection time: I never played Kingdom Hearts 1. Well actually I did play it but I never got past Destiny Island. And no, it's not because I suck at KH1, it was because I never had enough time to play it. So please notice that some of this may be deductive reasoning.
Which is fancy talk for guessing. But anyhow, here's the story.
The story so far: Maleficent is telling Ansem when she first meets Riku.
I do not own KH. I only own my own characters.
Also, words like this means Maleficent is telling the story.
Riku was a special boy from the moment I first time I meet him.
He came from a world called Destiny Islands. With what he told me it was an argipelleo on a vast open sea. It was a nice little island, with plenty to do on it, and no one could say it was a bad place to live.
No one except Riku.
He was curious boy, wondering if there were other worlds out there. He also hated being on an island, feeling so closed in by the open sea. He wanted to get out of his home, to explore new worlds. So with his friends he constructed a raft to explore the seas and go to a new world.
But the raft was not needed.
"Why's that?" blurted out Ansem.
"Let me continue" said Maleficent "and I will explain. Now where was I?"
"You were on a part bout' a raft or something" said Pete
"Ah, yes, the raft…"
The raft was not needed because that night a storm struck. But this was no normal storm. The Heartless had found the heart of the world and had consumed it. Now the world was being ripped apart by the darkness. Only Riku was brave enough to stand with the darkness. His friend Sora tried to bring him back to the light, but to no avail. Destiny Island was tore apart, and everybody on it was lost to the darkness, except for three…
It was after he lost his home to the darkness that I meet him. He was quite powerful and ready, if not eager, to accept darkness in his heart. So I took him under my wing and trained him in the ways of darkness. He was quite skilled in the ways of darkness and proved to be a valuable ally.
But he was to be my downfall.
He betrayed me and swallowed me in darkness. It was only by using the last of my magic that I was able to come back.
"You mean, right before we meet, he destroyed you?" Ansem asked
Maleficent shook her head no. "That happened two years ago. It was a year ago I came back. Pete had tried to spread more Heartless, but he got…sidetracked along the way." She glanced towards Pete, who suddenly found the table very interesting. Ansem, who wanted to know more, said, "So, what happened next?"
Maleficent turned back towards Ansem. "After I returned to my castle I tried to spread Heartless to consume the worlds. But the blasted Organization thirteen got in the way."
"What's Organization thirteen?" Ansem asked.
Maleficent looked out the windows to see the moon had risen. "Perhaps I'll tell you tomorrow. Pete, escort our guess to his room will you." And with that she rose out her chair and left the room, leaving them both alone.
Ansem looked at Pete, who in turn looked at Ansem with an annoyed look. "Come on, kid," he said with a this-is-a-waste-of-my-time tone "let's go."
They actually didn't have to go far. Ansem's bedroom was right across the hall from the dining room, but Pete still looked at him like he wasn't worth his time. Pete opened the door to Ansem's room for him. But before he could close the door when Ansem was inside, Ansem spoke up.
"Hey, Pete," Ansem asked, "are there actually other worlds out there?"
"Well of course there are!" said Pete "I'm from one of them." But before Ansem could speak up again, Pete closed the door. As Ansem crawled into bed and drifted off to sleep, he couldn't fight the feeling that even though he learned something important, it just made everything even more complicated.
So, how was that for a chapter? Next one is where Ansem learns about Organization XIII. Also, for a challenge, how did Pete get sidetracked? Here's a hint: he was in Agrabah.
Please review and keep your eyes out for the next chap of
Kingdom Hearts: Nobody's Memories