-1Chapter 21: Riku's Dream

Riku slept. He was standing in the darkness. Doves exploded around his feet and there was his mural. It had him, with the Heartless emblem in the outer ring. In the circles next to him were Sora, Kairi, Mickey and DiZ. There was also an empty heart.

"Why is there an empty heart?"

"The hearts represent who the person will connect with." Riku turned around and saw a man, taller then him, in pure black armor. "It appeared because you'll soon meet the person who will fill it. You just have to meet the person for the heart to be filled."

"Who are you?!" asked Riku, drawing the Way to Dawn.

"Now is that how you treat the person who saved your life." said the Dark Knight. "If I hadn't have saved you from Ansem at the Hallow Bastion you wouldn't be here."

"Wait, you saved me?"

"That is right."

"Why didn't you destroy Sellis then?"

"Wasn't the right time."

"What do you mean? You could have stopped him once and for all!"

"I would, but that's your job to do. Anyway, I'm not here to speak of Heartless, I'm here to test the darkness in your heart."

"Why would you want to do that? Are you going to seduce me to that side?"

"I have no intention to do that. I just wish to fight." the Dark Knight raised his arm and a Keyblade appeared. It was pure black that oozed dark wisp, had a long serrated blade with a large heart on the head. It's keychain was a black heart. "I present the Dark Essence Keyblade." He pointed it to Riku and a large dark fireball shot out of it. Riku jumped out of the way.

"Let's at least get this started with some good stuff." said Riku. "Dark Aura!" Riku floated into the air. He shot around the battlefield and attacked the Knight. He then slammed his key at the ground and a pulse of dark energy shot out. Riku looked up. Nothing had hit him. The Dark Knight was floating in the air. Behind him was the Guardian Ansem had used.

"Surprised?" said the Knight. "It's amazing what can be done with darkness. You should give it a try."

"How can you do that?"

"Easy, just open your heart to darkness."

"Excuse me if I say no. I've seen what happens."

"That is a common misconception. It's not the darkness that corrupts the heart, it's the lust for it. Same goes for light. You just need to learn how to control it. I'll admit, your heart was weak at first, but it's grown to strong to be consumed by dark. You'll need it to master it if you'll teach Sora how to do the same thing."

"Sora? Using darkness? I don't think so. He's nothing but light and he doesn't seem like the kind of person to use it."

"Just think about that when this is all over. Now to finish our fight." He raised the Dark Essence and the Guardian melded with it. "ULIMA DARK!" the darkness on the key exploded and soon Riku could see nothing, he was then attacked all over his body at the same time. He was then thrown into the air and fell back down. The darkness cleared.

"I remember when I was that weak."

"I'm not weak." said Riku getting up.

"Fine. Just remember, no matter how much you want, you are the darkness, Sora is the twilight, and Kairi is the light." Riku woke up.

Dark Knight

One of the Knights who gave Mickey the hearts of Gold. He came to Riku in a dream and fought him. He told

Riku he would need to master the darkness to become powerful and he would need to teach Sora how to use it.

Word of advice, if you havn't fought Ansem in the final battle in Reverse/Rebirth, don't use Dark Aura or Dark Break. The Guardian can easily block them so it's a waste of cards.

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