Shadows and Dreams
Sora's POV
I've been having these weird thoughts lately..like is any of this real or not?
Sometimes I wake up and I feel the sun's rays on my face, yet it feels so cold, so empty, so hollow..like my heart..
These strange things keep coming into my head. I see images, faces, places, things that only my dreams could concoct. I don't think I'll ever understand them, or maybe I already have.
Last night I closed my eyes and I swore I saw her, I saw KAIRI! But when I sat back up and felt the heated sweat off my brow, I knew she was gone.
It's been a month since I last saw her..might as well be a hundred years though..
Ever since Ansem was destroyed and the Heartless were banished into "Kingdom Hearts", I haven't seen nor heard anything about Riku or King Mickey..
Goofy and Donald are positive that this road will take us to them..
Roads, what a remarkable thing. I've wanted to leave Destiny Islands with Kairi and Riku ever since I knew what a road was, and now I can't stand walking on them any longer. They never end. They just go on and on and on, leading us to new worlds, new adventures, new homes..but not my own.
******
Sora moaned lightly as he tossed and turned in his bed sheets, his gloved hands grasping the white covers as if for protection. His key chains and zippers jangled a bit, sweat poured from his spiky brown hair. Sora's blue eyes were closed tightly there was fear in him, such cold terrible fear.
******
It's the feeling again. I feel it right down to my trembling toes, and my god it's horrible. Lately my dreams have been betraying me. Instead of Riku or ..Kairi, I've been seeing weird things. Things I can't even begin to imagine about, nor do I want to. I see these faces, faces of darkness, and faces of evil. There's 5 of them..gathered around in a circle like a group.
There's a large man.fat with beady eyes, he's wearing red and he seems to have some sort of orange moustache. And is that a metal hand? No it's his ARM!!!
Now I see a lizard, least I think it's a lizard. But he's huge! He's so dark and twisted looking, his laugh just echoes like poison in my blood, burning my senses. And he's got a Mohawk, such a weird black looking hairstyle..
What's this? A human? No, no it's much colder around him, not he's empty inside, just devoid of warmth. He's wearing a cape and has one some odd little mask, and are those bats around him? What the hell is all this? Why do I keep seeing these things!?!?!?
Suddenly a blinding flash erupted, and Sora found himself standing in what appeared to be a city. A dark cold and horrible looking city, Sora's bare toes cringed at the feel of water running over his body. The boy looked up and saw the sky, more blacker then even the darkest shades of dust. Sora reached for his keyblade and gasped to see it wasn't there. "Hey what's going on? Is this a dream or is it real I d" suddenly Sora's words stopped.
There was something literally standing in front of Sora, an image so shocking and mortifying he was too stunned for words. There, drenched in rain, covered in darkness, was his friend.."RIKU!".
******
Riku's POV
Meanwhile on the other side of reality, the very events that Sora was dreaming about were conspiring right before his unblinking eyes. Riku stood in the center of a light bleeding every pour with cold, relentless rain. Neon lights and flashing signs provided little sun shine on the dismal dark city of metal and darkness. Riku was holding what appeared to be a rather twisted version of the keyblade, very similar to his. He was also wrapped in a cloak.
The dark cloak trapping Riku beaded off the downfall of rain, as he stared emotionlessly to his surrounded party. Hundreds of monstrous looking Heartless had him cornered at every end, their yellow eyes burned brightly. It was clear to the silver haired boy that these Heartless were far superior in power and strength, then the previous Heartless Sora had faced before. Thunder bolts struck the ground, the Heartless antennae surged raw energy.
However the Heartless weren't the only soulless engines of destruction that had surrounded Riku, there were also beings. 5 beings to be exact. They were all around Riku, each one taking a different corner end to block. Cloaks of tombstone grey coated the strangers, there shadowy hoods blocking their ice brimming eyes and face. Drops of cold water trickled down over the sides of their steel coats of grey and silver, just like the color of their hair.
Like Riku the strangers had a silvery white hair, and a sickening smile on their face as the leader raised a long sleeved black gloved hand to Riku. "I believe we'll have the item now my dear friend?" the masked man asked. Riku laughed coldly at them "Not on your very short life freak, your too late I've got the prize and there's no way your getting your dirty hands on it". The hooded stranger continued to smile, not even caring of Riku's keyblade.
"Please my dear, dear Riku, let's not be foolish. You know very well that we will track you no matter where you go. That little bauble means nothing to you, but it means a great deal to us. Why cause yourself further trouble? After all these new and improved Heartless are more then willing to take it from you by force if necessary, but it can be avoided. Give us the item Riku" the stranger coldly boomed. Riku raised his keyblade forward at the shadow.
Immediately the shadowy stranger stopped talking, the fierce look of hatred brimmed off the rain soaked reflection of Riku's eyes in his keyblade. Another stranger spoke "Come now Riku, you know as well as we do how easy it was to track you. It was the darkness in your heart. Your thoughts and heart betray you, we can sense the shadows brewing in your cobwebbed soul. You can join us. You were powerful at Maleficent's side once Riku.
Why throw it all away? Our master will have the ultimate power over this and every other world, reality as we know it will bend to his whim. You could have anything you wanted, real or un-real it's all yours. Just give us the item, give into the darkness that you know still resides in your heart, and become one of us". Silence soon followed, the Heartless jittered in the shivering rain. Riku stared down into a puddle of pattering water and mud.
The image of Kairi's beautiful face, and the fiery courage of Sora's stare burned deeply in the mirror of that puddle. "They are all that matters and all that will only matter" Riku said softly to himself. But as tempting as the darkness was, the lone boy knew what happened last time. "The darkness took over me, it made me do things I thought were right, I thought were for Kairi. I was stupid to allow myself to be taken control of, it didn't help at all.
The Heartless is the one that took Kairi away from me, and it was foolish of me to believe that working with them could bring her back. Well" Riku growled half way, flashing his keyblade in preparation for battle. "I will not let that same soulless evil corrupt me again, or allow it to taint anyone else. You can talk all the garbage you want to talk, but your request is denied. Your master will not return, and I'll see to it BY KILLING YOU" Riku said.
BZZT! A striking bolt of thunder charged out of the Heartless antenna, and screamed a powerful strike attack at Riku. The dark keyblade swung wildly as Riku roared with rage, slamming the Earth with his mighty weapon. Chunks of black rain filled concrete blocks soared from the ruptured ground, hurled against the Heartless. CLANG! The keyblade smacked the thunder bolt right back into the same Heartless that fired it, followed by the rocks.
The hooded strangers growled and quickly moved out of the way. Thunder flashes streak the night sky with flashes of energy, watching the rocks crush upon the black Heartless creatures. Riku then screamed out "COME ON"
******
Circling, you're circling, you're circling you're head,
contemplating everything you ever said, now I see the truth I got a doubt,
a different motive in your eyes and now I'm out, see you later
I see your fantasy, you wanna make it a reality paved in gold,
see inside, inside of our heads yea, well now that's over, I see your motives
inside, decisions to hide
(Chorus)
Back off I'll take you on
headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, headstrong, we're headstrong
Back off I'll take you on
headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, and this is not where you belong
I can't give everything away
I won't give everything away
I can't give everything away, (this is not where you belong)
I won't give everything away, (this is not where you belong)
This is not where you belong
(Special thanks for lyrics from Trapt and their hit song "Headstrong")
******
During the dark struggle, Riku grabbed something out of his dark cloak and removed it. The hooded strangers gasped at sight of a large bright glowing red jewel. "GRAB THAT GEM I want it captured at all costs NOW" the stranger screamed. The sniveling Heartless leapt from the Earth, their black claw like fingers flailing as the creatures swarm down on Riku. "Kingdom Hearts GIVE ME STRENGTH" Riku screamed at the top of his lungs.
Clanking sounds of metal and stone grind into the very foundation of the concrete Earth, it was Riku jamming his keyblade into the ground. A powerful surge of pink fiery energy soared up around him. The Heartless attacking him screeched as they were vaporized by the energy shield, pushing the strangers back. Another toss of the black gloved hands, as Riku watched the red fabled jewel floating above his white hair and blue eyes.
Riku then raised his keyblade high into the sky, and began to violently slash apart the red jewel. Crackling flashes of thunder and light fan across the night sky, soon followed by sparks of radiant energy. The strangers growled with mass hatred, unable to do anything but watch Riku shatter apart their jewel. After the boiling cracks of light had shattered the red jewel into 5 large shards, the pink energy wave gushed forward around them and Riku.
Any onlooker from a copter or a plane could see the burning insignia of a Heart around Riku and the shards, standing at the base of the city. A blinding flash of light and fire soon caused everything to instantly disappear. When the strangers looked up, they saw 5 pieces of red rock encased in energy flying. The shards then split apart into 5 black holes in the sky, clouds parted away to engulf the shards and quickly close. They were gone.
A stranger spoke with a frown "Well this was certainly unexpected". "Yes we did not expect the boy to retain powers from the Kingdom Hearts, this is most unfortunate" a second stranger said. "Now it seems not only has our little puppet Riku vanished, but so has the jewel" the 3rd one said. The 4th nodded "But now it is 5 jewel shards and they are now scattered across the planes of reality, it appears we have no choice to but to break them apart".
The 5th and leading stranger smiled and laughed coldly "Fear not fellow lost souls, for this may be a blessing in disguise. Riku is no longer our problem, but the legendary keyblade master is and he is still unaware of our actions. No doubt those worlds that now possess the lost shards will run across the path of our lost keyblade master. Once we find them and forge them back together again, our master shall return and restore chaos to this ugly world.
Come now it is time we began searching" the leader finally said with a cold slap of his sickening smiling lips. A gush of wind breezes out from under those dark hooded cloaked souls, projecting them into the sky like Superman. Suddenly the dark holes in the sky opened up once more. All 5 of the masked men then split apart and entered the sky holes, each one leading them to a separate shard from a new world, in hopes to resurrect their boss.
The dark and raining city soon remained silent, as neither the Heartless nor the masked strangers were seen again since. The masked men soared across the magical tunnels of energy and light, searching for the shards. But as they traveled swiftly, their trails left a sparkling twinkle in another world's sky. Suddenly Sora jerked up from his sleep, sweating furiously from his nightmare. Sora then looked to the window and gasped "A shooting star?".
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To be continued..
Sora's POV
I've been having these weird thoughts lately..like is any of this real or not?
Sometimes I wake up and I feel the sun's rays on my face, yet it feels so cold, so empty, so hollow..like my heart..
These strange things keep coming into my head. I see images, faces, places, things that only my dreams could concoct. I don't think I'll ever understand them, or maybe I already have.
Last night I closed my eyes and I swore I saw her, I saw KAIRI! But when I sat back up and felt the heated sweat off my brow, I knew she was gone.
It's been a month since I last saw her..might as well be a hundred years though..
Ever since Ansem was destroyed and the Heartless were banished into "Kingdom Hearts", I haven't seen nor heard anything about Riku or King Mickey..
Goofy and Donald are positive that this road will take us to them..
Roads, what a remarkable thing. I've wanted to leave Destiny Islands with Kairi and Riku ever since I knew what a road was, and now I can't stand walking on them any longer. They never end. They just go on and on and on, leading us to new worlds, new adventures, new homes..but not my own.
******
Sora moaned lightly as he tossed and turned in his bed sheets, his gloved hands grasping the white covers as if for protection. His key chains and zippers jangled a bit, sweat poured from his spiky brown hair. Sora's blue eyes were closed tightly there was fear in him, such cold terrible fear.
******
It's the feeling again. I feel it right down to my trembling toes, and my god it's horrible. Lately my dreams have been betraying me. Instead of Riku or ..Kairi, I've been seeing weird things. Things I can't even begin to imagine about, nor do I want to. I see these faces, faces of darkness, and faces of evil. There's 5 of them..gathered around in a circle like a group.
There's a large man.fat with beady eyes, he's wearing red and he seems to have some sort of orange moustache. And is that a metal hand? No it's his ARM!!!
Now I see a lizard, least I think it's a lizard. But he's huge! He's so dark and twisted looking, his laugh just echoes like poison in my blood, burning my senses. And he's got a Mohawk, such a weird black looking hairstyle..
What's this? A human? No, no it's much colder around him, not he's empty inside, just devoid of warmth. He's wearing a cape and has one some odd little mask, and are those bats around him? What the hell is all this? Why do I keep seeing these things!?!?!?
Suddenly a blinding flash erupted, and Sora found himself standing in what appeared to be a city. A dark cold and horrible looking city, Sora's bare toes cringed at the feel of water running over his body. The boy looked up and saw the sky, more blacker then even the darkest shades of dust. Sora reached for his keyblade and gasped to see it wasn't there. "Hey what's going on? Is this a dream or is it real I d" suddenly Sora's words stopped.
There was something literally standing in front of Sora, an image so shocking and mortifying he was too stunned for words. There, drenched in rain, covered in darkness, was his friend.."RIKU!".
******
Riku's POV
Meanwhile on the other side of reality, the very events that Sora was dreaming about were conspiring right before his unblinking eyes. Riku stood in the center of a light bleeding every pour with cold, relentless rain. Neon lights and flashing signs provided little sun shine on the dismal dark city of metal and darkness. Riku was holding what appeared to be a rather twisted version of the keyblade, very similar to his. He was also wrapped in a cloak.
The dark cloak trapping Riku beaded off the downfall of rain, as he stared emotionlessly to his surrounded party. Hundreds of monstrous looking Heartless had him cornered at every end, their yellow eyes burned brightly. It was clear to the silver haired boy that these Heartless were far superior in power and strength, then the previous Heartless Sora had faced before. Thunder bolts struck the ground, the Heartless antennae surged raw energy.
However the Heartless weren't the only soulless engines of destruction that had surrounded Riku, there were also beings. 5 beings to be exact. They were all around Riku, each one taking a different corner end to block. Cloaks of tombstone grey coated the strangers, there shadowy hoods blocking their ice brimming eyes and face. Drops of cold water trickled down over the sides of their steel coats of grey and silver, just like the color of their hair.
Like Riku the strangers had a silvery white hair, and a sickening smile on their face as the leader raised a long sleeved black gloved hand to Riku. "I believe we'll have the item now my dear friend?" the masked man asked. Riku laughed coldly at them "Not on your very short life freak, your too late I've got the prize and there's no way your getting your dirty hands on it". The hooded stranger continued to smile, not even caring of Riku's keyblade.
"Please my dear, dear Riku, let's not be foolish. You know very well that we will track you no matter where you go. That little bauble means nothing to you, but it means a great deal to us. Why cause yourself further trouble? After all these new and improved Heartless are more then willing to take it from you by force if necessary, but it can be avoided. Give us the item Riku" the stranger coldly boomed. Riku raised his keyblade forward at the shadow.
Immediately the shadowy stranger stopped talking, the fierce look of hatred brimmed off the rain soaked reflection of Riku's eyes in his keyblade. Another stranger spoke "Come now Riku, you know as well as we do how easy it was to track you. It was the darkness in your heart. Your thoughts and heart betray you, we can sense the shadows brewing in your cobwebbed soul. You can join us. You were powerful at Maleficent's side once Riku.
Why throw it all away? Our master will have the ultimate power over this and every other world, reality as we know it will bend to his whim. You could have anything you wanted, real or un-real it's all yours. Just give us the item, give into the darkness that you know still resides in your heart, and become one of us". Silence soon followed, the Heartless jittered in the shivering rain. Riku stared down into a puddle of pattering water and mud.
The image of Kairi's beautiful face, and the fiery courage of Sora's stare burned deeply in the mirror of that puddle. "They are all that matters and all that will only matter" Riku said softly to himself. But as tempting as the darkness was, the lone boy knew what happened last time. "The darkness took over me, it made me do things I thought were right, I thought were for Kairi. I was stupid to allow myself to be taken control of, it didn't help at all.
The Heartless is the one that took Kairi away from me, and it was foolish of me to believe that working with them could bring her back. Well" Riku growled half way, flashing his keyblade in preparation for battle. "I will not let that same soulless evil corrupt me again, or allow it to taint anyone else. You can talk all the garbage you want to talk, but your request is denied. Your master will not return, and I'll see to it BY KILLING YOU" Riku said.
BZZT! A striking bolt of thunder charged out of the Heartless antenna, and screamed a powerful strike attack at Riku. The dark keyblade swung wildly as Riku roared with rage, slamming the Earth with his mighty weapon. Chunks of black rain filled concrete blocks soared from the ruptured ground, hurled against the Heartless. CLANG! The keyblade smacked the thunder bolt right back into the same Heartless that fired it, followed by the rocks.
The hooded strangers growled and quickly moved out of the way. Thunder flashes streak the night sky with flashes of energy, watching the rocks crush upon the black Heartless creatures. Riku then screamed out "COME ON"
******
Circling, you're circling, you're circling you're head,
contemplating everything you ever said, now I see the truth I got a doubt,
a different motive in your eyes and now I'm out, see you later
I see your fantasy, you wanna make it a reality paved in gold,
see inside, inside of our heads yea, well now that's over, I see your motives
inside, decisions to hide
(Chorus)
Back off I'll take you on
headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, headstrong, we're headstrong
Back off I'll take you on
headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, and this is not where you belong
I can't give everything away
I won't give everything away
I can't give everything away, (this is not where you belong)
I won't give everything away, (this is not where you belong)
This is not where you belong
(Special thanks for lyrics from Trapt and their hit song "Headstrong")
******
During the dark struggle, Riku grabbed something out of his dark cloak and removed it. The hooded strangers gasped at sight of a large bright glowing red jewel. "GRAB THAT GEM I want it captured at all costs NOW" the stranger screamed. The sniveling Heartless leapt from the Earth, their black claw like fingers flailing as the creatures swarm down on Riku. "Kingdom Hearts GIVE ME STRENGTH" Riku screamed at the top of his lungs.
Clanking sounds of metal and stone grind into the very foundation of the concrete Earth, it was Riku jamming his keyblade into the ground. A powerful surge of pink fiery energy soared up around him. The Heartless attacking him screeched as they were vaporized by the energy shield, pushing the strangers back. Another toss of the black gloved hands, as Riku watched the red fabled jewel floating above his white hair and blue eyes.
Riku then raised his keyblade high into the sky, and began to violently slash apart the red jewel. Crackling flashes of thunder and light fan across the night sky, soon followed by sparks of radiant energy. The strangers growled with mass hatred, unable to do anything but watch Riku shatter apart their jewel. After the boiling cracks of light had shattered the red jewel into 5 large shards, the pink energy wave gushed forward around them and Riku.
Any onlooker from a copter or a plane could see the burning insignia of a Heart around Riku and the shards, standing at the base of the city. A blinding flash of light and fire soon caused everything to instantly disappear. When the strangers looked up, they saw 5 pieces of red rock encased in energy flying. The shards then split apart into 5 black holes in the sky, clouds parted away to engulf the shards and quickly close. They were gone.
A stranger spoke with a frown "Well this was certainly unexpected". "Yes we did not expect the boy to retain powers from the Kingdom Hearts, this is most unfortunate" a second stranger said. "Now it seems not only has our little puppet Riku vanished, but so has the jewel" the 3rd one said. The 4th nodded "But now it is 5 jewel shards and they are now scattered across the planes of reality, it appears we have no choice to but to break them apart".
The 5th and leading stranger smiled and laughed coldly "Fear not fellow lost souls, for this may be a blessing in disguise. Riku is no longer our problem, but the legendary keyblade master is and he is still unaware of our actions. No doubt those worlds that now possess the lost shards will run across the path of our lost keyblade master. Once we find them and forge them back together again, our master shall return and restore chaos to this ugly world.
Come now it is time we began searching" the leader finally said with a cold slap of his sickening smiling lips. A gush of wind breezes out from under those dark hooded cloaked souls, projecting them into the sky like Superman. Suddenly the dark holes in the sky opened up once more. All 5 of the masked men then split apart and entered the sky holes, each one leading them to a separate shard from a new world, in hopes to resurrect their boss.
The dark and raining city soon remained silent, as neither the Heartless nor the masked strangers were seen again since. The masked men soared across the magical tunnels of energy and light, searching for the shards. But as they traveled swiftly, their trails left a sparkling twinkle in another world's sky. Suddenly Sora jerked up from his sleep, sweating furiously from his nightmare. Sora then looked to the window and gasped "A shooting star?".
******
To be continued..