...
...
"Wake up!"
...
Sora and Maran couldn't see each other anymore. Ansem couldn't either.
The scenery formed a familiar place. It was Hollow Bastion, but it was a bit different. It was normal, without the mechanics all over and the cracked down towers. A woman was climbing down the stairs of the hall.
"Why you... why? Why, you must ask." the white-haired man appeared.
"What are you saying? Who's this woman?" Sora asked.
It was like the previous times, they were seeing memories, but whose memories?
"...Ansem?" Maran called. "Do you remember this?"
Ansem appeared, then. He seemed to be trying to remember who that woman was.
"Annabelle... my... precious... Annabelle..." he said.
"This isn't possible!" the white-haired man screamed. "You weren't supposed to remember of any of this!"
"Take that!" Sora said, satisfied at the man's frustation. "Ansem! Show him! Show him you're the ruler! Make him... bow to you!".
Ansem looked at Sora and then to the man.
"Alexander... you spoiled brat..." he said, it seemed that was really the man's name because he struck back at that sound. "I never thought it would be bad for my family if you worked here, but you caused... too much trouble."
"YOU caused ME much trouble! I became a non-existant! Just like your wife! And your daughter! You are the crazy in here. Look..." he pointed at the image of Annabelle. "She's happy. She's looking around, thinking she has the best husband in the world, thinking you'll be happy forever, that you'll never harm neither her or your daughter. Well, she thought all wrong."
"I think the one who is forgetting things now is you." Ansem said, looking down. "Let's change!" he said, raising his arms, making the scenery change.
Alexander seemed to be in this one. He was a young white-haired man who was looking at a window.
"What were you looking at, Alexander? At the plan you plotted! You were trying to stab me in the back."
He was looking at a gibbet. It was in the castle's garden. In this gibbet, there was a doll painted in black, hung up.
"They said I was the one who accomplished this blasphemy. But it wasn't the whole plan."
Capitulyn came in.
"Alex... did you see what my father did?"
"Yes."
"Why was that?"
"I don't know. But I know you should run away with me."
"What? But I must stay!"
"Stay? You want to end up like that doll?"
"He's my father and I must stay. I'll... talk to him."
Alexander ran and hold her arm.
"Come with me, Capitulyn. Come with me." he said.
"I won't, Alex, please... leave me alone!"
"You'll... regret it..." he said.
"What would the ultimate plan be?" Ansem asked Alexander, then. "Let's see."
The images changed. Now it was the laboratory, a place which could be accessed only through the walls in-between. It was where Hirosh was made back a heartless.
Alexander was there.
"He's been acting weird but I was smart. He's studying the creatures without hearts. If I become one of them, I'll be able to... take advantage on him. Power blinds people." he said, entering a machine. "Ansem, we'll meet again!"
The machine closed its door and some sparks happened inside it.
"You were really crazy, Alexander." Ansem said.
The scene's Ansem came in.
"I gotta figure this out, now." he approached the machine and a big spark surrounded the area.
"Whaa--"
Some black balls of energy appeared in the whole room.
"...Darkness..."
"...Light..."
"...Non-existant..."
...
...
"...The door..."
"What??" the Ansem was saying.
A huge dark spark covered him and dragged him throughout the window, leaving a nasty dark trail.
Some seconds later, Ansem came down like a rock falling from the sky. He seemed different.
"The... power... ...the power!" he raised his hands, then, in commemoration.
"Daddy?" Capituly was at the door.
"Capitu... Capitulyn..." Ansem said. "Come in, darling."
Capitulyn was wearing a dark dress. She's always been a joyful girl, it didn't matter the color of ther clothes.
All became dark, then.
"You know what happened. First your daughter. Then your wife. In a eye blink, all your kingdom had vanished, all that remained was the castle itself. A closure of darkness... pure darkness." Alexander was saying. "It doesn't matter if I planned this all. You fell for it so you are guilty as well."
"What? What are you saying you brat? I gave you confort and food... and you do this? You were the cause of all that. I was trying to show my daughter and wife that I had the ruler position because I deserved, because I was wise, not because I took advantage on someone else, just like it had been rumored." Ansem, then, handed his staff.
"Ansem, you will end up being killed!" Maran yelled.
Ansem looked at Maran and Sora.
"Thank you. But this is my business." he said.
Sora and Maran nodded, agreeing with him.
"You wanna fight? We will fight." Alexander conjured a white and thin sword. "So be it!"
The fight was in a whole filled with parryings and provocations.
"You're forgetting another thing, Alexander..." Ansem said at a point of the battle.
"What, that you're stronger? Think again, old man!" Alexander struggled hard against Ansem, imprisioning him against a wall that seemed to have came up from nowhere.
"No. Uh..." Ansem was stuck, "You're forgetting that... I'M STILL YOUR CREATOR!" he said, pulling Alexander back really fast.
Alexander tried to get up but he couldn't. Ansem approached him.
"You entered in that machine and I studied you before being taken. I am no fool, I made notes, but I didn't need them. I have them all here." he pointed at his own head, "I'm sorry but I'll have to punish you."
"So do it! Punish me! Do it! Show me and all the existance that you're the strongest!"
Ansem approached even more.
"All your shells under formation have been destroyed. The merging sucked them all. These shells were your hope, weren't they?" Ansem said, almost laughing.
"You... damn... YOU!" Alexander quickly got up and tried to hit Ansem's head. The sword was gone.
"Say this is your world. C'mon, say it. It'll still be a LIE!" Alexander's sword appeared at Ansem's hand. "You need this?"
"So this is it."
"Yes, it is. But I'm not going to kill you."
"What?" Sora and Maran asked, at the same time.
"Even the worse crimes have penalties that should be applied. You won't get rid of me easily. Let's get back." soon, handcuffs appeared at Alexander's hands.
The scenery began to change.
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...
...
A couple of days later...
"...And what can I say next? I'll keep saying 'I'm sorry' till I drop dead. But I believe we can work together. Who's with me?" Ansem was saying in an orlop, at Twilight Town's central square.
The crowd applauded and threw flowers at him. Besides him were Cid and Leon.
"Sir..." Cid said. "Your castle..."
Ansem and the whole crowd looked up. Hollow Bastion was flying in their direction.
"There's no reason to worry... our new ruler's castle will be stablished in here." an old man, Twilight's last president, said in the microphone.
"It can't be called 'Hollow Bastion', anymore. Not after all the improvements we've done on it." Leon said.
"You're right. But I already got a name for it..."
A few days later, the name stone was placed in the castle's gate. 'Capitubelle Bastion' it said, revealing the new name of the castle, a joint between Annabelle and Capitulyn, the two greatest loves of Ansem's existance.
"Sir..." Cid said.
"Oh, right. Here..." Ansem gave Cid a box. He opened it and it was filled with navigation gummies.
"Oh, yeah! Thank you so much. We'll now be able to explore some new areas of this newly formed world!"
"Just don't get into trouble, because I can't make distinctions when dealing with penalties."
"Hey, you forgot with who your talkin'? I'm the great Cid! The legend!" he raised his arms in pride.
Soon, Ansem was saying goodbye to all Cid's crew, which was entering in the Highwind.
"Come by, don't forget to come by!" Ansem was saying.
"We sure will. Good luck." Leon said.
"For you guys too!"
The airship was gone.
...
...
...
"Baa! Baa!" the little Hirosh was yelling around inside the airship.
"Shut the &$#& up you little freak! We're trying to fly in here!" Cid said.
Following the little Hirosh, came a little creature with the same stature of him, but with a white hair.
"Whoo-baa! Whooo!" the little Alexander was yelling.
"I told you, Leon, not to keep this one. And we got another one!" Cid said.
"Come on, don't you feel sorry for them?" Leon said, looking at both little creatures. "Isn't it conforting...? Knowing that the evil and powerful always fall, sooner or later? You'll always remember that when looking at these two."
The two half-heartlesses came out of the room running. It seemed they were fighting because of a piece of rubbish little Hirosh stole from little Alexander.
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...
...
"So we have only one world now. A world filled with all of the other worlds. It's good. Now we can go and come back without needing a gummi ship." Riku was saying.
"I agree. And I'm glad the ones who really got sucked by the merging were the shells Alexander was breeding. But, um, Riku..." Ansem stopped talking and got up from his chair.
"Riku..." Ansem began.
"Yes, Ansem?"
"Capitubelle Bastion's been too empty. Would you like to live here?" Ansem asked.
"What? But... why?"
"Alexander's been like a son to me, but after what he did... I don't think I can count him. You could be my helper, like he was." Ansem said.
"Well, I really didn't know where to go. I was thinking about looking for a pension but... I accept. It'll be excellent to be the ruler's assistant!" Riku said, excited.
"Excellent. You know how to get to the laboratory?"
"Well, you'll have to show me."
Ansem and Riku walked to the hall and Ansem showed him the hidden button that opened a hidden door which led to a very narrow stairway. The lab was there, the basement of the castle, accessed only throught the walls' in-between.
...
...
...
Clouds... the sea... the sun...
...Some places remained untouched...
...In a separated place.
...In a separated time.
...In a separated... circunstance.
Sora woke up in the beach in the island. After he woke up, he saw Kairi in surprise.
"Whoa! Gimme a break, Kairi!" he says, after Kairi giggled.
"Sora, you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here."
"No! This huge black thingswallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't... oh..."
"Are you still dreaming?"
"It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place? So bizarre..."
"Yeah, sure. Come on, get up. We gotta go to school." she said, helping Sora to get up.
...
...
...
Back there at that town...
...Some places remained untouched...
...In a separated place.
...In a separated time.
...In a separated... circunstance.
"Maran..." Rina said. "I thought you said you had the prisms we needed."
"Well, I kind of... um..."
"You forgot them?"
"I lost them!"
"I knew it!" she said, turning back. "But you know..." she said, turning again, "It doesn't matter..."
"Yes. It doesn't." Maran said, placing his hand on her shoulder.
...
...
...
...Some places remained untouched...
...But others don't...
Donald Duck and Goofy were walking in a trail when they found a letter on the floor. Their dog quickly came and got it.
"Hey, you moron, let me see that!" the duck said, already nervous.
"Hy-ak! Whose letter could it be?" Goofy said, taking it from Pluto's mouth.
It had a symbol on it. A head with two big round ears. Donald opened it up.
"Who's... King Mickey?" he asked.
"No clue. It must be some kids' playing. Come on, we got a lot to do. Today's our first day at work, we gotta get there early!"
"Yeah. A mercenary's job is always tiring. And a mercenary's first day is a lot more. MOVE, COME ON!" the duck began running, kind of competiting with Pluto who was also running. Goofy tried to tag along, running too.
The letter fell on the floor, opened.
...
...
...
"Wake up!"
...
Sora and Maran couldn't see each other anymore. Ansem couldn't either.
The scenery formed a familiar place. It was Hollow Bastion, but it was a bit different. It was normal, without the mechanics all over and the cracked down towers. A woman was climbing down the stairs of the hall.
"Why you... why? Why, you must ask." the white-haired man appeared.
"What are you saying? Who's this woman?" Sora asked.
It was like the previous times, they were seeing memories, but whose memories?
"...Ansem?" Maran called. "Do you remember this?"
Ansem appeared, then. He seemed to be trying to remember who that woman was.
"Annabelle... my... precious... Annabelle..." he said.
"This isn't possible!" the white-haired man screamed. "You weren't supposed to remember of any of this!"
"Take that!" Sora said, satisfied at the man's frustation. "Ansem! Show him! Show him you're the ruler! Make him... bow to you!".
Ansem looked at Sora and then to the man.
"Alexander... you spoiled brat..." he said, it seemed that was really the man's name because he struck back at that sound. "I never thought it would be bad for my family if you worked here, but you caused... too much trouble."
"YOU caused ME much trouble! I became a non-existant! Just like your wife! And your daughter! You are the crazy in here. Look..." he pointed at the image of Annabelle. "She's happy. She's looking around, thinking she has the best husband in the world, thinking you'll be happy forever, that you'll never harm neither her or your daughter. Well, she thought all wrong."
"I think the one who is forgetting things now is you." Ansem said, looking down. "Let's change!" he said, raising his arms, making the scenery change.
Alexander seemed to be in this one. He was a young white-haired man who was looking at a window.
"What were you looking at, Alexander? At the plan you plotted! You were trying to stab me in the back."
He was looking at a gibbet. It was in the castle's garden. In this gibbet, there was a doll painted in black, hung up.
"They said I was the one who accomplished this blasphemy. But it wasn't the whole plan."
Capitulyn came in.
"Alex... did you see what my father did?"
"Yes."
"Why was that?"
"I don't know. But I know you should run away with me."
"What? But I must stay!"
"Stay? You want to end up like that doll?"
"He's my father and I must stay. I'll... talk to him."
Alexander ran and hold her arm.
"Come with me, Capitulyn. Come with me." he said.
"I won't, Alex, please... leave me alone!"
"You'll... regret it..." he said.
"What would the ultimate plan be?" Ansem asked Alexander, then. "Let's see."
The images changed. Now it was the laboratory, a place which could be accessed only through the walls in-between. It was where Hirosh was made back a heartless.
Alexander was there.
"He's been acting weird but I was smart. He's studying the creatures without hearts. If I become one of them, I'll be able to... take advantage on him. Power blinds people." he said, entering a machine. "Ansem, we'll meet again!"
The machine closed its door and some sparks happened inside it.
"You were really crazy, Alexander." Ansem said.
The scene's Ansem came in.
"I gotta figure this out, now." he approached the machine and a big spark surrounded the area.
"Whaa--"
Some black balls of energy appeared in the whole room.
"...Darkness..."
"...Light..."
"...Non-existant..."
...
...
"...The door..."
"What??" the Ansem was saying.
A huge dark spark covered him and dragged him throughout the window, leaving a nasty dark trail.
Some seconds later, Ansem came down like a rock falling from the sky. He seemed different.
"The... power... ...the power!" he raised his hands, then, in commemoration.
"Daddy?" Capituly was at the door.
"Capitu... Capitulyn..." Ansem said. "Come in, darling."
Capitulyn was wearing a dark dress. She's always been a joyful girl, it didn't matter the color of ther clothes.
All became dark, then.
"You know what happened. First your daughter. Then your wife. In a eye blink, all your kingdom had vanished, all that remained was the castle itself. A closure of darkness... pure darkness." Alexander was saying. "It doesn't matter if I planned this all. You fell for it so you are guilty as well."
"What? What are you saying you brat? I gave you confort and food... and you do this? You were the cause of all that. I was trying to show my daughter and wife that I had the ruler position because I deserved, because I was wise, not because I took advantage on someone else, just like it had been rumored." Ansem, then, handed his staff.
"Ansem, you will end up being killed!" Maran yelled.
Ansem looked at Maran and Sora.
"Thank you. But this is my business." he said.
Sora and Maran nodded, agreeing with him.
"You wanna fight? We will fight." Alexander conjured a white and thin sword. "So be it!"
The fight was in a whole filled with parryings and provocations.
"You're forgetting another thing, Alexander..." Ansem said at a point of the battle.
"What, that you're stronger? Think again, old man!" Alexander struggled hard against Ansem, imprisioning him against a wall that seemed to have came up from nowhere.
"No. Uh..." Ansem was stuck, "You're forgetting that... I'M STILL YOUR CREATOR!" he said, pulling Alexander back really fast.
Alexander tried to get up but he couldn't. Ansem approached him.
"You entered in that machine and I studied you before being taken. I am no fool, I made notes, but I didn't need them. I have them all here." he pointed at his own head, "I'm sorry but I'll have to punish you."
"So do it! Punish me! Do it! Show me and all the existance that you're the strongest!"
Ansem approached even more.
"All your shells under formation have been destroyed. The merging sucked them all. These shells were your hope, weren't they?" Ansem said, almost laughing.
"You... damn... YOU!" Alexander quickly got up and tried to hit Ansem's head. The sword was gone.
"Say this is your world. C'mon, say it. It'll still be a LIE!" Alexander's sword appeared at Ansem's hand. "You need this?"
"So this is it."
"Yes, it is. But I'm not going to kill you."
"What?" Sora and Maran asked, at the same time.
"Even the worse crimes have penalties that should be applied. You won't get rid of me easily. Let's get back." soon, handcuffs appeared at Alexander's hands.
The scenery began to change.
...
...
...
...
A couple of days later...
"...And what can I say next? I'll keep saying 'I'm sorry' till I drop dead. But I believe we can work together. Who's with me?" Ansem was saying in an orlop, at Twilight Town's central square.
The crowd applauded and threw flowers at him. Besides him were Cid and Leon.
"Sir..." Cid said. "Your castle..."
Ansem and the whole crowd looked up. Hollow Bastion was flying in their direction.
"There's no reason to worry... our new ruler's castle will be stablished in here." an old man, Twilight's last president, said in the microphone.
"It can't be called 'Hollow Bastion', anymore. Not after all the improvements we've done on it." Leon said.
"You're right. But I already got a name for it..."
A few days later, the name stone was placed in the castle's gate. 'Capitubelle Bastion' it said, revealing the new name of the castle, a joint between Annabelle and Capitulyn, the two greatest loves of Ansem's existance.
"Sir..." Cid said.
"Oh, right. Here..." Ansem gave Cid a box. He opened it and it was filled with navigation gummies.
"Oh, yeah! Thank you so much. We'll now be able to explore some new areas of this newly formed world!"
"Just don't get into trouble, because I can't make distinctions when dealing with penalties."
"Hey, you forgot with who your talkin'? I'm the great Cid! The legend!" he raised his arms in pride.
Soon, Ansem was saying goodbye to all Cid's crew, which was entering in the Highwind.
"Come by, don't forget to come by!" Ansem was saying.
"We sure will. Good luck." Leon said.
"For you guys too!"
The airship was gone.
...
...
...
"Baa! Baa!" the little Hirosh was yelling around inside the airship.
"Shut the &$#& up you little freak! We're trying to fly in here!" Cid said.
Following the little Hirosh, came a little creature with the same stature of him, but with a white hair.
"Whoo-baa! Whooo!" the little Alexander was yelling.
"I told you, Leon, not to keep this one. And we got another one!" Cid said.
"Come on, don't you feel sorry for them?" Leon said, looking at both little creatures. "Isn't it conforting...? Knowing that the evil and powerful always fall, sooner or later? You'll always remember that when looking at these two."
The two half-heartlesses came out of the room running. It seemed they were fighting because of a piece of rubbish little Hirosh stole from little Alexander.
...
...
...
"So we have only one world now. A world filled with all of the other worlds. It's good. Now we can go and come back without needing a gummi ship." Riku was saying.
"I agree. And I'm glad the ones who really got sucked by the merging were the shells Alexander was breeding. But, um, Riku..." Ansem stopped talking and got up from his chair.
"Riku..." Ansem began.
"Yes, Ansem?"
"Capitubelle Bastion's been too empty. Would you like to live here?" Ansem asked.
"What? But... why?"
"Alexander's been like a son to me, but after what he did... I don't think I can count him. You could be my helper, like he was." Ansem said.
"Well, I really didn't know where to go. I was thinking about looking for a pension but... I accept. It'll be excellent to be the ruler's assistant!" Riku said, excited.
"Excellent. You know how to get to the laboratory?"
"Well, you'll have to show me."
Ansem and Riku walked to the hall and Ansem showed him the hidden button that opened a hidden door which led to a very narrow stairway. The lab was there, the basement of the castle, accessed only throught the walls' in-between.
...
...
...
Clouds... the sea... the sun...
...Some places remained untouched...
...In a separated place.
...In a separated time.
...In a separated... circunstance.
Sora woke up in the beach in the island. After he woke up, he saw Kairi in surprise.
"Whoa! Gimme a break, Kairi!" he says, after Kairi giggled.
"Sora, you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here."
"No! This huge black thingswallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't... oh..."
"Are you still dreaming?"
"It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place? So bizarre..."
"Yeah, sure. Come on, get up. We gotta go to school." she said, helping Sora to get up.
...
...
...
Back there at that town...
...Some places remained untouched...
...In a separated place.
...In a separated time.
...In a separated... circunstance.
"Maran..." Rina said. "I thought you said you had the prisms we needed."
"Well, I kind of... um..."
"You forgot them?"
"I lost them!"
"I knew it!" she said, turning back. "But you know..." she said, turning again, "It doesn't matter..."
"Yes. It doesn't." Maran said, placing his hand on her shoulder.
...
...
...
...Some places remained untouched...
...But others don't...
Donald Duck and Goofy were walking in a trail when they found a letter on the floor. Their dog quickly came and got it.
"Hey, you moron, let me see that!" the duck said, already nervous.
"Hy-ak! Whose letter could it be?" Goofy said, taking it from Pluto's mouth.
It had a symbol on it. A head with two big round ears. Donald opened it up.
"Who's... King Mickey?" he asked.
"No clue. It must be some kids' playing. Come on, we got a lot to do. Today's our first day at work, we gotta get there early!"
"Yeah. A mercenary's job is always tiring. And a mercenary's first day is a lot more. MOVE, COME ON!" the duck began running, kind of competiting with Pluto who was also running. Goofy tried to tag along, running too.
The letter fell on the floor, opened.
...
...