Akurei-Shinzo: Thanks for the reviews! Here's chapter 2! Hope you enjoy it! Also I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any other anime/manga that appear in here, except for a few characters from some of my own series which I hope to get published! So please R&R! Oh, and the mystery character? I'm not telling! That is, until I feel like it! (Sticks out tongue) So keep reading!
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Kingdom Hearts II: Shadow of Hearts
Chapter 1: Welcome to Shin City!
Riku groaned and blinked his opened, above him was some sort of strange light. Not light from a candle, but it was in the ceiling. He had seen in in various worlds he had visited but he never knew what they really were. He closed his eyes again and sat up in the bed, when he opened them again a pair of crystal blue eyes stared into his sea colored ones.
The stare startled Riku for a while, but after getting over the shock he discovered that the eyes belonged to an eleven year old girl. Her hazel colored hair was tied back neatly into a ponytail and her eyes looked worriedly at him.
"Hey, are you alright?" asked the young girl.
"Yeah, just a little surprised that's all…" said Riku. The girl smiled at him, for some reason this smile reminded him of Kairi's smile. It was both sweet and innocent.
"Well since you're awake I guess we can get acquainted. My name is Amaya, Amaya Akiyama."
"Riku."
"No last name?"
"What's a last name?"
"Oh yeah, you're from another world! I guess your world doesn't have last names does it?"
"Yeah…wait! How do you know I'm from another world?!"
"That's easy, the heartless have been devouring worlds again. Right now there are fewer survivors coming here. I'm a survivor myself, I escaped my world with Satoru and Hitomi. You'll meet them later probably."
"But, weren't the Heartless defeated already by the Keybearer?"
"Yes, it's been a year of peace, but that Keybearer has vanished now."
"He's what?" asked Riku.
"Gone, like the first Keybearer, King Mickey. We don't really know what has happened to both of them. So the Heartless are back."
Riku looked back down at the bed coverings. Sora and King Mickey have both vanished? He saw King Mickey disappear in a cloud of Heartless, but what happened to Sora? What had happened in the past year while being trapped within Kingdom Hearts? Amaya must have saw his worried face.
"Is something wrong?" she questioned him in a quiet, peaceful tone.
"No, but who's going to stop the Heartless?"
"The true Keyblade Master of course, don't you know the legend? There is suppose to be a Keybearer that bears two Keyblades. He's the one who's suppose to stop them."
Riku remained silent, that Keybearer couldn't be him. It just can't be. Why would it choose someone that had once given themselves to the darkness so easily?
"By the way, welcome to Shin City."
"Shin City?"
"Shin means heart, didn't you know?"
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Dr. Shuichiro was a kind doctor, he was around the age twenty-one with raven hair and dark eyes. Amaya had told him that the doctor would offer him a place to stay if he had asked so now he was rooming with two angels, Kohaku and Hisui, two devils, Koryu and Kokuyo, and Koryu's servants Ruri and Hari. There was also a couple of other guests in the building, but they chose to keep to themselves. Shuichiro had said not to get near them while they were in a heated argument, which happened around every five seconds.
Riku sat on the bed and the two Keyblades materialized in his hands. Why did he receive them? Why did they choose him? His thoughts were disturbed when a rock came flying out of the wall and angry voices followed. 'This is good time to get out for a walk' thought Riku. Making the Keyblades disappear he got up and left the house.
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The rain came in sheets and buckets now, Riku's boots splashed in the rain as he continued to walk down the streets that had tall buildings on both sides. Their lights were a bright neon color and they light the way as Riku walked towards a sky scrapper. Why had he come here? It was as though he was drawn there. He looked up and saw Kairi's face on the screen at the top of the building. 'Kairi?' thought Riku. What was she doing there?
Also, on the top of the building was another person, a boy about Riku's age. He too, had silver hair that came to his shoulders. The boy wore a black jacket and for some strange reason, a blindfold over his eyes. If he could see, then he would be staring down at Riku.
Riku quickly turned his attention to the multiples of Heartless that began to grow out of the ground and surround him. Riku whipped out the two Keyblades and spun them around, ready to take down all of the Heartless. The boy on the sky scrapper looked up into the sky and raised both arms, the clouds parted as the stars began to fall at an incredibly rate. Since the stars represented each world that meant the worlds' hearts were dying! An outline of a heart surrounded Riku, driving back several surprised Heartless. Could that boy have some sort of connection with the Heartless?
"Where's Sora?" asked Riku. He had a feeling that this stranger had some clues to where his friend might be. The stranger didn't answer, so Riku asked another question. "Who are you?"
"The source of all Heartless," the boy replied in a dark, emotionless voice. Then the Heartless began to advance towards Riku, Riku charged through the Heartless at used both Keyblades to cut away at the shadows. They were small Heartless, a mixture of a Shadow and the Darkside Heartless. After amputating several Heartless' heads from their bodies, Riku paused to look up at the boy.
The stranger continued to stare in Riku's direction, Riku then jumped past all the Heartless and began to run up the building, cutting away at any Heartless that stood between him and the other boy. But even as some Heartless fell, others took their place. As Riku nearly reached the top of the building the boy jumped from the top of the building. As he past Riku while he was falling he smirked at him and fell into the darkness created by the Heartless. With that, the 'source of all Heartless' disappeared into the shadows.
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Riku stood alone in the rain, there was nothing that remained of that boy or the Heartless in the street. Then he heard flapping above him, he looked up to see a phoenix land before him. It was crimson with golden feathers running from it's head through the back of it's neck. It's emerald eyes shone brightly in the night. Then from the alleyway came a gigantic wolf, it was a silver color, and it had a sky blue gemstone on it's forehead. The wolf's golden eyes where like two full moons. With a flash of light the creatures were immediately transformed into two boys.
Where the phoenix stood there was now a boy about Riku's age, he had raven hair and emerald green eyes. He wore a dark jacket, white shirt, and jeans. The wolf had seemed to turn into a boy about the same age as the other one, and he had long sky-blue hair. His golden eyes remained the same and he also still had wolf ears and a tail. He wore a black kimono and had one left wing that was silver. Also, he had a katana that was sheathed at the moment.
"So, you're the Keyblade Master," said the phoenix. "You're right all along Hitomi."
"I told you so, Ryuseiu," said Hitomi. Ryuseiu shot a glare at him.
"When I'm in my human form call me Satoru."
"Aren't you the guys Amaya was talking about?" asked Riku. The two of them turned to face Riku.
"Yeah," said Ryuseiu/Satoru.
"What about it?" asked Hitomi.
"Could you answer some of my questions?" asked Riku.
"Yes and no," replied Hitomi.
"We may have the ability to answer your questions, but we're not the ones you should ask," said Satoru, his eyes flashing.
"Then who should I ask?" asked Riku.
Before he even finished asking the question the two boys transformed back into their previous forms and disappeared into the stormy night, leaving Riku alone with his thoughts and questions…
Remember this advice, Keybearer. Sometimes to find the light, you must look within the deepest part of the darkness…
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Akurei-Shinzo: So how do you like it? So far the only known manga I have here is Wish. Amaya, Ryuseiu/Satoru, and Hitomi are all from my story Ryuseiu-The Phoenix Rises. I hope you're enjoying the fanfic so far! Please R&R! More to this story will be revealed, just be patient and review! (Ryuseiu is going to be another story I put up later) Also, just to let you know I made up that city, Shin City. Shin means heart in Chinese and Japanese! Oh, and the mystery character will be mentioned in the next few chapters. Can you guess who he is?