Chapter Two: Prologue
It has been a thousand years since the Legendary Key Master "saved" us all. No… That's not what happened. This is no fairy tale. This is the real world. And we all know, that in the real world, there are no happy endings. Nobody knows for sure the name of the Key Master. But everyone honors him. I seriously do not know why, he is the main reason why we're a colony now.
"We're all human" They all say when referring to our "savior".
Yeah, and those that rule us now are all Heartless. Wake up! Siru, Riku, Micko, or whatever the Key Master's name was is the reason why we're under control by this evil! Sheesh, I never knew people worshipped anti-heroes. In the end, the Key Master had two options: that the worlds be separated as they always were but this time with indestructible barriers that not even the Heartless could break, or that all the worlds combined and made one big planet without barrier—the Keyblade wielder chose the latter.
Yet, people honor him as a legend, as a myth, and as a hero. He was nothing but a wrongly chosen, naive, brat who thought of himself only when deciding the fate of us all. After the worlds were re-forged into one planet, it was only a matter of months before the Heartless re-grouped and prepared an incredibly large amount of armies to attack us. We had no chance, us humans eventually had to submit to their demands or we would all become Heartless. The leader of them all—Ansem—promised that humans and Heartless would co-exist peacefully as long as we obeyed him. Ansem then gathered all the Keyblades and became a God. In fact, he became the God. He was immortal, and he would spread his evil throughout the universe forever. Lord Ansem as he was called among his followers has since then become the Earth's sole ruler. Rumor has it he has devoted himself to live a quiet and desolated life in the castle he once ruled—Hollow Bastion.
But just because we are under Ansem's siege doesn't mean we humans haven't lived our lives. We live normally but we have to pay heavy taxes or our hearts shall be taken from us, but at least we can still have jobs and all as long as it doesn't conflict with Ansem's laws. That means that at least one Heartless will always be watching us from the shadows. There have been great inventions; well of course, it's been one thousand years. We now have great technology: advanced hovering vehicles called Flyers, hi-tech guns, and many more. Heartless have also evolved and taken more human shape but without features. Just a dark version of people with those bright, yellow eyes. So we also have "police" which are actually those evolved Heartless that make sure we don't break the rules of Ansem's dictatorship-like government.
There have been rebellions before, but all of them have been caught and have been executed or converted. There is no prison or jail; it's either conversion or execution to those who break the law. Depending on what Ansem's officials decide. My name is Nick Bolsey, and I am a 30-year-old historian. I teach at a university and I have vast knowledge of both eras: B.A.(Before Ansem) or pre-Heartless, and A.H.(After Heartless)or post-Ansem. This is the Heartless Colony Earth. Welcome to the year 1000 A.H.