Chapter 2
The Devil in White
They were falling, falling into darkness all their senses were deadened they all attempted to scream at some point in the fall but no sound came out of their lungs, it was as if the darkness absorbed the sound before it could even emerge. Somewhere in their fall they tried to reach out to each other, their fingers brushed for only a moment then they were pulled apart by small hands that ripped and tore at their clothes. For these poor children the darkness was complete, their would be no light at the center of this darkness, as their would be for a boy many years later. Time became distorted they had been falling for minutes, maybe years there was know way to know, each of the children in turn slowly slipped into darkness.
Hiru struggled through the darkness finally breaking through the fog of unconsciousness. It would have been better if Hiru had stayed unconscious, his body hurt all over, his lungs were on fire, and most distressing of all the darkness was still there, but now it was different chalky and sort sandy. Before there had been a large weight holding him down and now suddenly the weight was lifted. Though his brain told him not to he slowly struggled to his knees and immediately threw up. Wiping the his mouth with the back of his hand, he tried once again to rise to his feet and this time succeeded, he looked around quickly surveying the landscape,…… if you could call it that. He stood on a plain but not just any plain it was completely gray,….. and flat, there was no horizon just more gray, a chalky gray sand swirled around feet. He rubbed his eyes hoping this was all a dream but it wasn't. Suddenly he was staring up at the gray sky looking around to see what had caused his fall, he saw his smaller brother's prone form lying in the sand. He leaned over his brother's form and then he heard a small groan escape his lips. His clothes were ripped to shreds, his shirt was in tatters, his pants had seemed to fair better, looking at himself, his clothes were in much the same state except for the cloak he had been given for his birthday, it seemed unharmed. Now assured that his brother was okay he went stumbling through the gray dust in search of his sister.
He found her a few yards off almost completely covered by the gray dust . After dusting off some of the dust he began to shake her quietly whispering her name. Stumbling up behind Alphonze Haru said pointing "look brother… someone's coming" and indeed someone was, a black speck was approaching but it strides were taking it across what seemed to be miles of the gray sand.
Suddenly the black dot was no longer a speck but a person who came to stand in front of them in a few of his elongated strides. This was Ansem, not the Ansem a boy named Sora would one day meet, but a much younger version newly recruited to the dark side. " So these are the people who intrude on my plane" said the strange man bedecked in white. " Who… who…. are you?" Said Alphonze moving in front of his siblings. "Who I am? Well I am Ansem emissary of darkness, of course" a sardonic grin lighting his face. "Where is this place and what do you want from us?" ventured Haru rushing out from behind his brother. "Ahhh… two very good question young child you are on the plane of Gray, simply and to answer you second question I'm here to take your hearts!" With a simple flick of his wrist chains made of pure darkness sprang for the gray sand latching around Haru's ankles and wrists. "No!" Alysandra leaped forward to help her brother but to no avail because similar chains sprang from the sand and wrapped around her ankles and wrists. When the chains leapt from the sand Alphonze deftly dodged them leaping to the side. " Ahh a tricky one are we?" Ansem intoned with an amused smirk "Noir thundara!" A black lightning streaked out from the gray horizon striking the unsuspecting Alphonze. His body crumpled to he ground in a limp pile. The black lightning could still be seen flickering over Alphonze's body, suddenly the black lightning sprang from his body striking both Alysandra and Haru rendering both of the other children unconscious. The chains now snaked out of the ground wrapping around Alphonze and propping him up.
"Now for the those hearts" said Ansem with a small chuckle. With a rapid succession of signs all three of the children's hearts were drawn out of their body's perfect in every way crystalline and perfectly shaped. Ansem moved closer to the hearts examining each one in turn. "These first two," grasping the hearts of Alphonze and Alysandra "are pure and clean perfect for my plans, but this last one is not" the heart rotated 180 degrees showing a small black vein running through the heart of the crystalline heart. "The heartless can have him" said Ansem with utter contempt, placing Haru's heart back inside his body. I t was then that the shadow heartless came materializing from the dust to converge on the unfortunate boy. They piled all over him each trying to get in prime position for the boys heart. Suddenly the mound of heartless froze, it then began to tremble violently. Then as suddenly as it started it stopped, Ansem turned back to examining the two crystalline hearts. Until, the mound of heartless burst apart with a resounding boom scattering small chunks of heartless everywhere. In the center of a large blast radius stood Haru. This was not the poor afraid boy of moments before but one much more powerful. A strange fire, not orange but black covered his small hands. Touching his skin the dark fire didn't seem to burn him but fed off him. The chains that held him before had dissipated he now rushed at Ansem and began beating his fists on his white coat. As the dark fire began burning small holes in the coat Haru began to yelling " Give! Me back! My family!" the fire spreading to encircle his eyes. Ansem contemplated the small boy burning holes in one of his favorite trench coats. "Maybe I can use you, but you shall need a name… hhhmmmm I like this fire of yours so you will aptly be named Blaze, yes I quiet like that, Blaze" Ansem said placing his hand on the small boy's head the eyes that stared back at Ansem were blank and vacant he saw nothing knew nothing was nothing putty to be molded.
An: well... well... welll... this is Kama andthis isthe end of chapter 2. Yay me! As you've probably geussed this story starts much before the actual events of both kingdom hearts storys, but no worries we'll be gettin back up to speed soon I'm going to skip a lot of unimportant stuff and get back to more important things next chapter! well I'm signin off now see ya next chapter!