Disclaimer: I dun own anything in Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, and whatever else may pop up. Umm, please review this story nicely, or just review it. I would like to know that this isn't just for my boredom. I thought of something. Even though the girl who Riku will (hopefully) be in love with won't play any part for a while, I decided to make her very morose, or at least, more serious than Riku.
Sora: "Is that possible?"
Yeah, I am like that a lot.
Sora: "Really?"
Yeah, whatever. Now to this story.
"Now, open the door." He did so, and stepped through into a blinding light.
"When you walk away, you don't hear me say…" (That's all I can remember now)
"Gahh! (Very sleepily) Who, what, when, where, how, why? Ugh, I feel like I've been run over. (Notices a scratch where Maleficent burnt him) Weird. Looks like a scratch from a burn. A burn… Whoa! Damn, that was a weird, 7:10!!!!!!" He leaped out of bed and into his usual early-morning activities, eating, washing, dressing, you know how you wake up for school. As he walked out of his house, well on time, he saw a shadow. Not his, a heartless. Now, he was very much still asleep, so he just let instinct take over. The shadow was crushed painfully under a very heavy rolling backpack. At school, nothing really happened until lunch, aside from the regular classes and all that.
"Munch, munch, (with mouth full) hullo."
"Hello. Still stuffing your face every time you come here?"
"(Smiles happily and nods)"
"Geez, Acronos, you're gonna choke or something."
Acronos: "(Swallows food) nah, this is slow for me."
"… (Kinda freaked out) Okay… Anyway, have you seen those reports on the news?"
Acronos: "Reports? Oh yeah, on those freaky shadow creatures?"
"I'm amazed, I didn't think you watched the news."
Acronos: "I usually don't, but my parents have the news on in the morning on the radio, so I heard it there."
"I should've known. Oh well, weird huh? Last I heard they seemed to be multiplying near certain areas."
Acronos: "Hmm… There's something nagging me in the back of my head… Oh yeah. I had an extremely weird dream last night. In it, I made some choices pertaining to weapons, fought some of these shadows, and even Maleficent from Kingdom Hearts."
"You have really weird dreams. Did you smoke something?"
Acronos: "No. I don't smoke. You know I also hold my breath when passing smokers. (No offences to any that do smoke, but I do hold my breath when I pass someone smoking, either that, or I go into a coughing fit). Besides that, in my dream, Maleficent burnt me, and I have this healed burn mark here, and no, it wasn't there yesterday."
"Whatever, good for you. Hey, did it have those princess platforms too, (snicker)."
Acronos: "Nope, platforms had swords, scythes, and staffs."
"Well, at least I don't have to call you Sora, haha!"
Acronos: "Shut up. (Sigh) Another long day."
"Anyway, did you know? …" Their conversation switched to normal topics that were discussed during every lunch, as well as the most important: eating. This proceeded until all the lights went out.
"A power outage?"
Acronos: "Maybe the generator broke again."
"The flashing lights always creep me out."
Acronos: "Same here. (The lunchroom has windows pointing into the halls and Acronos looks out of one) What are those things moving out there?"
"Oh I don't know, maybe the teachers!"
"No, the forms are too small."
"Why can't you see for yourself, are you going blind? Hey wait, I can't see much farther than a few feet!"
Acronos: "I can barely see out the window. The only things I can see are these extremely weird flashlights."
"You mean the glowing yellow things?"
Acronos: "Yeah. If I didn't know better, I'd say they were eyes of some sort."
"But they'd never allow animals that big in the school."
Acronos: "True. That's what puzzles me." (By the way, at my school, we did have an electrical generator blow a fuse at one point, and there are some battery – powered lights in my cafeteria, so it was slight pandemonium)
"Hey, what's that?" Though few could see well enough to discern anything, Acronos could tell that there was a person running through the halls at top speed, trying desperately to get somewhere, anywhere. The person managed to ram through the door and lock it behind them, followed by collapsing on the floor. Acronos decided to help due to his ability to see better than most others. Once he reached the man, he tried to rouse him, and to get some teachers over to where he was.
"Ugh. Get… Students…Out of… The school… Evacuation." Was all the man could say before he either passed out or died.
Acronos: "Damn."
Teacher: "Alright, you heard him. Full evacuation! Proceed to the exits calmly!" The students had done fire drills before, so there would be no pandemonium, however, the man lying on the floor as if dead was not a good omen, and frightened some of the students. One teacher checked a door to find it locked, so everyone proceeded to the other exit.
"This is really scaring me. I hope we get sent home."
Acronos: "I don't like this. It's too easy. With that guy unconscious there must have been –"
"Unconscious? He looks dead to me."
Acronos: "I checked his pulse, he had one. Either way, if he was knocked out, then something did it to him. Judging by his size, shape, and physical fitness I'd say something big. Also, having one exit means that we'd be like sheep to the slaughter if something were outside, due to lack of escape routes, and the limited space and high quantity of people in this lunchroom. Another thing, what did happen to those animals outside?"
"… You do realize that you sounded exactly like a military strategist, don't you."
Acronos: "I do that in these situations. Hmm, I'd say we will hear several screams in two seconds from, now. (Two seconds, exactly, later) (Screaming is heard) Yep."
"Ahh! Strange creatures are killing people outside and taking their hearts!"
"Okay, this is now officially too much Kingdom Hearts for my good"
Acronos: "I feel something heavy on my waist. (Gets ready to punch someone behind him until he checks the area to find a sheathe) What the? (Unsheathes knife from dream) Sweet. (Heartless charge) My turn."
(Warning. I will now attempt to have plenty of violence against the heartless and several human deaths/ having their hearts stolen. Anyone who doesn't want to read about that, you are warned. If it's not violent enough, you are warned and asked to help. Deep breathe)
Acronos proceeded to squeeze through all the people running in the opposite direction with relative ease, even though there was barely enough room for a mouse. As soon as he reached the exit he saw shadows, soldiers, large bodies, a defender, several darkballs, air soldiers, red nocturnes, blue rhapsodies, yellow operas, and green requiems.
Acronos: "Damn." He proceeded to launch a simple rapid assault on the defender, while trying to hit the green requiems with aerial kicks. A volley of stabs to the back caused the defender to swing around. Acronos noticed a green requiem well out of his reach, about to cure the defender.
He decided to use the defender's attack to his advantage by propelling and using the momentum to fly directly into the green requiem with a powerful backhand stab to the heartless symbol. He then spun with his knife out, catching several aerial enemies off guard and ripping them a new one, literally. After that, he used a wall to bounce directly towards the defender again and unleashed an extremely powerful stab to its back, slashed upwards while still within the heartless, put his hands on the outside of the open wound, and kicked the back of the defender's shield to hit its wound with every ounce of momentum and pain he had in the attack. This caused it to die instantly, and Acronos to be off balance for a second. This was all the heartless needed.
An air soldier hit him with an uppercut to the jaw, followed by a soldier hitting him with a kick, while he flew, all the spell casters hit him at once, and was supposed to be finished with a shadow slicing him into the ground, but they didn't take into consideration that he could take as much as he dished out without flinching much.
The shadow died from a stab to the chest, then being sliced upwards, which Acronos used to create a spin in midair, which was stopped by a large body's stomach. It then proceeded to swing its hands at him, which Acronos countered and used by simply grabbing onto the hand swinging back, bouncing off a wall, and giving the large body a stab it wouldn't forget. He knew that it might berserk at any second, so he propelled himself into a landing and hit it with a powerful slash, increased by his standing on the ground. This sent it flying into the other heartless before it could berserk.
Remembering his dream, Acronos cast fire on the blue rhapsodies, and used a long-range fist to get rid of the other spell casters. He noticed just in time the berserk large body racing towards him. He knew he was a little better at defense than attack by nature, so he didn't mind blocking its attack and landing one of his own.
The rest of the large bodies attacked as well, with a foolish air soldier trying to get in on the action. One jump followed by a powerful spinning slash took care of the air soldier and put the large bodies into berserk at once. They charged as one and were taken out with the same tactic as before. Now Acronos was set on the offensive and ran in, stabbing and slashing as many heartless as he could. The instant deaths of the shadows was accomplished, aside from a smart one that went into its flat state, by this, and the almost as quick deaths of the soldiers was taken care of with a spinning slash, and the other shadow was destroyed when, while ducking an air soldier's attack, Acronos impaled the ground and got rid of it. A quick tally showed that he was up against six air soldiers and two darkballs.
Acronos: "Too easy." It was. The darkballs became shadow and came in for him, while he just stood there, guarded their attacks, and wiped them out with ease.
Acronos: "You know, in the game, I've always hated you air soldiers, so now it's time for a little revenge." Needless to say, they were dispatched with extreme prejudice. One stayed behind, however, and decided to go for easier prey. Instead of the simple, no-blood, way of taking the heart shown in Kingdom Hearts, this was a simple, "reach in and rip it out", style of doing it. Aside from the heart being red and shining like in the game, it was the same as if it were blunt, including a huge amount of blood. Maybe it had no energy left to absorb the heart with energy, maybe it was lazy, and it didn't matter. All that mattered to Acronos was that he'd failed to save a life. As the thoughts of the loss that the child's parents would feel, at how this was on his shoulders, piled onto him, rage began building inside him. Strangely enough, it focused onto his left hand, which began to glow silver. As he thought of the injustice of the event, his hand burst in silver flames, the symbol now clearly visible on his hand. His power increased dramatically until he just couldn't take it anymore. The air soldier looked at him, glanced at his blazing hand, and attempted to gasp. Instinct took over Acronos and he ran at it, hand still up, and jumped, grabbed its head, crushed it like a grape, (yuck, all that blood!) and seemed to suck the heartless' dark heart into his hand. He didn't know it at the time, but this absorption of heartless energy gave him a boost in power and energy. For the moment, all that he knew, and needed to, was that it killed, and he couldn't do too much of it.
Acronos: "Everyone, outside. (lights turn back on) (thinking) that must mean the heartless are gone from this area" Everyone proceeded to leave through the nearest exit.
"Damn! That was awesome! I've never seen anyone fight like that! Where'd you learn?"
Acronos: "I guess my dream and a bit of strategy helped. Hold on."
Teacher: "Quiet! I have just called the busses on my cell phone. They will be here soon. I know you wish to see what's going on, so stick near Acronos, since he can fight. By the way, why did you have that knife in the first place?"
"Hey, he didn't have it this morning, and I don't think he could have put it in his locker without someone saying something."
Acronos: "Thanks. Anyway, I don't really know. It just appeared."
Teacher: "Well, I'll accept that. Everyone stick close."
Acronos: "Be ready, look around, and be prepared to run." On the way to the front of the school, Acronos dispatched a heartless or two, and even let a few strong kids kill a shadow after he'd wounded it, just to regulate morale. When they reached the front of the school, there was a collective gasp. Swarms of shadows dominated the ground, making it look exactly like it was made of them. This is where the busses would stop, and Acronos knew there were limits to how much they could run over.
Acronos: "Guess it's back to bloodshed for me." He ran in and attacked the shadows with basically anything. It was so crowded that he didn't require any strategy whatsoever aside from hacking and slashing madly. The shadows couldn't really attack; they were way too crowded to move much. Eventually the sea of shadows became a sea of hp balls. Acronos collected them all because he felt like it.
He told everyone to wait outside, a bit in front of the school, while he went in to see what he could do. (I'm lazy so I'm not going to write as much) He was greeted with swarms of heartless. Again, way too crowded to move. Acronos thanked his luck for the extremely confined (in terms of attack) school and waded in, slaughtering everything he saw.
He absorbed enough heartless on the way to become stronger, and used their dark hearts' energy to fire blasts of energy at the other heartless, incinerating them instantly. Unfortunately for him, all this killing freed up some room. When there were enough heartless dead, he was pitted against an invisible, which was formed from many shadows combining into one. It charged, slashed, blocked, and used its blasts. Upon getting tired of the battle, and getting hurt, Acronos taunted for it to try and get him with its best physical attack. What can I say, the heartless may be strong, but they don't have a brain, literally! A downward stab to the head and a few well – placed slashes to where the spine might be got rid of it without much trouble.
All the heartless tried to crush him by squeezing together, so he couldn't attack either. Acronos expected this and jumped back out the door. He then waded right back in and systematically exterminated heartless. This is demonstrated but cutting a path up to one hallway, then mowing down anything in his path without any resistance.
This was a simple game of strategy right now, and Acronos soon got a bit bored with it. By the time he'd cleared the school of the heartless, he was bored stiff. Then he thought of what could have happened if he didn't do this and became happy again. He knocked on all the doors, even the bathrooms, to get all the students outside.
The busses arrived a little bit after freeing the students. Acronos couldn't be happier; he had been swarmed by something other than heartless, and possibly worse. Every fangirl in his school had tried to get him because in the outfit that he'd gained in the dream, (yes, killing those heartless caused him to change to that form), with his knife, he looked extremely badass. Add to that the fact that he'd saved everyone's lives, he had to stay on a ledge to not get caught. On the bus, after he'd convinced the girls not to attack him, (sorry if this sounds corny, I personally think it does, but, what can I say, shrugs my fingers are doing the typing, not my brain, and/or consciousness), he showed off his knife, without letting anyone hold it for fear of someone getting hurt. It looked rather interesting. I'll describe it for you. It was in a broadsword style, looked a tad like a carving knife, and was the exact length of Acronos' shoulder to tip of middle finger. It's handle looked like Riku's sword's handle, except shorter. The blade was black, with a bit of red outlining the edges, (not from blood), and a silver line in the middle. There was also a small square hand guard that was gold. Before the end of the bus ride someone asked about his hand. He looked at it, and realized that Jath did not explain things very well. True, it was the Kingdom Hearts symbol, (the weird heart and crown) with swords crossing in front of it, but there were more details. There was a golden door behind it. The heart was red. The blades of the swords were gold. The crown was white on the left, gold in the middle, and black on the right. It also seemed to be pulsing with power.
Eventually he got home, to find both his parents there, waiting.
Acronos: "Mom, Dad? What are you guys doing home this early?"
Mom: "We were worried about you, and our workplace had those strange creatures beginning to swarm it. We had to escape."
Dad: "Everyone got lucky and left before any damage could be done. But what about you?"
Acronos: "The school was almost taken over by shadows and other Kingdom Hearts, things. I took them all out with this knife that I got in a dream I had last night, as well as this symbol for absorbing them. I managed to save almost everyone in my school."
Mom + Dad: "WHAT!!!"
Mom: "You could have been killed!"
Dad: "Who knows what might have happened!"
Acronos: "I know, but would you rather have me sacrifice everyone in the school?"
Mom + Dad: "…"
Acronos: "Hey, don't worry, I didn't even get more than a few scratches."
Dad: "You were lucky."
Acronos: "No, I was strategic, plus, my enemies exploded into health when defeated."
Mom: "Oh. Well… Does anyone want to eat something? I think fighting shadows must've made you hungry, dear."
Acronos: "Now that you mention it…" So they made and ate a big meal. While they were eating, they didn't notice the heartless multiplying like insects outside.
Mom: "That was a good meal. Hey, what's that rumbling?"
Acronos: "Huh? Wait! I knew there was something nagging me! Heartless!" By now, there were several hundred heartless in front of Acronos' house. They also had plenty of room to move. They were mostly invisibles, angel stars, defenders, wizards, air soldiers, and a few new heartless that the computer called rifleks and egotists. Rifleks were rather small, but were composed of guns. Egotists appeared to be carved out of green and black stone, had the appearance of giant bats with arms, and carried scythes on chains and a wickedly curved dagger. Acronos was almost out the door when his parents yelled to stop.
Acronos: "Huh?"
Mom: "You don't have to fight."
Dad: "Discretion is the better part of valor. Plus, the heartless can't get in."
Acronos: "Thoughts like that have destroyed many people. They will surround this house, break through the wood with ease, and our chances of defense are almost nothing."
Mom: "But they extend as far as we can see! You won't be able to beat them!"
Acronos: "I don't plan to. I just plan to keep them from surrounding the house."
Mom: "But!"
Acronos: "In this case, the best defense is a good offense."
Dad: "Why don't we call the army or something?"
Acronos: "We are an isolated town. Do you think they won't have bigger things to worry about besides one place? They probably won't be able to arrive for weeks. We'd be dead and rotting by then."
Mom + Dad: "…"
Acronos: "I'll be fine. They can't advance too much right now. I'll just take out the front lines."
Dad: "But those gunners."
Acronos: "Can't reach me well enough to hit me."
Mom: "Acronos, we love you, we don't want to loose you."
Acronos: "I love you guys too, and that's why I wanna do this."
Mom: "But… (Starts to cry)"
Acronos: "I'm sorry. But, hey, I'll be back soon, I'm not going to die so easily."
Dad: "We're rooting for you, son."
Acronos: "Thanks, dad. Umm, can you guys hold on to my swords? If I fail, then you need to defend yourselves."
Dad: "Sure. We'll see you later."
Acronos: "Goodbye." With that he left to face his destiny as the true keyblade master. Beginning with the deaths of all the heartless on his world!
So sappy! And I love it! Or at least, it was pretty damn good for an author with a heart shielded by darkness.
Riku: "Wow. Not bad. Seen better though."
Yeah, yeah. I know. However, this is good for me, so I like it.
Sora: "He never said he didn't like it."
Yeah, and neither did I.
Sora: "Okay."
Please review! I like writing, but if no one reads, then I get a bit tired of it. I have a story in the FFX section that no one reviewed, aside from someone commenting on its sloppiness. I didn't know how to properly upload! Either way, I have the second chapter typed, but I never published it. It had a decent title, unlike this story. Anyway, please review! Anything, aside from pointless criticism, is accepted. Even anonymous reviews! Please, I don't want to kill this story, especially with all the good ideas I have, including expanding the teaser in Kingdom Hearts! (By the way, if you care, the guy in the teasers' keyblades were Oblivion and Oathkeeper. I have Kazaa, downloaded the movie, and paused it several times to see what the keyblades were. They also have some freaky dialogue in all those flashes. I'll include as much as I can if I continue. Stress on the if.)
