Sanity's Silhouette

By Chris

Once again, sorry for the wait, it's only been two days or so, so no big deal. I've been a music freak for the past week and do nothing but listen to music, and my music muse is trying to help me write some more, it's helping a lil bit. Here goes.

Disclaimer: You're an idiot of your reading this. No shit I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I do own any character that is not part of the game, because I will have made them up.

Chapter 4

Demons

I laid down on the couch. It had been a long night. From going to being tortured in unending darkness to fighting whoever that guy was, Shin was it? I don't care. Then explaining to Riku and Kairi how I was here. I left out some of the more gruesome details, I didn't want them to feel sorry for me. I needed some sleep. I needed to get Riku and Kairi out of my head. Every time I saw them together it felt like someone was cutting wholes through my heart. Needless to say, it hurt. So I shut my eyes and drifted off into an uneasy rest…

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I got up startled and looked at my surroundings. I was in a large hallway, decorated with banners and crests. I saw a huge door, that was slightly open, and decided to go in to the room. As I walked in I saw pools of red. Pools of blood. Bodies. I looked around at all the bodies and realized I had met each one of these people. Tarzan, Beast, Aladdin, Jack…they were all here…dead. I looked down the long corridor and saw three more pools of blood, surrounding three bodies. As I crept towards them my mind raced…what happened here? Who did this? Was he/she still here? Was I in danger? I got close enough to see who the bodies were and gagged, slouching down to my knees. I felt a few cool tears streaming down my face. There in the middle, lay King Mickey, his key blade bent and broken. To his right lay Riku, his silver hair stained with blood, his sword shattered. Then the last figure. Her red hair seemed to blend in with the crimson river of blood. Her eyes were slightly open, giving a creepy feeling. It was Kairi. The tears flooded down now.

"They fought for a long time. But they didn't stand a chance. They were weak…" a voice behind me whispered.

I turned to see the man. He wore a large black robe with a hood covering his face, but a few pieces of silver hair flew out of it, as if caught in the wind.

"A…Ansem?" I questioned.

"Fool. He was weak. I am far greater than he was." he boomed back at me.

I drew my key blade.

"You killed my friends! YOU KILLED KAIRI!" I cried. Tears were dropping fast to the floor now. I clenched hard on the key blade, preparing to strike.

"FOOL! Hahahahah…you don't know…" he laughed.

"Don't know what!?" I screamed.

"I didn't kill them. I didn't lay a finger on any of them." he said.

"Who killed them then?" I screamed.

"Do you not know?" he asked.

"KNOW WHAT DAMNIT!? WHO KILLED THEM!?" I screamed at him, my veins pulsing, my anger flowing out of me in words. I couldn't hold back any longer.

"…You…" he whispered. My eyes nearly fell out of their sockets, my breathing shortened, I could feel my blood go cold.

"What did you say?" I asked.

"You killed them. You slaughtered every single one. Mercilessly."

"But how?" I cried.

He walked towards me and stared intently at me, seemingly slicing through my very soul with his piercing red eyes. He snatched my throat in his hands and clamped down tight. I tried to move my arms but for some reason I couldn't. I looked down at his hand. His hand was bony and spider like, pale as a ghost. Protruding from his fingertips were long white fingernails, sharp as knives, preparing to slice into my skin at any moment. I was at his mercy.

"Fool…" he whispered to me, his hooded face, shrouded in darkness, inches from mine, I could feel his icy breath on my face.

He brought his other hand to my face and traced a long diagonal line from over one of my eyes to under the other. Then he reached in his robes and pulled out a short shiny black dagger. The dagger itself seemed to swallow all light around it, engulfing it in a penetrating darkness. In one swift motion he brought it up and sliced through the line he had traced with his finger, (made a scar like Squall's!!!) and I fell to floor as he released me from his grasp and I clutched my face. I felt warm liquid seep through my fingers and drip onto the floor, making small splotches on the tile floor. I looked up at him and he seemed to be hovering over me ready to kill me.

"You are my puppet."

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I woke up in an instant, sweating was matted in my hair, dripping down my face, I felt cold. So very cold. That dream was so real. And that voice…I remembered that voice. It belonged to the darkness. I could never forgot that voice. It was the voice that haunted me in my sleep and all the time otherwise all during those years in darkness. It seemed so real. I reached up towards my face, and to my horror, I felt a long cut, filled with dry blood, running from over my left eye, to under my right one. My eyes widened in shock. It was real. I stood up quickly and reached for my chain that I had removed from the door and placed on the table in front of me the night before. I flung it over my neck and looked around. It seemed to be early. If I was putting them in danger by being here, no matter whether they forgot about me or not, I couldn't get them killed…I couldn't…kill them. I started towards the door and looked up towards the staircase.

Goodbye Riku…Goodbye Kairi…

I rushed out the door and into the heat of the morning sun. I covered my eyes as I made my way to a familiar place. The Secret Place. It was the only way out of here. I practically sprinted towards the hole. It wasn't until I was halfway there that I felt a darkness creep over me. I looked back and saw the hooded man.

"Come to me…my puppet…." he whispered.

And I listened.

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I reached out towards the hooded man, and began to walk slowly towards him, like a mindless puppet, which is precisely what I was. I couldn't think for myself, I couldn't move for myself, couldn't even see, hear, or feel for myself. I was almost to him when I heard someone call out my name.

"Sora what are you doing?" I heard Riku scream out my name. I felt my head turn to look at them, although I didn't make myself do this. I saw him and Kairi, Kairi hiding behind him, obviously confused. Last night when I had explained what had happened, I had learned that Kairi had indeed forgotten about me, but due to a few dreams she had had a few nights before I arrived, she had an idea of who I was, and what I had done for them. She was still confused though. Behind them stood their newfound guardian, Shin.

"He's coming with me and there is nothing you can do about it!" the hooded man screamed. I felt as though I were gagging, and I was still walking towards the man.

"Ri…Kai…ri…." I forced out of my mouth, it took all my strength and will to speak just those few mumbled words.

"Sora come with us!" Riku yelled.

"FOOL! I control him now! He is mine, my puppet!" the man screamed at Riku. Shin then stepped in front of Riku, as if to guard him.

"And who might you be? No matter, no one can challenge me." the hooded man screamed.

Shin was dressed in a dark black pair of robes with a hood, just like the man controlling me. He brought his hands up and removed the hood, revealing his dark black hair, long and shaggy, going down to his shoulders, tangled over itself in a shaggy way, giving way to his robes, seeming to merge in with his robes, both being black. His face was pale and gaunt, his nose slightly bent, and his lips twitched into a small, devious smirk. His eyes glowed a deep crimson red, and they seemed to remind me of my dream somehow.

"Y…y…you!?!? How…how did you get here!? I don't understand. My plan was perfect, flawless, how could you have known!?!?" the hooded man screamed.

"You think the master is blind!? He sees all. Anititheus, you fool, you cannot escape the master's gaze. He knows of your plan…" Shin spoke, so proud and confident.

"No matter, not even he can stop me now…brother…how foolish you are to try and stop the inevitable… till next time…" the hooded man spoke, as he dashed out and grabbed me by the throat and then we seemed to be swallowed by darkness once again. I felt myself thrown down, onto solid ground.

"Now you shall turn to darkness…" Anititheus spoke as if he were possessed by the darkness itself.

"No…they didn't forget me…" he whispered back.

"Then I shall change that…" he screamed as I felt a violent wind flash past my face, as an overwhelming pain seared through my mind. I was forgetting everything. All my memories were replaying, but they were being changed…they were different now…

"You are my puppet…."

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Okay so I wanted to make this chapter 5000 words long, but frankly, it's easier to do short chapters more often. How'd ya like it? I know, there are lots of holes I need to fill, and I'll do my best. ;D NOW REVIEW FOR GOD SAKES IM BEGGING YOU HAVE MERCY!!!! REVIEW MY MINIONS!

-Chris