Last chapter was rather short (I only realise this now, after looking back...not the most perceptive person am I?)...I swear this chapter shall be longer! (and how many times have I said this?) Anyway...not much to say is there?
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. But I do own...some downloaded files related to KH2? Oh wait...I don't own those either...-sniff-
On with the fic!
Twilight
"How lovely are the portals of the night/When stars come out to watch the daylight die--"Twilight, Thomas Cole.
He slammed the door behind him. I could hear several banging sounds where the heartless were trying to get in, but nothing more.
"We should be safe in here for now," he said. "Lucky I found you in time. Who knows what would have happened if the heartless had killed you. It certainly would have been a problem."
"Who are you? What do you want from me?" Please not someone else who will use me.
"I'm Riku. And I want...to help you understand. Maybe confirm a few things as well." Riku...? Now where had I heard that before?
"Riku? You're from Destiny Islands!" He looked older, and the blindfold masked part of his face, but it was still him.
"It's true then. You are Sora's nobody." I looked at him blankly. "Sit down. I might as well explain everything." He gestured at two chairs that I could have sworn weren't there before. I sat down, suddenly all too aware of the scratches the heartless gave me. But they wouldn't stop me from finding answers.
"This world--these worlds--once were one. One large world, made of light. Something like that could never last. People began to get greedy and want the light all for themselves. And so, darkness was born." Riku sounded like he was reciting this all from a textbook that he had learnt off by heart.
"The darkness swallowed many hearts and much light, and had spread far. The world disappeared into darkness. However, in the hearts of children there still remained a spark of light, though a mere shadow of it's former glory. The children rebuilt the world, but it was in many small fragments, spread through the sky. Stars were born, and each star is a world, though not the one world it used to be a part of.
"However, the darkness was still strong. It conquered many worlds and the stars began to disappear from the sky. No one knows when the heartless were born, but we do know they are creatures born of darkness. They fed upon the hearts of people, and the hearts of the worlds, and for every person they took a heart away from, their number increased. But this wasn't all they created when they consumed a heart.
"The heart may have been gone, and that emptiness created another heartless, but the body and soul became something else.
"They became the nobodies."
A sickening feeling had formed at the bottom of my stomach. Is that what I am?
"The nobodies are the third power. The heartless are of darkness. Those with an uncorrupted heart are of light. And the nobodies are those who walk the road inbetween. The creatures of twilight.
"But you...you are different. No heartless has ever regained its heart, but Sora did.You were already there, already alive. So, you became something more. The first creature of twilight with a heart. But not just any twilight creature. Something born of Sora. Which makes you so important. More than you could ever know."
I felt like I was falling through an endless blackness. Finding out that essentially you aren't human will do that to a person.
Finally I voiced the question that had been bothering me for so long.
"Who is Sora?"
"Sora is..." Riku paused, and I could almost hear the gears in his head grinding together to find a good way to phrase this to me. "He's the person that shares the memories that you have. And he's the keyblade master of light."
"Keyblade?"
"Three keyblades were formed when the worlds were on the point of destruction. First was light, to bring the world back from darkness and to lock the hearts of the worlds and protect. Then came darkness, which unlocked the inner darkness in a being's heart. No one knows when the third power came into the picture, or even what it does.
"In other words, tt's a weapon that is given to one pure of heart. At least, that's how it works for the keyblade of light. Yours is different because you are...what you are.
"But...no one can force you to do anything, though they try. So you must decide for yourself what you want to do."
I had wanted a choice, and at last I had one. But what to do with that choice?
"I want...to protect Sora. He is the one that's meant to be saving the worlds, right? So that's most important. And then..."
"And then?"
"I want...to be free. Like the wind."
Twilight: End.
I realised something whilst writing this. This will be the last chapter! Well...it's the perfect place to stop, isn't it? I certainly think so, even though everyone else is probably screaming ,"NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" at the top of their lungs (at least, I hope so XD!) But you must remember that originally this was meant to be a one-shot, but then authoress-san got way too lazy...so it became what it is today! I could continue this...but I want everyone else's opinions too! INCLUDING THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T REVIEW BUT STILL READ THIS FIC! YOU MUST ALL REVIEW! But all opinions are valid...though I may just end up writing a sequel fic instead after writing another fic or two...THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS! BUT FIRST YOU MUST REVIEW AND STATE OPINIONS OR THIS SHALL BE FINISHED!
Anyway...reveiw answering time!
Ginger Finder: Glad you like it XD! And I know! His name would just be so...wonderful :F But I suppose that since the release date for Japan ish the 22nd of December we still have a couple of months to go before we find out...BUT THE POINT IS THAT WE FIND OUT SOON! And I am still slightly ill, but sooner or later I'll get better XD!
icewolf9: It's okay if you don't have time to review :) The point is that you do eventually, right? (that was a joke. It's important that you read and enjoy!) And that's sweet :D But who knows whether or not there will be an update? We'll just have to see...
I feel that I should say what inspired meh onto creating this fanfic...So here we go...:
Once I hadn't seen Deep Dive, and heard little of the theories about the next game. But then...I learnt everything all at once. And my imagination zoomed off in hundreds of directions. This was just one of them.