Intro
Kellan couldn't get to sleep. All he could think about was that strange black creature emerging from the shadows, it seemed to have wiggled into his mind and he just couldn't get it out. Every time he began to drop off he saw those strangely empty yellow eyes, devoid of emotion or feeling just looking straight at him and through him, he had tried to ignore the damned thing but it had followed him home and for all he knew it was in this room with him.
He gave up on sleep and decided to go and watch the television, he flicked onto a news channel and paused, on the news was the little black creature, bulbous and scuttling with its antenna twitching this way and that, as if… looking for something,
"Scientists have no idea where these small creatures came from. But even though they do not seem to be dangerous it is advised that the general public do not approach them, and if the creatures begin to approach you, it is advised that you should walk calmly and slowly away from them" the news reporter continued to talk about the black creatures and Kellan watched as if in a daze hearing the news reporter only when he said that they seem to be multiplying at an amazing rate and there have been sightings of them around the world. Kellan just sat, stunned into silence, they're everywhere he thought all round the world his thoughts shifted to the antenna and the way they twitched as if looking for something.
Later that day he saw many more of the creatures, they skulked around rooftops and hid in shadows their antennas twitching and their yellow eyes all focused on him, it was down right unnerving to say the least. His brother Ryozu also seemed to have the same problem, the creatures all seemed to stare at him. What was/is so special about these two; they have a name for these things though, based on their cold stare and soulless gaze. It was Ryozu who thought of it. He called them Heartless.
Ryozu stared back at the heartless meeting its gaze eye to eye, he was fed up of the damned things!
"What the hell do they want?" he shouted, his younger brother Kellan walked slowly beside him, contemplating the inky black creatures
"I don't know" he said slowly "but I don't like them" Kellan was sixteen, his brother was nineteen, and between them they were inseparable, when they trained they were evenly matched neither could land a blow on the other and neither ever got the advantage, despite Ryozu's strength, (which was countered by Kellan's speed). This only formed to make their bond stronger and in their mind nothing could separate them.
They approached the store walking the last few meters on the road instead of the pavement. Ryozu carrying the list and Kellan the money,
"So what do we need?" Kellan asked his brother, the store was silent, no noise emanated from between the shelves loaded with puffed bread and tinned beans, there was no one around, no store clerks, no customers nobody.
"We need two loaves of bread (get white)" murmured Ryozu scanning the list fitfully
"Ok, on it" cried Kellan as he dashed off to the bread aisle retreating two large white loaves wrapped in plastic
"Great, I'll get the meat" he walked off to the large freezer in the back and grabbed several large rinds of beacon, shouting to his brother
"You get some veggie things!"
"Like what!" Kellan shouted back
"I don't know! You decide!" it was in this shouting match that they realised how quiet the store actually was, they met each other in a aisle full of sweets and chocolate
"Ryozu?" Kellan muttered softly to his larger brother
"Yes?" they where both speaking quietly now. Not wanting to break the perpetual silence that they had just encountered, lest it come crashing down around their ears
"Where is every one? He asked scanning the store quickly his breathing raised itself a notch towards hyperventilating
"I haven't seen anybody at all for a while now… not since we first came out of the house" Ryozu didn't look worried as he said this, only determined. He never got worried. He always faced his problems with a steely resolve and a calm nerve.
"It's worrying me" Kellan shuddered; he couldn't handle pressure in any way shape or form.
"Let's go back, forget about food" said Ryozu slow and calculated as always.
As they walked they saw no sighs of people, there was no one out walking dogs, no one driving in their new car or anyone out at all except them. They were alone in a sea of emptiness and silence, which was broken only by the soft tap of their feet on the tarmac, each step shattering the quiet and bleeding into a series of loud echoes that seemed reverberate off everything.
A girl came running up to them, Kellan knew her
"Clare!" he shouted and ran up to her, as he approached her he saw the heartless, they were gathered in the shadows and there was thousands of them, they writhed and swarmed in the darkness, avoiding the light as best they could, and when they couldn't the simply tolerated it. The light didn't seem to hurt them; it was just a minor annoyance. He approached Clare to see a desperate look on he face and tears spilling down her cheeks
"Clare?" he walked up to her and she fell into his arms sobbing and heaving
"Clare? Clare what's wrong? where is every body?" she gave a great sob then looked up at him, her eyes red
"I-I don't know!" she cried "everyone's gone! They disappeared! It was those things!" a shudder ran through both boys "those heartless monsters! They took something from them and they disappeared!" she broke down again.
Kellan looked at his brother, all the while the heartless were massing in the shadows, squirming sickeningly.
"We have to fight" said Ryozu calmly
"With what?" asked Kellan clutching the still sobbing Clare
"With anything we can!" he said his voice rising for the first time ever.
They returned to their house keeping a fervative eye on the massing heartless. Kellan grabbed his Bo staff from the corner of the kitchen, a long smooth wooden pole, six foot in length and slightly tapered at the ends. Ryozu went into his room and grabbed his katana from its display stand. Their parents where gone, vanished like everyone else, they couldn't let this bother them they had to survive and not disappear. Care still sobbing grabbed a kitchen knife from the magnetic strip in the kitchen.
"What now?" she queried
"Now-" said Ryozu "-we survive"
End
Authorness: wow that's terrible writing. I could have done so much better and I need an editor or something scratches head oh well REVIEW! PLEASE! this is the end of part one part two will come shortly, join the battle against the heartless! And what will become on these three?