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Kingdom Hearts 2 The Return of Darkness

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Kingdom Hearts. (I would love to own Riku though).

Claimer: I do own my character Alex and the idea about the Chaos mage. So don't copy.

Chapter 10- Tortured Pasts

Point of View: Kairi

My eyes widened as I saw light come from a tall window.

"Where am I?" I said.

"Hello there Kairi. You are at Hollow Bastion." Belle said coming into the room with some tea and biscuits.

"Belle what am I doing here?" I said helping myself to some tea.

"Well I brought you here to tell you something very important. It is about you friend Alex."

"What do you mean it has to do with Alex?"

"Well Kairi that question will be answered later. Come with me I have something to show you."

I got up and followed Belle out into a hallway. We walked down it until we came to a pair of doors. Belle opened it up to reveal a place full of books. I stared in awe at the room. I felt like I had been here before. (A/N: Just like the library in the game at Hollow Bastion.)

"This is the library." She said. "This way please."

I followed her until we came to a large book that was open to a page. I looked down at it and it seemed to be a journal of some kind.

"Belle what is it?"

"Well it is a journal that Ansem wrote."

"What you mean the person who tried to take you heart as well as mine has a journal." I began to laugh because it seemed kind of funny.

"What's so funny?" Belle said with a confused look on her face.

"Nothing. Go on."

"Ok well this journal once belonged to Ansem. It tells us all about how he became interested in the darkness and other worlds. But one of the most interesting things in her is that your friends Alex and Riku are mentioned." Bell said.

"Really why?" I said trying to image what both of them had to do with Ansem.

"Yes and first I will start with your friend Riku. This is going to be very shocking for you to listen too, but you must. Ok well Riku is Ansem's son."

I was speechless. My brain had to think it over several times before I got the idea that what she said was true. "How could Riku be Ansem's son?"

"Well Riku at a very young age was separated from his family and arrived at Destiny Islands. As he grew older he felt as if he did not belong and he was right because he did not. That is why Riku went into the darkness because his father was calling to him to back to him. Eventually Riku escaped the darkness with the help of Alex and returned home to Destiny Islands. There is one other thing that will come as a surprise. It is that Riku has a brother."

"Who is he?"

"Matt."

"WHAT! Do you mean the Matt who is dating Selphie?"

"Yes, but he is not good. He is working for Ansem." Belle said.

"So that makes him Ansem's son also."

"Yes it does and for the other thing about Alex. I am sorry that you have to hear me say this but Alex is not to be trusted."

"WHAT!" I said yelling directly at Belle. "You don't even know her and you are already judging her. She is my friend and why shouldn't I trust her."

(A/N: I'm sorry if your eyes get tired)

"Kairi Alex is very dangerous and you must be careful when you are around her. Before you start yelling at me again you must listen and you must know about her past. Alex's father was best friends with Ansem when they were children. His name was Akito. When Ansem went to find the darkness and other worlds Akito went with him. Ansem and him finally found the darkness and were taken by it. At one point in Akito's life he could not take the pain any more and escaped from the darkness. He wanted to forget his past and to live a normal life again. He soon was married to a young woman named Kisa. They soon had a child who was named Alexandria or Alex as your friend goes by. At the age of five Alex's mother died. From this loss Akito began to go back to the darkness. He soon died from being sick and at that time Alex was twelve years old. Since she had nobody left she went into Ansem's care where she lived until she came to Destiny Islands. Alex was depressed and could not bear to remember her past. So she went into the darkness as well. Ansem trained her on how to control the darkness. She used it as a way to deal with the pain of her parents' death. At the age of fourteen she had developed her powers fully and had full control over them. So she began to use them to harm others. She went on a killing spree as a way to deal with the pain and let out her anger. She soon realized what she had done and it was already too late. She decided to run away. Ansem knew of her plans and held her captive. This is how Riku and Alex met. Riku soon fell in love with her and she did the same. But at that time Alex lost her memory and could not remember the terrible things she had done. She did not want to so she locked them up inside of herself. Alex because of her change of heart had developed the power to wield a keyblade. So Riku and Alex escaped and headed to Traverse Town. The bracelet Riku bought her was made by the moogles. Soon Ansem found her and Riku and he separated the two and so the bracelet broke. Alex once again escaped Ansem's hands by using her powers to let her travel some where safe."

"Alex's powers are still active whether or not she can remember how to use them. This is why you cannot trust her. Plain and simple Kairi she is even more dangerous than Ansem. For that is another reason why he locked her up because she was the one who could over throw him. If Alex gets out of hand again you are the only one to kill her. When you were really little Ansem did a test on you and instead of making your heart full of darkness he thought that he should make it out of light. Do you know who the other person was to receive the heart of darkness?" Belle said.

"Let me guess...hhmm Alex? Right?" I said.

"Correct. By Ansem making her heart like that she is know as the princess of darkness and you are known as the princess of light. Makes sense now."

"Ya it does. I still can't believe that Alex had gone through all of that stuff in her life and I never even knew about it."

"Kairi some things are meant to be kept a secret rather than being told. Ok now there is one final reason why I brought you here besides the fact about your friend. Come this way."

Belle led me into the very back of the library where a door appeared.

"Kairi go through that door there and you will find something. Please go now."

Without another word I was off. I opened the door to find a large room that was only lit by candlelight. I could not see much because the light was very dim. All of a sudden someone through open the curtains and the room became visible. It was all made out in a cream color marble with gold trimming. Straight ahead a symbol lie in the wall. It was the shape of my crown that I had found. I walked forward and soon placed my gold crown into the symbol slot. A bright light appeared and something heavy landed into my hand. (A/N: I wonder what it could be.) It was a keyblade. It was pink and gold and had the gold crown at the bottom as a key chain.

"You've found it." Belle said as I turned around to see her walking up towards me.

"How did you know that the crown would fit into the slot?"

"Just a guess." Belle said with a smile.

"So you must be going now Kairi. It has been great to see you again and remember Alex is very dangerous and you need to help her. So now go. But remember this that no matter how much darkness there is a light will always be there to guide you."

At Belle's final words I was gone.

Point of View: Alex

"Kairi are you out here? Kairi where are you?" I yelled.

For the past day and a half Cloud, Aerith and I have been looking for Kairi. She did not seem to be anywhere. It was like she disappeared out of thin air. I arrived back at the hotel with the disappointment of not finding her. Once again I was alone and had no one to be there for me.

"Cloud I couldn't find her anywhere."

"It's ok I'm sure she will turn up somewhere where you least expect it." Cloud said giving me one of his smiles.

Aerith gave me a look and I immediately snapped out of my daydream.

"Ok well I am sure we will find her later but Alex you need to pack your things because we are going to another world where you will be training with my old friend. So hurry and go pack."

Since I don't have many things, I just packed what I had, which was a black long sleeve shirt, black jeans and a pair of black shorts. I headed out of the room and went outside to where Cloud and Aerith were waiting.

"All set." Cloud said.

"Yup all set." I said with a little disappointment in my voice because we were leaving this place.

Within no time we were traveling to the other world where Aerith's friend was. An hour went by and I was sitting there staring out the window I could not believe everyone left me. My eyes watered and a tear rolled down my check. I quickly wiped my painful tear away and tried to get myself back together. I large explosion shook the gummi ship and sent me flying to the other side of the ship.

"Hold on. We are going down." Cloud said.

"Look over there a world is coming into view. Quickly Cloud land it over there." Aerith said.

The ship gave a violent jerk and I was sent forward. I hit my head against something and I fell unconscious.

Point of View: Sora (A/N: In this section there will be quite a lot of cussing. I am sorry about it.)

"Someone anyone please help me." I screamed at the top of my lungs. My eyes watered and I began to cry as a way to let out my pain and anger. The more I tried to get out of these fucking chains the tighter they dug into my skin. They ran around my wrists and ankles and my neck. I don't know how long I was in this place so far but all I know is that I have had enough.

For the past I think days it has been nonstop torture. Riku was taken away from me and I was left alone to endure it. It was done by someone who had the ability to control darkness. It was like an artificial in hell. The person did not stop beating me until I was coughing up blood and also until I had hundreds of bruises and scratches on my body. This repeated for hours. It never ceased and the repeating of punches and kicks went on for what seemed to be an eternity.

I was beginning to lose my train of thought and my memories. I could barely remember memories of Kairi, Riku and my parents. Besides the torturing I was being brainwashed and losing grip of reality. Sometimes I would black out for hours and then would wake again. One thing that I wanted to do more than ever was to kill that son of a bitch Matt. He was the one who did this to me.

"So I see that it is time again for you to get your ass kicked." Matt said.

"Once I get out of here you will get the goddamn hell kicked out of you. You asshole." I said while spitting at him.

"Well then I guess I should be scared. Looks like I will just have to take my anger out on you." Matt threw a punch into my stomach and several more into my face and my jaw.

"FUCK!" I coughed up more blood and spat it at him. He wiped it off and threw several more punches to the stomach.

All of a sudden Matt came up close to me and stared into my eyes. "Let your mind be open. Listen to my voice. Listen to it."

My mind all of a sudden seemed to be clear of any train of thought and it seemed to be like someone was taking over. I could not avert my gaze away from Matt and I stared endlessly into his eyes. They were a black color and were lifeless.

"You have no one. Everyone hates you and you are all alone. Let the darkness enter you heart. Open it up to take it in and allow it to take over."

I did what Matt said and began to let the darkness take me. I tried to resist it but I had no control of my brain or what I was doing.

"You shall kill all of them. They are your enemies. They want you to die."

"NO. GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD." The pain was unbearable and I no longer seemed to be in my holding place. It was like I was somewhere else. It was all dark and the mist lit the way. I stepped forward and a path formed at my feet. At that exact moment a hooded figure stepped forward out of nowhere. With a wave from his hand I was chained up in the air. There were two chains around both of my wrists, two around my ankles and one around my neck. Without touching me the figure punched the air and I felt the force hit my body. I coughed up even more blood and spat it out. Fifty more punches hit my body. The figure then set a black fire around me.

"AAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!"

I was burning and could feel the fire burn up my skin. Suddenly the fire stopped, but a second later the inside of my body burned. What the hell was going on?

"It's inside of you." The figure said. "The darkness is entering your heart a little at a time. Soon it will be full of darkness."

"AAAAAWWWWWW." My insides were melting away and there was no way to stop it.

"Soon you will become one of us. HAHAHA."

As the burning continued I could barely remember my own name. Who was I? Where did I come from? Then I thought of a strange object that was in the shape of a star and it was yellow. What is that again?...............It was a papou fruit.

"NNNNNNOOOOOO. I WILL NOT LET YOU DO THIS TO ME."

At that moment I realized I was back in the same old place and Matt was standing in front of me breathing hard.

"I almost had you. Well looks like that would be all for today. Have a good rest you son of a bitch." Matt said as he walked away with a pleasant grin on his face.

I couldn't even keep my eyes open and once again I blacked out.

--Dream--

"Sora, you lazy bum get up."

"What?"

"You were sleeping again coconut head."

I was back home on my island and Kairi's face appeared right in front of mine, but it was all blurry and I could not see it.

"Is that you Kairi?"

"Of course it is Sora." She said while giving me a smile.

I got up to go over and give her a hug but as I was about to hug her I walked right through her. It was like she was some sort of ghost. The island disappeared and I was falling into a dark abyss, which never seemed to end.

--End Dream--

I awoke and I was still in the same place and the same way. It was hopeless I would never get out of this hell. I looked over to my left and saw what I thought was a hallucination. It was a spark of light.

Ya ya I know I just have to do this. This is what keeps you wanting more. Ok let my tell you I haven't even came up with the idea for Chapter 11 so you are going to have to hold your horses. I am very sorry about that. I will try my best. But I hope you liked this chapter and please please review.