Author's Note-Hiyos! Real sorry I haven't been posting lately, but like I said, I've been busy with school and stuff. But by the end of this week, hopefully I'll have plenty of time to write and post. Now, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Got it? Okay, we're all happy now...
Yuffie yawned as she stepped out of her berth. Cid was looking around, and Aerith was checking the wound on Cloud's shoulder and waist. Sora frowned. "What happened to you guys? What happened here?"
"The place was attacked by Heartless." Leon said. "And one of Ansem's former advisors, Silence."
-Flashback-
"C'mon, Squall!" Yuffie whined. "You can miss your training for one day to have lunch with me! Please?"
"...I think not. And that's Leon."
"But Squall-"
"Leon."
"But I really want-"
The doors to the entrance hall were suddenly flung open and a man who looked very tired, pale, and afraid stumbled in. "Heart...Heart...Heartless!" the man shouted before collapsing in a heap.
Everyone exchanged glances a bit nervously, a few fearful. Leon's expression was grim. He turned as he heard footsteps behind him to see his younger brother, Cloud. His grim expression matched Leon's. "...Did you hear that? He said..." Cloud started.
Leon nodded. "Heartless, I know." He finished. He turned to look back at the scene and Yuffie, who had slipped away and down the stairs, and was now kneeling down next to the man. She seemed to be reassuring him and checking the bleeding cuts on the man's body.
Everyone suddenly heard some kind of quiet, whispery, almost hissing voice from inside the door. For some reason, the doorway, all outside was pitch black as if it where night, only darker. "Attack them...capture them, surround them and attack few..."
Everyone stared at the door. Yuffie slowly looked up at the dark opening, frozen. There was a twitch inside the darkness. That seemed to cut loose the chaos.
"Yuffie! Move it!" Leon yelled, jumping off the balcony of the second story and running over to her. He was knocked off his feet and onto his back as a huge wave of darkness surged forth out of the door and overran him. No, not darkness, Heartless! A huge mass of Heartless! Like the shadows, only a lot more different.
A lot more deadly.
There was instant panic. Shrieks and screaming filled the room as everybody rushed to the lift stop. Leon struggled to get up, to stand up and get his Gunblade as the Heartless piled on top of him and scratched at him. No use. He continued to try, though. He had to get to Yuffie!
There was the sudden flash of steel above him and he saw his brother standing by him in fighting stance. "You okay, Squall?"
"Where's Yuffie?" Leon demanded. Cloud looked around as Leon jumped up, unsheathing the Gunblade.
"There! Surrounded by Heartless!"
"What?!" Leon frowned. "Cloud, make sure that the people exit safely. I'm going to go help Yuffie." With that, he leapt over to the trapped girl. He landed in front of Yuffie and slashed through the Heartless around them.
"Are you okay, Yuffie?"
Yuffie nodded. "Yeah... Th-thanks, Squall..."
"Leon." Leon replied automatically. By now it was practically habit.
"Cloud! Leon! Yuffie!" a voice called up from the balcony. "C'mon, hurry up! We need to evacuate!"
The three, now the only ones in the room aside from this new person and the Heartless, looked up to see-
"Aerith!" Cloud yelled.
"Yuffie, Aerith, hurry up and go. We'll meet up with you." Leon ordered. Yuffie hesitated, then nodded and grabbed Aerith's arm and ran. Cloud and Leon watched as the Heartless slunk to the sides of the room and the two heard soft footsteps echoing in the dark doorway in front of them, as if out the door wasn't to outside, but a long, dark hallway. A humanoid shadow appeared in the doorway. They saw the head raise and a golden, glowing eye stared at them. There was only one person on Hollow Bastion that had a single glowing eye. An advisor that hadn't been seen since the first disappearance of Ansem.
Silence.
"Squall Leonhart..." the man said. He looked over at Cloud. "And Cloud Strife as well..."
The brothers couldn't see Silence's face very well. The hood shadowed most of the face well. However, the emotions were apparent on the visible part of his face. And what they could see was a look of amusement.
"Silence..." Leon said. He took a couple of steps forward. "You are commanding the Heartless. I should have known... Ansem's most loyal advisor..."
"Nightmares do not die, Leonhart. And neither does darkness."
"The keyhole is sealed. The doors to darkness are shut. Ansem is gone. You have no allies to help you and no leader to follow. Sora is likely to return from his journey soon. If you are really as wise as they say you are, you should have more than enough sense to back down now and quit while you are still ahead." Leon warned.
This warning, however, had no negative effects on the hooded man whatsoever. Rather, it made him smirk. "All blasphemy my young man, all blasphemy. Do not try to preach a truth that you don't know-that makes you unsure. What I need, what we need, are the heart fragments."
"Heart fragments?" Cloud questioned.
"Yes. I will not even question you on where to find the first fragment, for you know the one who holds it, yet you know not his location."
Leon and Cloud exchanged glances. "...Sora...?" Leon asked.
The glow disappeared momentarily as the advisor closed his eyes. "Too many questions, too little time..." Silence said mysteriously. "We ourselves are not entirely sure of all who have the heart fragments, so everyone in this castle are candidates for testing." The eye snapped open, narrowing at Cloud and Leon. "Including the two of you. Heartless! Take them to the specimen room and lock them up! Keep them frozen until my master and I decide to look into their hearts."
The Heartless all leapt into fighting stance. However, Cloud and Leon did as well. They were surrounded and definitely outnumbered. They saw a little blond girl who had to be no older than the age of seven or eight walk calmly over to Silence. The advisor placed his left hand on her shoulder, and lifted his right hand up in a small wave.
The Heartless sprang upon Cloud and Leon. The brothers tried their best to fight the monsters, but their attacks were eluded, their dodges were of no use. It became very clear that this was a battle they could not win when Leon's arm was split with dark claws, when Cloud's shoulder and waist was slashed. There was a sudden moment when time just seemed to freeze. Leon and Cloud suddenly turned to look over at the girl and Silence, whose eye seemed to be glowing a bit brighter than usual, and then suddenly everything went black.
-End of Flashback-
"The Heart fragments...?" Sora asked.
"Yes. And we're pretty sure that you have one." Leon replied.
"Well that's weird..."
"You don't know the half of it." A child's voice said playfully from the door. Everyone turned to see a little girl with long blond hair and blue-green eyes. The girl that had gone to Silence.
"...Who are you...?" Sora asked suspiciously.
The girl smirked playfully. "That's for me to know and you...well, I doubt that you'll find out, but oh well, ne?" the little girl said.
Sora walked up to the girl. "...Let us pass. Please?"
"I don't think so!" the girl sang.
Suddenly, a dagger from her sleeve flicked into her hand. Sora's eyes widened as he saw the dagger rush to his waist. The boy blocked with his keyblade, the Oathkeeper. "What the hell...?!"
"Go back to your tank now, little Sora, and I won't have to harm you." The blond said, still in a sing-song voice.
"That's not going to happen! I have to find my friend Riku!"
The little girl blinked, then grinned again, this time, even giggling slightly. "Riku?"
"Yes..."
"Riku, Riku! Follow me, then..." the girl said, skipping down the hall.
Sora ran after her. Donald and Goofy followed. Leon and Cloud started to follow as well but got stopped by their injuries. "You two are too injured to follow. Let's get you to your rooms." Aerith said.
"No..." Leon said. "We should take the Highwind back to Traverse Town. Hollow Bastion isn't safe anymore. Once again...I get the feeling that this is over our heads..."
Author's Note-Well, that was chapter eight (finally!) It's 2 A.M...I just finished typing up this chapter... -yawn- I think I'm gonna get some sleep. Please review! Ja ne!
Yuffie yawned as she stepped out of her berth. Cid was looking around, and Aerith was checking the wound on Cloud's shoulder and waist. Sora frowned. "What happened to you guys? What happened here?"
"The place was attacked by Heartless." Leon said. "And one of Ansem's former advisors, Silence."
-Flashback-
"C'mon, Squall!" Yuffie whined. "You can miss your training for one day to have lunch with me! Please?"
"...I think not. And that's Leon."
"But Squall-"
"Leon."
"But I really want-"
The doors to the entrance hall were suddenly flung open and a man who looked very tired, pale, and afraid stumbled in. "Heart...Heart...Heartless!" the man shouted before collapsing in a heap.
Everyone exchanged glances a bit nervously, a few fearful. Leon's expression was grim. He turned as he heard footsteps behind him to see his younger brother, Cloud. His grim expression matched Leon's. "...Did you hear that? He said..." Cloud started.
Leon nodded. "Heartless, I know." He finished. He turned to look back at the scene and Yuffie, who had slipped away and down the stairs, and was now kneeling down next to the man. She seemed to be reassuring him and checking the bleeding cuts on the man's body.
Everyone suddenly heard some kind of quiet, whispery, almost hissing voice from inside the door. For some reason, the doorway, all outside was pitch black as if it where night, only darker. "Attack them...capture them, surround them and attack few..."
Everyone stared at the door. Yuffie slowly looked up at the dark opening, frozen. There was a twitch inside the darkness. That seemed to cut loose the chaos.
"Yuffie! Move it!" Leon yelled, jumping off the balcony of the second story and running over to her. He was knocked off his feet and onto his back as a huge wave of darkness surged forth out of the door and overran him. No, not darkness, Heartless! A huge mass of Heartless! Like the shadows, only a lot more different.
A lot more deadly.
There was instant panic. Shrieks and screaming filled the room as everybody rushed to the lift stop. Leon struggled to get up, to stand up and get his Gunblade as the Heartless piled on top of him and scratched at him. No use. He continued to try, though. He had to get to Yuffie!
There was the sudden flash of steel above him and he saw his brother standing by him in fighting stance. "You okay, Squall?"
"Where's Yuffie?" Leon demanded. Cloud looked around as Leon jumped up, unsheathing the Gunblade.
"There! Surrounded by Heartless!"
"What?!" Leon frowned. "Cloud, make sure that the people exit safely. I'm going to go help Yuffie." With that, he leapt over to the trapped girl. He landed in front of Yuffie and slashed through the Heartless around them.
"Are you okay, Yuffie?"
Yuffie nodded. "Yeah... Th-thanks, Squall..."
"Leon." Leon replied automatically. By now it was practically habit.
"Cloud! Leon! Yuffie!" a voice called up from the balcony. "C'mon, hurry up! We need to evacuate!"
The three, now the only ones in the room aside from this new person and the Heartless, looked up to see-
"Aerith!" Cloud yelled.
"Yuffie, Aerith, hurry up and go. We'll meet up with you." Leon ordered. Yuffie hesitated, then nodded and grabbed Aerith's arm and ran. Cloud and Leon watched as the Heartless slunk to the sides of the room and the two heard soft footsteps echoing in the dark doorway in front of them, as if out the door wasn't to outside, but a long, dark hallway. A humanoid shadow appeared in the doorway. They saw the head raise and a golden, glowing eye stared at them. There was only one person on Hollow Bastion that had a single glowing eye. An advisor that hadn't been seen since the first disappearance of Ansem.
Silence.
"Squall Leonhart..." the man said. He looked over at Cloud. "And Cloud Strife as well..."
The brothers couldn't see Silence's face very well. The hood shadowed most of the face well. However, the emotions were apparent on the visible part of his face. And what they could see was a look of amusement.
"Silence..." Leon said. He took a couple of steps forward. "You are commanding the Heartless. I should have known... Ansem's most loyal advisor..."
"Nightmares do not die, Leonhart. And neither does darkness."
"The keyhole is sealed. The doors to darkness are shut. Ansem is gone. You have no allies to help you and no leader to follow. Sora is likely to return from his journey soon. If you are really as wise as they say you are, you should have more than enough sense to back down now and quit while you are still ahead." Leon warned.
This warning, however, had no negative effects on the hooded man whatsoever. Rather, it made him smirk. "All blasphemy my young man, all blasphemy. Do not try to preach a truth that you don't know-that makes you unsure. What I need, what we need, are the heart fragments."
"Heart fragments?" Cloud questioned.
"Yes. I will not even question you on where to find the first fragment, for you know the one who holds it, yet you know not his location."
Leon and Cloud exchanged glances. "...Sora...?" Leon asked.
The glow disappeared momentarily as the advisor closed his eyes. "Too many questions, too little time..." Silence said mysteriously. "We ourselves are not entirely sure of all who have the heart fragments, so everyone in this castle are candidates for testing." The eye snapped open, narrowing at Cloud and Leon. "Including the two of you. Heartless! Take them to the specimen room and lock them up! Keep them frozen until my master and I decide to look into their hearts."
The Heartless all leapt into fighting stance. However, Cloud and Leon did as well. They were surrounded and definitely outnumbered. They saw a little blond girl who had to be no older than the age of seven or eight walk calmly over to Silence. The advisor placed his left hand on her shoulder, and lifted his right hand up in a small wave.
The Heartless sprang upon Cloud and Leon. The brothers tried their best to fight the monsters, but their attacks were eluded, their dodges were of no use. It became very clear that this was a battle they could not win when Leon's arm was split with dark claws, when Cloud's shoulder and waist was slashed. There was a sudden moment when time just seemed to freeze. Leon and Cloud suddenly turned to look over at the girl and Silence, whose eye seemed to be glowing a bit brighter than usual, and then suddenly everything went black.
-End of Flashback-
"The Heart fragments...?" Sora asked.
"Yes. And we're pretty sure that you have one." Leon replied.
"Well that's weird..."
"You don't know the half of it." A child's voice said playfully from the door. Everyone turned to see a little girl with long blond hair and blue-green eyes. The girl that had gone to Silence.
"...Who are you...?" Sora asked suspiciously.
The girl smirked playfully. "That's for me to know and you...well, I doubt that you'll find out, but oh well, ne?" the little girl said.
Sora walked up to the girl. "...Let us pass. Please?"
"I don't think so!" the girl sang.
Suddenly, a dagger from her sleeve flicked into her hand. Sora's eyes widened as he saw the dagger rush to his waist. The boy blocked with his keyblade, the Oathkeeper. "What the hell...?!"
"Go back to your tank now, little Sora, and I won't have to harm you." The blond said, still in a sing-song voice.
"That's not going to happen! I have to find my friend Riku!"
The little girl blinked, then grinned again, this time, even giggling slightly. "Riku?"
"Yes..."
"Riku, Riku! Follow me, then..." the girl said, skipping down the hall.
Sora ran after her. Donald and Goofy followed. Leon and Cloud started to follow as well but got stopped by their injuries. "You two are too injured to follow. Let's get you to your rooms." Aerith said.
"No..." Leon said. "We should take the Highwind back to Traverse Town. Hollow Bastion isn't safe anymore. Once again...I get the feeling that this is over our heads..."
Author's Note-Well, that was chapter eight (finally!) It's 2 A.M...I just finished typing up this chapter... -yawn- I think I'm gonna get some sleep. Please review! Ja ne!