Beep… beep… beep…
Where… am I?
"Subject: Pippa."
Who in the hell is that?
"Age: Unknown."
Metallic voice. Computer. Sterile environment.
What happened to me?
Can you hear me speak?
Is this a dream?
Or a nightmare?
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I figure as long as you don't remember everything, you'll pull through. Of course, this is coming from a girl who has been fifteen for a very long time. I lost track of the years. And my true name at one point. I've even forgotten the name of the place I come from. I gave up a normal life when I became what I am today… the Keeper of Kingdom Hearts. I have been protecting the gate for far too long; but then again, I don't have anything to go back to. So I took on another duty: a vastly more complicated doing that involves the training and safekeeping of… well… the Keyblade Masters. Yes, masters as in plural. I, myself, am a Keyblade master. There is a common mis-conception on the number of us who are actually masters… True, the Kingdom Key chooses one, and only one; but the actual number of keyblades in existence is limitless. I hold the Gatekey now, but once I held the Kingdom Key, just like Sora.
Sora.
Sora and his friends, what they risked to protect Kingdom Hearts, and all the hearts connected to it. Donald… Goofy, the King's most trusted guards who went searching for the Kingdom key's master when all I could do was sit in solitude, captured by Maleficent and guarded over constantly. Kairi, she was so sweet towards me when I could do was wince in pain and convulse in agony when the dark energy from my cuffs tried to turn me. A heartless… I was once a heartless. And… and… Riku. My dear friend Riku, even when he was being taken over by Ansem, he still protected me, cared for me, even when I was less than grateful. In some strange, small way he reminds me of James, my friend an ally for the long years I fought against the darkness. But, James died just before… just before… Just before I became a different Keyblade bearer. Just before I gave up on the exciting adventurous life to life chained to a door. James, Audry, Cicily, and Syrus… Where are you guys now? What happened… Why did life go so awry?
My friends and I had no idea what in the hell we were doing, or what in the heck we could do. Gummi travel wasn't stable, and the portals… well we often traveled back in time, forward in time, and we never knew where we were going. It was a miracle that we didn't run into any of the other Keyblade masters… and for that I am thankful. Instead we fought among ourselves, and with a villain who fell to the darkness much like Riku, but never came back. We didn't need anymore complications…
We had no trouble creating them on our own.
Oh, and that "friend" that fell to the darkness… and never came back? Her name was originally Jane, but when she went bad she changed her name…
To Maleficent.
The scariest part of that was her connection to us.
She's my older sister.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or anything that has to do with Disney or Final Fantasy. I do own Pippa, James, Cicily, Audry, Syrus, and the young Jane. I don't own Maleficent, now that would be VERY creepy.
-Rakuril-