Author: nothing much.
Namelessheretic: Nah, I see it like this. If this had a fan base as big as the naruto fanbase, then i'd have like ten times the reviews.., as long as I think like that, having a few reviews dosen't matter.
Besides, its the quality, not the quantity, that matters.
Shiner980: thanks for the offer, but don't worry about it. like you said, it's nothing horrible and I don't want you to go through hell just to fix it..
Just do what you do best, kick back and enjoy the fic.
Some random reviewer: you know, out of all of my stories, you become one of the reviewers that i look forward to actually getting a review from. 0.0
The figure thing was meant for humor. Even with how good I am at righting about darkness, I still have a humorus side to me.I use speckcheck all the time.
Tifa or Larxene...hmmm, well if got plans for Larxene,but Tifa?
I'll give it some thought, using both my natural statigic mind...and my hormones.
disclaimer: I do not own kingdom hearts.
Enjoy the fic.
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A new side of the darkness.
Darkness, complete darkness. Though it was nothing new to Sora. He was apart of the darkness, so being surrounded by it was nothing. Sora walked forward through the darkness, heading towards the door. Yes...the door to darkness. It was locked, sealing away the most of the heartless inside, and any heartless that may have been like Ansem. A brightly light appeared before him, Sora never bashing an eyebrow at it. He walked through it casually, it closing behind him.
He was now in one of the hallways that the nobodies use. Interesting really, even if they sealed of the door, the heartless where still able to move through the worlds with these hallways. They were able to leave from behind the door in small groups, since only so many heartless could go into a nobody area without being noticed.
Sora looked around the hallway, as if looking for something. He stopped when his head faced the northwest area of where he was currently standing. Turning in that direction, he headed towards the glowing light and went through it. He already knew what to expect.
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Sora was now standing in a large area, field if you will. The ground benight him had a greyish black tint to it and the sky above him had nothing but black storm clouds. Sora looked to the right, seeing several mountains in that direction. He then looked to the left, knowing that this worlds ocean was in that direction. Sora always loved looking at the ocean and took whatever chance he could to think about it.
Sora shook his head and began to move forward. Before him where several hills, ones that would take some time to pass. It was a long, dull walk for him and all the way he had nothing on his mind but the question of why he had to walk so much. Anyway, after a good amount of time, Sora was able to pass the hills and look at his destination.
He was now standing before a large canyon, an extremely large canyon ( if you need something to help you imagine how large, think grand canyon.) Sora looked downwards into it to see something interesting. At the very bottom of the canyon were thousands of heartless. Each of them moving through out the canyon as fast as they could.
Sora watched them for a few minutes, before looking for a path into the canyon. It took him a few more minutes, but he managed to find one. You see, there was an extremely good reason why Sora was going into a place full of heartless ranging from shadow to behemoth. Heartless had a very interesting hobby when they weren't trying to rip some ones heart out or searching for they're ( or anyone else's) nobody.
And that would be crafting...munny.
Yes, that's right, Heartless were the makers of munny. You'd think people would have wondered by now who munny was made, but then again, he hadn't thought about it until he became one. You see for some reason, heartless like certain materials and having the materials with them at all times. So they shifted the materials into smaller sizes so that they were easier to carry. Thus, munny was born through that.
Even Sora had the urge to collect as much munny as possible and hide it away so that no one would take it from him. That's actually the reason why heartless are in these canyons. The entire place is full of munny, millions, or dare he say it, billions of munny were inside these canyon walls. He could always try to steal it, but then again, as soon as the heartless noticed this, Sora would have to fight through ALL of the heartless in the canyon to take it. That includes the more...interesting heartless, the ones that are like him.
Each one of the special heartless seemed to take different forms. Some became giants, while others retained a human like form. Before you ask, yes there are male and female heartless. Sora doesn't really know why though, for the fact that heartless can't breed that way, though they still could do it .But never the less, there was male and female heartless.
Sora had finally reached the bottom of the canyon, as he looked around the area. Most of the heartless were usually busy making munny, but the smarter ones had become traders. They were the ones that would either give you something for muuny, or munny for something. Buying and selling wouldn't be appropriate words since they could just make the munny themselves. They just found an easier way of doing it.
Sora looked around the heartless area for his usual trader. She was like him, a special heartless. She had more of a need to collect money though, had a shit load of the stuff. But she also liked running things and became a trader to amuse herself. Sora had traded with her several times already and could trust her. She preferred a fare deal, since trading was like a game to her. Cheating at it would spoil the game. Sora continued to walk past heartless, them never once looking at him.
One of the few better things about being a heartless, other heartless didn't really give a crap who you where unless you where a special heartless or after their munny. You see, special heartless where like the leaders of them, able to summon heartless at any time. They could tell a heartless to do anything as well...unless it involved giving up their munny. The special heartless where also the few that could stand up to a nobody. Hell, they could beat down some of the stronger nobodies like the organization thirteen for example.
Too bad their was so few of them...
Oh well, more munny for him.
Sora continued to look around the area a few more times, before finally spotting her. She was somewhat tall, standing at around 5'7 and having a purplish color like hair ( it was short, stopping just above her shoulder blades..) She also wore a robe and that's as mush as he wanted to know. The robe itself seemed to cling to her, showing her body quite nicely. If it wasn't for the fact that she was a being of darkness and bent on ripping out the hearts of any unsuspecting civilian in half a heart beat, he may have been attracted to her.
But, he wasn't.
Sora moved through the heartless, shoving them out of the way when needed. Some heartless where...arrogant because of how powerful they were. When the heartless where about to attack him, all he had to do was look at them and they would quickly run off in fear. The only heartless that could take on a special was another special, so that gave him a lot of authority. Heartless do become powerful though, if there not already born powerful that is.
Depending on how strong of a heart a person had, depends on how strong they are as a heartless. If you are born as a shadow, it means that you were just the average person, but if you were born a neo shadow, you stood out a bit. Heartless can become stronger by collecting more hearts, when they rip out a persons heart, they take in some of the darkness ( and light ) that person had, increasing they're own strength. It takes hundreds of hearts for a average heartless to become strong enough to summon others and control them. Which rarely happens mind you.
When Sora was finally able to reach her, he saw that she was talking to another heartless. Yes, they 'talk' to one another. How the hell would they be able to trade if they didn't? Sora waited for them to finish they're business, before making himself know.
" Hello Rieko." Sora said, Rieko turning to face him.
" I wondered when you'd show up again." She stated, walking towards her own cave. " Come." Sora complied, while walking towards a very large cave.
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It was larger then most in the canyon, considering it was big enough for a behemoth to easily walk in and out of. Which was the point, since Rieko had three of them under her control. Behemoths where loyal, but pathetically stupid creatures. They were like that guard dog of hades, whatever the hell it was called. The cave itself was barren, except for all the munny piles through out it. A lot of the piles reached up to the ceiling. After traveling through most of the cave, they finally reached they're destination.
A single door stood at the back of the cave. It was large enough for two people to entre it at a time, which made it easier for most heartless to go through it. Sora smirked at the heartless that was now standing before it.
Kurt zisa was now guarding the door to Rieko's room. He was a special heartless Sora had to fight when he was still human. He took care of him and another heartless before going to hollow bastion to take care of Ansem. Sora frowned at the memory, shaking his head to get the thought out. Kurt had been sent by Rieko to kill him actually, so that she would have access to his heart. Awkward really, to be doing business with the same person who tried to kill you...twice.
Then again, heartless didn't really care about what happened in there previous life to tell the truth, though they still wanted their hearts back. Sora actually thought it was amusing that he took down two specials as a human before becoming a heartless and having his power increase greatly. Kurt zisa hissed when he saw them.
" YOU." He yelled, while Sora looked up at him.
" Hello Kurt, haven't seen you in awhile." Sora said, while Kurt started to prepare his weapons. As soon as he toke one step, Rieko appeared in front of Sora.
" Stand down Kurt." Rieko said, as Kurt looked at her.
" But he's..."
" A quest." Rieko stated, while looking over at Sora, who only smirked. Kurt zisa continued to hiss at Sora, but grudgingly stepped to the side. Rieko and Sora walked past him, Sora giving him Kurt one last look, before entering through the door...
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The room itself was large, having several more piles of munny around it. In the center of the room, surprisingly to most people, was a desk. In the corner, there looked to be a closet. What? Even heartless need to be organized. Rieko headed towards the desk and began to look through some papers.
" The usually agreement?" Rieko asked, as she looked over at Sora. He nodded, while Rieko looked over the papers once more. " Okay then, first the package." Sora reached into his robe and pulled out a large brown envelop, nothing special...to most. It did look heavy though...
" Alright." Rieko turned her back to Sora and went towards the other door in the room. She opened they door and pulled out three HUGE sacks. Sora whistled at Rieko, whowas barely able to lift them. She handed them to Sora, him lifting them with ease, before giving her the envelop. Sora looked at the bags with a smirk. Yep, he would've of had to spend hours trying to get this much munny by killing random heartless if it weren't for Rieko.
" Thanks Rieko, I don't know how to ever repay you for helping me out..." Sora soon regretted those words when he saw a sparkle in Rieko's eyes.
" You know...there is one way you could..." Rieko said, dropping her neutral expression, as her face formed into a grin.
" No." Sora said in a flat tone of voice. Rieko just glared at him
"Come on! You have to have felt the 'connection' by now!" Rieko replied, while Sora sighed.
The 'connection' was a thing heartless had from the beginning. Even if Sora didn't know why they're were males and females, but what he did know was the 'connection' between them. It was to keep heartless form being totally alone, really, even if it was a patriotic attempt by the realm of darkness to give something back to the heartless. You see, when a heartless is born, he/she is automatically connected to the opposite gender. If the heartless they are connected to hasn't been formed yet, then they wait until they are.
The connection is permeant and eternal, if the 'mate' of a heartless is destroyed, then they go without a 'mate' for the rest of their existence. That's one of the other reasons some heartless are still shadows, they don't want to risk getting themselves destroyed and leaving they're 'mate' alone in the world. Sora felt the connection as soon as he saw Rieko...
and immediately thought " Crap."
He was stuck with her, until he found some way of reversing his transformation. The artificial hearts of the moogles were a start, but he still needed more if he wanted to return to normal and his past life. When he told this to Rieko, she told him he was crazy and just to accept it ( and her ). Never the less, he still had hope.
" Yes I have." Sora stated, as He watched Rieko's eye's light up again. " But, it doesn't mean anything." Rieko's expression dropped.
" Damnit, can't you get over that silly let obsession?' Rieko asked, while Sora sighed and headed towards the door.
" It's not an obsession...it's a dream." Sora stated, as he opened the door and looked back at her. " See yah, Rieko." She just waved at him.
" Whatever..." She replied, as she watched him walk out of the door...again. Rieko sighed, as she went over to her desk and sat in the chair next to it. Only having one thing on her mind...
"What makes this 'Kairi' so special anyway?"
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Author: Right now, Kairi and Sora are just friends, Sora just feels like he's failed his friends and is working hard to help them.