Chapter#4

Friends

He walked through the door to find himself in darkness with two doors in front of him. He looked at the door on the left then to the right. The door on the right was slightly different it had an insignia on it. The insignia resembled a heart with stitches across it. He looked behind him to see his entrance was now gone, He then looked back at door on the right, " Here goes nothing," he said as he opened it. When he entered this heart of the world he expected to see fire and molten rock but all that was there was this giant glass like heart hanging above him, the heart had cracks in it. Inside the heart was a ball of white light that was slowly turning black. Then a humongous shadow came over him. He spun around quickly to see what was behind him. This creature was frightening beyond belief. It's face was covered by a white mask, it had a bone rib cage and within it was a person with tan skin and white hair covering his face, and there was a lock and chains covering the rib cage, It had no legs just a body, its enormously long arms had three foot long claws, and it had four black snake like tentacles with skull like heads at the ends connected to its back. This creature was different from the others; it had a familiar feel and an unfamiliar feel to it. The creature flew towards him swinging its arms, he quickly jumped over it and landed on the ground safely or so he thought he was then hit by on of the tentacles. " Agh!" he screamed in pain as he rolled, but he recovered quickly. " I have to find this things weakness and quick or else I'm gone," he thought. He scanned its body searching for the weak point. " There…that's it the lock is the weakness all I have to do is unlock it and that thing is finished," he thought. He ran at the monster with great speed. Meanwhile on the other side of the door the being stood waiting for the boy to return, " Come on Sora I know you can do it." Then from behind him another being appeared from the darkness, " Impersonating me…just to help the boy." The being turned around, " Xemnas…what are you doing here?" " Me…I should ask you the same question," said Xemnas. " So you intend on helping the boy slow down the corruption period of this world. It is not going to be easy for him this world is linked to other world's memories and even to my own," said Xemnas. The being looked at Xemnas, " The thing that's been corrupting the world was once a part of you." Xemnas laughed quietly under his hood, " Yes it was…and I'm sure the boy will not defeat it."

The door then began to open and the figure of the boy was seen walking out of it. Xemnas quickly disappeared when he saw the boy. The being turned around to see the boy in new clothes and his hair was different now. "You've got two days Sora," said the being. The boy looked at him, " I know…then I'll have to leave through this door forever."

When he awoke it was Sunday morning, he didn't even remember going to sleep that night. He walked outside to see that the world was collapsing, as he would have thought. The sky was cloudy and grey with a little bit of dark purple and blue mixed in it. The wind blew stronger than usual and he could see the shadows moving across the ground. "So it's already begun…the corruption of darkness," he said quietly. He got dressed and quickly walked to the top of the hill and looked towards the location of the door, " I can't enter it till the end of tomorrow, which would be twelve o' one…it's going to be a long two days." He looked up at the deforming sky once more, " So this is the fate for this world to be swallowed by darkness like mine was a year ago, but if mine was revived that means this one can be revived too."

He walked to the bottom of the hill, smelling the faint smell of static and dust in the air; he made a disgusted face, " Jeez…that is the worst smell that's ever passed by my nose." The boy looked towards where the sun would be, " Nothing there just nothing." This is the second world he's seen that's been destroyed by darkness, but he was never been there while the destruction took place. "Do you think your friends will forgive you once you leave?" asked a voice from behind him. He turned around to see another one of those guys in the cloaks, " What do you mean forgive me?" The being began pacing, " You're leaving them here to be swallowed by darkness while you leave…that's what I mean do you think they will forgive you." His eyes widened with angry and sorrow, " I had no choice…I had no other choice but to do this." The being stopped pacing and looked at him, " Really…humph you could have said no to his proposal to slow it down…but no you went through with it. Now look at the world as it crumbles and breaks apart." The boy grabbed his left arm and tears started to roll down his cheeks, " If I would have said no this place would already be gone…and I would be too."" I see it's all about you now is it Sora, what about your friends." The boy then thought of his friends and their soon to be fate creeping up on them. " You see Sora you've sealed all of your friend's fate in the darkness," said the being. He looked down at the ground he felt as if he was going to puke. When he looked up the being was gone, he slowly walked to the top of the street. His cellphone rang, he was very cautious at picking it up hoping it wasn't one of his friends: he answers it, " Hello." " Hey Mark it's me James, crazy weather we're having huh? Well we're all down at the football field and we're wondering if you would come down here and hang out with us?" He hesitated to answer

But he made up his mind, " Sure I'll be right there."

He headed towards the school's football field, walking as slow as he could to extend his thinking time, ' I have to tell them and bring them to the door tomorrow," he thought. When he arrived at the football field it brought back memories of that one night. He saw his friends waving to him the friends he saw were; Taylor, Josh, Sara, Stephanie, James, Delaney, Paige, Lora, and Andrew. He walked over to them and sat down in the grass. " This weather is getting really annoying," said Andrew. " Yeah all this dust and the awful smell," added Delaney. He looked at them all with saddened eyes. " What's wrong?" asked Lora and the others. He looked at the corrupting sky and then back at his friends and explained the whole situation to them. They looked at him with stunned faces about two or three didn't believe him. " Okay Holmes I don't need to hear your pranks about doors, keyblades and corruption," muttered Andrew spitefully. He stood up and looked at Andrew, " Then if you don't believe me watch this," he held out his right hand and in a flash of light the keyblade appeared. Andrew stood there stunned, " You mean we're all going to be swallowed up by darkness while you get to leave!" he yelled as he grabbed the boy's shirt. " You should also be thanking me if I hadn't of destroyed the cause of the corruption this place would not even be here at this moment," said the boy. They looked at him, " This isn't some strange weather…it's the world being destroyed and absorbed into the darkness…haven't you noticed that the sun isn't even there!"

He felt the presence of someone behind him; he turned around to see the cloaked being.

" Sora we have a problem…did you make sure you destroyed the creature in the heart?" asked the being. " Yeah I'm sure that I did…why what's the problem?" he asked. "I've been noticing some strange things…the corruption is going to fast, at this rate the world will be gone by tomorrow morning," said the being. He was stunned beyond belief, " You mean I didn't destroy that monster." His friends put there hands on his shoulders, "It's okay you at least saved us a day of life," said Taylor. " Yeah…you tried your best and even if you didn't exactly win, we forgive you," said Sara. Everyone looked at him, " Yeah we do," they said together.