The Dominator: Chapter 3 uhhhhhh… no Disney… blah blah blah… decency… I love myself… stay away from my… you know the drill. Anyway, Sora has reached the cave entrance, two days after he killed Leon. (If you don't know what I talking about… Read the other chapters!)

The Crystal Heart

There it was. A deep cut into the auburn- colored rock, dark and it looked moist. The key to finding Kairi and possibly to finding the answers to other problems was right before him. Leon spoke of great monsters, but he was vague. Sora clutched the KeyBlade tight, its great silver neck gleaming in the weak sun.

Sora had not allowed himself to be around people since he had killed Leon. He feared he would hurt more people. The last thing he needed was more blood on his hands… Because he didn't allow himself to be around others, he only took some food, and he packed nothing. He regretted that now, because blood stains are hard to remove, and whenever he saw the blood, he was filled with remorse and self- anger. The blood made him look horrible. The real reason he looked like a monster was because he had a pool of darkness up his arm and onto his neck. He also had a small growth on his leg. The darkness shimmered, deep purple-ish black.

He walked carelessly through the entrance, which he regretted because of the steep decline he soon fell over. Great, he thought, bleeding already, and I just got here. The crimson liquid Sora was all to used to was trickling down a small cut on his left leg.

Sora's surroundings were visible faintly in the darkness. He saw rock, of course, but he also saw two tunnels. An inscription between the two walls read:

The door is here, but sealed

To find the key, it must be forged,

To forge a key, one must find the materials,

The materials are here, but hidden,

To find them, choose your routes wisely,

Remember: Sometimes the heart marks the spot, not an X

Leon never mentioned a key…

Sora chose to move down the hallway with an opening shaped like a heart. That was easy. Next, Sora chose to move down the hallway with a red and pink glow. That was easy, too. The third was tricky, because both passages were exactly the same. He stopped and thought… The heart marks the spot… The heart is on the left. Sora chose the left route, which was the correct one.

Sora reached the fourth passage, but there was no opening. Another inscription said:

Blood is an offering worth making

Face the true trials

Find the key to the key

Blood is an offering worth making

Blood is an offering worth making…

Suddenly, a great opening appeared in the jagged rock. Sora moved through, cautiously.

Before him was a great room, like a treasure room of rock. No treasure to be seen. Nothing but a box of glass with the words "Give me Blood" on it. Sora wanted to leave, but a huge boulder smashed the way behind him shut as he turned to leave.

When Sora looked back, the words had turned blood red and maliciously larger on the glass box. Sora had no choice. He approached the small box. He wiped some blood from his leg. He wiped to on the box.

With a dark hiss the words changed to "More… More…" as Sora's blood disappeared into the box. Sora wiped more blood from his leg and put it on the container, but it didn't satisfy the container. Sora realized it wanted more blood than anything healthy. Sora cut his wrist with the KeyBlade and blood poured onto the box. Sora let it flow as he became weaker. Suddenly, the box dissolved and a crystal rock shaped like a heart took its place. Sora reached out and grabbed it.

Pain ripped up his arm and into his spine. His body shook. He felt he was dying. Thousands of microscopic flaming arrows were trying to dig out of him. He screamed in the unbearable pain. He collapsed and fainted, but the pain persisted even then.

In the blackness of his faint scorching oblivion, he saw the words:

The Key is made.

The Key won't be destroyed until it frees the light.

After the purpose is fulfilled,

The key becomes vulnerable again.

The key will come to you when you need it.

Go to the door.

The pain stopped. The arrows left. All his wounds were healed, but the darkness on him had draw up his arm to his chin, on the right side… Sora saw a hallway to his right. He began down it. He heard loudly in his head face the true trials.Giant metal spike flew across the room, one penetrating Sora's darkened arm. He couldn't remove it. It was stuck in his arm. Instead of red blood exploding out, a burst of black came from his arm. He was becoming darkness.

A second round of spikes burst from the walls, but Sora was smart enough to dart down the hallway. Flames ripped up behind him, but he got through a golden arch way. Inside, a room of with gold walls had two fountains in it. One fountain, made of silver, shot up blood. The other fountain, made of crystal, sprayed dark liquid. The wall opposite Sora said, even in the greatest darkness, there is light.

The fountains dried up, and a wall panel where the words were, slid aside. Sora walked into blackness. This place seemed strangely familiar.

A familiar voice said, "Welcome, Sora." Ansem was speaking.

"We've met in the darkness before, remember? I'm sure you do. But I screwed up. I didn't kill you. I've managed killing light in this world, but I can't kill you. Sora, nothing is as easy as it seems. Opening the door to light isn't as easy as finding it, you know. It takes power to open something like that. I have darkness. I will find that door, open it, and control the light to be just another weapon at my disposal."

"You can't open that door! The darkness doesn't have the power to open it. Only the key controls the door."

"Sora, you understand nothing! I came here to open the door. You're death is just an added bonus."

Sora was ready for Ansem this time. He swung madly into the darkness, being sure not to let darkness or panic get to him. It was working for a while, but Ansem hit Sora from behind. The slightest bit of panic entered Sora's mind, and darkness's horrible, heart crushing, blood gushing, puke inducing power went to work. He collapsed, feeling the familiar weakness he felt only once before.

"Sora, this is all too familiar to me! You are still a nothing. You still crumble in the darkness like nothing! Time to die the death of a nothing, just like the girl."

Sora was filled with anger, but the rage and hatred only intensified the pain. He felt his body being wrapped in darkness. He couldn't move. His breath was short.

Ansem snapped his fingers, and a small blade of darkness, glowed enough to be visible. Blood was on it.

"This blade never loses the blood of its victims. You will die by the same blade that killed the girl. Now die!"

The darkness lifted Sora to a standing position. The blade flew at him with hateful conviction. The last thought of Sora's before the blade hit was the last tear to fall from the face of Kairi.

The blade pierced Sora's heart, and it felt as if all of time had stopped. Blood gushed from the open wound. His breath stopped, choked in his lungs. His pulse was gone. Blood came from his mouth. Ansem cackled mercilessly and left. The darkness left Sora as it left Kairi. It set him down, unchanged except his wound.

Sora should have failed then… He should have died… but he didn't feel dead. He wasn't breathing, the pain was immense, his heart was destroyed almost completely, but he didn't die… … … …

…The Key won't be destroyed until it frees the light…

The Dominator: I want to know what happens next, now! Oh, well.

MY DISCLAIMER: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Some random ending about nothing,

The Dominator