Chapter 2: Brother's in Blades: Black and White
A boy was lying on the ground sweating continuously to where it was almost a giant puddle. His eyes were bloodshot; his body was overcome with slash marks and the blood from them. He stood up weakly and tried to feel around to know where he was. Suddenly, a light shone on the platform he was standing on and revealed it as a very hard thick stained-glass that had images of people on it.
He walked around until he could keep balance on his feet. One particular face he noticed was his closest friend and the picture of the person in the middle. It was another boy in black clothes and brown hair holding some type of huge key. There were circles around this boy and they seemed to be smiling faces that were close to him. It was a white haired boy, a red haired girl, a duck with a staff, a dog with a shield, and a mouse with the same key but a different color.
The boy walked around and thought of what happened to him to look like the way he did, torn up and beaten with blood. He heard footsteps coming in three directions toward him, from his sides and in front of him. He knew who the one in front was, his best friend. But oddly enough he had a key, black, it was similar to the ones in the picture and it had blood on it.
"What are you doing?" asked the boy to his friend.
"I'm protecting you, Vaughn. If you only knew what was to come." the friend said.
"Why is that key with you?" Vaughn asked with fear.
"I told you all I can tell you, protection" the other boy said with gloom.
The other footsteps were starting to get closer and closer until two figures came into view. One was a frail and exhausted blonde haired boy wearing bloody, white clothes and he resembled the brown haired boy in the stained-glass picture. The other man was wearing something that looked like a red vest over a black trench coat with black pants, a red shirt, and a black face mask. Orbs were floating around the man in all different directions.
"So, Vaughn…what will you do go with the weak blonde boy or follow the strength of this man?" the friend asked.
"I want to help people like him, not destroy them." said Vaughn pointing to the blonde haired boy.
A light then appeared in the hand pointing to the steadily falling boy; it was warm and had a cleansing glow. A glare spread and a key formed in his hand it was like his friend's but white. Vaughn stood up and held the blade forward looking as if he were ready to strike. But then something rang through his head, he would be no better than his friend who attacked the blonde haired boy.
"Rick, my friend, you must live uncorrupted and for that you must live in light, not darkness like you prefer to." Vaughn said with almost a chuckle as he gave his key to the blonde haired boy.
"You must not care for her." Rick said with a laughing glare.
"Lata…What does she have to do with this!" Vaughn asked with a very distressed look.
"Everything…and yet, nothing. See one thing you don't know is that, she is your weakness. This key of mine, it thirsts for blood and yours…yours is a very protective thing, it's a shield to the weak, like him." Rick said pointing to the blonde haired boy.
The blonde boy looked at Vaughn and gave his key back to him. The blonde boy revealed a keychain and through it in the air and it fell back down as a key, like the other two. He grabbed the arm of Vaughn and leapt into the air. Vaughn was merely dangling in the air as the boy jumped to another platform that had pictures on its floor as well. Vaughn fell on the floor as they land and it was as he was staring at his self but with all white clothes and white hair.
"My dear master, my name is Roxas and you must be informed." the boy said.
Vaughn looked up at Roxas with a puzzled look. All questions started to fill in his head. His hand yet again glowed and the key was gone.
"Tell me what I need to know then." Vaughn said looking down at what looked to be him
"You have one of the most dangerous weapons in all of the universes." Roxas said pointing to Vaughn's key that was put into the floor picture. "The White Kingdomkey."
"So what was the key that my friend was holding back there?" Vaughn questioned.
"He wields you key's brother, the Black Kingdomkey. Through these keys you are bound together and will oftenly meet in the worst of ways. Meaning that much pain will be foreseen and many will get hurt. He has been captured by a darkness that ensnares very few and is very harmful." Roxas said with a melancholy tone.
"Which leads me to my final question…Where am I, why is he here? I want to know. No, I need to know!" Vaughn yelled in an angered tone.
"My dear master, you are in a place called the World of Awakening. He is here because he needs to be, you have brought the brother keyblades together, which can only end in war or almost perfect harmony." Roxas answered.
Vaughn fell to the floor and looked at the picture that was beside his altered one. It was of Rick, with black clothes black hair and his black keyblade. Moments passed by when the thumping of Rick's boots were heard coming up a flight of magically appearing stairs. Roxas held out his keyblade and motioned Vaughn away.
As Vaughn tried to stand up he was knocked down by Rick he forced him many feet backward. Vaughn put his hand down on the floor and felt the same warmth from when the key appeared but it went cold after a couple seconds and a blue light appeared. Rick suddenly opened a portal of darkness and stepped through looking at Vaughn in fear.
"What's happening Roxas?" Vaughn screamed as light covered his whole body. "Someone tell me!"
Roxas quickly rushed forward and tried to pull Vaughn who was now floating in the air to the ground. It was too late by the time Vaughn yelled:
"What are you doing? Don't come closer…AHHH!"
Roxas lay on the floor with his keyblade covered with blood. Vaughn saw Roxas, it looked to be as if he wasn't breathing. Another portal opened by Roxas and it was white. Vaughn started to cry and yell with anger. He wished he went back to his home on the island called Star-tree Isles. He vanished into thin air and as he did someone walked through the portal.
A big-eared figure cloaked like a mouse in a trench coat came through picking up Roxas' keyblade and leaving a rose with a paper attached that had a mouse head for a symbol on it.
Star-tree Isles
Vaughn landed next to his friend, Lata. He looked at her intently as she was asleep next to him on the shoreline as they were the night before. Vaughn looked backed and saw Rick staring at the two with his bloody trench coat on, waiting for something to happen. Vaughn laid down and took hold of Lata's hand and looked at her. She opened her eyes and smiled, he did the same and they went back to sleep. As they did Vaughn could here Rick in his thoughts speaking to him:
"Protect her, hold her tight. She will soon be gone along with this island for the war shall begin soon.