Hey everyone! This is my first Kingdom Hearts fic, I plan on making it a bit on the lemony side, Yaoi, that kind of stuff. The story is in my OOC's POV his name is Lance, but you'd figure that out soon enough, and well, it follows the original main story, kidnapping the Princess's of Heart, but it's a behind the scene type of thing, from the bad guy's side. Oh! I do not own Kingdom Hearts, nor do I own its characters. I only own Lance, and another OOC that'll be in this later on.
Thanks to Sumi for looking the first part of this over for me, oh, and GO SACHIEL! Yay! Sumi's my best friend on this site and you all must go read her fanfics!
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"Wow, what a dreary place" I whispered as I walked the passages of an underground tunnel. The darkness seemed to be fidgeting all around me, like it was alive. I never knew what had happened to all of the people in the town, why they disappeared so suddenly without any warnings or explanations, leaving me alone in a world consumed by a dark aura.
It had only been two days since the disappearance of all the citizens living in the town, I knew they hadn't gone by themselves, they would've never left the peaceful town and lives they loved.
They had to have been forced to leave, kidnapped you might say, and I was determined to find out where they had been taken, I didn't care. I just wanted to thank the person who rid me of all the happiness that had surrounded me for so many years that had driven me insane and led to my cutting myself. My life had been ruined the day my parents and younger sister were killed in a car accident.
All these thoughts played over in my mind, causing the painful memories of my dead family to resurface. All this time I had sought to end the happiness that this town had made grow so strong inside itself, to end my suffering by bringing it upon the others that lived here.
I didn't mind the dreariness, it seemed somewhat comforting to know that I was finally alone. The shadows twisted all around me as I stepped through the large opening to the surface where the shadows had consumed the colors in the world, making it look like a black-and-white film, but this was real I had come to discover that I knew this place well without the color, and even smiled occasionally when I'd find that I was really alone.
"Hello boy, how is it you have survived my shadows? Do they chase or frighten you at all?" a tall man with long white-silver hair stood before me and stared down at me with a cold glare.
"So they are alive… I do not fear your shadows, they bring me comfort if anything." I announced, the man seemed pleased with my response and looked at me closely.
"Do you wish to stay with the shadows? I am in need of assistance and my shadows have devoured all of the people. You will help me of course, in return for staying in the shadows. What do you say?" The mad held out his hand to shake in agreement, I took it and my new life within the shadows began.
"I am Lord Ansem, and you young man?" The man asked, looking at me to confirm if I were to lie about my identity, though of course I had no reason to.
"Lance, Lance Zerray. Lord Ansem." I looked around, the world was slowly starting to disappear completely as I looked at it.
"Well, this world will be gone soon we must leave now." Ansem waved his hand in front of a shadow and a portal appeared there, he stepped through it and signaled that I should follow.
As I stepped out of the portal I noticed that the place we were in had very little lighting as I had hoped, light bothered me it made things seem happy and showed the people that they should not worry unless it was gone. The furnishings in the room we had entered were scarce and gave it a sort of poor look, though too much would just overdo it. Shadows moved over the walls of the castle near Ansem, and a boy stepped through an open door as I looked at the walls.
"Lord Ansem, do you- who is this?" Came the voice of the boy, he was about a year older than me with shoulder-length silver hair his jade eyes locked with my faded blue-purple in a cold stare.
"This is the new addition, Lance. He will be helping you or completing tasks on his own. Lance, this is Riku he will be showing you how to use the powers that I will give you, or you can learn how to use them yourself if you don't want to have any help, they're not hard to control if you practice." After the end of that sentence Ansem disappeared, leaving me with Riku.
"You wanna learn on your own Lance?" Riku said quietly, "Or do you want some help?"
"I'll get it on my own, I think I'll get it quickly." I stared at him with ease, he wasn't very intimidating though I bet he could prove that he wasn't going to mess around if he got mad.
I figured he'd be a little colder, but it seemed that he'd been looking for something and that he had some feelings for people, unlike me I had no feelings for anyone or anything.
"Fine, then I'll show you where you'll be staying. Follow me and don't get lost…" Riku's voice sounded like he had been angered, perhaps it was me who had upset him but that was none of my concern.
The room he led me to was large and had a lot of open space, not exactly what I wanted, but it was dark and there wasn't anything happy in it at all. Riku had said that I should get used to kneeling to Lord Ansem in spite of the hospitality he had shown me, as a show of respect. I had told him I would of course, I didn't mind kneeling to the person that saved my sanity and got rid of all the happy thoughts and people.
I walked around the room for a minute and spotted a tight black shirt and black pants with chains on them to match, these clothes were similar to mine I had been wearing all black for years and these were just a little better in ways. I walked over to the bed and laid down to think over the occurrences of the day. The covers on the bed were smooth and soft, unlike the ones I had been used to back at my deserted house, where I had stayed after my parents had died. I stripped down to my boxers and crawled under the covers, I covered my head under the blanket and fell asleep.
The next morning was nothing bad, Ansem had me train my powers, not that it was hard or anything, but I found it quite easy to manipulate the shadows. I had attempted things that Ansem thought would not be mastered for at least a week, but I had proven that I was well accustomed to using the shadows now and that I was prepared for anything. He of course, was pleased with my quick use of the shadows, but told me to train in fighting as well as that. He told me to go to a tower on the other side of the castle to meet Riku so he could teach me to fight, or we could spar, but that was my opinion. I think he was glad that Ansem had told me to go to him to learn how to fight, because as soon as I got there he started the teaching with a lunge.
I dodged the first lunge, but was too late to dodge the second hit, getting kicked in the face and hitting a wall on the other side of the room. He ran after me and tried to kick me again, this time I threw him against the wall after grabbing his foot. The sparing went on for hours, leaving both Riku and I weak and unsteady when walking, so we helped each other down the massive hallway towards the living quarters where our hallways connected. My door came first and I leaned on the wall as Riku walked slowly down the hallway to his room about a football field's length. I was surprised that Riku hadn't tried to get me to talk while our sparring match was going, he looked like a talkative type of person.
I walked into my room and fell on my bed tiredly, rubbing my eyes with my wrist and feeling the pain of bruises taking effect. Ansem would not be pleased to hear that both of his helpers had been pretty messed up in the match and this would not be good for either of us also. Riku hadn't won though, of course I hadn't won either so we had agreed on a tie match and stopped.
I ran a hand through my dark blond hair in an attempt to get it back to how it was before the sparring match. I hadn't fought that hard in a while, I had gotten into small fist-fights but those were won with ease, this fight was different, it was a challenge, and I had to do it again. These days in the castle were going to make an interesting life for me if Riku stayed around, but I had figured that Ansem had plans for him so that would mean he would be around.
There was dry blood and open wounds all over my body and I needed a shower, but bed felt so good at the moment. I stood up and sighed, I needed this shower to be ready in the morning, I walked into the restroom and over to the shower. I stripped out of my clothes and turned the water on, letting the water run over my body to wash away the blood that stained my pale skin.
I had never been accustomed to living in such luxury, if that's what you would call this place. The water was warm against my cold skin, and it made me wonder why I had gotten so cold recently. I figured it was from my living in the castle, because that's when it had started. Riku had been warm in the fight though, I had found that out when he had thrown me against the wall by my foot. The water was starting to cool now and I realized that I needed to get out of the shower. I turned the water off and stepped out of the shower, grabbing a towel I dried off quickly and wrapped the towel around my waist.
Walking to the main part of my room I looked around for a pair of boxers in a nearby dresser, finding that all of the clothes in the dresser were the same. I pulled out a pair of boxers and slipped them on, I had slept like this since my parents had been killed so it was a habit. I crawled into the bed and pulled the covers over the lower half of my body so that I wouldn't get hot during the night and wake up. I'd need every ounce of sleep I could get if I was going to fight Riku the next morning, or go on a mission. Of course I doubted the latter of the two ideas, but you never know.
"Lance, get up, we've been summoned to the chapel." I heard Riku's voice near by bedside.
"Really? What time is it?" I mumbled a little, but Riku got the message and set the clock from the desk next to my bed in my hand.
"You've got eyes, look at the clock and see." Riku was teasing me, something I didn't enjoy much.
I brought the clock in front of my face and looked at it, it was almost nine. I sat up quickly and got dizzy making me lose balance for a second and almost fall back onto the pillow.
"I never sleep that long." I said as I looked at the clock, then to Riku who was staring at me with a smirk on his face.
"Hurry up and get dressed we need to be there in five minutes. I'll be waiting outside the door until you come out." He said, and with that, he walked out of the room.
I looked at the closed door then got out of bed and got dressed quickly making sure I looked somewhat presentable with the clothes I was wearing. I walked out into the hallway and found Riku, who was still smirking from my dizziness.
"Ready?" He asked quickly then turned to walk down the hallway.
"Of course." I said, looking at him to see if I could tell what he was thinking.
We walked down several halls and into the Castle Chapel where Ansem was waiting. We dropped to one knee:
"How may we serve you Lord Ansem?" We said in unison, then stood up, once again in unison.
Ansem seemed to be very upset and explained our task quickly: we were to go to wonderland and kidnap Princess Alice. We understood this task easily and left quickly when Ansem released us.
"So, Lance, you think you're ready to kidnap a princess?" Riku said with a smirk on his face.
"Of course." I said once again.
"Not much of a talker, are you Lance? We'll have to change that." Riku was pissing me off this time and I wasn't about to let him win that challenge.
"No." I answered, I tried to act as normal as possible, but my anger was getting to me this time.
I walked silently next to him for the next few minutes as we made our way to the front gate of the castle. I tried to stay as quiet as possible, but even the slightest change in the way I was breathing proved that he was paying close attention to me. He'd tell me I was being too quiet, even though we were in the castle, he didn't care much by what I could tell.
"C'mon Lance, you have to talk sometime." Riku teased.
"What do you want me to talk about? My life? My family? I don't have any!" I was beginning to think that this life here was only going to get worse.
He seemed taken aback by my words, he had a slight sign of hurt in his eyes which told me that he had lost much, just as I had. He seemed a little cold at the moment so I had decided to drop the subject.
"Ok so tell me something, why are you here Riku?" I said this quietly and Riku seemed to snap out of his emotions.
"I gave myself up to the darkness within my heart. Sora, on the other hand was naïve, he's still out there fighting the heartless… Of course I'll rid Ansem of him easily." Riku's voice was cold, filled with hatred, but not his own hatred the hatred of someone else talking through him.
He started walking down the hallway, making sure I stayed close behind, not that I didn't stay close behind anyways. He seemed to be in deep thought because he was very quiet the whole time, he didn't talk until we arrived in a small room where it was easiest to transport within the darkness.
"Ready?" He held out a hand to me and I ignored it, stepping into the shadows after him.
The portal took us to a bright place where everything was irregular, the shapes were all deformed and the light was blinding. I shaded my eyes and looked around, everything was just as I could ever hate it, all bright and joyful. Riku seemed to not mind the world at all, he just started walking towards a door. He opened the door, only to reveal another door, and the same for three more doors. When he reached the final door, he opened it quickly and slipped through, I followed close behind. We walked into another room, even more bizarre then the first, and the name suited it, "the Bizarre Room…"
"Ugh this place is disgusting…" I said as I coughed at the smell of the roses of the garden maze.
I didn't hate the smell of roses, it just hit me while I wasn't paying attention. I stayed close behind Riku as we made our way through the maze of hedges towards the sound of trumpets.
"Looks like the trial has started, we need to hurry so that we can make it there before Sora and his new friends have a chance to prove that Alice isn't the one after the Queen of Hearts' heart, c'mon Lance!" Riku started to run ahead and I took off after him to make sure I didn't lose him, I wouldn't want to get caught in this place…
As I caught up to him he motioned to the high hedges to our right.
"We'll need to stay hidden to get to Alice, she's in that cage right next to the Queen." He pointed over to a large golden cage that was set right next to the Queen's stand.
"Ok, is that your old friend Sora?" I pointed over to the brunette that was walking through the entrance to the forest, probably in search for the evidence.
"Yeah, now we can have a little fun, let's send out a few more heartless." He used some of his dark powers and conjured a vast amount of tiny heartless, then shooed them towards the entrance when they started to go to their normal size.
"What about Alice?" I was getting more confused by the minute, was he having fun or just toying with my thoughts?
"We'll get her as soon as Sora starts to fight the Queen's card henchmen. Until then we can just wait here." He leaned against the bush that extended higher than the platform of the hedge we were on and yawned.
I stretched, I had gotten more sleep then I had thought I would, my body was getting stiff at the joints so I popped my knuckles and back making a semi-loud cracking noises as I did so. Riku heard the cracking and looked at me.
"What are you doing? You getting stiff Lance?" He said with a smirk on his face, he pushed away from the bush he had been resting against and moved next to me.
"Yeah, why? I just got a little too much sleep last night, I'll be fine." I backed away a little, trying not to bring attention to myself, but Riku noticed. His lips curled into a frown and I let out a small sigh.
"Do I scare you that much Lance?" He asked this quietly, still frowning a little bit.
"Wha-? No, of course not! I just, I don't know…" My thoughts were getting mixed up, and my words were coming out in small groups.
Riku frowned a little more, then looked to the side, Sora was coming back and the trial was proved that Alice was innocent, but the queen sent her cards to fight Sora and his companions.
"Let's go!" Riku said as he got up and ran along the hedge towards the cage that Alice was being held in.
I took off after him to keep up and to help him get Alice out of here without being noticed. He stepped up to the cage and used some shadow magic to open the lock, he immediately gagged her and blindfolded her as he let her out of the cage. She tried to struggle, but he knocked her unconscious quickly and we escaped through a shadow portal.
"There, now that was easy, right?" Riku said as he put the girl in one of the large containers in a hidden area of the castle.
"Yeah I guess." I said as I let a small yawn escape as I stretched my arms.
"You look really tired Lance, you sure you got enough sleep, and weren't just up most of the night without knowing it?" He asked as e looked at me with a frown again.
"Nah, I got too much sleep, it's keeping my body tired. I said I'd be fine." I answered, looking at him with an ever so rare small smile.
"Well, now that's a little better Lance, you smiled, it's the first time I've seen you smile." He said, a smile pulling at his lips as he laughed at his comment.
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I hope you all liked the first chapter! I will try to update soon, I really will, but sadly, a friend of mine died on the 20th of March, Monday morning in a car accident. I'll be a little depressed for a while since my dad also previously died in December… Thanks for reading, and I'll see you all next chapter!
