Hooray, the much-anticipated third chapter. I am happy that I've even made it this far, I tend to loose interest in things easily so this is a good thing for me. I forgot to say that I do not own Kingdom Hearts in my last chapter so this is for both. And I DO own Lance and the "unknown girl" whom you'll see at the start of the chapter and throughout the story from here on. Please enjoy and review!
P.S. You'll also learn more about Lance's past in here so be prepared for the worst O.o
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What was Ansem doing to this poor girl? Having her chained to a wall like that and not even doing anything to make her comfortable. She looked scared, but that was not my concern, girls were weak and did not know the true meaning of anything. What pissed me off was that Ansem had told us that there was breakfast made and didn't tell us we were to have a girl here.
"Lord Ansem." Riku and I said in unison as we dropped to one knee. Of course, this to us was not the time for formalities.
"I have been waiting for you boys. We have a new addition to the group and you are to train her… She's quite a feisty one, almost escaped the first time I had her in here." Ansem said this all with ease, he had no reason to care whether or not this girl even wanted to stay here.
"But Lord Ansem, we have had everything under control here as it is, training a girl will only delay our already set plans." Riku said as he walked over to the girl quietly.
These plans had been kept a secret from even me as I had not been trusted from the very beginning, Riku had planned on telling me the plans so that I would know why I was doing what I was. He trusted me, Ansem however did not… I knew that if Ansem found out that I knew what the plans were he would punish Riku severely.
Riku liked to show that he was not to be disrespected and looked at the girl as she was silently trying to get free of the chains that bound her to the wall. He walked close to her and played with a lock of her brown-blond hair pulled into two ponytails on each side of her head. She looked like she was already a heartless, as if she had already succumbed to the darkness. She wore a black skirt that shone purple in the light and a tight fitting faded black tank top.
I knew Riku was just trying to scare the girl and decided it best to let him have his fun with her as he would probably leave her to me since I was already a decent fighter.
The girl looked at me with frightened eyes as I walked up beside Riku, I only looked at her for a second, but she seemed to be more afraid of all the shadows that were twitching and slipping across the dark corners of the room than of us.
Riku looked at me and smiled, he looked like he was thinking up a somewhat evil type of plot. I let out a sigh and crossed my arms as he looked at me with his sly grin.
"What are you up to Riku…?" I said quietly trying not to get too big on the topic in front of Ansem.
"Just a little scheming that's all…" He replied in a low voice, we were talking behind Ansem's back or, at least he couldn't hear us then.
I let out another sigh as I leaned against the same wall the girl was chained to and looked at Ansem.
"So what do we have to do with her? She doesn't look very strong…" I said lightly, the girl seemed angry at my sudden insult, though she had been quiet since Riku and I had arrived.
"Train her. She'll be of good use to us later on and we'll need more heartless minions after a short time, what with the keyblade master getting closer every second. We still need to capture the rest of the princesses before he gets to them and stops our plans.
"And you think she'll be of use to us Lord Ansem?" I said as I pointed to my left at the girl chained to the wall.
"Anyone could be of use to us in this part of the plan, we need as many soldiers as possible so that the keyblade wielder cannot pass through and stop our plans before we can get the princesses and open the Door to the Darkness." Ansem explained, I had known that this was our main objective, but how would princesses be able to open the door, weren't they a source of light?
The possibilities played through my head quickly and I figured it would be easier to give up now and ask Riku about it later.
I huffed, this was going to be a long week… and I did not want to waste it with some girl…
"Understood Lord Ansem, I will see to it that these orders are carried out." Riku said quickly before I could open my mouth to object any further.
The girl seemed scared of the fact that two boys would be teaching her things for a while. Riku and I didn't get her down from the wall either; she would have to stay there until Lord Ansem let her down and told her what to do.
I would probably be seeing her tomorrow…
Damn.
"Lance?" Riku waved his hand in front of my face and I snapped back to normal, apparently I had stopped walking in the middle of the hallway and stared at nothing while being lost in my thoughts.
I usually didn't do that…
"You okay Lance? You spaced out there for a minute." Riku asked as he got close to look me in the eyes to see if I would lie.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I nodded and he let out a sigh.
"That girl's gonna be a problem, I can already feel it…" He said as we started walking again, towards the huge double doors that led into the many halls of the castle.
"I know, what was Lord Ansem thinking? Letting in a girl that he just found in another world… It's insane." I said, Riku nodded in agreement.
We kept on our path towards the training room where we would talk about the plans that Ansem had been thinking up. It was a soundproof room so that no one in the castle could hear the cries of pain as people fought and trained in there. Not that there were ever many "people" in this castle, but at one time there HAD to be… though I didn't mind, I liked the dark loneliness of the castle.
"He's been up to some weird stuff lately, I don't even know how much longer I'll be able to understand his plans." Riku stated as he leaned against the wall on the west side, the wall farthest from the door and closest to the weapons rack.
"So what has he been up to lately? He never tells me anything about the plans or about what has already happened." I stated quietly, as if the walls had ears, and technically, they did.
The shadows always reported quickly to Ansem if they heard any talk that could lead to betrayal. I had to be careful not to release too much of my curiosity into the conversation for fear that the shadows would report me to Ansem.
"His plans are all to meet one goal, to open the Door to Darkness. To open it, he needs all seven of the princesses of heart, the princesses we have been kidnapping." Riku said as his eyes scanned to walls, probably looking for any sign of unwanted heartless company.
"Sounds a little strange though, I mean what is he looking to find when he opens it anyways?" I said, sounding a little more curious than I usually was.
"I don't know the answer to that one Lance… He never told me exactly why he wanted to open it so badly." Riku's expression changed to that of worry and maybe even a twinge of fear.
I walked over to the wall he was leaning on and sat down, leaning my back against the hard rocky surface and letting out a sigh. Riku looked at me oddly afterwards.
"You okay Lance? You seem a bit…depressed." He said as he sat down on the floor next to me and looked at me with concern.
I moved over a bit, distancing myself from him by at least two and a half feet.
"It's nothing… just remembering old memories that were better off forgotten…" I pulled my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around them, Riku had an even more worried look on his face now.
"Is it… about your family?" His voice was low, he knew that I probably didn't want to talk about it, but he wanted to know, to find out why I was so depressed.
"Eh… Yeah…" I said quietly as I stared at the wall on the opposite side of the room.
"Oh, you gonna be okay?" He said as he moved in front of the area I had been staring at to look me in the eyes.
I snapped out of my depression stage quickly and stood up without hesitation. I moved away from the wall and headed towards the door, I didn't even try to look back at him as I opened the door and stepped into the hallway.
"Lance, wait up." He said as he stood up and ran after me as I walked down the hallway.
I ignored him and kept walking. I wanted to get away from this for a while so I could think over all of my actions and put up mental barriers in my mind so that the memories wouldn't come back so suddenly anymore.
I felt a hand grab my shoulder and I was spun around, I felt my back connect with the hard hallway wall and came face to face with Riku who did not look very happy. My back throbbed a little where the main contact with the wall would probably leave a large bruise and I tried to squirm out of his grasp.
"Lance you really need to talk about your problems instead of keeping them all inside and making yourself hurt so much!" Riku said as he looked me in the eyes to make sure I was listening.
"Why? This isn't any of your concern, you have no right to tell me what to do!" I said as I shoved him away from me and took off down the hallway. He chased after me quickly.
Damn, he's persistent.
I ran into my room and slammed the door shut locking it quickly behind me. I leaned against the door and slid down onto the floor breathing hard.
"It's no use having a door Lance… even if it's locked." Riku's voice came and I knew he was creating a portal into my room with the darkness.
I kept my gaze at the floor and pretended not to notice him coming into my room, I pulled my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around them once more. I could feel his saddened gaze ripping at my side as I kept quiet and pushed the thoughts of my past aside.
"Lance you know you won't be able to keep your problems from me for long don't you? I don't want to have to ask you again to tell me what's wrong with you." Riku said as he knelt on the floor next to me.
"Just leave me alone… I don't need anyone around to try and ask what's wrong with me." I kept my voice low, though I couldn't bring it any higher even if I wanted to, Riku was getting too close and on my nerves every second that passed.
His hand reached out, I shuddered and backed away quickly leaving him with his correct presumption, something was wrong with me. Something was wrong and I didn't want to tell him about it, for all those years I had been alone. For all those years I blamed myself for my family's death and I wouldn't let anyone know why I was so hateful and distant from the rest of the human race.
"Lance, tell me what's wrong with you… I want to help you if I can and I won't know how if you won't tell me what's wrong." Riku said as he looked at me, worry showing through every expression.
"I… I… have no one…" The tears ran down my cheeks and onto the floor as the memories of my past played through my mind over and over everything I hated being shown before me in a horrible pattern.
Past
"Bye bye brother Lance! We'll be home right after my show okay?" Kaylie said as she and mother and father walked out the door to go to the ballet performance Kaylie was supposed to dance in.
I had stayed home because of a kid at school, who had previously threatened to burn down our house. I had stayed behind, worried that he might try to do it while me and my family were out. So I sat there, the television was on and I had wished I had told my parents to stay home with me so that it wouldn't be so lonely. I had no friends at school and no pets either so I was lonely without my younger sister around.
Kaylie had always dreamed of being a ballerina and had gotten very good at it for her age at the time and I had always supported her and gave her reassurance if she thought she wasn't going to make it to ballet school. I had promised her that I was going to go to that performance of hers so that I could see all of the beautiful dancing she had worked so hard to get right, but I didn't, I stayed home, afraid that some stupid kid was going to burn down my house.
I could've gone with them, could've watched my sister's performance and died happy, but no. I had broken my promise to her, the one thing she wanted me to do most in the world for her, the only thing she had ever wanted me to do for her. That was when it happened, I was thinking about how wonderful her performance had gone and that they would be home soon, I had been flipping through the stations on the television when I saw it, my family's car smashed to pieces in a ditch and an ambulance and police in a hurry to save my family. I had ran out the door barefoot the ditch was nearby, up a few streets and across the highway and park that me and my sister always used to play in.
I ran across the street almost being hit by several cars and getting splashed with the water from the previous hour's rain. I ran to the ditch where several police had tried to block people from getting through to see what had happened. The news crews were filming every minute of it and getting the crowd of people to settle down a little bit.
I burst out into tears as I saw my mother, practically ripped apart on a stretcher being rolled to the ambulances. I ran towards the ambulance and was stopped by a large policeman who held me back as I struggled to get to my mother and the rest of my family that was currently also being taken to the ambulances on stretchers.
"Mom! Kaylie! Dad! Let me go! Those are my family!" I screamed as I struggled to pry myself from the police officer's grasp.
The police officer howled as he grabbed his hand after I bit it and took off towards the ambulance that my mother and sister had been put in. I jumped into the ambulance quickly only to be pulled out by the angry officer that I had bitten and slapped across the face by him. A cut formed down my cheek from the large ring he had worn when he slapped me, the blood ran down my cheek and tears streamed down my face as I punched the police officer and jumped back into the ambulance as the paramedics closed the doors and drove off.
The paramedics in the ambulance looked at me sadly, they seemed to be nice people and I asked them if my family was okay. They frowned; their expressions telling me that something was wrong, that my family wasn't okay and that they might not live or were already dead. My expression turned grim, I went over to my mother's side and put my hand on hers feeling that it was cold as ice. I knew what this meant, my mother was dead, my father and sister probably were as well. I turned and looked to my sister who looked horrible; blood covered her face and body and her eyes were shut tightly.
End Flashback
My eyes were wide, the tears were flowing and I wanted them to stop, I wanted to be alone and to never see anyone ever again, and most of all I wanted my family back.
"Lance? ...Lance? Hey Lance!" I could hear Riku's voice calling my name and I couldn't bring myself to answer him and stop my tears.
"LANCE! Snap out of it!"
"Huh?" I couldn't speak and as soon as I figured out where I was I felt his lips crash into mine.
My eyes widened as I realized that he was kissing me.
Wait…
What the hell?
My brain practically shut down and I froze. This was not happening, it couldn't be. Not with him and not like this at this time. I looked at Riku, his eyes were shut and I saw a tear run down his cheek. He pulled away and my mouth dropped open in awe as the tears kept coming down my cheeks.
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Sorry to leave this chapter like this, but hey, I reached my limit and I just HAD to get this out since it was so much later than I had planned to update. I look forward to MANY reviews. I might not be able to keep writing without more motivation from all you guys. Thanks for reading! I'm looking for at least a total of 20 reviews before I update next so if you want to continue reading you'll have to help me out.
