A/N:This is the second chapter. Enjoy.
Sora opened his mouth, rolled over and yawned. It was still dark and apparently the sun hadn't risen yet Sora thought. Something poked him and he cried out, "What do you want!" The thing poked him again and Sora brushed it away. Whatever it was felt frosty to Sora's touch and he jumped up immediately. Sora took a good look at his surroundings and realised why it was so dark. There was no sun, moon or stars in the sky. Everything was almost pitch black. The only visible light that Sora could see was coming from himself. Sora wondered at this for a while and then noticed that he was glowing faintly. "What the...?" said Sora. The sound of his voice was quickly enveloped by an eerie silence. Then he heard it. A low growling sound.
Sora knew he had no weapon and so was helpless to fight off whatever it was. Remebering his dream he yelled out, "I won't let darkness take my heart!" Suddenly a much brighter ray of light then the one that Sora was already giving off shot out from Sora's heart. If he had been able to look away from the light Sora would have seen the one who was growling. It was a small blob of darkness which had the ability to imitate other shapes it had seen. It was called a changeling heartless.
Unfortunately, Sora's whole attention was captured by the light. Slowly, inch by inch a sword began to emerge from his heart and when he got a close look at it he saw that it was the one he had held in the dream. The dream sword was a dream sword no longer. The bright ray of light vanished, leaving only two rays of light. One from Sora and another from the sword. Sora looked now for the changeling heartless, first to his left, then to his right. He found nothing. Sora turned around and looked behind him. What he saw made him gulp and shiver. He was on the top of a cliff, taller then the tallest sky scraper. A few bits of earth crumbled away from the edge of the cliff and it was then that he bagan to see how high he really was. Sora backed away from the edge and by a stroke of sheer luck saw the heartless he had been looking for.
Sora swung the sword down at it, faster then he had ever been able to do with the keyblade.
CHING!
Sora looked up and saw that the heartless had grown two arms and changed them into swords and realised that this was not going to be as easy as it had seemed at first. This was the first time he had ever locked blades with a heartless before. They weren't supposed to have blades. In fact he had never even seen a changeling heartless before. The only thing that gave it away was the heartless symbol on the two blades.
Sora struggled with all his strength to push the heartless's blades away and gathering up his strength gave one hard shove which knocked the heartless over. Sora jumped on it, not wanting to lose the advantage. He was about to stab the sword into it but then he was startled by a loud crashing sound (which was of course the earth that he had dislodged). The heartless rolled out from under him, flipped into the air and slashed Sora's cheeks. Sora dodged one of them but the other made a three inch gash on his left cheek.
"Arghhhhh!" Sora yelled. He jumped to his feet and hacked furiously at the heartless who could nothing except guard against Sora's rage. Sora jumped into the air so that he landed on the safe side of the cliff. Then he lunged out at the heartless which fell off the cliff. Three minutes later another crashing sound echoed endlessly throughout the air and Sora grinned, satisfied that he had beaten the heartless.
Suddenly Sora heard another deeper growling sound coming from a lower part of the cliff although it still sounded quite near. Less then a second later he heard the sound of a man crying out for help.
Ignoring the pain in his cheek, Sora ran towards the sound knowing that whatever it was it would probably not be good. A minute later he saw a man standing alone, holding a large golden pitch fork shaped weapon in his hands. The prongs were each a different colour although still distinctly gold. The left one was pure gold, the right one was a silvery colour and the middle one was a misty mix of the two. "Stranger who wields light, you must help me," yelled the man. "The beast is gone for now but he will be back soon!" He was wearing a scarf around his neck which partly covered his mouth so Sora couldn't see his expression. His eyes were a brown colour which looked both dirty and noble at the same time. His nose was sharp and thin. He was wearing chain mail with armour on top. He looked as fierce as a bull.
Sora held out the dream sword and stood next to the man and said, "I'm Sora. What's your name?"
The man sighed. "I have none. I gave it up a million years ago."
"How can you give your name up?" Sora asked.
"When you no longer deserve one," said the man.
"What?" Sora asked with a hint of confusion in his voice.
"You will find it quite easy when you have seen everyone who ever believed in you or supported you suffer pains worse then death and stood by without being able to do anything about it."
"You can't have done anything that bad," said Sora. "Not on purpose anyway."
The man held his finger to his lips hushing Sora. "The beast has returned," the man whispered.
"We'll take him together," said Sora.
"Thank you, Sora."
A monster leapt out from the shadows and tried to attack Sora. Sora swung the dream sword up at it, deflecting the blow. As the creature was knocked to the side Sora got a clear view of it and was shocked at what he saw.
"It can't be," said Sora. "I defeated him already."
"You've fought it before?" the man asked.
"Yeah. It's Xehanorts guardian heartless," said Sora. "Wonder how it got here."
"Many men and other creatures end up here Sora. All of them are linked to a keyblade somewhere.
The man looked like he was going to say something else but Xehanort's guardian (XG) had gotten up again and was charging towards the man. XG attacked the man who held up the pitch fork. The man struggled to hold XG off until Sora leapt at the XG, slicing through it's arms. XG ran desperately at the man and ended up crashing straight into the pitch fork as if he didn't see it. The man did not seem worried when XG hit it. Instead he said "Ymene ym yortsed, ecnalab... Thgiliwt, Sennkrad, Thgil." Three beams of energy shot out from the pitch fork. One was obviously Light while another was just as obviously Darkness. The third Sora assumed, was Twilight. All three shot around XG, swirling faster and faster until XG let out a shrieking moan and then faded away.
"Thank you Sora," said the man. "Now, let us get away from here and into the ancient fortress and I will explain everything."
