A/N: Please read and review. I've got the plot set out in my mind so well that I think this story should be finished within the next three weeks and then I'll finally be able to get on with my KH 3 fic. Hope you enjoy it.
Sora and LWN talked in hushed voices as they walked through the endless abyss. They had talked for quite a while and eventually decided that the first thing they would need to do would be to rally the other wielders down here. Since Sora and LWN were the only ones that had proper weapons they would have to go in alone to free the keyblades however they would not be able to survive long afterwards without help. That was why they needed the other wielders to be ready.
The two walked on in silence for two hours until finally they reached a place so dark and vile that Sora wondered curiously at what evils could possibly be hidden within it.
"Followers of darkness!" LWN called out. "Arise followers of darkness."
Sora summoned the dream sword. "Followers of darkness?"
light shined from the dream sword and revealed several creatures which instantly crept back into the shadows.
"Followers of darkness!" Lwn called again. Slowly they crept out only this time it seemed there where hundreds if them. "You have delved too deep in darkness and unfortunately must reep the rewards of your folly. Do you wish to live out your lives as you are – a shadow of your former selves - or do you wish to redeem yourselves?"
The followers of darkness were all calling yes of something to the effect.
"Very well then, follow me and regain what you've lost and in the doing we may one day get revenge on the one who betrayed you all!"
LWN started to walk off and Sora hurried after him (he did not want to be walking next to the dark followers who were walking a short distance behind LWN).
"Who are they?" Sora asked LWN.
"They are wielders who entered the service of the dark wielder. They mysteriously disapeared in the midst of the final battle."
"The final battle?"
"The final battle of the wielders Sora. It was the most horrific battle imaginable. The dark wielder himself is the only one who survived it."
"How is that possible?" Sora asked, letting the dream sword fade away.
"Well . . ."LWN began.
(A/N:I thought I'd skip the part where everyone gets confused because I couldn't give a good enough explanation with LWN and have instead typed a third person view of what he is explaining to Sora.)
LWN was standing on the top of a tall hill. A dark man was standing opposite him and both were brandishing their keyblades at each other. Then it began. The two ran at each other and started striking blows, each time almost hitting their target. Mere seconds later an army came up behind LWN. At the same time an army came up behind the dark wielder.
"Attack!" The dark wielder yelled.
"The light has not forsaken us!" LWN shouted while at the same time parrying a blow from the dark wielder.
The two armies ran at each other and soon there were hundreds of duels going on between wielders of both dark and light.
Hours and hours passed while the two armies fought each other fiercely. In most cases it was a two person duel but there were some cases where 3-4 people were working together in effect gang-bashing their opponent. It seemed that the only harmonious scene was that of LWN and the dark wielder who were fighting gracefully, each striking vicious blows while at the same time parrying.
Then something happened which broke the monotony of the battle. LWN knocked the dark wielder to the ground. The dark wielder seemed defeated so LWN walked over to him. LWN held the light keyblade high into the air and then swung it down hard and fast towards the dark wielder.
FLASH
The dark wielder was no longer there.
LWN looked around and then saw the dark wielder behind him. What he saw shocked him. The dark wielder was putting on an armoured glove.
"What do you think you're going to do with that?" LWN asked.
"Defeat you!" the dark wielder said with a snicker. The dark wielder raised the fist with the armoured glove on and slammed it down into the ground causing a shockwave which knocked everyone who was fighting to the ground.
LWN got back to his feet and yelled, "You're not going to defeat me that easily!" Then LWN turned to the army which was on his side and yelled, "Fight on, the light will protect us!"
"Yeah right," the dark wielder said, snickering again. The dark wielder calmly parryed a swift blow from LWN and then leapt high into the air. LWN prepared himself to meet the dark wielders attack but couldn't help having a look to see if his people were alright. He gasped. "No, no, no, how could this happen." What he had seen was a sight that horrified him. All the people, both his and the dark wielders were being vaporized and faded quickly out of the realm of the light. He had no idea of the cause until he saw the thousands of broken keyblades scattered about the battlefield. He looked up and saw that behind the dark wielder the sky was full of little balls of red glowing light. The stuck in the air for a few seconds before fading away just like the people had.
"For some reason their cores have left them," the dark wielder said laughing.
LWN knew then that the same thing that had happened to all those people would happen to him, there was no way to stop it. But he was not going to go down without a fight. Just as the dark wielder had fallen to 3 meters above him he leapt into the dark wielder who was pushed into the air with the breathe knocked out of him. LWN landed, took a quick breathe and then leapt back into the air and swung the light blade down on the dark wielder as hard as he could.
CRACK.
"And that is how me and all these other people got stuck down here. Maybe it was wrong of me to say that the dark wielder was the only one to survive but our existence is a shadow of what it used to be." LWN took a deep breathe and then let it out as one large sigh.
"The dark wielder must have been defeated by now," said Sora. "I mean you're the first person I've ever heard speaking of him before."
"I assure you Sora, the dark wielder has not been defeated and even when he finally is defeated his legacy will remain behind for many generations, causing just as much, if not more chaos then he could ever do while he's alive."
Suddenly LWN stopped (they were walking the whole time they were talking). Then he called out, "Followers of the light! Arise my fallen followers, arise and serve the light once more!" He paused breifly as if looking for a sign that he had been heard. Sure enough...
"We are being called to fight for the light once more!" someone called out. Several more calls with something to the effect were heard and then the sillhouettes of people climbing out of deep holes in the ground were seen and then hardly 3 minutes had passed before an army of wielders were stretched out before LWN.
Some of the people were elderly while others were small children. Many of them however were adults in their prime, ready to fight for a worthy cause.
"Thank you for answering the call!" LWN called out to everyone assembled.
"What's this about!" Someone called out.
"Yeah what's this about!"
"Who are they mummy?" one of the children asked their parents as they pointed to the followers of darkness.
Immediately all the attention was focused on the followers of darkness who crept further into darkness then they were already. Meanwhile the followers of the light were staring with hatred at the followers of darkness.
"Peace, my friends," LWN called out. "They are on our side."
"How can we trust them?"
"How can we trust you?"
"You said the light would protect us, Liar."
Sora rolled his eyes. It didn't look like these people were going to be much help at all.
"The light has protected us," said LWN. "Are we not still alive? Are we not still capeable of getting out of here and exacting revenge?"
The followers of the light seemed to calm down a little bit and so LWN took his chance to explain the plan. "This young man and I still have weapons capeable of inflicting damage on the heartless so we are going to attack their fortress and free everyones hearts and see if we can find some information on where the keyblades are being kept."
"What do you mean free our hearts? They're fine!" shouted one of the followers of the light.
Sora sighed. This is going to take far too long, he thought. Anyway he had a better idea or so he thought. Sora summoned the dream sword and shined it's light down on the crowd. The crowd looked angry at first but as Sora shined the light onto each one of them they calmed down.
"A nobody has no emotions," said Sora. "No heart . . . if you believe you have one already then go, leave here and don't come back because you are already lost. But if you want to be saved then come with us and do as LWN says."
LWN looked at Sora with a mystified look on his face. "Where did that come from?"
"From the light," said Sora. "You were right as well as wrong. The light is not protecting us, it is guiding us. We have the choice to follow it's path or not."
LWN grinned. He knew that Sora must be destined for big things. . . he was only 16 and already he knew the truth about the light which had taken him his whole life to learn.
"OK," the light wielder started. "I want all of you to follow us to the dark citadel. Then anyone with a weapon capeable of defeating the heartless will come with us, the rest can wait outside until we free the hearts and keyblades. Is everyone clear?"
There was a collective group of nodding from both the followers of dark and light and LWN seemed satisfied with that and so started to walk on towards the dark citadel.
