Hello folks this is RokuxNami3 with the first prologue of my new fic. I just gotten 4 new reviews and I'd like to thank CaptainImaginat and SomeRando for the feedback and I like to answer back so you gotta see the replies in the Author's Note some will be disappointed in what I have to say and I hope you can understand why I made said decision, I hope you enjoy this chapter of Kingdom Hearts IV though! Like always feedback if needed positive or critic is necessary as my writing skills admittedly need work.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts or Genshin Impact, they belong to Square Enix/Disney and Mihoyo now rebranded as Hoyoverse respectively!
Prologue: The Awakening of Darkness and Light
"H-How could….this happen?" Falling over to his knees the keyblade wielder, Sora feels the sting of defeat after fighting for his life against the man named Yozora.
The aforementioned man walks to Sora barely has a scratch on him "Sorry, but I don't lose."
As Yozora walks to him, memories flash through Sora's mind as he remembered everything that's happened to this point, from the Keyblade War started by Master Xehanort the man who's ambitions haunted him before his reincarnation into this life from his previous one as Ventus, to the death of his beloved Princess of Heart, Kairi all the way to his attempt to revive her which tragically ended in failure. He could only begin to shed tears as he feels this wasn't supposed to happen in anger and sadness, he thinks things should've been different if he put his heart to it, but it seems fate had other plans.
As Yozora is about to reach Sora a voice called out to him. "Hey wait, no need to finish the kid off."
A portal of darkness appears as a man in a black coat appears with his hands behind his back similar to how Master Xehanort positions himself. "I still have plans for him."
Yozora turns to the hooded man with an expressionless look on his face, as this is the very man who told him to save Sora by defeating him. "Well if you have a plan go ahead and do it as I've done my part."
Looking up to see who Yozora is talking to, Sora's eyes widen at what he's seeing as he gains the immediate strength to jump back. "What is this!? You're with this guy Yozora?!" As he about to summon his keyblades, Sora gets trapped in an orange force field via Yozora's crossbow much to his shock.
"Woooooooooo! Fiesty little guy aren't ya, that is to be expected given who you are." Says the mysterious black coat as he calls forth the two keyblades Sora posseses in his hands, much to Sora's disbelief.
Appearing in his hands are two keyblades in the shape of King Mickey's Star Cluster which noticeable differences. The one in his right hand, has a color scheme similar to Kingdom Key, with the right and left sides of the crossguard being in similar color to Ventus' Wayward Wind, but with the same silver blade of Kingdom Key with the teeth still silver, and the crown being lined. The concave rainguard has now been replaced by a blue colored diamond-patterned bell shape. At the top two corners of the handguard are five-pointed star designs that's the token of Oathkeeper, while the bottom two appear to have two screws and engraved in the middle of them being Ventus' Wayfinder. Between the handle and the rainguard is a glass-like dome, deep blue and speckled white like a starry sky, and on the guard below the handle is the symbol of Wayward Winds token. This keyblade goes by the name Royal Crown.
The keyblade on the left has mostly red crossguard, with the left and right sides being black with the grey markings on the black crossguard of Vanitas' Void Gear keyblade. The concave rainguard has now been replaced by a golden diamond-patterned bell shape. On this keyblades top crossguard corners is the symbol of the Oblivion keyblades token, with golden screws at the bottom corners. Between the handle and the rainguard is a glass-like dome, featuring the Gazing Eye usually on weapons like Master Xehanort's keyblade and Riku's Soul Eater sword and Way of the Dawn keyblade, and on the guard below the handle is a gold token of Void Gear. The blade is black and the teeth of the blade are black, and the crown shape is lined and red colored. This key is known as Voidless Crown.
The black coat whistles in amusement on how these keys look considering their history. "Hard to believe these were Kingdom Key and Kingdom Key D, you've really grown as a wielder to get them at this level. I'm impressed now for the coup de grâce." As he said that he crossed the keys together in the form of an X resulting in a flash of light so bright that the two boys had to shield their eyes. As the light dissipates it reveals the keys become one forming a single weapon that looked to be used by a God like something otherworldly that puts other keyblades to shame, this is the X-Blade which in conjunction with its counterpart the almighty Kingdom Hearts has the power to control the very universe they reside in.
Sora in disbelief at what he's seeing can't believe it his two keyblades formed into the X-Blade, but that's impossible the only way to forge one was the conflict between Light and Darkness whether it's by two beings of pure light and darkness which what happened between him and the darkness within him when he was Ventus. Along with the other method being conflict between factions of seven light and thirteen darkness "No way, how could-"
Getting out of his admiration for the weapon as if he's reunited with an old friend as Sora's face the man chuckles. "Oh I see you didn't know, well it's true the X-Blade components are seven lights and thirteen darknesses…" The man then started flailing for the dramatic putting on a show for the two boys. "HOWEVER! When the original X-Blade was destroyed in the last Keyblade War it instead broke into two pieces one hidden in the Realm of Light and the other in the darkness, now do you have any idea on what became of those components?"
Lost in thought thinking of what this man is saying wondering what he's talking about, it didn't take enough time for Sora to come to realization on what became of the X-Blades two halves.
Now if the man wasn't wearing his hood right now, you could see a playful, yet almost sinister smile form on his face. "Ding, ding! That's right kid those light and darkness became your Kingdom Key and the kings Kingdom Key D, I mean come on have you ever stopped to think why were those keys in particular needed to seal the door to the dark realm?"
Not giving Sora enough time to process this information, the man requests Yozora to lift Sora high in the air, which he follows as a ball of light and darkness mixed together slowly gathers on the tip of the X-Blade. Sora noticing what's about to happen struggles to free himself from the orb, trying to call the X-Blade back to no avail until…..
The man fires a beam from the X-Blade as he orders Yozora to undo the barrier, the beam hits Sora square in the chest causing him to scream out in pain as a high concentration of light and darkness pierce his heart.
Within his Dive of the Heart, the beam crash lands on it causing it to crack from the middle. The cracks slowly begin to spread throughout his heart as dark smoke emits from said cracks.
Back in the outside world, the man smiles as he twists his arm that's holding the X-Blade as if he's unlocking something and swings the weapon leading to the slash hitting the sky. Then the night sky begins to crack and break away as it seems to be some kind of aura of light emit from the cracks similar to the darkness within Sora's heart. As the sky breaks apart fully some entity made of light slowly coming out much to the black coats amusement.
As for Sora as it on parallel to this entity, he's emitting this dark aura which seems to golden electricity surrounding him still in pain on the ground from what happened its like he's resisting something as in his mind memories of his life from now to backward slowly fade in shadow. The more he resists the more the darkness grows, as memories from his journey through the Realm of Dreams, his second journey, his life in Organization XIII as Roxas just disappear.
The memories of his first journey from his meeting with White Duck who's a mage and bipedal dog who seems to be a knight, the various worlds of wonder he's seeing from finding and saving his friends, the people he's met and the lessons he learns faded away. The darkness then begins to form into an entity that almost mirrors the light.
Then memories of his past life as Ventus with the keyblade wielders Terra, Aqua, and Keyblade Master Eraqus fade away. Finally memories of a cheerful, quirky, upbeat, and lovable redhead girl, the most precious memories of them having fun at the beach, watching the sunset together, sharing hugs, and sharing a fruit that's said to in legend tie their destinies together forever begin to fade as his loving and kind blue eyes slowly turn golden. Then the last memory flashes in his mind as the darkness becomes too much as if the final light that's keeping him together gets snuffed out.
"Don't ever forget, no matter where you go, I'm always with you." As that final memory gets lost in shadow, Sora releases a roar like scream as the darkness form some sort of dragon like silhouette along with the light which takes the form of a demonic silhouette who both roar in resonation with each other, releasing pulses that effects the realm they're located in and beyond.
When they finish resonating the darkness fades back into Sora as his eyes become dull and lifeless as he falls in the ground and the black coat just applauds himself for what he considers to be a job well done. "Yes! Success, now the ultimate battle between light of chaos and darkness of order will begin! Now I just need to find a proper host for the light, the best entertainment will finally come to be!"
Yozora walks to Sora and pushes him a bit, so he's lying face up and then turns to the black coat. "So he's supposed to fight this light and save all worlds in this plane of existence? How can he if he's in this state?"
"Now, I didn't do all this without a fail safe." As if through his mind he lifts up the almost lifeless Sora as his heart has been damaged again, the black coat then casts a spell that seems to have repaired said damage. "With this he won't lose his life, but I was able to remove all memories of his past and write him a new identity. Also I feel for him to fully come into his newly awakened powers he'd need to start fresh."
With a flick of his wrist he sends Sora off to the vast reaches of the unknown and let destiny decide his fate as he tosses the X-Blade which separates back into Royal Key and Voidless Crown. "Now for you." He turns to the dubbed light of chaos and sends it of to the other side of the unknown and have the feather of destiny point its way to its new host.
Yozora then glares at the black coat. "You better hope this doesn't come back to bite you." Only for the man the chuckles turns to Yozora with a smirk that can't be seen under that hood as he forms a fist. "We'll see as I welcome it."
Within another world three very important individuals from three different nations felt a presence that gave a stronger feeling in their hearts that whatever this was, will bring a great change to their world whether for better or worse.
In one of those nations, a city which has endless rain and thunderstorms, an adult woman standing stall on the main building is watching as what seems to be a star falling from the sky as her purple eyes just look on with no emotion as if not having concern for this new presence, but deep within her heart if she has one a single thought from it is within her mind. "Whatever this anomaly is, it's very existence is a threat to Eternity."
In the second nation where it's filled with busy bodies working hard to make a living, a man in a elegant form fitting attire looks on as he drinks his favorite wine with a calm smile, watching the very same star as it passes the city he resides in.
Finally in the third nation a small boy older than he looks, watches on from under a tree playing what seems to be a Lyre gracefully as the winds blow around him with the star as it lands on a beach. "The destiny of the winds have changed, I wonder what change will you bring to our world, whether for better or worse?"
Author's Notes
And that's the prologue, I hope it turned out ok there's some things I well that could've fixed the writing of this paragraphs.
Also I'd like to answer some reviews I've gotten for the Introduction.
To Captain Imaginat: I'm sad to say that my fic will be one of the first where Disney characters won't make a full on appearance, I do have plans for them to make cameos in flashbacks for an amnesiac Sora in the form of dreams like Roxas had in KH II Prologue. Kairi can't come because I just said in the introduction she's dead in AU Sora's timeline and he failed to bring her back. Now would Riku come, maybe as I have some plans for him within Unreality as he'd be looking for Sora to bring him back home. All and all Disney characters will be referenced and cameo'd, but not outright fully appear as I think in this story cameos are appropriate to show off the impact they made onto Sora.
Also Captain for the abilities Sora would have, to be honest I wanna reset his powers within reason mind you as I don't wanna go too crazy. He'd have Flowmotion, Sync Blade, Magic, Limits like Ragnarok, Ars Arcanum, Sonic Blade, Stun Impact, Ripple and moves like Zantentsuken all in base form. He won't have Drive Forms and Formchanges except for two formchanges like Second Form (which'll based on Ventus his past life in this AU as it'll turn his clothes into the Ventus color scheme) and Double Form (based on Roxas as it'll have Roxas' color scheme), he will have those pillars of light you see in the Roxas and Xion boss fights along with the speed to back it up. I get why they're needed gameplay wise, but I wanna show off a Sora using his full potential he should fully access as Roxas' completed self.
Also the only Foreteller I have on making an appearance is Gula as he has a strong connection to Ventus therefore Sora who's his past life. I don't know about the other Foretellers, but again I'm sorry my story won't be what you expect I hope you can still enjoy it though, also I hope you can find a KH4 fanfic involving the Unreality with Disney characters and villains appearing.
To SomeRando: Are you sure Heartless shouldn't appear? As I was debating on them appearing or not, but with a logical explanation since other stories don't explain much on why they show up. Though it would be funny seeing Sora use an oversize key-shaped sword against the fodder enemies in Genshin.
See you guys in the next chapter have a nice day and be safe out there!
