Chapter 2
The next day Jayson went in search all over the town after school to look for Riku and Kairi, since they promised him a lesson soon about magic, but no one knew where they had ended up. Assuming they had gone out on another mission to look for worlds to save and probably catching up with the other wielders who had helped them during the second Keyblade war he went home and decided to rest on what had almost happened the day before, though it hadn't left his mind since then. "I was almost able to wield a Keyblade, but who was that voice attached to? And why did it want to help me? Maybe if I try again…?" As his arm stretched out further he heard his mom scream from the kitchen as dishes and metal clattered and broke. Jayson immediately sprang into action and bolted down the stairs and into the horrifying scene. His mother lay there amidst a small group of soldier heartless, all jittering back and forth.
"BLIZZARA!" Jayson bellowed, both hands outstretched as a sizeable chunk of ice erupted from his hands before dispersing in a shotgun blast and making quick work of the heartless. He ran forward and grasped his mother in his arms.
"Mom, please don't go, please! Cure! CURE! CURA! CURA DAMNIT!" Her body began to dissipate despite his best efforts, and as his mother became a floating heart, an anger stronger than anything he had felt burst forth from Jayson, and he ran out the front door his jaw dropped at the spectacle floating above the islands. It was a massive ball of swirling debris, darkness surrounded the edged as a sick orange-red tinted the center.
"RIKU! KAIRI!" an immediate sprint towards the area below the orb landed Jayson in the town square, with the fountain toppled and hearts floating magnificently above and into the orb, a man stood atop the broken fountain, he wore a black coat with a hood, his face hidden, he spoke.
"Well now, if it isn't the master's insufferable whelp! Come to fight me? Without a Keyblade? HA! As if! Like your heart is strong enough to even wield a thing as legendary as a Keyblade!"
"YOU SHUT UP, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME! OR MY MASTERS! TELL ME, WHO ARE YOU AND WHY DID YOU BRING THE HEARTLESS HERE!?"
"Oh, come on kid! The old masters have to return, to make things right in the galaxy, and you and the other wielders will only get in the way of that, which is why I made sure your masters are safe and sound in the Realm of Darkness, and as for my name, well… you can just call me Luxu!"
"WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!? WHO ARE THE OLD MASTERS?! WHY WON'T YOU STOP SPEAKING GIBBERISH! I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO, I DON'T … AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" In a blinding rage, hot tears of anger began to stream down Jayson's face as he rushed the hooded man, swinging his arm as if he had a blade in it, and in a flash of light and stars a blade appeared in Jayson's hand mid swing, the blade was iron and gold, in the shape of a key, it's teeth had the shape of a crown, and the hilt was guarded by a pseudo square of gold, the connecting piece was blue. As the heavy arc came down the hooded man caught it and even though Jayson couldn't see his face he could tell the bastard was smiling. He spoke again,
"A real, genuine Keyblade, who'd have thunk it? Oh yeah, me, because this was my plan all along," he looked down at the blade and snickered a bit at whatever had caught the man's eye.
"and no keychain to show for it, tsk, tsk, tsk. It's a real shame, in any case, I've got to go now, toodles!" he tossed Jayson, Keyblade and all, to the ground as he summoned a corridor of darkness and walked though, and that was all Jayson saw before unconsciousness took him and he knew no more.
As Jayson fell, down, down, and even further down, he contemplated on where he was,
"I could be dead, fallen to the darkness as soon as I get my Keyblade… ha, that sounds about right… but if I've fallen to the darkness, why am I not a heartless?"
That's because you aren't dead, you're just in the station of waking, in your heart, I'm gonna help you so you can wake up, alright? That voice sounded like it was coming from all around, and as soon as it spoke of where he was Jayson landed on a red stained glass platform, Riku and Kairi's faces were shown within two circles, surrounded by darkness, a boy- Sora- was upside down, reaching outwards, towards the Keyblade Jayson had wielded earlier, opposite Sora was Jayson himself, hand reaching for the exact same thing, the Keyblade in the center, Jayson stood in the middle of the Keyblade, stunned. He tried to speak but realized he couldn't, he decided to think instead.
"So, what is the station of waking? And why am I here?"
"Well, you're a Keyblade wielder, right? This is something we all go through, this is also where you'll get your ability to truly wield a Keyblade, neat, huh?" Jayson just nodded in response and three small pillars slowly rose from below the glass, on one was a sigil of a sword, the other a shield, and the final one a magic rod. The mystery person spoke once more,
"Magic, Strength, and Protecting those who matter, what will you choose, young wielder?" Without hesitation Jayson stepped over to the pillar with the rod sigil on it. As he touched the sigil it dissipated, and the pillar sunk below the station once more.
"Now, what will you give up in equivalent exchange?" Again, with little hesitation Jayson walked over to the sword sigil and pressed his hand against it, causing it to sink once more, the voice spoke one final time, confirming his choices and once he nodded the entire floor broke under him and with that he fell into another deep, deep slumber, and he knew no more.
Gummiphone entries:
Luxu: The cloaked man from chapter one, releasing a heartless to bait Riku and Kairi out, sending them to the realm of darkness, and destroying destiny islands. He left Jayson to die with the fall of the world, but it seems that he may have miscalculated in his efforts…
Realm of Darkness: One of the three realms, the other two being Light and the Realm Between. This realm is a twisted amalgamate of the fallen worlds from the realm of light. This place is also the home of the heartless, the despicable enemies Jayson must face come from this realm.
Heartless: Creatures born of pure darkness, looking for hearts to corrupt and turn to their own side, although they can occur naturally from the Realm of Darkness, they can be synthesized through certain experiments and other nefarious methods.