A human being, consists of two main components.
A body and a heart, both are needed to create a full human being.
The body is easy to describe, it is the vessel in which the heart resides, it is the flesh and blood of human beings.
Their memories and basic abilities are stored in this flesh and blood.
The heart though, is much more difficult to describe. The heart is essential, it is what makes humans feel such emotions.
Happiness as well as sadness, such things as anger and hate to springs from the heart. The desire to protect, but also the wish to destroy, perhaps for vengeance or even just out of such pitiful emotions as jalousie.
A heart is a fickle thing, it can cloud a persons judgment, an otherwise rational person can end up doing very irrational things simply because that is what their hearts commanded.
With time, I came to theorize that the presence of a heart is a hindrance to the development of humanity.
The things humans does, which are considered evil. Hurting each other due to their pride or jalousie, it springs from the heart. It clouds judgment and halts development.
A thought occurred to me… What if you could remove the heart from the human body? Perhaps then reason would prevail.
That is how I made my first experiment.
My test subject had agreed to the experiment of his own free will, he was well informed of any risks.
My intention was to only remove his heart for a short amount of time, mere seconds if possible, and reunite heart and body ones more. Then make tests and asks a series of questions to observe the after effects.
The subtraction went as planned, how-ever the moment heart and body had been separated something happened I had not foreseen.
The heart, got swallowed by darkness the instant it had no body to protect it, and turned into a black demon like creature.
The body as well transformed, turning into a white creature only vaguely resembling a human.
Neither the body nor heart could be talked to or reasoned with, at ones I knew I had made a horrible mistake, I had to reunite heart and body ones more! How-ever, reuniting the two proved much more difficult than separating them.
This though, were only the beginning of the nightmare I had created.
I decided to call the heart transformed into a black creature a heartless, and the body left behind turned white a nobody.
What I didn't anticipate was that both heartless and nobody would attack any human that came near to them, and they themselves had the power to extract the hearts of humans, thus creating yet another heartless and nobody. This way they have been capable of multiplying.
My theory is that both heartless and nobodies search to complete themselves, they are continuously searching for their own missing piece, yet lack the capacity to know what they are doing.
Many of my research assistants whom tried to help contain these creatures has fallen and turned into heartless and nobodies themselves. I cannot allow more people to fall!
My only option has been to hide these creatures in the secret basement of this facility, until I find a way to reunite their hearts with their body. These creatures must remain hidden! And any further research of the heart that is not focused on how to reunite the two must be halted, immediately. This research is to dangerous and I wont allow it to go any further!
Only a few people is aware of the situation as it is now.
My most trusted assistant and friend, Even, is helping me contain the heartless and nobodies. He is the one suggesting a sleeping gas to calm these creatures when they start acting up.
Aelous and Dilan as both head of the guards and competent scientists in their own right has been informed of the situation and is extra cautious to keep out any intruders.
It pains me to say that my dear apprentice and ward, Ienzo, is also aware of my sin as he was present at the first experiment to observe.
Something extraordinary happened though, I could barely believe what I saw when a heartless grabbed Ienzo, I was terrified, afraid that Ienzo to now would have heart ripped from body. But no such thing happened.
Even came to Ienzos rescue and pushed the heartless away, and neither was he ripped in two.
I performed a test, and both their hearts were were undamaged. What I also found is that their hearts are stronger than the normal average heart.
Thus I have been able to surmise that weaker hearts are more likely to be ripped from their bodies, while stronger hearts are in fact able to fight against the procedure.
It is a great relief to know that my ward and friend is safe, how-ever it opens up new questions.
Why are some hearts stronger than others? What is it that makes their hearts that strong? And my other poor assistants who fell victims. What of them?
I thought I was going to uncover the mysteries of the heart, but find myself with more questions then when I began.
Now though, it is detrimental that I find out how to reunite these hearts with their bodies. The poor souls whom has fallen to darkness all depend on it.
This has to stop! I cannot allow it to spread any further. I must find a way to save all these people.
I did not intend for this to happen, but that is no excuse.
My curiosity lead to this, I can only hope and pray that I can stop this and this will be the end.
If there is a god in heaven, forgive me. Help me right my wrong.
Ansem the wise.