I remember was being engulfed by darkness. I remember Kairi screaming and yelling my name. Why couldn't I respond? It was like there was no air in my lungs and my throat was being squeezed. I don't remember anything after that, just waking up and seeing everyone standing around me. There was a kiosk that was destroyed and some people were holding small wounds. Did I do all of this? "Kairi?" I was so confused.
"I'm here..." she sounded so concerned and worried. What happened to me that made her like this? "Ven?" I looked around for him.
"I'm here buddy, don't worry" he was holding aqua, who had claw marks on her arm. "Did...did i do this?" I couldn't have hurt aqua, no way! "Guys. what happened to me, why can't I remember anything?" Now I was the worried one. "Can someone please talk to me!?" But no one did, they all just looked away.
"Sora," Ven finally spoke up, "you just transformed into a heartless." No way. No way could that happen! My heart was way too strong for that to ever happen. "Thats not possible Ven! My heart is way too strong for that!" Ven just sighed and put his hand on my shoulder. "Listen Sora, even the strongest hearts have weaknesses." I got up and kept denying it, then remembered something, "Wait, does that mean I have a nobody?" Aqua stood up after using a potion to heal up, "We still aren't sure how that whole becoming a heartless/making a nobody thing works, but if our assumptions are correct, your heart was strong enough that it would create a nobody." I looked around, "is everyone ok?" I had to make sure, after all, I caused it, "no one seriously injured" Kairi said as she grabbed my hand.
We were walking for what seemed like hours. I looked at my watch, it HAD been hours. Kairis stomach growled "I'm starving." I was too, we didn't eat all day and I was still feeling a bit weak from what happened earlier. Ven looked around, "everything seems peaceful." It was a bit to peaceful though. After we found a place to eat (where I admittedly stuffed my face) we started walking again. "No heartless anywhere on Destiny Island" Aqua said as she finished the shake Ven bought her. I looked around. It was true, we went all around the island and there were no heartless.
"That doesn't mean they aren't here somewhere." I was still paranoid. I was always paranoid when it came to the darkness. Now that there's darkness in my heart, I have to be careful not to lose control. Kairi looked at me.
"Sora, you okay?" she held my hand firmly, I just smiled at her and kept walking and thinking to myself. We finally reached our destination: Twilight Town.
There were people running round and screaming. "Ven, take Aqua and go to sunset terrace. I'll take Kairi around town and see if we can find any heartless." Ven agreed and went off with Aqua. As soon as they left, Sora and Kairi were attacked by soldier heartless and neo shadows. Strange, Sora thought, I never see neos and soldiers together.
I started slashing through the heartless, but there were too many of them. Just then someone jumped in and started fighting by my side. Kairi was hiding behind some boxes, clearly visible, but the heartless didn't go for her. "Who are you?" I asked the guy, who was also wielding a keyblade.
After the battle, Sora shook hands with the guy who saved his ass. "What's your name? and thanks for saving me back there." The guy just smiled. "Well, Sora, I'm your nobody. My name, is Vanitas" I smiled. So, that's my nobody. "Oh no, Ven!" I run up to sunset terrace too find Ven surrounded by neo shadows. Aqua was on the ground, she looked hurt. I smiled, "Ready Vanitas?" He walked up beside me, "Let's do it!" So me and Vanitas ran in and started fighting, and I got too say, Vanitas was an awesome fighter.
Aqua was unconscious for the rest of the walk back too Aerith's house. I picked up the kids and sent them to bed. Everything should be okay now. I sat on the couch next to Kairi, who just looked at Vanitas, "So Vanitas, you just woke up in the train?" Vanitas was telling us the story of how he found us.
"Yeah, and for some reason, I just had this feeling I was in danger, but I didn't realize it would literally be me my other that was in danger." I just put my hands behind my head, "I had it under control." We all laughed. Ven walked in from downstairs.
"Aquas asleep. I hope she's okay.." Ven was always worried about something.
I remembered something Master Yen Sid taught me. "Want to see something cool guys? Follow me outside." We all walked outside. I prepared myself and summoned the power of strength. My cloths turned red and I was dual wielding keyblades.
"Woah! That's so cool!" Kairi was really impressed. I reverted to my normal form. "I have more." I summoned the power of wisdom, my cloths turned blue and I was sliding on magic. I could shoot magic darts out of my keyblade, Ven just looked amazed at what he was witnessing. I reverted back again. "Ready for another one?" They all nodded. I summoned the power of the masters and my cloths turned yellow and I was dual wielding keyblades again, except this time I want holding the second one, it just floated.
"Wow, who knew my somebody was this cool," Vanitas said as I reverted back to normal. "I have one more, and this is one is really, really cool." I stepped back and summoned all three; strength, wisdom, and the masters. My cloths turned silver and I had two keyblades on my back, I wasn't touching the ground either. "Right now, my attacks can take out anything." I reverted and wobbled a bit. Kairi caught me, "you okay Sora?" I smiled and stood again.
"Of course, I just don't usually use all four forms that quickly." I laughed half-heartedly. I never really use my drive forms in battle, it zaps a lot of my strength. But i do love to show them off too people. Kairi tugged at my sleeve, "yes dear?" I turned to look at her. She had that worried look again.
"Sora!" Vanitas called my name and pointed at my cloths. They had turned a deep black. I could feel the darkness. My eyes glowed yellow and my entire body was covered in darkness. So, this is my anti-form, the heartless side of me. I had little control over my body as I went to attack my friends. No, stop it Sora! Why am I attacking them?! Why can't I stop my body?!
"Hold him down Van!" Ven pointed his keyblade at me and attempted to split the darkness away from my heart, to no avail. He did manage to revert me to good old me again. I passed out right after. I had a dream of falling, falling into the ocean, and then through it. I was in total darkness, the only light was my heart. I landed on a platform and all my mine thought was, where am I? How did I get here? I remember falling... As I was thinking, a girl with blonde hair walked by. "Hey!" I called out to her, she didn't answer. All she did was turn and smile, "Roxas is waiting." was all she said too me.
What did this have to do with Roxas? "What do you mean? What does me being here have to do with Roxas?!" She just turned and walked away like nothing happened. What was going on!?
I woke up in my bed. Kairi, Ven, Van, and Aqua were all asleep on the floor. I didn't want to wake them up, so I carefully stepped over Ven, who was cuddling with Aqua, and Van, who was sleeping against the wall near the stairs. Kairi was sleeping close to my bed. I walked out of my bedroom door and upstairs to the kitchen, where I was happily greeted by Theo and Sammi, who gave me a hug. I smiled and made them breakfast. "We were scared when we saw you fall over Sora." Sammi looked at me a bit worried.
"Ah, don't worry about me kiddo, I'm tough!" I smiled. I made extra bacon and eggs for the gang. Ven was the first one awake.
"Hey Ven, how goes it?" He just looked at me like I was crazy."Dude, do you even remember what happened last night?" I did remember, but I didn't want to worry Ven and the others, or myself for that matter. "Yeah, but I try not to dwell on the past for to long, it just makes things more complicated for the future, which I gotta say is looking pretty good." It was a sunny day and everything was perfect. No heartless around, nothing to worry about. I hope.
"Sora! Catch!" Aqua threw the frisbee and I chased after it. I dove for it and missed. "Clearly a bad throw!" I yelled as I got up from the grassy ground. I threw the frisbee to Van. Perfect throw. "That's how you throw a frisbee!" I laughed as Van threw it to Ven, who, being as athletic as he is, caught it no problem. "Nice catch!" Kairi called out as she wanted Ven to throw it to her. He threw it and it went over her head and into the lake.
"Ah Ven, that was my favorite frisbee." Aqua whined at him. "I'll get it." I took my jacket, shirt, and shoes off. I dove into the water and found the frisbee. They all cheered as I swam back to dry ground. "Thanks Sora!" Aqua gave me a hug, "ew, you're all wet." I laughed and tried to hug Kairi. She ran away and we all laughed. It quickly became a game of 'avoid Sora'. I was finally able to grab Kairi and smothered her in a wet hug. "Haha, I win!" I had either tackled or hugged everyone.
"Good job Sora!" Theo gave me a high-five, Sammi laughed, "You didn't get me!" I smiled and ran at her, she screamed and ran away. I easily caught her and hugged her. We all laughed again. We went home and I got the kids ready for bed. Kairi and Aqua cooked dinner, everything seemed perfect. Still, what did that girl mean by Roxas is waiting? Waiting for what? Roxas was in Radiant Garden, he was in school, there was no way there could be something wrong over there.
Radiant Garden is a safe haven and the last line of defense, the Alamo, if you will, if there was ever a full blown heartless attack, not like that would ever happen. I decided to call Roxas. "Roxas?" Roxas is my brother, i mean, not blood brothers, but we act just like each other.
"Hey bro, whats up?" He must have just gotten out of class, I could hear a bunch of people talking. "Are you okay dude?" there was a bit of worry in my voice, "I mean, is everything okay where in Radiant Garden? Nothing strange?" He laughed at me, "you're being paranoid again Sora," I knew he had a smirk on his face, "don't worry man, everything's fine here." I sighed with relief. I remembered the girls voice, "Hey Roxas, have you ever seen a girl with blonde hair, white dress, and white sandals?" There was a long pause before his answer, "you've seen her to."
Roxas came over as soon as possible. We all talked about my dream and what happened in it. Roxas spoke up, "That blonde girl, her name is Namine, she's in my Science class, we're lab partners actually." I looked at him with a strange look, "Roxas, are you sure it's the same girl, I mean, I saw this girl in my dream, and now you say she's in your class?" He nodded, "no doubt the same girl." Van looked at me, then at Roxas. Ven sighed and shook his head, "what's going on around here."
"Van," I threw him a bottle of water, "anyone else want one?" Everyone shook their heads. I zipped up the backpack we were keeping supplies in. "It's Vanitas right?" Roxas looked at Van, Van nodded, "I'm Sora's nobody." Roxas glared at me, I shrugged. We walked a mile or two when Kairi said she was tired and hungry. "Pleaaaase Sora, there's an ice cream shop right over there." she kept tugging at my sleeve, like she was a little kid. "Okay, okay. We'll go get ice cream." She jumped on me and gave me a hug. I hugged her back and she dragged me over to the ice cream parlor.
Roxas barely spoke while we ate our ice cream. "Rox, what's up man? You've barely said a word this entire time." He looked up, "huh, oh, yeah. I'm just thinking, what did Namine mean by, 'Roxas is waiting', it's just really weird." Suddenly a voice came from behind us, "do you want to know what I meant by that?"