Now on with the story! The thank you part is at the end.
Chapter 7: Memoria Pt.2
Flashback
"I remember!" Light cried out in the middle of night. He woke up and threw the sheets off of his body and opened the door in a frenzy, he ran out quickly and knocked on the door with a black dot in its center. He didn't care if he was in his shorts; this was something important to the two of them. He knocked again, "Dark, open the door!"
He could hear rustling in the distance and he jumped to and fro on the tips of his feet waiting for his friend to open the door. Dark opened the door after finally climbing out of bed. She was wearing a black under shirt and grey shorts. She blushed slightly noticing that Light failed to put on a shirt, but she recovered shaking her head vigorously.
"My I ask why?"
"I remember!" he said shaking her, until she imagined that her neck would snap and then she pictured her body on the floor and that her head would roll on the floor. She looked back at her friend with a confused face. He grasped the necklace around his neck and looked at it for a moment. "Back in the other world, you know the ones we explored! Besides the four of us was another girl! Remember we use to just kickback and relax after a long days journey!"
"What… kind of girl was she?" Dark was still more asleep than awake.
"You remember she was really bubbly…" he said trying to remember. He remembered having someone sneak an ice-cube into his back. "Sneaky… And… when she wasn't doing that, she would always draw pictures too." He remembered the five of them sitting there and watching her draw, Light once had a moustache drawn in his picture. A good friend of Light had smirk etched onto his face. "But then… I remember that she left one day, remember?" Dark didn't say anything. "He and I looked for her, and we couldn't help but feel upset, we found a note on the old man's house saying she had moved." He said letting go of the necklace that hung around his neck.
"Her name… It wouldn't happen to be Ames, would it?" Dark finally spoke out something.
"So, you do remember?!"
Dark shook her head, nothing was coming up in her mind. She knew nothing about this 'Ames' person, all she had was a name and nothing more. "But if you remember her… Maybe I wasn't there those days…"
"I'm pretty sure you were…" Light said sounding very positive.
"Let's talk about this in the morning though, I'm tired…" Dark said slamming the door in his face. Light stared at the black dot fixed in the center and smiled in triumph.
Still what those didn't know that somehow remembering her was going to be a dreadful thing as well. 'You may no longer be you' those words plagued their hearts to no end. Dark one day stopped looking alongside Light, but eventually she went back because she couldn't handle being alone for that long. Light didn't want her to feel upset, but he knew she was afraid of moving forward.
Now to the present matter of it all the two of them were waking down a sidewalk that led to the more neon lit part of Amber Pacific. This place was filled with take-out areas, and nail salon signs, rental car areas, movie theaters, anything that could light up an area, it had. Dark smiled slightly watching the lights, she had never seen so many lights in her life, everything seemed so bright even in the darkness, and she loved it. Light sighed for a moment complaining, he was saying that the place was going to blind him, and the two of them continued walking forward now.
"You don't remember her, do you?" Light asked walking along the crowd of people. Dark shook her head, she had no memory of this 'Ames' person, nor did she really want to know. Something told her that it was best if she just didn't remember her at all, but Light thought that was just being cruel.
"I don't think I should…" Dark said softly and looked down at her feet for a moment. Her black shoes moved her forward, even when her heart didn't want to. She sighed once more and continued on towards her path. Something was guiding them through Amber Pacific, even though Mr. Brooks had warned them.
Flashback
"We'll be fine Mr. Brooks," Light said grinning. "We've got each other, so we'll be fine."
"( ) and ( )…" the old man said in worrying tone. "You two are like my own children. I know that being a Keyblade bearer is no easy task."
Dark and Light looked away for a moment feeling some sense of dishonor, they remembered as the two of them were Keyblade wielders they had a right to uphold peace, but it pained them to know they couldn't use their Keyblades to do so. It didn't even faze the two of them that the old man called them by their true name, they didn't really feel anything. Mr. Brooks feared that the two of them would soon lose their sense of identity, a name was a precious thing, it was something not to have been forgotten so easily.
"Just write your names down…" he advised them seriously. "Don't forget them; you probably won't be able to be yourself without your real name."
"Yeah…" Dark said writing the first letter of her name. She looked back at Light and watched as he wrote his name slowly, he was almost afraid of what going to appear on the paper.
Light sighed for a moment and pulled out the thin sheet of paper that was tucked into the back pocket of his jeans. He looked at the name and felt a wave of relief just wash over him, remembering his real name sounded almost to good to be true, it was something that was all his own that no one could take away. Still it would've been nice if he could openly say his name, but he knew that both Dark and he were in danger, but of what, that was something they were still trying to piece together.
In the distance a figure was slowly approaching the two of them as they walked through the crowded streets of the neon lit area of Amber Pacific. The blonde hared figure walked silently alongside the same sidewalk on which the two individuals traversed along. 'Man I don't want to just end up playing the little messenger, there's no point in it for me,' he thought to himself as he kept a close eye on the teen with the red shirt, and the female with the black shoes.
"Do you remember her now?" Light asked.
"No! Stop asking me!" Dark finally snapped and stopped walking. "I'm getting sick of hearing her name, and I don't even remember her. It would've been better if you didn't remember her name!" she said growling for a moment. Nusvext found some pleasure in this, knowing that the one they were talking about could hear them so perfectly well. 'You hear that, the one who you want to get to know doesn't want to know you…' the blonde thought forming a small smile.
"That's pretty harsh…" Nusvext finally spoke to the two of them, he walked forward and his boots made sounds as the modified footwear connected with the concrete. "You know when that poor girl finally hears how you don't want to remember her, she's going to be heartbroken, and her soul's going to feel crushed."
Dark and Light turned around and stared at the blonde hared male. From his appearance he looked about a year or two older than Dark. Light felt as though he had seen this person some where before, the blonde hair and blue eyes looked too familiar.
"Who are you?!" Light yelled out.
Nusvext crossed his arms and gave a big smile. "So, are you two enjoying your stay in Amber Pacific?" The newcomer ignored the male teen's previous question. Light looked back at Dark and then the two looked at the new comer dressed in black. The two partners didn't like the look in the older teen's eyes.
"That outfit…" Dark said softly looking back at Light for a moment.
"You're with Xejicka, aren't you?!" Light pointed at the blonde hared teen, and the newcomer grinned.
"Clever." He said in a slightly pleased tone. "The name's Nusvext." He stretched for a moment and looked around. The other two noticed that time had stopped for them once more. Neon lights lit the path for that certain part of the town, night was about to fall. "I bet that it's really nice, to still hold on to a sense of identity, and create new memories for yourself, and also awakening the true memories that lie deep in your heart."
Light gave the newcomer a strange look, giving a little scowl. Dark growled slightly forming a fist, she was shaking a bit. "You said 'that poor girl'…" Dark informed Nusvext, and she walked forward. "Tell me, do you know her? Is… Is she… here?" she asked him, shaking her fear slightly.
Nusvext stood up tall, and looked down at the girl, "'Tell me'?" he repeated, giving her a mild glare. "Is that how you ask someone a question?"
"Well…um…" Light put two of his fingers together and tried to think. "What she means is please tell me, your majesty? Err…"
"Light!" Dark yelled stomping her foot.
"I-It just came out that way!"
"Anyway if you know, tell me!" Dark ordered looking back at Nusvext.
Nusvext was a bit more preoccupied fixing his hair for a moment. "Anyway… You should already know that answer to that…" he said ruffling his hair.
"…" Dark felt her eyes widen.
"No way. You mean… She is here?" Light asked stopping in his tracks.
"Yes and no." Nusvext said pulling something from the back of his pocket. "But you see there are bad guys that are holding her deep within a castle." Dark and Light jumped back noticing the sharp throwing knives in his grasp. "And you two, the Hero and Messenger, have to go and save her. Sadly, you know as with all fairy tales, there's a catch…" something moved through air and the neon lights reflected off the metallic surface. "I'm a bad guy, so you have to go through me!"
Light felt himself get pulled back, and he narrowly escaped the yellowed colored knives with the light blue handles. There was a crest at the end of the handle, something neither one of the teens had ever seen. Another knife whizzed through the air, and Dark threw herself on the ground, trying hard not to get hit. Then another knife was thrown and Light felt himself get pinned to a wall. Dark picked herself up, narrowly avoiding a punch from the kunai wielding maniac. Light pulled himself away from the wall and tried to kick the blonde male teen, but Light got punched, and shortly was knocked in the ground clutching his right shoulder in pain.
Dark moved forward and tried to hit Nusvext somewhere close to the face, but he moved faster than she had expected. He grinned watching Light stand up, blood was running down his wounded shoulder. Another knife whizzed through the air, and Light didn't have enough time to move back. He was brought back to the ground, and something metallic clinked against the concrete sidewalk.
Flashback
"This necklace…" Light said pointing to the second item around his neck, it seemed like a very familiar shape. "I know someone else gave it to me, but I can't remember her name." Dark stared at the other item, trying to remember the story behind the royal shaped pendant, but nothing came to her mind.
"That one…" she gingerly touched the pendant that seemed almost ominous. "That one is important to you too?" Light nodded and looked down at the necklace around his neck.
"I just wish I could remember that girl…" he said to himself softly.
Dark watched as both pendants and the chain fell to the floor, and she looked back at Nusvext with some anger in her eyes. Something was starting to flood back into her mind.
"Light!" she looked back at him, and noticed that he was on the floor panting heavily, his right shoulder was still bleeding. She gripped one of the key chains that she kept hidden in her back pocket.
"Sorry about that. Are you all right?" Nusvext asked withdrawing his weapons of choice. For some reason Light could feel as though he got a jolt of static electricity when the weapons had connected with him. Light stood up, his companion helped him stand his ground.
"You-" he began to speak.
"Oh?" Nusvext's blue eyes looked down at the ground, by Dark's feet. "Dropped something, have you?"
Light and Dark watched the two pendants that were on the floor. One pendant seemed like such a foreign sight to the two companions. Light and Dark looked back at one another with puzzled faces. "Is that mine, or yours?" Light asked pointing to one of the pendants.
"You've been wearing it all this time, and you forgot?" Nusvext asked Light and looked back at Dark for a moment. His blue eyes looked down at the little pendant. "No, you couldn't have. That memory is engraved in your heart. Now, come on Light think. What, oh what…" he noted the wide eyes of Light and Dark looked away, "…could it be? Who gave it to you? Ask Dark though, she probably knows more than you do…"
"A…" Dark covered her mouth and looked down at the ground. She shook her head when Light asked her to continue you.
"Come on Dark, I know that you know. She was the one who told you to give it to him." Nusvext said trying to coax the name out of her. Dark shook her head, she was on the brink of tears, she felt sick inside. "Come on, Light doesn't remember…"
"Yes he does…" she mumbled softly looking up at Nusvext's blue eyes, they seemed to be enjoying the little show before his eyes. "Am…" she shook her head.
"That's right! Come on, free the memory from your heart! Her name stirs up the soul doesn't it?!" Nusvext yelled slightly, he laughed noticing the pained look on the teens face.
"Knock it off!" Light said standing in front of Dark. He growled for a moment looking back at the dark hooded member.
"Ames…?" Dark finally said her name.
In the distance from an area far away a young teen was watching the strange world change colors, the sky went from a deep shade of purple to a light hue of black and blue. She touched the glass for a moment and stared off into the distance, something in her mind echoed her name, the voice sounded so distant yet so familiar. She looked up at the ceiling with a puzzled look on her face for a moment. The girl pushed back some strands of silver hair and felt upset for some reason.
"Well it's about time." Nusvext said with a small grin. "That's right. Ames. She's the one who gave you that little cheesy pendant. Not that either one of you actually remembered her. Remembering a name is enough, but what you feel from that name is just as important…" he grinned noticing the pained look on the two of them. "No surprise though, seeing as you forgot about her. Talk about you two being heartless…!" Nusvext walked over to the two fallen pendants and his had hovered dangerously close. "It's serve the two of you right if I smashed these two pieces of junk!"
"Don't you touch it!" the two teens yelled. Dark quickly picked it up and gave it back to Dark. "Ames gave this to me." Light said scowling. "It's important to him!" Dark said defending her friend. "It's a precious memory!" the male companion said grasping the pendant tightly.
"Precious?" Nusvext asked mockingly. He watched as the kunai disappeared from the ground and the other areas where the blade had lodged itself in. Light winced as he felt the weapon leave his shoulder. "Spare me…" he said gripping the handles of the weapons in his closed palm. As fast as lightning the small knives moved through the air. "A couple of minutes ago you didn't even know what it was!"
The knives barely grazed Light, but he felt something else coarse through his body, rendering him paralyzed at the moment. His shoulder was still bleeding and he felt heavy for some reason. The knives were lodged into the wall of a near by building. Time was still frozen, but for Light and Dark's relief of mind this was nowhere near the pedestrians. Nusvext moved forward, and Light struggled to look up at the savage blue eyes.
"Brats like you two really get on my nerves. The two of you are so clueless!" The knives appeared in his hand once more, Nusvext was ready to bring the knives down. Dark rushed forward gripping the keychain in her back pocket, she closed her eyes and ran forward.
"You're wrong!" Dark said bravely, Nusvext felt something stop his attack. He watched as a strange looking weapon blocked his attack. His eyes widened for a moment and looked back at Dark, she was protecting her fallen friend. "Listen here, we don't need you to tell us what's precious!" she responded pushing Nusvext back with her weapon.
Light felt his eyes widen as he stared at the Keyblade in awe and in fear. Dark had missed the feeling of having a weapon like that magnitude in her hands once more. She felt the sleeping power of the weapon flow through her, and she gave a sigh in relief. Nusvext recovered and gave a cold look. He groped through the pocket of his black coat and pulled out a card.
"Hmph. Grow up you two." A card struck Dark on the temple, and she fell back slightly. Light picked himself up and helped his good friend up. Light stared back at the weapon in the girl's hand, the keychain clinked against the handle. "Here have another card to play around with. It'll guide you to more answers…" with that the teen started to fade away.
"WAIT!" the other two yelled. Time started to move forward, and Dark pulled Light away from sight, holding on tightly to the Joker card. A teen with a bloody shoulder and a teenage girl with a strange weapon didn't really look all that reassuring on the streets.
Light started to heal his shoulder when he noticed that Dark slumped her shoulder forward, withdrawing the Keyblade.
"Dark?" he called out to her. She shook her head and placed a fist on the wall of an alley. Light looked back down at the necklace he held and tucked it into the front pocket of his modified red shirt.
"I… I HATE HIM!" she said closing her eyes tightly. The same sick feeling was coming to back to her. "It's not… It's not fair that he's the one who made me remember now…" she said looking back at Light with watery eyes. "I know…" she paused for a moment and looked down at her black shoes. "Ames, I know that she's… I just didn't want… I just didn't want to remember now because… Because I…" she couldn't find the right words to continue.
"She's too special for that, isn't she?" Light asked, and Dark nodded letting the tears fall from her eyes. "She cared a lot for you…" Light said remembering how happy Dark and Ames were just being around one another. "You guys were like sisters…"
In Castle Oblivion
Xejicka had made it back just in time to watch everything that happened moments ago. She now sat on the couch licking the last bit of ice-cream left from her Popsicle. She sighed for a moment watching the Popsicle stick in her hand. The flavor never did last long, but the memory of eating it did. She looked back at the book near her feet and picked it up reading through the first several pages once more.
'Light My Fire' a published memoir by the keyboardist of the group called 'The Doors'. It contained important facts about the man by the name of Jim Morrison, who had been the lead singer of the band. Xejicka hummed the song the book was published after and heard someone walk around.
"Maybe you're the one that needs to grow up, Nusvext." She had a playful smirk on her face as she heard that Nusvext had stopped walking about.
"Oh, shut up!" he said glaring at her. "I hate children in the first place. Though to be honest you remind me that… I hate children AND idiots!" he said feeling ticked off.
"Ha, ha, ha…" the two organization members looks in front of them and noticed another figure come into view. A man with rather long blonde hair and green eyes appeared before them. "You seem certainly sensitive at the moment."
Nusvext looked down at his feet and sighed, and Xejicka looked at Shimasax for a moment and went back to her book.
"Just what I need… Another idiot to irritate me." Shimasax felt his eyes twitch for a moment as Nusvext ignored him and at the same time disrespected him.
"SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR YOUR ELDERS!" He snapped feeling his eye twitch again.
"So… Can we help you, Shimasax," Xejicka asked him putting her book down on her lap for a moment. "It's not very often that we see you above ground." She noticed the snickering on the older members face, and she tilted her head watching the Chilly Academic laugh.
"Well I just came to lend a hand." He said staring back at the two younger members with his green eyes. "I still slightly remain unimpressed of any potential in this 'Hero' and 'Messenger' that the three of you have been cuddling."
Xejicka and Nusvext looked at one another and then back at Shimasax. 'Cuddling?' the chakram wielder thought thinking back to her first meeting with those two people. 'We aren't… Oh, he means figuratively…' Xejicka thought snickering slightly.
Both of the younger members noticed that Shimasax started to move towards the side, and someone walked forward. Xejicka and Nusvext felt their eyes widen at the sight of the new comer. The younger looking blonde hared teen snapped and summoned his kunai sending electricity coursing through the metallic weapon. He was angry now at the sight of what he saw, and Shimasax could see that perfectly. Xejicka held the Savage Fighter back from attacking either Shimasax or the newcomer.
"No, let me go!" the Savage Fighter cried out trying to break free from the chakram wielder's grasp. "How dare he bring that in here!" he yelled out looking back at the new person. The new person flinched slightly, but soon recovered and stared back at the Savage Fighter with the same cold eyes that he himself held.
"What's the point to this you old man?!" Xejicka asked angrily. The whole appearance of the figure made her heart to sink a bit, and with that she felt as though she needed to escape. The blue eyes of the figure before her seemed just like that of a previous member. The way he just stood there, everything physical about the figure before her eyes, it brought back memories of when things had seemed a bit more peaceful.
Flashback
"This is your partner…" she remembered what the Superior had said a while back. Xejicka stared at the figure with curious slightly hazel colored eyes. The new figure just tilted his head for a moment, his blue eyes staring past her. The Superior was telling her his name, but she failed to pay full attention.
"Hey, Rax." She said sticking out her hand. 'Rax' looked at the hand that was clothed with a black glove; he sighed for a moment and brought out his hand, to shake hers. He didn't speak to her, and for a moment the pyro-chakram-wielding member thought he was mute or something.
"For now you will show him to his room." The Superior's voice rang out in her ear, and she was able to follow that detail down perfectly.
The two of them walked down the hallway in silence, it didn't bother the two of them one bit. In the distance 'Rax' noticed a small cage with a doll in there. He looked at it curiously and noticed that the doll had slightly dark skin, a black plain gown, and silver hair. He looked beyond the cage and noticed a separate pathway that led to another room.
"Whoa, hey don't go in there!" the Flurry of Dancing Flames pulled back the Key of Destiny. "I'm supposed to take you to your room." She said pointing 'Rax' back on the right path.
"What's in there though?" 'Rax' couldn't help but just ask. Xejicka looked at he curious blue eyes and laughed slightly.
"You'll see what's in there soon enough, come on now, I have to show you your room."
"But why was there a doll in that cage?" he couldn't help but go back to that topic.
"I guess you could say the person in there is a caged bird." Xejicka said rubbing the back of her head. The two of them were walking down the white decorated hallways that had been built long ago.
Xejicka watched as the blue eyed individual walked forward slightly and looked at the three figures in front of him. She sighed and looked away for a moment. Nusvext and the Flurry of Dancing Flames watched the person. He had the same unusual brown hair and blue eyes as their recent member. Yet his apparel was different, it didn't consist of a black hooded coat, but something else. A black colored suit went up to his neck, and on his chest was a familiar Heartless insignia outlined in red. On his arms blue streaks wrapped around the lower part of his arm, and on his hands he wore black gloves. There was a dark crimson belt around his waist that had red and black tattered fabric along the outer edges. He wore black and navy blue fabricated boots.
In another room of the castle
Ames sat up in her white chair and felt something cause her to flinch. 'Another presence, but… This one has… No, that couldn't be, this thing has a soul…' she thought looking at the unfinished drawing on her sketch book. "I need a new book too…" she said to herself softly and paused for a moment. She looked around the area which she titled 'her' white room and sighed. There were drawings of other people in her room, and she was trying to fill the area with as many of her own drawings.
"Sora… Riku, and Kairi." She said softly to herself and decided to take another look around the room once more. She looked at one picture where Roxas and Sora were holding hands. There was another drawing of the same brown hared teen with a strange looking dog and duck. There was another drawing of a member with a strange hair cut that held a sitar, with another teen with strange brown hair, and another figure holding a pair of chakram, this was her drawing. Ames sighed pushing some strands away from her face, and looked up at the white ceiling again.
"What's up?"
"Where are you?" she asked the voice.
"I'm still with these two… she's crying…" the voice sounded concerned for a moment. "She remembers you now, and so does he."
"I know…" Ames said softly and sighed once more. "Oh, Xejicka went out for ice-cream… Xehart had stopped by," she said hearing the voice chuckle. "Xauqa stopped by here a moment ago, but I wasn't really putting that much attention to her."
"You never do…"
Ames chuckled for a moment and walked around her white room for a moment, taking in the memories that came rushing into her mind.
Flashback
"So, you're the caged bird?" Ames stopped what she was doing and let the pencil fall from her left hand. Her light blue eyes looked up and noticed a young teenage male with blue eyes and brown hair.
"Is that what they're saying now?" she asked the new person in the white room. She chuckled and shook her head. "I suppose if that's what people are saying, but I don't consider myself a caged bird…"
"You…" he sat across from her. A long white table separated the two bodies, and in the middle was a flower arrangement. "You… can't leave here, can't you?"
Ames looked down for a moment and tried hard not to answer, she instead asked the newcomer a question. "What's you name?" the figure smiled for a moment, and felt as though he had seen this girl somewhere before.
"My name… Which one?" he asked placing his elbows on the table.
She hid her smile with her hand, and he watched her movements carefully. "This, isn't the first time we've met, right?"
"My heart…" he sighed for a moment looking away. "My heart says no…"
"Why'd you come here? To this room I mean…"
"Well, Am-"
"Ames, if you don't mind." The girl in the plain black gown said softly.
"Well… Ames," he said smiling slightly. "I came because…" he paused for a moment finding her eyes connect with his for that brief moment. She noticed the pale blush creep up on him, and she giggled. "Hey!"
"Then stop blushing, Rax!" she said trying to control her laughter.
The two stopped laughing when they heard another pair of footsteps come into the white room. Ames looked up and noticed a slightly pleasant smile on the chakram wielder's face and then she looked back at the figure she called 'Rax'.
"So this is where you are!" Xejicka said happily and gave the 13th member of the organization a noogie.
"Cut it out, Xejicka!" the brown hared teen started to whine. "Ow…! Hey that hurts!"
"Xejicka…" Ames gave a slightly stern tone as she lifted her pencil.
Her hazel eyes shot back to the pencil in the silver hared individual's left hand. She froze for a moment and let go of the youngest member. The slightly dark skinned girl let the pencil fall, and Xejicka sighed in relief.
"Anyway Ames," the individual with the strange crest on her upper right cheek began to speak. "I have to take your little friend away for a while."
Rax sighed for a moment and looked back at Ames with a rather sad smile.
Amber Pacific
"You had to bring out the Keyblade, didn't you?!" Light punched a Heartless away from his body. Dark picked up a piece of rusted metal, and connected it head on with the midsection of a Heartless' body; it was sent backward knocking over several of its comrades.
"Well I'm sorry for trying to save you!" she yelled back angrily. Dark narrowly avoided an attack from an oncoming Air Pirate as it made a downwards kicking motion. She threw the rusted piece of metal and it collided with the soft flesh of the lesser Heartless, and she sighed in relief.
A Darkball appeared out of nowhere sending the female teen back, and it pinned her against the wall of a nearby building. "Let her go!" Light yelled out getting several Heartless to turn his attention on him. He ran forward and changed into his other form, yellow eyes stared back at the rest of the Heartless and he seemed to disappear into the shadows for several seconds.
The figure from earlier events had witnessed everything from the sanctuary of an alleyway, but even he wasn't safe from the Heartless. He looked to his side and noticed a pair of yellow eyes. He looked forward, and then back noticing that the pair of yellow eyes were gone. The figure looked forward and spotted the Heartless moving forward.
"Just great!" he yelled pulling out both of his preferred weapons, one with a keychain and one without.
Dark and Light noticed that the Heartless were starting to cease their attacks on them, and move into an alleyway. Light followed cautiously, still feeling the power of darkness run through his whole body, and in the distance he heard the clink of a familiar sound, a keychain hitting a handle. Dark ran forward and Light placed a hand on her to keep her from moving towards the battle. The two of them watched as the two weapons connected with the Heartless with ease, and the figure had no problem fighting against the creatures composed of darkness.
The hooded figure jumped into the air and threw one of the strange weapons like a boomerang. Light watched as the weapon circled around, colliding with the enemies around its master. The figure moved forward again using his speed to slice and dice the Heartless like a hot knife through butter. The numbers were slowly diminishing, faster than Light and Dark combined, but it was only because of the nature of the weapons that the figure wielded, without that he would have had the same difficulty as the two of them. Light jumped forward and took out the rest of the Heartless that were coming their way now, and it was a bit easier since they were worn out from the other figure's attack.
The figure looked up slightly and noticed Dark and Light once the Heartless had drawn back from the current position, and disappeared further into the area. The figure froze for a moment noticing Dark quickly; his heart was racing, out of fear, and other emotions that seemed to flood his heart. 'It's really you…' he thought walking forward. Light jumped in front of Dark and growled still holding on to his Heartless like form.
"( )… That's your name, right?" the figure asked, and Dark felt her eyes widen. 'I know that voice, I don't know why but I know that voice,' she couldn't help but feel tears fall down from her eyes. She moved forward but the figure held out a hand to get her to stop. "I'm not even supposed to be talking to the two of you…" he stepped forward and soon he phased through the teen known as Light and placed his hood back up. Light reverted back to his human form, and felt something hit his heart, and he fell forward.
"What did you do, T-" she felt a hand cover her mouth.
"Keep quiet…" he ordered. "I'm going to be around… but only to help Ames, not for you or him, the two of you are doing well…" he looked back at Light. The figure held the keychains gingerly in his hand and showed them to Dark. "I'm taking these with me as well…"
Dark growled for a moment and ripped his hand away from her mouth. "What the hell are you doing?! Those are the forms of the Keyblade!" she said angrily trying to get it back from the figure, but it was to no avail, he moved a bit faster.
"Relax, I'm going to take care of them for him," the figure said looking down at Light, he was on the ground in a sort of sleeping state. "Anyway I can't tell you everything, but there are some others like us who can carry Keyblades, and they won't be friendly… That's just my little welcoming advice, anyway I'll be seeing you around, little Ames look alike…" the figure said and walked off. Dark turned around quickly and watched as the figure disappeared into the shadows.
She dried the tears that had started to flow again, and shook her head. "It was nice seeing you again though… ( )." Dark looked in back of her and noticed the slightly bleak alleyway. Light was starting to pick himself up, and he sighed muttering something about his aching head.
"Hey…" Dark outstretched her hand towards Light. "Let's go home now…" she paused as Light asked her about the content of the card Nusvext had given them.
'The place the two of you should go to next is a place called Castle Oblivion. You'll find the answers you're searching for, the answers about those who you have lost. You'll find a way to get out of this world as well, or not. My suggestion is to take the train that passes by around 5 o'clock…'
"Castle Oblivion…" Light repeated softly to himself. He sighed and took Dark's hand, picking himself up from the slightly damp ground of the alleyway. Something was buzzing about in his head, but he just didn't know what it was at that point.
Sora and Amaterasu
Sora just sat in the grassy area starting up at the sky for a moment. He was thinking about his life back in the islands, all the friends he had left behind. He wasn't alone, but still he felt his heart ache again. The Keyblade's 'chosen one' knew that Amaterasu was probably feeling the same way as well. For a couple of 'days' he could feel what her heart felt, and vice versa. The two elemental beings had explained that while they stayed in their fabricated world the chains in their hearts were slowly linking themselves with that of the other person.
Amaterasu knew of the events that happened in Castle Oblivion with greater detail, and he learned of her past life in Radiant Garden. Sora remembered the first time that the girl had shown him and the others a memory, it seemed rather distant, but now he was able to pick at the chains in his heart and scan her newly created chains for one or several memories. The two of them felt lost without their other friends, and Amaterasu felt upset at the fact her brother had left her behind. Yomigami, her oldest brother and now only sibling, was trying to start his life over again and he wanted his young sister to do the same.
"Project Blitz… Was it the same as that of SOLDIER?" Sora asked after his brief period of silence. Amaterasu focused back into reality and looked up at the blue eyed teen. She nodded slightly and she could sense that Sora felt remorse for her.
"Just don't feel bad for me," she said squinting slightly at the teen, just for comical relief. "But anyway, Blitz," she began to explain, "was going to be used as a system of protection in a way, utilizing the darkness to be infused with the body of a human. That's where Te- I mean Xehanort," Amaterasu rubbed the back of her head, "came in, as King Ansem sent his own research team to tackle the mysteries of the heart. Hojo and his team, the ones who were in charge of the project, had to find a way to keep a human from turning into a Heartless, and what better way then to take out the heart, and kill the Nobody created from it. That would render a person to hold half of their heart once the process was done…"
"Oh, okay…" Sora nodded, and he understood where she was going with the information she was giving him. He may not have seemed bright, but being in this fabricated world he felt as though he could understand. "It must have been hard, for you though."
"Being surrounded by family members, one doesn't feel like it's the end of the world, mind you. With Yomigami participating I didn't really feel like it was something bad. I mean I was probably around 14 or so, I knew the difference between right and wrong, and King Ansem assured the two of us that we would still be our natural physical self…" she sighed for a moment. "That's why I went along with it, I just wanted to participate in something I felt was right."
The two of them looked up at the sky for a moment trying to figure out what the others were doing on the other side. Nothing came to them, and they heaved a heavy sigh in annoyance and in frustration. The two elementals still didn't appear, it had been a while since Light and Dark had yet to return from their chat with the other entity that would guide the two of them back to the other side.
"Did, you ever meet your Nobody?" the teen asked looking back at his companion.
Amaterasu shook her head, and looked down at her feet, hugging her knees closer towards her body:
"They kept her in a separate room away from the experiments. I tried meeting her once, but Hojo scowled me for doing such a 'reckless act' as he called it."
"Did your brother ever meet his?" he asked, and again he shook his head. "Quick question about your brothers and…?"
She cut him off and explained to him the pods that Grimoire Valentine and Hojo had created along with his research team. Once they had been banished from Radiant Garden they took several testing pods and slept within the 'End of the World'. It made much sense to him slightly, and that was all he needed to be familiar with for now, he didn't have any further questions for her at this point.
The two of them didn't converse for some time. Both of them were listening to the sound of their hearts, hearing the chains form slowly. The sound was slightly annoying to the dark skinned girl, just hearing a soft clink when the chains would connect within her heart. Memories of her 'partner' as she was to call him now, played in her head. She saw him turn into a Heartless, she saw him battle Xehanort's Heartless, and it pained her slightly when Sora had to close the door of Kingdom Hearts leaving Riku and the King within the other side.
Sora closed his eyes hearing the chains clink together as they formed and wrapped around his heart. He saw memories that were slightly hazy, she probably didn't remember the detail all that well. He watched her walk around the market place with some people he didn't know. The scene changed and he watched her walk towards a hospital bed to look at a figure with unusual brown hair and blue eyes. At one point Sora felt this terrible pain in his temple, it was from a memory of walking out of a room and down a flight of stairs. 'That's from the experiments…' he thought to himself hearing another chain being created.
Amaterasu placed her hand on the cool grass from the fabricated world and tried to imagine the peaceful reign of King Ansem the Wise. 'Things were pleasant back then, no Heartless, no one worried about the darkness, it was peaceful. There were gardens all around the edges of the homes, and around the castle Hollow Bastion. People were laughing, there were smiling faces…' she opened her eyes slightly and noticed that radiant crystals were falling from the sky. Sora looked up and smiled watching crystals fall throughout their fabricated land.
"Back home… There would be a crystal shower, that's how the world became known as Radiant Garden…" the girl said softly basking in the blissful memory.
"Tron showed us that once…" Sora said watching one lone crystal hover about in his hand. "After the defeat of the MCP." He said remembering the event slightly. "Aerith was the one who remembered the name."
The girl chuckled and looked down at the grass, she scanned the field for a moment and found a lone flower with crimson petals, and it reminded her of a scarf. 'Lightning…' she thought and smiled, it as a slightly bitter memory. The Heartless had left her to pursue what her 'heart' believed was right. 'I wonder if you ended up obtaining your heart,' she thought to herself and imagined the Heartless humanoid, she had light dirty blonde hair that seemed to become darker when in the shadows. Her hair had been styled to be cut in layers, with one side longer than the other. She had distinct blue eyes, very different from the other Heartless, along with a crimson scarf the girl had given her after naming the individual.
"When darkness touches their hearts, the day will draw near when the Darkness will appear. The light will fall at the magnitude of the Dark One and not even the hearts of the purest will cleanse this Dark Age. For the maidens shall fall at the power of the darkness in their hearts. That will be the day the Dark Master will appear, when the purest give in to darkness, all shall fear. To extinguish the fire the darkness and light must be pulled out from the Chosen One and fight against the Dark One, and all will be at peace." She murmured slightly, it was from a passage found within the library of Maleficent's castle.
Sora listened intently at the passage that fell from the lips of his companion, and reflected on the words for a moment. He sighed and looked at the area noticing that the shower of the crystals ceased, all was calm now. "Peace…" he said to himself taking in the meaning of the word. For some reason he had a feeling that he still had more work to do. "You said so yourself, Amaterasu, that everything is created from light and darkness, one can't live without the other. It'd be a world thrown into chaos, right?"
"The elementals said that as well." She said reflecting back to a previous discussion. "We can't really be expected to understand the world, the heart, the whole universe. We're just two different individuals trying to get back home." Sora nodded.
"What's taking them so long?" he asked her. She shrugged and looked around trying to catch at least a glimpse of one flying orb.
In another realm
"I still have a bad feeling about this." Light said softly looking back at the other two entities in his view. The other two made a small noise of agreement, but nothing could be re-written, the world didn't work like that.
"Creator has a plan for every single one of them," the voice said. "We are to do nothing until the time is right, when the Superior falls, you both are well aware of that." The two elemental beings made simple sounds of reassurance.
"Still one can't help but feel a bit saddened." Dark spoke softly as the orb noticed that several Heartless were moving about the void. "For these creatures, they follow their nature, and yet they don't know the power that they possess."
"It's better that way," the voice said. "Or else utter chaos would ensue."
A mist moved about in the separate realm, when it would lightly graze against the floor another Heartless would be created from the depths of darkness. In the opposite side of the realm light reigned supreme, but the darkness in the opposite side rivaled it. A balance must be created with light and darkness, because the heart is made of light and darkness, and the world.
"Light and darkness co-existing together…" the voice began to speak once more watching a lone Heartless traverse to the side of the light. "It'd bring about harmony if the two sides worked together."
"Someone has to push these two into the right path." Light said watching the Heartless wither in pain as it couldn't stand the bright side of the area.
"Or it's going to end up horrible for both sides…" the dark elemental orb said taking its more human form, ushering the lone Heartless back to its realm.
"The lingering spirit of the soldier…" the voice remembered that individual. "What role is that one playing?"
"… Him?" Light couldn't help but ask. "I think, wasn't he playing the Avenger?"
"That one…" Dark remembered now. "He still has work to do, seeing as how his master was corrupted by the darkness."
A/N: You know what to do, one review please!
A special thank you to the good friends of Rozen! I personally would've given the previous chapter a 7 out of 10. I'm trying very hard to fill the plot holes, but it'll take some time with summer ending soon for me, I start school in August soon.
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A/N: There is a question I want to ask my readers and reviewers alike, and here it is. We all know that Kingdom Hearts was broken into three parts, the first part, then Chain of Memories, and then part two. I don't know if I should follow in the same format, since this part is equivalent to that of Chain of Memories. Should I combine the two (I've already made some plans) or write the continuation in its own individual page?