Kingdom Hearts Another Destiny

LOST MEMORIES

W.T.

A year has passed since the events of Kingdom Hearts.

Destiny or fate refers to the inevitable course of events. It may be conceived as the irresistible power or agency that determines the future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe.

Chapter 1

The pearly white monster had huge shoulder blades, claws and what appeared to be tentacles protruding from its back. It bore the same symbol – the cross – as the small creature, and likewise, it had no eyes.

The creature was immensely huge, with legs metres long and amazingly brutal claw-like hands. The shadow it cast covered the entire pillar, but it was surprisingly quite light.

I felt a strange, yet powerful force suddenly flooding through my body, just before it thrust its claw at me. I dived out of the way, just barely getting out of harm's way.

I would normally be paralysed with fear in a situation like this, but the weapon in my hands gave me a neither strength I had ever felt, nor witnessed in my entire life.

I looked back up, seeing the monster missing an arm, and looking down, I saw that arm squirming about on the glass floor like a fish in its dying moments.

Without realising, it seemed, I had taken its arm off.

A network of cracks began appearing in the middle of the glass; it was about to break. The monster looked at me with its empty face.

Without any warning, it lunged at me in rage, throwing its arm at me as I tried to regain my bearings after my first attack.

I was sent into the air. I felt the wind whipping by me, and then I realised that I was no longer above the pillar; I would fall down, deep into the endless abyss of darkness below.

I felt a tug on my jacket, and looking backwards, I saw the monster, holding me up.

What's going on?

"Thank…"

I felt the claws rip into my left arm, tearing through the flesh.

I screamed in pain as it threw me back onto the pillar. I feel with a loud whump, and skidded a metre or so before making a stop, leaving a faint trail of blood in my wake.

A flame seemed to ignite in my body as I lost control. I leaped into the air, and all my strength unleashed an amazingly effective improvised attack, that I would've only seen in intense martial-arts movies.

I kicked it in the head and flipped around crushing its neck with the Keyblade. It fell to the ground and grunted, trying to hold itself up on the glass. The cracks were spreading like a large spider-web and could break at any second.

There was the distinct sound of glass fracturing, and then the body disappeared. Suddenly, all the power drained out of me. The Keyblade miraculously vanished and was replaced by small keychain. It was the tiny pendant that I recognised from the tip of the Keyblade's handle.

It was shaped as a crown; a black crown. I jingled the keychain in my hands, taking into account the amazing hidden potential within the tiny pendant.

I placed it in my pocket, remembering that I was stuck on a pillar which could explode at any second.

The body of the monster disappearing seemed to be the last nail in the coffin; there was no longer a single spot on the glass that didn't have a crack through it, whether it be large or small.

I looked around for any way to get off the extremely delicate pillar.

Then looking to my right, I saw more of those steps, floating motionlessly in the air. I slowly crept towards them, making sure not to do anymore damage to the glass. Clink.

"Oh fuck…" I muttered.

Another 'munny' ball from my pocket had slipped out, hitting the glass. I looked down, seeing the fractures growing.

In times like these, I really wished I had more luck.

"Oh man…"

There was a deep explosion and the sound of shattering glass, and the top of the pillar was gone. I looked up, and saw thousands of shards of glass flying up which would eventually fall down and impale my soft body.

Then, I saw them. Demonic images of things that I never knew of flooded into my vision, burning into my mind, and I closed my eyes and waited for the end.

Smack!

"OW!" I exclaimed. I looked up, the sun burning into my pupils. What the hell? It was amazingly bright. I was back. A girl - Mitsuko was standing in front of me, a pole in her hand.

Her arms were crossed and I could tell she was angry. "WE'VE BEEN WORKING OUR ASSES OFF WHILE YOU SLEEP!" she shouted, threatening me with the pole. "HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK!"

"Uh…" I muttered, recoiling with my arms in front of my face.

A boy the same age as me, fifteen, Katsu came running up to us. "I found you at last you lazy idiot!" he shouted, tackling me to ground.

"KILL HIM!" Mitsuko shouted. What happened to that pillar? What about that creature?

"Okay!" Katsu shouted, thrusting a hammer at me.

I flinched. "What!"

"You're doing the rest."

I looked back at him, shock evident in my face.

"Well, looks like it'll be our turn to sleep now," he continued.

"Wha? Why me!" I shouted.

"Don't worry, I'll help," Mitsuko said, picking up a log.

"On what condition?" I asked, eying her suspiciously.

"Buy me an ice-cream," she replied, winking.

"Oh, fine," I replied reluctantly.

"How about I take the log? You can take this hammer," I suggested. She handed the log over to me and I gave her the hammer.

What a strange dream, I thought. It was pretty cool, though.

We were in the middle of building a tree house when I fell asleep. Did I fall asleep? That 'dream' felt so real.

Bah, best to just forget about it.

Mitsuko climbed up onto the tree and showed me what they had achieved.

Katsu propped himself up beside a nearby light-post and closed his eyes. "Wake me up when you're done," he said wearily.

"I see you can't do much without me!" I joked, receiving a punch in the arm from Mitsuko.

"Just hurry up and give me a hand here," she said, fixing up a wall.

We were all about fifteen years old. Katsu being the oldest, then me and Mitsuko. Our birthdays were relatively close to each other, so there wasn't much difference in age, separated by two months at the most.

You might think we were a bit too old for making tree houses, but it does get quite boring in the quiet streets of Twilight Town.

We would go to the beach occasionally to work on the tree house, usually after a dreary session of school.

After a long hour, we'd fixed nothing but one wall. Mitsuko and Katsu are probably my only friends.

There was another guy, Kyle… He was my favourite companion, and it would be safe to say that he had felt the same way about me as well. We'd do everything together, whether it was doing the morning paper deliveries or cheating in a test. He had disappeared on day, and he hadn't come back since.

We had all changed since that day, but we eventually moved on. At least Mitsuko and Katsu had. Ever since he had gone I always felt alone, but I did get some good out of it. I was able to learn more about my father in the time that'd I'd usually spend with Kyle and we'd built a strong relationship. I didn't want to acknowledge it, but he was merely a replacement for Kyle. It wasn't the same, though.

Two years it had been—since that incident. Kyle mysteriously vanished on the same day, and time as my brother and his friends. That storm that had struck Destiny Islands was what took Kyle away. Mysteriously, nobody else seemed to have witnessed any such storm; in fact, anybody who I had asked about it reported that the night sky was one of the most beautiful that the archipelago had ever seen. It made me think: was there a connection? Was this something more than just coincidental death, or was it something greater, something amazing that fate itself had been planning since the beginning of time? After bringing that up I cursed myself for playing too many video games.

I wondered where my brother could be; if he's even alive.

Nobody was sure if they were dead or not; it was only suggested, as their bodies disappeared without a trace that night.

"AH! Shit!" I shouted, clutching my thumb. I had smashed my thumb while I was daydreaming.

Katsu bolted up, nearly losing his balance from the pole. He regained his bearings by grabbing a branch milliseconds before falling. "What the hell just happened!" he shouted angrily.

Mitsuko tried to hold back her laughter as she went over to check my injury.

"You awake?" she giggled, studying my thumb. "And don't swear."

"Sorry, I mean, I couldn't hold it back," I replied, dragging the last syllable in sorry.

By the end of the day, we hadn't achieved much, but it was going okay, I guessed.

"We didn't do much," Mitsuko said.

"Bah, we killed some time, and well, yeah, that's about all," I laughed.

I jumped off the tree, and then waited for Mitsuko to come down. "Hey, you wanna get something to eat?" she asked.

"Man, I'm starving!" I exclaimed, heading off alone. Mitsuko followed a few steps behind me.

"You're always hungry!" Katsu said, brushing off his jacket and running after us.

We made our way to the local café, the Twilight Diner, and watched the Twilight Express whiz by as we sauntered over to the door. I opened the door and waited for Mitsuko to get in before closing it. She left the door open for Katsu.

The unique sound of the bell by the door rang as the door opened, bringing back happy memories. I'd come here everyday after school on my way home with Kyle.

Man, I'm thinking too much, I thought.

"Oh, hi there! How are you all?" greeted the familiar shopkeeper. He was in his late forties and was a well-rounded man. The shop wasn't very extravagant, but I liked that; it had a very down-to-earth aura to it. The man sat down on a wooden stool behind a small bench where he kept his cash register and some muffins and cakes on display. There were two tables near the front of the shop with four seats around each one.

"Fine, thanks," we all replied.

"What do you guys want?" the man asked, smiling at us with his bright red face.

"I'll have a cup of tea, thanks," Mitsuko said, putting the usual two munny onto the counter.

I've always hated the shape of munny. Little marbles for currency? What the hell?

"A bottle of water, please," said Katsu, placing one munny on the counter.

"Uh…" I thought for a while as the man prepared Mitsuko's tea. "I'll just have a cup of coffee and a lemon tart, thanks," I said, taking out three marbles from my wallet.

We all sat down at the closest table. Katsu twisted the cap off his bottle and drank furiously. Mitsuko blew her tea, hoping to cool it down. I picked up my tart and before I knew it, it was gone.

"Whoah…" Katsu uttered, wiping the water off his chin.

"Hey, I'm hungry…"

"You must've been," Mitsuko said after taking a sip of her tea. "You slept for at least four hours."

Four hours? It didn't seem long at all, that dream…

When we had all finished we said goodbye to the shopkeeper and made our way home. Mitsuko and I lived next-door to each-other while Katsu lived just around the corner.

We arrived at Katsu's house and stopped. "See you tomorrow," he said.

"Yeah, later," I called, beginning to walk again.

"Bye, Katsu…" Mitsuko said affectionately.

I reached my home and waved goodbye to Mitsuko as she went for her door.

"See you!" I said, waving.

"You too," she replied, before closing the door behind her.

I looked back at an eerie blue sun behind me sinking into the horizon. What the…?