By The Chronicler
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Beta-read by Kitsune of the Wind and Neverwinternight.
Ch.2 The Test, part 1Sora was wondering whether or not to go back home. Suddenly he heard a giant "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BOOM!" He stared back in horror and amazement; a giant rock blocked the path to the secret place. He ran to the boulder without hesitation and slashed it with the keyblade. The stone split into two and cleared the path. All of a sudden, he heard a strange noise behind him. He slowly turned his head to see in his horror. "Heartless, but that can't be, who could have summoned them, and why are they here?"
The heartless popped out of the ground and jumped at the shocked Sora. Sora just barley parried the attack and pushed the heartless away. The heartless fell on its back and shifted back into the ground. Sora sighed in relief; he was just about to walk away from the secret place when he saw three heartless. All of them attack him at once. He jumped back and shouted "THUNDER!" Suddenly, a dark cloud hovered over the heartless and a brief flash of lightning came down on them. For a moment all there was a dark cloud of what remained of the heartless that were destroyed, but out of the darkness came hundreds of thousands of heartless. A memory flashed before Soras' mind.
This is similar to what happened to him before; it was what made him start his journey. The night after they prepared for their trip to find other worlds, there was a storm. Sora rushed over Island, finding out that Riku and Kairi also went to the island. He searched all over the island and wound up finding Riku first, then Kairi. But while he was trying to find them, there were hundreds of thousands of heartless. In the end, he was unable to protect his friends and the island. Still to this day, he regretted to be unable to protect his friends. "Could it be happening again?" He thought "No, it can't be I defeated Ansem, well actually the heartless of … I can't lost in thought now, why are there so many heartless here and what is their purpose?"
Suddenly, the Shadows started walking towards him. Carefully watching him as if he were to do something unexpected. Sora ran forward, with the keyblade in his hand, pointed at the heartless. For what seemed like hours, Sora hacked ad slashed through heartless. Jumping, twirling, pairing attacks one at a time. Very soon he became quite tired, but he continued fight. "I'm not going to lose; I'm not going to lose this island, nor Kairi or Riku!" Sora chanted over and over each time he got tired and all seemed hopeless, but the more he fought the more he slowed down.
Soon the sky grew darker and air grew dense. He knew that time was running out and that he would surly lose, but he wouldn't give up, he couldn't. Finally, of what seemed like an eternity, he collapsed, with the shadow heartless dancing around him proudly, surly thinking that they have won. Sora was about to give up hope, but then he remembered whatSaïx told him, "Heartless are mercenaries, they obey who is stronger." At that very moment, a second wind went over Sora. He just had to find who was in charge of the heartless. The problem is, can he find him/her before he runs out of time.
Kitsune here, damn cliff hanger even I don't know what's happening. The Chronicler's computer is having problems, so it may be a while till the next chapter is up, but we'll try to get it to you readers as soon as we can.
