Abyss of Time
Chapter 1 – Arrival & Confusion
In space, a swirling vortex formed slowly in the center of all of the worlds. It slowly seemed to grow as a faint cyan hue surrounded it. It all seemed peaceful with this until a sudden, and very bright, energy shot out of it, moving in all directions. This shock wave scorched across the universe, making it visible in the sky as a flash of blue light in the sky.
The vortex would seem to glow from its center as another explosion came, but this time, many balls of cyan flame jetted off towards various worlds. A few of the flames neared each other as they headed down towards Twilight's Destiny.
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Three flames rocketed their way down towards Twilight's Destiny. As they entered the atmosphere of the world, they separated, going towards different ends of the world. One raced down and splashed into the water of the Destiny Islands. Another veered into part of Twilight Town, and the last headed for the King's castle.
The ball of fire crashed down into the ground about a half-mile away from the castle. As it landed, the ground trembled as a small explosion set off. Naturally, an alarm was set off in the castle as many guards rushed to the spot where the fire came down. Inside of the newly created crater, lied a teen. He was slightly pale and had black medium-long hair. He wore a white coat that had patches of black on it, outlined by dark red lines. His pants were black, but still had the same dark red lines running up and down it. The teen shifted as he got to his knees, shaking his head.
"Damn, man! This really hurts!" said the teen. He looked up, revealing his bright blue eyes, and looked at the crater he was in. He didn't understand how he got here. The last thing he remembered, he was fighting him, but now he was in a crater? It didn't make sense.
"Hey, you! Are you okay?" called out one of the guards.
"Huh?" The teen looked up and saw all of the guards that surrounded the crater. They helped the teen out of it as they observed him. "Thanks for the help." He noticed the armor they were wearing, "Hey, that almost looks like the armor the Twilight Guard wears, what are you guys doing here?"
"Twilight Guard? What's that?" asked the guard next to the teen.
The teen blinked. "Whaaat?! You don't know what the Twilight Guard is?! But aren't you guys part of it?" The teen looked around and saw the castle, his eyes widening slightly as they did so. "I demand you take me to see the king!"
"Huh? Why do you want the--"
The guard was cut off by the teen suddenly breaking out into a full sprint at the castle. The guards tried to catch up, but he just ran too fast. The teen threw open the front doors as he made his way towards the throne room. The guards tried to stop him, but he was either too fast, or evaded them. After a bit of searching, he found the throne room, the threw the doors open again, startling the brown spiky haired boy and dark red headed girl in the room, both wearing formal attire. "Your Majesty!" the teen yelled out. But as he finished, he was tackled by multiple guards.
"We apologize for allowing this intruder in, Your Majesty." one of the guards announced.
"Let him up." replied the king.
"But, Sir!"
"Let him up. It's awfully rude to tackle someone who needs to see someone, as he showed."
"Yes, your Majesty.."the guards proceeded to get off of the teen as they walked out of the room.
"I'm sorry about that," said the king as he offered his hand to help the teen up.
The teen got to his knees as he rubbed the back of his head. He looked up towards the hand as he grabbed it, "Eh-heh. Thank you, Your Majesty. I came to as--" the teen stopped talking as he looked towards the king's face, his eyes widening as he did so. "Y-you're not the King!"
"Huh?" replied the king as he raised an eyebrow.
"You're not the King! Tell me who you are, impostor!!"said the teen as he took a few steps back.
"What are you talking about? I'm Sora Hikari, king of Twilight's Destiny."
"Lies!!" yelled the teen as he swung his hand to his side summoning his keyblade, later to be known as Glorious Twilight. The key was black and gold and had designs of what appeared to be bat wings on them; this design covered most of the blade, spare for the center of the top of the blade which held three blue orbs in them. "Now prepare to pay for your treachery!!"
The teen swung the keyblade at Sora, who summoned Savior into his hand. "W-woah!!"
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She shifted slightly as she slowly opened her eyes, she looked around the room she found herself in. She was laying on a couch and was in a small brick room. There were several other objects in the room that acted like furniture. She looked down at the blanket that covered her and lifted it off, revealing her attire of a backless half shirt that was held together by straps around her torso and the small vest she wore with that. She sat up on the couch revealing the mini-skirt that she wore. She rubbed her arms that were covered by sleeves and had different kinds of accessories on it; bangles on her left arm, a cuff on the right wrist. She tucked some of her light brown hair behind her ear as she strained her reddish-brown eyes to focus on the light.
Suddenly, the curtain that acted like a door moved as a girl with long brown hair and orange/yellow clothing walked in. "Oh, you're up!"
"Hello," replied the girl.
"I'm glad to see you're okay," said the brown haired girl. "I'm Olette, and that's Hayner." she pointed to the door where a boy with spiky blond hair and modern clothing walked in. He carried a large amount of boxes that seemed to be first-aid kits. "Oh, hey there!" said the boy as he strained to put the boxes down. "By the way, what's your name?" asked Olette.
"I'm Katsuki, but you can just call me Kat." replied Katsuki.
"Katsuki, I like that name, hehe." giggled Olette. "Are you hurt anywhere?"
"No, I think I'm okay. But I don't understand how I got here..."
"Well, I'm not sure either, but earlier, Hayner and I were on top of the clock tower when we saw a ball of blue flame crash into the city. We rushed over to see what happened, and found you in a crater, unconscious." Katsuki rose an eyebrow at this, she didn't understand. She thought back and remembered that she was fighting alongside her friends...her friends!
"My friends! Tell me, did you see anyone else with me?" Katsuki suddenly blurted out, startling Olette and Hayner.
"N-no. You were by yourself..." replied Olette.
"Hmm.." Katsuki looked down; so she was separated from her friends, eh? Well, she'll just have to find them. Suddenly, one thing came to mind that spiked her curiosity. "By the way, where is this place?"
"Oh, your on the world known as Twilight's Destiny, this region is called Twilight Town." replied Olette.
"Twilight's Destiny?! Then there's a castle here right?"
"Y-yeah, but how did you know?" Olette asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"Nevermind that, can you take me to the castle?"
"Yeah, sure, we're friends of the king after all." replied Olette.
These kids are friends of the king? How's that possible? Katsuki thought as she followed the other two towards the castle.
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He suddenly jerked up, coughing out the water in his lungs as he did. He held his neck in pain as he opened his eyes. He was on a beach, near the water. Seeing as he was wet, he must have been in the water and washed up on shore. His spiky white hair, with black highlights, drooped down over his yellow-brown eyes. He glanced down to his drenched black shirt and jeans, then he noticed that his fingerless gloves were soggy.
"Ah, he's awake!" said a female voice next to him. "See, I told you learning CPR would come in handy."
"Whatever..." said a male voice.
The teen looked around and saw a girl to his right with long raven-black hair and wore a red t-shirt with a brown vest/hoodie over it; she also had blue jean shorts and knee length boots. To his left, there was a teen with long silver hair and emerald eyes. He wore a black sleeveless shirt with a white and yellow vest over it. He had baggy light purple pants and had yellow and white sneakers on.
"Oh, come on Silver, don't act like that! It's not like I was kissing him or anything." replied the girl.
The man, who apparently was name Sliver, didn't respond, he just looked away. With this, the soaked teen started to stand up.
"Oh! I almost forgot you were there! Are you okay?" asked the girl.
"I'm fine..." the teen dully replied. He looked around to get a better look at his surroundings, he was most certainly on a beach, and not too far away was a small island. "Yo, Silver, where am I?"
"Eh?" the silver haired teen looked at him in confusion for a moment, while the girl busted out laughing. The silver haired teen glared at the teen as he grabbed him by his soaked shirt. "The name's Riku! Not Silver!"
The girl finally stopped laughing as she wiped tears from her eyes. "Come on Silver, let him go." Riku let go of the teen as he took a few steps back. "Don't mind him," said the girl as she stood up. "I'm Midori, by the way, what's yours?" The teen responded with silence.
"Where am I?" he asked after a long pause.
"Huh? You're in Twilight's Destiny, this part's called Destiny Islands." she replied.
The teen's eyes widened slightly at this. He took a few steps to the side until the saw the castle in the distance. After a bit of a pause, he started walking towards the castle.
"Hey! Where are you going!" yelled Midori as she and Riku followed them, slightly defensive due to his actions.
"The castle, I need to speak with the King." the teen replied as he continued to walk.
"Wait, we'll go with you!" called Midori. "We were heading that way anyway."
The three walked for a while in total silence. The teen didn't seem to talk much, Riku was too busy observing him as he wasn't sure if he could be trusted, and Midori remained quite because of the awkward silence itself.
"Haseo..."
"Huh?" Riku and Midori both asked in unison.
"My name...is Haseo."
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The two keyblades clashed repeatedly at a high speed. The teen was keeping up a relentless attack, not giving Sora a chance to take the offensive. The two just kept clashing no matter what, "Stop!!" yelled out Kairi, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Sora was so focused on blocking the attacks that he couldn't hear anything.
Another clash came, but this time, the teen twisted his hand to push Sora's keyblade away as he delivered a kick to Sora's chest. Sora coughed at the force of the kick as he was sent flying through the air. He held out his other hand and summoned Sacrifice to his hand, using the two keyblades as brakes as he stuck them into the floor, skidding to a stop. Sora stood up and face the foe only to see a spinning keyblade coming straight for his head.
Sora deflected the keyblade, sending it spinning the air. But as that happened, the teen was sliding next to and past Sora, where he would use the edge of his foot to stand back up and spin with his right hand out. The keyblade in the air vanished in a flash of light and reappeared in the hand of the teen. Sora quickly turned and was able to block the blade, but the force of the downward attack made his knees buckle as he slid across the ground. With his left hand, the teen shoved his palm at Sora. "Thundaga!" A bolt of lightning shot from the teen's hand at Sora. Sora put his keyblades in front of him, "Reflega!" A shield formed over Sora as the lightning collided with it.
"Heh.." panted the teen. "You're pretty good."
Suddenly the door to the throne room opened. "Your Majesty, a young woman has come to see yo--"
"HA!!" the teen rushed the downed Sora. But he never reached his target for a blue curved keyblade clashed with the teen's blade. The teen looked over to see Katsuki holding out her keyblade, Melody, and staring at the teen with a glare. "What do you think you are doing?!!"
"This boy here, he claims to be Sora Hikari, our king!" replied the teen.
"You idiot! That is the king! I don't know why he's like that, but that's what the king looked like as a teen!" shouted Katsuki.
The teen's eyes widened as he looked to Sora. He dropped his keyblade, it vanishing with a flash of light, as he quickly dropped to his hands and knees, facing Sora. "I'm so, SOOOO sorry!!"
"What's going on here?" said a slightly deep male voice. Several people, besides the teen, turned to see Riku and Midori walking into the throne room, led by Haseo. Haseo was the one that asked the question.
Katsuki's keyblade vanished, along with Sora's, in a flash of light as she said, "Stupid over here is apologizing for attacking our king."
"Tch." replied Haseo. "Why are you always so stupid?"
"Sorry.." replied the teen.
"It's alright." replied Sora as he stood up and held his hand out to help the teen up. "I can tell that you didn't mean it." The teen looked up, smiled, and took Sora's hand as he stood up. "What's your name?" Sora asked.
"I'm Matsu." he replied. "No hard feelings?"
"No hard feelings."
All of the others were extremely confused by these happenings, but just blew them off, seeing as how things were settled. Kairi ran over next to her husband, and Riku and Midori stood next to the two. "So, what are you three doing here?"
"Hold on," said Matsu, "I want to know why you look like you do, Your Majesty. You look like a teenager."
"What do you mean, I am a teenager.."
"Huh?! But...that doesn't make sense! If you're a teenager, and this is the oldest you've claim to be...then...we're in the past?!!"
The others blinked at this and were left in extreme confusion, but Haseo just nodded, "It's the only thing that makes sense."
Katsuki's eyes would widen as she blurted out, "The clock!" Everyone turned to look at her. "The clock, it's power must have sent us in the past!"
Matsu would grin, "Yeah! That has to be it!" His eyes would widen as he lost his grin. "But..that means that he's here too..."
Haseo would cross his arms as he closed his eyes. "Yeah..."
"Umm...excuse me?" Midori said, breaking the other's silence, "What are you talking abou--"
A screen in the wall would suddenly turn on. On it, there was a image of Roxas in his new castle in Radiant Garden. "Hey, uhh...Sora?"
"Yeah?" he replied.
"We've got a....problem..."
"Hey, why did you call my name?" said a familiar voice from behind Roxas.
The camera Roxas was using turned, and what everyone saw shocked them.
Standing behind Roxas was a man only a few years younger than the one we knew, wearing his clothes from when he fought Organization XIII; it was Sora.
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Author's Notes
Hehe, bet that kinda surprised ya, didn't it. If you haven't figured it out yet, there is a time paradox; something that I will go into more detail with within the next few chapters.
Anyhow, leave a review, send tips, suggestions, and anything else either in a review, or to my email: branden_tsimaka(at)hotmail(dot)com.
Midori is an original character of Krystal Lily Potter's. With her permission, I'm using her in this story. The Savior and Sacrifice keyblades are also her idea.
If any of you have trouble understanding the descriptions of my OCs, I'm going to put up reference pictures of the characters, and their keyblades, when they show up in the story.
Last but not least, I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, they are owned by Square Enix. Disney, and all of its characters are owned by Disney.