A/N: Here you go you guys, have fun with this!
Sorasheart281: Thanks for the review! And well I'll say no more… Just read it. Naw I'm kidding, thank So much. Enjoy the epilogue and here's a cookie!
Xejicka: Aw come on don't cry it's the beginning of the end… Okay so yeah I know what you mean. Well I won't say anything about Ammi or Sora for now, but I won't say you're wrong about that either.
Rozen: I won't tell anyone about your plans, I think I'm forgetting them anyway, but I mean they were so good, now I wish I wasn't forgetting them. Rozen-senpai you know I take your advice seriously, be sure of that all right. Anyway here's a present of some sort, so thank you so much!
Current mood of inspiration was a song titled 'Swaying Emotion' from the .hack//GU soundtrack!
On with the finale/epilogue chapter!
Epilogue: A New Tale
Maybe things won't be so bad…
Still it'd be nice to go home…
Those guys, why are they chasing us anyway?
How the hell should I know?
The sun was starting to go down again on the small little chain of islands where Sora and the others lived on. Everything was quiet, since Sora wasn't around causing a lot of trouble, and that was a problem, you see he left a lot of friends behind. The young teenage red head, and older silver hared teen, not to mention the others, like Tidus, Selphie, Wakka, and all the others. Still everyone was glad to see their homes once again. Life went on it the same boring routine as it always did, according to Kairi and Riku for now.
Riku picked himself up, from sitting on the edge of the wall rocking back and forth a minute ago. "Let's go," he said speaking to the silver bundle of fur beneath his feet. The beast protested, "You always do that…" Riku said sighing for a moment. "Fine we're staying here for about ten minutes, but that's it, okay?" he tried to compromise with the beast, by picking it up. "You reek of expired sea-salt ice-cream…" he said moving the hound away from his nose, "I just gave you a bath three days ago!" the creature yawned and made itself comfortable on the boy's lap as he sat back down.
Riku watched the sun as it began to slowly descend. The reflection of the sun touched the ocean, giving it a peaceful setting, and the winds were just right. 'she loves days like these…' he thought chuckling for a moment, 'I wonder how the sun sets where you are, Ammi?' he looked up at the sky, as the twilight was beginning to set in, and then the night would come. He stared out in the distance again like he did for the past couple of months waiting for something to fall out of the sky.
"It never does…" he said softly and jumped off the wall, holding the creature underneath his arm. "Come on you fat blob…" he said placing hound in the basket attached to his two wheeled bicycle. He rode down the paved sidewalk that gave a pleasant view of the shore, and the sun. The teen rode on for what seemed like forever to him, but it was only about a thirty minute ride back home. Riku was wearing his school uniform, he had started his last year in high school and he couldn't have been happier.
Scratch that, he still didn't feel very happy, he was glad to be home, and see his other friends, but still there was an empty void in his heart, and Kairi knew how he felt. 'When are they coming home?' he thought watching the shadows from the palms trees as he moved along on his bike. He still didn't know the answer to that question, and neither did the Princess of Heart.
I never thought about that kind of stuff… You know, the possibly of it all.
We're being thrown into a war now.
Maybe Ignis was right… about the light.
Kairi sighed for a moment watching the stars from her bedroom window. "There's Radiant Garden…" she said pointing to a shimmering bright star. It was hard to believe that the planet was very close to theirs. "I wonder how everyone is doing?" she asked herself sighing. "Tifa and Zack probably already got married…" she said smiling, "I wish them a happy marriage." The girl meant every word of it.
She sighed once more and looked at the white gown on her, she was dressed for her slumber, but Kairi didn't feel like sleeping. The weekend was going to start tomorrow, and she just didn't want to snooze right now. "I get the feeling that if I fall asleep, I'll miss something important…" Kairi said softly, gazing at the stars. That is where her habit came from now, because she was on the look out for them during the night, and Riku's was in the day.
Riku yawned bidding his mother goodnight and went up stairs to his room, with the silver creature scurrying alongside him. He smiled wearily and opened the door to his room on the far corner of the hall. He was wearing black boxer shorts, and he just sat there on his bed lost in thought. He wasn't tired, or rather he hadn't been tired for a couple of weeks from now. Something was getting to him; he just didn't know what it was. The hound jumped on the bed and plotted its silver furred body next to its master and sighed in content. The teen leaned over the left and grabbed something from his nightstand, a blue mp3 device turned on as his fingers lightly touched the buttons. "Come home soon, Amaterasu…" he said turning off the device and rolling over on his bed, the hound growled feeling the mattress move around as Riku pulled the covers.
E p I l o g u e
A young figure yawned for a moment lazily rolling over to the side, and mumbled something. "Uh…" she realized whose name she had called out in her sleep and pouted. The figure yawned again feeling something strum within her heart, it was nostalgia in a sense. She sat up and stretched for a moment, letting her muscles relax, and waking up her brain. "Another morning… another daaayyyyy…" she said yawning out the last word lazily and fell back on her bed, surrounded in pastel blue sheets with black and dark blue checkered borders all around. She was wearing pastel blue shorts and a white undershirt.
"DARK!" someone yelled from downstairs, it sounded oddly familiar. She covered her head again with the pillow and tried to go back to sleep. "DA…RK…!" the voice stretched out her name now. "WAKEY, WAKEY, NOW!" she tried to drowning out the yells but it was no use as of right now.
"NO!" the girl cried out opening her door and slamming it again. The sound of feet rushed up the flight of stairs, and she didn't have enough time to lock the entrance. Before long she was pouting at the figure in front of her. There was a male teenager wearing a black undershirt and beige shorts. "Light, you idiot, do you have any idea what time it is?!" she said pointing to the alarm clock in her room.
"One, fifteen in the afternoon…" Light said blinking back in confusion to the girl. "Where the heck is your brain?"
"That's what I'd like to know…" she said stretching again. "Did you save me some breakfast…?" she asked laughing nervously. Light nodded and sighed.
"Now, come on, Dark. We get to go home today!" Light said happily jumping up and down. "Oh man, wait till they see us now!" he said almost skipping for joy!
"Don't do that in public…" the girl said known as Dark. Light sighed and smiled back at the girl. The girl in turn smiled to Light, the boy. "So then, today's the day…" she said spinning around for a moment. "YES!" she cried out pumping her fist into the air.
"Last one to the table is a Heartless!" Light said racing his friend down the flight of stairs quickly.
"I like Heartless…" Dark said softly taking her time as she walked towards the table now. She descended the flight of stairs, and slowly made her way to the cold tiled floor. 'I should've worn socks…' she thought as she felt goose bumps ride up her skin.
A young woman greeted the two of them today instead of the man of this here household. She was a pleasant woman, roughly around her late 30s, with short brown hair and green eyes. The woman always wore a smile on her face, and she is was the house nanny when the owner was out of town or at work. "I trust the two of you slept well?" the woman asked and both of the teenager nodded happily. "You excited about going home now?" the woman asked, watching the bright happy smiles on their face. "Good, now eat up, I saved you two breakfast. I'll tell Mr. Brooks you said goodbye."
"Thank you Ms. Lila Ser!" the two of them said running towards the breakfast table.
"Hey… I thought you ate breakfast…" Light shook his head as Dark asked the question. "I was waiting for you to get up, Uma-" Dark caught him off by stuffing toast in his mouth.
"You know we can't…" she whispered harshly, eyeing Ms. Lila Ser, "Only Mr. Brooks knows our real names… If the others… You know they'd kill us all in a heart beat!" she said and picked up her cup of coffee, and sipped it slightly. "Sorry Light, we're stuck with these nicknames till we leave the town."
Light sighed heavily and complied with the rule, it was true after all. They ate their breakfast as quickly as they could and soon after they went into their own separate rooms to gather their things, and get dressed. Light came out of his room wearing a shirt that had a checkered border at the bottom, and a silver design on the front, it looked like a giant X, and running down the middle of the shirt was a zipper. On top of that he wore a modified black shirt that acted as a sweater, with one buckle to close it (but he never does), and a hood in back of it. He wore gloves of the same design as his shirt, not the one with the hood. He wore black shorts, that went a bit further down to his knees, with silver lining, and had some loops attached to them and pockets, and black shoes with silver straps.
Light sighed for a moment and walked across the hall and knocked on the door with a medium black dot in the middle. This was how they told the rooms apart, Dark had a black spot on her door, and Light had a white spot on his.
"Are you ready?" he called out hearing her singing something, "come on Dark we're going to be late!"
"Coming…" she said sighing for a moment. 'Mr. Brooks is risking his life just by feeding us, let alone letting us live here…' Dark thought and finished tying her shoelaces.
Dark stood up and looked at herself in the mirror and smiled looking pleased with her reflection. She wore black cargo pants with shoes that matched, not to mention several pockets on the sides of the pant legs. Her t-shirt had a strange heart shaped insignia on the front in red stitching, and on the back were little wings stitched in white. Gloves covered her hand as they had the same design as her shirt, but she didn't wear a sweater like her friend Light. She paused for a moment as her hand lightly rested on the doorknob.
Viator of Atrum, Atrum Procer, Volo vos puteus in vestri iter itineris
"Thank you," she said smiling happily. "I'm grateful for having you watch over us." Dark said turning the knob on the door. "Oh… wait…" the most important thing she forgot was tucked inside one of the drawers from the night stand. She ran back and searched through the piles of clothing stacked inside. "Thank the gods…" the teen whispered pulling out the item, placing the keychain within her grasp.
Vir of Lux lucis, Electus Unus of vesica of key, Volo vos puteus in vestri iter itineris
Light nodded whispering 'thanks' and watched as Dark came out stuffing something into her pocket. "Let's go…" the male teenager said walking down the stairs. "Bye Ms. Ser!" they both said and walked towards the wooden door. "Take care you two!" the woman replied. Dark walked out the door and waited for Light on the other side, he was still in the house. The male teen checked around the living room to make sure the woman was out of sight and then opened the lid of a grand piano stationed in the corner. He pulled out a necklace, several key chains, and a letter with a stamp on it.
With that the two walked off down the street of this town, and watched the sun as it started to move about in the sky. Dark looked back at the elegant house in which they had stayed in, and sighed knowing that she was going to miss the company of the man they called Mr. Brooks. Light was going to miss the old man's company as well; he had been very kind to them when they arrived. The female teen pulled the letter away from her companion and looked at it. "So then, we're suppose to meet them at 5?" she asked, and Light nodded looking at the road ahead. There was only one path there in that grassy field. "Let's run for it…" he said with a smirk on his face as the two sprinted across the path.
Dark watched as they came across the sign that read 'Thank you for visiting Amber Pacific'. They were out of the town now, and they both expressed their happiness. Light placed the necklace over his head and breathed in the air like if it had a different aroma to it. Dark stretched again feeling her muscle ache a bit after the run. She pulled out the keychain she stuffed into her pocket, and held it out towards the sun watching it gleam for a while. "It's been so long…" she said smiling happily.
"Hey!" Dark stuffed her keychain back into her pocket, and Light took off the necklace quickly and forced it down his pocket. The two looked ahead past the horizon and noticed something running towards them. "Shit…" the two teens said hearing something call them out, "this better not be an ambush…" Light said looking back at Dark. The teen girl growled feeling her fingers grow, and fangs brushing against her lips. "Relax…" the boy said looking back at his companion, but her eyes turned yellow, "they haven't done anything yet."
"I can sense them though…" the girl said growling more. "They're at the horizon, waiting for us to move." They both noticed the solo figure coming to a stop halfway.
"I got you now you bastards!" the figure said yelling triumphantly. "You can't run away from us forever!"
At the sound of the figure's last words shadows emerged from the ground around the boy and the girl, and they stood back to back now. "This is just great…" Dark said hissing at the Heartless around her. "I know… I'm looking forward to kicking their ass, it's been a while," Light said smirking. "But we can't…"
"I know Light," the girl said jumping forward with her claws ready to strike. "Not until we get home…" a Neo Shadow jumped into the air mimicking her moves with swift speed. She lifted her knee and bashed the head of the Neo Shadow with her leg. It fell down and several other yellow eyed Heartless moved forward.
"Freeze!" Light said noticing that some Neo Shadows stopped moving within the time frame. He let his body turn as black as night and felt his claws connect with the flesh of the dark creatures. He ripped through the arms of the shadows, and stabbed one in the chest. Time finally moved forward for the injured Heartless and they twitched as the blows finally caught up to their bodies. The figure in the distance smirked and ran forward with his weapon held high in the air. Dark finished her part, not even using her whole strength and looked back at Light, he had gone wild with his feral state.
She looked back and noticed the familiar weapon as the male figure came running down the path. 'No…' she thought running forward letting her friend take care of the rest. The figure watched as Dark stood in the path of his blade. "Now you DIE!" the figure said bringing his weapon down, a dark aura hovered over the girl's body and she smirked, time moved slow for her now. Dark put her palms together within less than a nano-second and caught the mysterious weapon, it was five millimeters away from striking her head.
"What was that you said about dying?" she asked flashing her yellows at the figure, she smiled menacingly. The figure could only see her black Heartless like body, her white fangs, and terrifying yellow eyes. "Now listen here you lowlife… I… WANT… TO… GO… HOME!" she yelled violently, and a scream erupted from the figures throat.
E p I l o g u e
Riku stared out into the morning sky, watching as tinges of purple and gold collided with pink clouds. Something had woken him up, but he just didn't know what it was. "A voice…?" he asked himself thinking about it for a moment. "It sounded like one… For some reason, it sounded like her voice, but that's…" he sighed heavily shaking his head for a moment. 'Get a grip Riku, it was just a dream, nothing more…' he thought looking at the shore in the distance. "Vieh…" he said looking back at the hound. "We're going…"
"Again…?" the hound replied sounding more asleep than awake. "We went out yesterday... she said she'd come back, you heard her, now stop worrying." Vieh said coldly opening one eye, yellow eyes staring at the turquoise eyes of the teen.
"It's almost going to be a year!" Riku said closing his fist. "Something's wrong… I can feel it."
"Then wouldn't have Kairi called you…? I mean she's connected with Sora and no doubt she would sense something if things did go wrong for them… maybe you're just over reacting because she's with Sora…" Vieh said yawning loudly, sticking out his pink tongue, and showing his fangs.
Riku winced slightly feeling something hit his shoulder, and he rotated his arm around to get the pain to subside. Vieh had a point, as much as he didn't want to admit it, but still he didn't want his worry to be caused out of jealous, it wasn't like him at all. The teen sighed again and stared out watching the people walk by his house. 'No doubt Kairi's still asleep…' he thought leaning forward towards his window, 'It's early… 4:45 in the morning, dawn begins in fifteen minutes…' he thought smirking to himself. 'Lucky me…' he thought. "Vieh we leave in 15 minutes, okay?"
"Even if I say 'no', you're going to drag me along on your bike," the beast said rolling over to its side. "I hate being in this state…" he said whining for a moment.
Kairi rolled around lazily in her bed and sighed softly, pulling her blue sheets over her head. "I don't want to wake up…" she said staring at the blue fabric that covered her face.
"You know maybe we should turn back…" a voice said looking back at the girl in back of him. He couldn't make out her face. "I mean they…"
"We can't turn back, you know that…" the girl said softly and looked at the door before them. "This is the only chance we're going to get."
"I know but…" the voice was cut off as the door began to open, and light was filling the whole room. The figures covered their eyes and looked inside. "It's… empty…" they both said looking at one another. The door stayed open, but something made them look back in the opposite direction. Heartless were starting to pop up from every area. The sounds of Keyblades hitting Heartless were heard as the figures moved about, and a voice told them to stop, but they kept on fighting.
'Why have you come?' the voice asked. 'Your job is done… What is it that you want?' the voice echoed out loudly, and the Keyblades finally fell to the ground. 'That is why… I see then, you have both chosen your paths now. It's been a while since something like this has happened, and we are grateful, Dark, Light. Now quickly, hurry and come inside, we have much to teach you two.'
"More dreams like that…" Kairi thought pulling the covers off of her. "I'm getting so sick of those dreams…" she said shaking her head. "I… That voice sounds really familiar but I can't think of the name… for either one of them…" she said sadly and closed her eyes. "But it feels like I know them…"
E p I l o g u e
Dark panted heavily falling to her knees, watching the dirt stained with blood. "They keep coming after us…" she said sadly looking at the deceased body that was close to her own, "we tell them to stop, but they won't… And more of them are coming after us with Keyblades…" she said looking back at Light. "We haven't done anything wrong… so why are they attacking us like this?" Dark asked herself.
Light picked up the fallen keychain from the deceased figure. "It's Fatal Crest…" Light said seeming a bit cheerful. "Man getting these key chains back is a hassle, at this rate I'm not going to have all my stuff back…" he thought and stared at the deceased figure on the floor. He said a silent prayer to the man, and shook his head. "Let's get going, Dark, or more of them are going to catch up with us." she nodded and stood up, noticing her shoes stained with blood.
"Just like last time…" she thought thinking back to a former memory. "I… I just really want to go home…" Dark said feeling tears form around her eyes. "Why can't they understand that?"
"I don't know…" Light said meaning it truthfully. "But why would the Keyblades be picking people like him? I mean, it didn't really feel like he had a strong heart…" he said walking down the dirt path.
"Well maybe… Maybe the Keyblade believes that something is wrong, you know?" she said sighing for a moment as they walked side by side. "At any rate, remember what that voice said?"
"Shit…" he thought back to the letter. "Dark…"
She nodded forgetting about her unanswered question, "We've got about fifteen minutes till five…" she said as they starting running towards the horizon. "I hope he's there…" she prayed trying to imagine a big red rocket, the Kingdom gummi ship that would take them back home.
The two figures ran down the road, towards the setting sun now, hoping to catch the faithful ship soon. Grass accompanied them with each step they took as they ran faster and faster till they felt that they would almost collapse. 'Not much farther…' the girl thought feeling a big smile form around her lips, almost crying with joy. Light followed after her, his key chains were able to hang around his loops now, he was free from the town, but not from the Chasers.
They stopped suddenly noticing that the dirt road ended, and there was a grassy valley stretched out for miles. Dark looked back and noticed that the town of Amber Pacific was over a couple of hillsides. "This… This is where Mr. Brooks found us…" Dark said almost in disbelief. Light nodded and walked down towards the valley noticing something in the distance.
"You got my letter!" a familiar voice said, and a very happy canine came running towards Dark and Light, tackling them both with happiness. "Hey boy!!" the two friends cried out happily. "Hey don't be forgettin' about us!" two more figures came running down one of the hilly areas from the ship. "Hey!" the two other figures cried out happily, feeling tears run down their cheeks.
"Let's get goin'!" the one in charge said, as the figures escorted Dark and Light, with the familiar canine right by their side. "Sorry we took a while… We've been getting' chased too…" the one dressed in black said.
"It's all right." the two teens said smiling.
"Whatcha guys call yourselves now?" the taller figure asked noticing the figures dressed in entirely different clothing.
"Dark… " The girl said smiling slightly.
"Light…" the boy said looking back at the king for a moment.
They all looked around noticing that the canine was growling at an unseen force. Dark growled again feeling her eyes turn yellow once more. "Why…?" Light asked furiously and noticed more Heartless come their way. In the distance they noticed several white figures come about. "Nobodies…?" they all asked one another.
E p I l o g u e
"WHERE ARE THEY?" the person yelled out violently. Riku and Kairi flinched for a moment watching the figure summon two Keyblades. "I know they live here… Where are they?"
Riku pulled out his Keyblade and growled for a moment. "Even if we did know…" he said charging forward.
"We wouldn't tell you!" Kairi yelled out pulling her Keyblade quickly and following quickly behind.
The figure jumped to the side, and blocked Riku's attack clumsily. Kairi moved to the side and threw her Keyblade in a quick fashion watching it hit the person dead on. Riku spun around and felt his weapon collide with a mass of flesh and the figure groaned. The person jumped back taking time to recover, and breathed in for a moment. "They… are wanted by us… to take back the true power…" the person withdrew their weapon, "be sure to tell them the Chasers are looking for them…" with that the person disappeared from sight.
We'll find a way to get back to you… Please don't worry.
So much knowledge that's stored in Kingdom Hearts, you think it can help us from repeating history again?
Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens… Funny, it's it?
I mean we haven't done anything wrong…
Maybe… it's because we stayed…
It's empty… or maybe that's what we want to see…
Where are they?
I can't let you get to her…
I'll protect him with my life…
I'm giving this to you now, you must take this road for me. Don't worry, you'll do fine I'm sure of it.
E p I l o g u e
In the distance of a frame there are four paths with long winding roads, as all paths have at one point or another. The sun rises for them differently, and sets at different times, due to the fact that the four paths are in different time frames. One figure walks alone down the path where the sun shines brightly, and the person pauses to look up at the sky, stretching their hand out and pretending to grab the sun. Then, the individual continues to walk down the sunny path.
That path of light where the sun never sets…
In another road there are two figures walking down this path, as the sun begins to set. One figure is tall, while the other is short, but their height makes no different because their paths are the same. The two of them stop looking back at the long and winding road in back of them, so many memories that they have stored within their hearts. The taller one looked ahead now trying to picture the rising sun. They continue walking now, hoping to catch up with the others soon.
Where the sun sets, and twilight begins…
One figure is seen sitting down on the dirt path, staring up at the night sky, watching the stars blink, almost as if they are trying to say something. The figures summons a shadow with their left hand, so that person it not alone. This one walks down the path with the yellow eyed shadow. It is not sorrow, nor fear, neither power nor hatred, it could possibly be another emotion, on which the individual wishes to share. The night is that person's constant companion, and they are glad, but still it would be nice to see the sun rise.
That path where the night bids goodnight to twilight…
A figure is seen running down the path where the sun is beginning to rise, trying desperately not to lose sight of what's ahead. The person wants to see the others soon, so he begins his at dawn, like always. The path is beginning to end for that person as an intersection is beginning to loom over them. In the distance more figures are starting to arrive, and the person who started at dawn couldn't be happier. They all start running to meet up at the intersection.
That path of dawn that vanishes the darkness with the morning sun…
The pathways in back of them begin to disappear, as if a huge wind just blew them away like grains of sand. There another area forms, and more figures are seen coming after them with weapons ready at hand. The ones who are being attacks stand side by side with one another, not drawing their weapons yet. They don't want to fight with the others, there's no valid explanation.
Long ago there was a great battle.
But they survived…
Their hearts… were the mightiest weapon of all…
There are two types… the one I told you about, from my side, and them…
We're taking back that Keyblade…
How can you trust her?
This time, we won't repeat history…
The door to light, and the door to darkness.
Maybe we weren't suppose to get those spheres…
You have his memories don't you?
Keyblades finally clashed together, and sparks flew from the force of metal against metal. The setting seems dark, but still they all fight on with their hearts, not daring to give up now. They all want to win, even if it means death, but it's for a good cause. At least that's what they tell themselves as they fight. The ones from the four paths look in the horizon to see one figure that came from the path of light, and they look back at the other figure that is by their side. The new figure, from the path of light, runs quickly towards the old figure that treaded the path of light, and clashes their Keyblades together.
Why? Tell me… Why did you side with the darkness?
I haven't done anything like that…
You know the door to the darkness, we have to lock it.
But how?
Maybe we're just going to have to be the darkness for now.
Working as spies, you think the others will agree…?
Right now, at this point in time there's a War.
The tale of the lost two…
Come home safely you guys…
A/N: There you go you guys! Um well if you have questions about anything I'll be glad to answer them… You know the drill!