The Door to Fear
Alan entered inside the last of the Doors of the Heart, slowly closing the door behind him and noticed he was inside a replica of the Roman Coliseum. (Key in the battle music for Olympus Coliseum, inside the Underworld) Out from a dark gate that opened up just twenty feet from Alan was the Hydra, but it was more black than purple than its lookalike cousin from Olympus Coliseum, and its eyes were a mix of green and yellow. The brute stomped on the ground charging towards Alan, yet the agile youth backflipped in mid air and landed on the beast near the top of the middle head of its three heads. (In other words the center for short) He began to slash at its head, but the beast slapped him with its tail and began squeezing and squeezing to get the life out of Alan and air cut off from his lungs. Try and try as he might trying to break free, the beast continued to squeeze with no sign of letting up.
Yet Alan then thought at the last minute, looking at its belly, there was a heart symbol on the beast, 'Hey…so that's where it is. Now if only I could get out of this bugger's tail, then I could zap its belly clean and quickly with no trouble at all. I wonder if he's ticklish." Then Alan did a classic (and also cliché I might add) move and tickled the beast's tail gently. The beast laughed a bit and collapsed on its back as its tail loosened and Alan broke free. Alan then jumped high into the air and zapped the hydra right on its belly as its big pink like heart, with a lock symbol at its center appeared and he unlocked it, thus destroying the Viraltrooper and he jumped out of the Door to Fear quickly so as he could escape before the effects took wing. As the Door to Fear closed off quickly, the door disappeared and finally the heart that appeared all those times that Alan and Nadia unlocked one came into existence and appeared from a spark of light. It glowed and glowed ten thousand times more than the city of Las Vegas, and was over two hundred feet high and fifty feet wide. Alan sat on the ground exhausted as he caught his breath from all the running and jumping he did and asked, "What is it Aranse?" "It is the product of the Doors of the Heart being sealed I would presume. It has been prophesized that the creation of this magnificent beauty of them would become a bad omen.", Aranse added. "Why?", Alan inquired. "It is a very complex answer that even I have no answer to I'm afraid. For you see that that heart contains the five basic elements to any heart in the universe: Love, Anger, Happiness, Sorrow, and Fear. Yet this heart is still unstable I fear. Natural hearts are designed to be able to cope with these emotions and depending on its environment will influence its actions, but in a controlled manor. These emotions however are not limited by this heart as its container. Therefore you must have to unlock this heart as well to create any hope of saving it from imploding and creating a disaster."
Alan jumped as he heard this and asked, "Tell me. I'll do it Aranse. Anything, just anything and I'll do it." Aranse laughed a bit as he said, "Be careful how you interpret this boy, but to save this heart of hearts, you must give in to your darkness." Alan looked surprised as he asked, "My darkness?" "All hearts have light and darkness in them, but only so few can surpass this delicate balance and create a weapon from this quality. You are one of those people that have been prophesized to wield darkness and you therefore must take out its darkness and seal it away.", Aranse said. "What of its light?", Alan inquired. "Don't worry. Nadia also has that taken care of. She like you has surpassed the balance of light and darkness, but through light instead. You have witnessed it before, have you not?", Aranse asked. Alan nodded and then he said, "Okay. What do I do then?" "First find its weak point. Then use it as its weakness. Darkness itself is strong, but it can never conquer light because it has a poor defense. In the same way Light can never conquer darkness because it has a poor offense." Alan nodded and searched the glowing white heart for its weakness and found it at its center. He then zapped it ten times and the darkness poured out as a black ooze. It dripped and slid like a tidal wave towards Alan and he then zapped the ooze while jumping high into the air and it created a large white doorway, and it sucked away the large white heart inside of it and closed shut. Alan then zapped it as it was locked inside.
Alan then asked, "What of its Light then?" "There won't be any necessary business to deal with its light. Like I said, Nadia has that taken care of when she unlocked the heart of Sunset Horizons also known as the Gathering Place." Alan then said, "I guess we could just give that place two names to let it be known by. I was being too stubborn I admit." Aranse then said, "No matter. That heart you sent into that door…I shall call it the Door to Darkness. The Door to Light on the other hand is in here." He pointed to Alan's heart as he felt it and said, "Here." "You still have light within your body and your heart, and with that the Door to Light shall always be within you and Nadia so long as you accept the light and never let it go out. I've noticed you almost lost it a couple of times: when you faced Tyrannil in the African jungles and in Castle Darkhand when you faced Tyra. There was also Ryansk in Radiant Garden that nearly made you lose yourself to your keyblade's wishes." Alan then asked, "Wishes?" "Yes. For you see, the keyblade is no mere ordinary weapon. It can choose any master it wants. Whether they have darkness or light it doesn't matter. But should one wield purely of darkness with no light and vice versa, it could consume the wielder and create its own destiny. The keyblade has a mind of its own you know.", Aranse added. Alan then gasped as he said, "That's impossible. It's improbable. How come I didn't notice this then?" "It wasn't connecting to your body of course. Keyblades unlock hearts, not souls or anything else. I always pondered as to why for thirty years and realized that it has to do with the power that a heart has. The Soul is like the mind in which it has life and reason behind it. The body is a vessel to protect the Soul and Heart from danger. Yet the Heart, it's the most powerful of them all, containing a person's true desires and their physical and mental wants and needs. Without these, a keyblade has no reason to choose the soul or body to be its wielder (henceforth why I think Nobodies obviously could never wield a keyblade if they tried. Roxas being an exception, was/is connected to Sora, whose keyblade master of course). Now then, control your keyblade. Tell it to obey you. Once you do this, your future with Nadia and possible confrontation of Obeion will be assured."
Alan nodded and concentrated on his Kingdom Key. It began to glow and Alan noticed its key portion of the weapon turn gold (thus creating Mickey's future Keyblade. Alan then noticed two other keyblades appear: one that looked like the Kingdom Key he wielded and a black keyblade (Riku's future keyblade and weapon, the Soul Eater). Both the golden Kingdom Key and the Soul Eater disappeared as the Kingdom Key was the only one that remained at Alan's side. "Because of your will to control it in Light, the other two keys have been sent to the Corridors of Darkness to be forever closed inside until the day that two or more warriors decide to come and wield them. Your keychain should also still be there as well I believe.", Aranse replied as this happened. Alan nodded as he saw the Mickey keychain on the Kingdom Key and pressed the switch on his watch to leave for Sunset Horizons. "Will Nadia and I ever see you again Aranse?", Alan asked. "Perhaps my child. That heart will always from now on be a burden to this galaxy. Thus I shall send it to where it will be more of a unique and proper gift. To the newly created universe of hearts. In fact I shall call it that. Kingdom Hearts: the heart of all worlds." As he said this, the Door to Darkness disappeared leaving the abyss dark and empty. Aranse then disappeared as he said, "Just remember. Never lose your light. Keep it burning strong." He then left and it would be another fifteen years before Alan or Nadia would ever lay eyes on this mighty being again. Alan then thought as he disappeared himself, never to see the abyss again, 'I shall old friend. I shall.' With that, the abyss became quiet. Its reign of terror had ended, but the final battle that would decide the universe's fate (and ultimately the future of any good guy/bad guy at all) was about to begin.
(A very interesting chapter. I believe this to be a feasible way as to how Kingdom Hearts came to be as well as the Door to Darkness and Light. You also noticed that Alan's keyblade turned into Mickey's future keyblade and the Soul Eater while his Kingdom Key remained with him. Nadia's keyblade will also play a crucial part in this as well. Her portion is coming up soon so stay tuned. Hey that rhymes lol.)
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