Past Events
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"Well," Julia started off with a sigh, "it has to do with the Broken Tower. I can't get in because of something that happened."
Sora raised an eyebrow, "what do you mean?"
She thought about how to put it, "you first battled Xehanort's heartless in the realm of darkness and you prevented a great calamity from happening by locking the keyhole to the door to light. When Xehanort's nobody tried to directly access Kingdom Hearts but before that there was an event that could be described as a 'Heart Shower'. Do you remember it?"
Sora strained to remember when it had happened, how long ago he wasn't sure, but it was still a challenge. "When Ansem's, the real Ansem, machine blew up it made that moon shatter and hearts rained down from the sky. Some flew away like stars but others landed and became hordes of heartless."
"You said some flew away like stars?"
Sora nodded at her question, "they didn't seem like they would land, at least in that world," he added, "but what does that have to do with anything?" He figured that those shooting 'hearts' had done the same as the others when they landed and became heartless. She rubbed her hands together and bit her lip at his reaction.
"That's how the Broken Tower became, well, broken. Without those fragments that went along with the hearts the tower can not be completed. Not only that but each fragment contains a great amount of power."
Sora tilted his head, "I don't understand."
"I was asleep with it happened but those pieces hold more knowledge about the darkness and the light. When the heart shower occurred a seal was activated on the Broken Tower to prevent the darkness from seeping in." Julia thought about it and dragged her fingertip across the table top to represent the seal. "But imagine my surprise when I found out a Nobody got in and tapped into the power…"
Sora instantly knew who she meant, "but we stopped him!" he exclaimed as if trying to justify that he didn't do it.
"I didn't mean it that way," she apologized and shrunk back a little. "But the bottom line is that Kingdom Hearts is not only broken but tainted with that nobody's nothing."
"So…" he thought aloud, "it's, Kingdom Hearts, power was reduced because of that also? And the broken pieces went to other worlds?" She nodded at his reasoning. "What about being tainted with the nothing?"
Julia gave him a look that she didn't know exactly what it was, "I think it might have been what caused me to lose my memory but I'm not sure." She stood up, "but now that know what you do…" she walked over to a door that seemed like it hadn't been there a few minutes before. It had silver chains barring it shut with a large lock in the center, "can you open this for me?"
"Sure," Sora stood up and thought, 'if it means getting to that book.'