The Darkness Within

(Just a little heads up. this next content I am about to explain occurs during the two months that Victor and Torahne spent together before meeting that new kid Victor was about to talk to. All of this will in fact take about three chapters to get underway and the whole Darkness taking over Torahne business and the final fight with Victor (not to get to much spoiled stuff in for those just reading my stories) will take at least another chapter or two as well. Just so you know what to expect for the next little while.)

Victor slowly tossed and turned in his bunkbed and was sweating more than a gym sock on an athlete. Before he knew it, he was awake in a dark, dark place. He saw that he wasn't in his red mighty morphin power rangers pyjamas (since this is in the nineties of course), but in his regular outfit of a t-shirt and some shorts and his white running shoes. Victor then thought as he tried to look at his hands, but was unable to because of the darkness all around him, "Man what would I give to have a flashlight or something right about now." Then before Victor knew it there was light in the area, but from what he expected. He soon found himself in a forest of the sort, but everything in it was dead. The trees were left bare with no leaves to cover them, there was dense clouds everywhere in the sky and the only thing that could pierce right through them was the moon. He then gazed upon a green paradise in the centre. It looked like a small garden you would find in your mother's backyard. As he went inside it to get a better view, it transformed into a greenhouse and trapped him inside. Victor then slightly giggled a little in a frightened way and then said, "Torahne, if this is a joke, its not funny man." He then felt a cold chill in the air and he felt something slightly grab both of his shoulders. He turned around, but nothing was there. he looked in front of him and right there was 'her'. She was as beautiful as they came. (since he was in an all boy's training camp, its no surprise at his reaction to actually meeting a girl)She was as spectacular and stunning as a flower is to a bumblebee. Her hair was white, she was in a white dress and looked to be no taller, nor older than Victor either. Victor then stared at the girl's pink lips and began to feel weak in the knees. As he slowly tried to stand up, the girl giggled a little bit and Victor slowly turned red, but shook his head to be more of a nice gentleman to her.

Victor stared calmly at her face and then asked her, "Who are you?" The girl stared at Victor's brown eyes with her baby blue eyes and slowly turned into the state Victor was in a moment ago: weak in the knees slightly and felt as if she would melt. She then said coming closer to him, "It's Anastasia. What's yours?" Victor then saw she was about two feet away from and tried to escape in anyway he could as he replied, "Victor." Then Anastasia grabbed gently onto his chest with her delicate hands and then kissed his lips whilst closing her eyes. Victor's eyes were wide open when this happened and he thought, 'Oh no!! What do I do? I'm actually kissing a girl. I don't even know her and yet somehow she's already kissing me...and I'm actually enjoying this!! Torahne's never gonna believe this!!' Yet as the girl ceased to kiss Victor, he slowly began to turn to stone and before Victor realized it he was completely frozen in stone. The girl gasped as this happened and she started to form tears around her eyes. She covered her mouth with both of her hands as she began to cry and disappeared. Victor, still conscious inside his body then wondered, 'Why was she crying?' Before he knew it the greenhouse and paradise garden disappeared as well as it soon started to rain (anyone who's read Kingdom Hearts: Legend of the White Knight will know a lot of these events that are getting explained right now). All around him, he saw his uncles, aunts, his grandmother, grandfather, cousins, and all sorts of family gather together crying. He also saw his brothers, Michael and Christopher although they didn't get tears, stared at the ground to show respect. Then Victor saw behind them was a girl in a rose dress and a man, although bald at the top of his head, in a black suit. Victor gasped as he saw this and then said, "No it can't be... it's...it's..."

Victor then slowly came to from his dream and then panicked. He then thought to himself as he stared at his hands, 'Did that actually happen?' He then felt his lips. They were still warm from the kiss he had with the girl!! 'This can't be happening. It doesn't make any sense. Why would a girl just go and kiss a guy she's never met?' Victor then thought thinking back to the last scenes of his dream, 'Perhaps its a prediction. Maybe I'm supposed to die in my near future. Well I won't let it happen. Since so many people would be that affected by me dying I won't ever let it happen!!" Victor then slowly dozed off to sleep again. This wouldn't be the last time he would experience adventure in his mind. Little did he know that something dark would originate from his powerful, newly created imagination. Later the next day, Victor and Torahne were in the cafeteria getting some lunch to eat and as they ate their ham sandwhiches while sitting outside on the cut playground, Torahne then saw that as he finished his sandwhich, Victor had barely touched his. He then asked with food in his mouth, "What's the prob Victor? You don't seem like yourself today." Victor then said, "I don't even know what's wrong with me. I had a dream last night and some girl with white hair and in a white dress kissed me. Next thing I know I turned to stone and my whole family was there crying." Torahne swallowed his food and then said smirking, "So how was this girl at kissing? Was she like a wet dog or a smooth acrobat?" Victor then punched his buddy in the right shoulder as Torahne laughed and Victor said, "This is serious man!! I never had all those people cry for me before even if it was a dream, it felt so real..." Torahne then patted Vic on the back and said, "Listen Vic, You've been at this academy for over a month now. Even fishing, bowling, playing hockey and basketball and playing practical jokes on random people doesn't cut it when you're homesick. You just need to lighten up a bit, I'm sure you'll see your family real soon." Victor then said, "Really?" "Really.", Torahne replied. Torahne then whispered into Victor's left ear, "So how 'bout that girl? Did you at least catch her name?" Victor then said, "Yeah. She said it was Anastasia. I don't know why, but I really felt right with her. Girls are obviously the ones with cooties (since he's a kid that's why that line's included. Give him a break, he's only 7.), but I really like her a lot and we just met in that dream. But I'm just going nuts aren't I? For crying out loud none of it was real."

Torahne then said, "You know they say that dreams are basically your mind trying to tell you stuff that you like to hear or see. They project your desires or experiences in a way that makes you think about yourself." Victor then said, "So maybe there is a girl out there for me then?" Torahne then grabbed Victor's left shoulder and said, "Trust me Victor. I know there is and when you find that one girl that's right for you, let's just say she won't be able to say no when she's with you." The tall boy smiled as Victor perked up a grin and said, "Thanks Torahne. That means a lot." The next two months, although they went by fast, were some of the best times Victor ever had with Torahne. They went hiking in some of the mountains Fidelio had to the south of the camp, they managed to catch some of the biggest fish ever laid eyes on, and by the time they came back, Victor and Torahne were trained to be the top boys of the Training Academy that they ever had in their history as an establishment. One day though, Victor and Torahne were told by their fighting counsellor to fight against each other in a one on one grudge match.

As Victor and Torahne got into the ring to begin their match, Victor then asked Torahne, "So there's no hard feelings towards each other after this is done?" Torahne nodded and said, "Trust me Victor. I would never let something as stupid as a grudge match get between our friendship." Victor smiled and then as Colonel Palcelforte rang the bell, the two ran for each other. Victor smacked Torahne in his right eye giving him a shiner, then Torahne tripped Victor and tackled him to the ground. Torahne then punched Victor in both of his cheeks and threw him over ten feet away in the ring (since its thirty feet (width) by twenty feet (length)) Victor collapsed on the cold hard ground and then even as he slowly began to get up, Torahne raced towards him and grabbed him by the neck and prepared to punch him at his nose. Before he could do it though, Victor grabbed Torahne's chest with his legs and then flipped him over his head and surprisingly to finish it up Victor was also standing on top of Torahne's chest making him the winner of the grudge match as Colonel Palcelforte said, "The Victory goes to Victor!!" with a whole crowd of the academy cheering both of them on. Torahne shook his head and stated at the ground with his hair covering his face, he saw a hand reach out give a helping hand. Torahne looked up and saw it was Victor smiling. The boy then said, "I said no hard feelings okay?" Torahne nodded and said, "Yeah, but I was so close." Victor then said, "Take a look around. These guys are cheering both of us on." Torahne then saw Colonel Palcelforte arrive and pick both boys up and placed them right in front of him. He then said, "Torahne, I thought you would have figured this out by now. You have had greatness written in your future since I first laid eyes on you. You can't possibly expect to throw all of that away now do you?" Torahne then smiled and said, "Nope. I guess I can't. Enough about me though, let's hear for Victor!!" Victor then grabbed Torahne's right hand and both of them headed off outside of the gym to the playground about ten blocks away from the academy to celebrate. Then after that, they would go and have some cake and pizza as well as icecream to finish it up. A dark being watching all of the commotion from up at the ceiling then said to himself sinisterly, "Now's my chance to strike. Now while the boy is young, weak, naive. I mustn't fail. Today, you celebrate my boy. Tonight, I will have conquered you and this world as well as countless others shall fall!!" The dark being then disappeared in a dark pitch of black smoke.

(From this chapter, we have seen a different side to Victor and Torahne as well. That one grudge match is where is jealousy for Victor believe it or not has begun and this is also where Darkness has contemplated taking over Victor as well. To take a step back though, Anastasia meeting Victor for the first time there is significant since he is going to be meeting her a lot through the later part of this story and briefly in another chapter to come. Just to sum this all up, this has been the past two months of Torahne and Victor's history up to them meeting that kid sitting alone from the last chapter. I know it was a little hypocratic saying there would be three chapters on this stuff instead of one, but I forgot to say that what I meant to say was there was going to be a whole chapter on Victor's encounter with Darkness so it kind of ties up with this little portion of my story. More yet to come, so stay tuned.)

(Next Time: Evil Shows Its Face)

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