Darkness

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Looking desperately for the mirror image, Mareo twisted his head, looking at various rooftops, however he realized he was long gone. Walking slowly towards his car, he took one last look before getting in, and starting on his way home, listening to the radio, he heard his favorite song play and hummed along with the tune, but slowly stopped. "What did he mean…the true self? I am my own person…not some Nobody…" Mareo thought to himself as he drove trying to keep his attention to the road, but his mind wandered back to the scene that played out. Finally reaching his apartment, he turned off the car and wandered to his front door.

Slowly opening the door, he looked inside, expecting to find something out of the ordinary, but nothing. He sighed and shut the door behind him, "I wonder if that really happened…" Mareo talked to himself, looking at the mirror hanging in the hallway, "there is no way I can be a Nobody…Unless what he said was true…but then he would have been turned into a Heartless at some point…but they don't exist…right?" Mareo spoke aloud, trying to organize his thoughts, but it didn't work, and he wandered through the small apartment towards his bedroom, and flopped down on his bed. Quickly falling asleep, Mareo started to dream.

Falling through darkness, Mareo slowly opened his eyes, and took a moment to look around, "darkness… I wonder if it will devour me…" he thought as he fell, however his body began to turn and twist, and he slowly landed on his feet. Looking around, he felt a shiver run up his spine and he looked to the brilliant stained-glass floor, showing a picture of himself along with the Organization member who looks exactly like him. "What's going on?" Mareo asked aloud, trying to get an answer, "There is a great journey ahead of you." A voice echoed throughout the darkness, making Mareo look around, "Take your time. Their will always be time, take it one step at a time." He wandered to the center of the floor, looking for the voice but found no one, "Hello?" Mareo shouted into the darkness, using his hands to make his voice travel further.

Suddenly, Mareo woke up, sitting right up, he slowly calmed himself down and looked at his hands, "Where…Where was I?" He asked himself as he slowly climbed off the bed and looked at the clock: 8:48. Scratching his head, Mareo wandered out of his room and into the kitchen, "that was a weird dream…I don't know if it was real or not…" going through the shelves, showing they had nothing, he opened the fridge only to be reminded to buy more groceries, since the racks were mostly empty. Finding some milk and macaroni and cheese, he made himself dinner and ate. Looking back at the time, it seemed to fly by, "man…I've got to get to work…" Mareo said to himself and got changed into his work outfit, and walked out of the apartment, locking the door behind him.

Traveling to work, Mareo thought about the mysterious person who had the same face as his, "Its crazy…there can't be two of me…" he said aloud to calm himself down, "but what if there are?" he thought instantly, putting him on edge. Pulling into the parking lot, Mareo slowly got out of his car and wandered towards the main building. Waving to the person on duty, he made his way past the sliding doors, and to the attendants' counter. Filling out his time card, he grabbed a vest and wandered outside towards the smaller building outside, and perched on the stool. "…And begins another wonderful evening of being bored out of my mind…" Mareo spoke, starring off at the intersections, waiting for customers to come.

After two hours, Mareo started to sleep, trying desperately to keep himself awake; his head kept bobbing up and down between being asleep and awake. Bonking his head on the small counter, he rubbed his forehead, "man I know its dead sometimes…but not like this…" From the small building he wandered back into the store, and looked for the cashier behind the counter, "hello?" Mareo called out, but no one answered. Looking from side to side, he realized that there was no one in the store, quickly walking outside, he saw the parking lot empty, and no body driving to their destinations, "what…what's going on?" He asked himself and ran towards the small building.

"Something wrong?" A voice echoed, Mareo quickly turned around to see the same figure from before standing on a street lamp, "You seem troubled…" he added, "YOU! What are you doing?" Mareo ran from the stool to the figure, however he simply laughed, "What can you to about it? Nothing." Striking a cord, Mareo stopped, "he's right…what can I do?" thinking to himself, the mirror image put a grin on his face, "I will save you if you come with me and complete my true self." Mareo narrowed his eyes, "no way. Its not going to happen." The figure put his hood back over his face and lifted his right hand, "it's a shame to loose part of my memory…" He snapped his fingers and multitudes of Heartless appeared, "Hear me Heartless! Devour this world and all those in it!" He lifted both of his hands as he shouted, then disappeared in a ellipse of darkness.

Mareo turned to see a giant Heartless form from his shadow and take form, being much taller than the street lamp, and having yellow eyes, he looked down at Mareo, who was scrambling, trying to stay near the lamppost. Darkness and Heartless of every shape and size started to flow from the shadow, slowly making their way around as far as Mareo could see, and suddenly the solid ground gave way under him; causing him to fall into Darkness…