"Dun-dun-dun! I'm Mikhail, and I'm from a uhhh, far-away land where I'm the strongest dragon ever in history! Yeah I like that! And I'm on a super important mission to find my lost friend Riku and nothing's gonna stop me!" Mikhail soared through the skies, weaving past mountain tops and flying over falling rocks in search of his missing friend. However, as he was circling back to return to Zero's location, he ran into another horde of air pirate heartless.
"Uh-oh, danger approaches the mighty hero dragon Mikhail! Not to fear, time for my super powerful fireball! Take this!" Mikhail shot a giant fireball at the heartless enemies, his fire destroying their physical forms. "Ha- ha yeah! Burn baby!"
He swooped around. "Aw, I wish Riku and Zero could see me in action! Oh well, maybe that fireball was enough to get Riku's attention!"
But the only attention it got was the arrival of multiple battleship heartless that formed an air blockade around him. "Uh-oh!" As he dove down to avoid fire, the heartless chased after him, blasting him with a barrage of cannonballs. While he tried his best to evade them, a cannonball ended up striking his right wing, inflicting enough damage to force him to crash into the side of a nearby mountain.
"Uhh...not good..." The fleet of battleship heartless loomed over him and as they readied their cannons to fire, a mysterious swordswoman sliced all the vessels in one fell swoop. With the heartless defeated, for now, the swordswoman approached Mikhail, bending down to caress his scales. "Are you alright, dragon?"
"Y-yeah I am, thanks a bunch stranger!"
"Stranger? That would be General Beatrix to you." She removed her helmet, revealing the face of a young, attractive woman. "So what of your wing? It seems those beasts inflicted quite the wound on it."
"Oh, yeah...it got hurt a little but nothing I can't handle!"
"That's good to hear. Although I must say, I haven't seen many dragons in these mountains, are you lost perhaps?"
"I'm not lost, I was actually looking for my friend Riku! Have you seen him, he's got silver hair and uses a really weird sword that kinda looks like a key!"
"-Wait, are you talking about the demon slayer?"
"Umm I think so, I remember someone calling him that before. Does that mean you've seen him?!"
She paced around. "No, but if you're searching for the demon slayer that must make you the Intoner Zero's dragon, correct?"
"Yep! That's me!"
"...Then you have my deepest apologies because now I must apprehend you."
LordNoobReview: Riku's like mildly annoyed by everyone but esp Four and Five's disciples. I'm glad you like the oc soldiers, thought I add a little more character for the drama~
Raximus: Hey, the more the merrier
Keybladelight: Riku will find a way to find a light within the shadows, something, something kh dialogue
Goldfaber: Why does that song sound like something from an 80's sci fi movie XD Really on point lyrics though
Centurious the Azure: Not her proudest moment lol...Mikhail already stuck in between a rough divorce, sad :( And thanks, Intoners are fun to write bc they have crackhead personalities, ehh yeah, Octa's gonna be a pain the a**
Anon: Yaa, guess what my fave FF game is lol. The presence of heartless is just suppressed mostly, it's semi-related to the Intoner's own personality in a way, I'll have to keep those questions in mind whenever Zero and Riku are on good terms. The story does take place during the limit cut, and those are some great parallels you drew between Riku and Michael. I like to think Zero sees a lot of Michael in Riku which just makes his actions hurt her even more. Four and Five's fight was unexpected? Psshht, sisters amirite? I mean you could say A2, Kainé, and Zero are all different flavors of the same a**hole.
Ian12091995: Thank you:)
"Vacant Noise"
After Zero finished, she stumbled out of the underground base, but Mikhail wasn't on the other side waiting for her like she ordered. "...Damn it! Where the hell are you, dragon?! I said I was gonna kick your ass if you weren't here!"
However, no matter how much she called out for him, all she did was garner unwanted attention from the enemy. The drawbridge connecting the other half of the underground base lowered down and a platoon of soldiers crossed over to fend off against her.
"...Goddamnit, I'll just have to keep going."
This time around, the soldiers were putting up more of a fight than she was used to. Gone were the days of Zero passively cutting through men with little effort, now she had to dodge a few attacks and even wait for an opening to strike, nothing she ever did prior with the regular old fodder soldiers.
"I have to say, I'm actually impressed. Usually, you guys are pissing yourselves whenever I come around," Zero taunted as she clashed blades with a soldier.
"Such cowardly actions are beneath the soldiers who serve under General Beatrix!"
"Ah, so your general's a broad?"
"Don't refer to our general with such a derogatory term!"
"You serious? I could've just called her a bitch." Knocking his sword out of his hands, she stabbed him in the chest, then had to quickly retreat in order to avoid a sword strike from behind.
"Silence you wench! Hiyaaaa!" The same soldier who tried to stab her in the back came charging for her. Rather than confront him head-on, she tripped him, then killed him while he was down.
"Damn, my arm already hurts from fighting those guys. This is gonna be such a pain in the ass..." Zero broke into the latter portion of the underground base and while it was just as grimy and filthy as the last one, she didn't remember it smelling so repulsive. 'God, it smells like unwashed ass. Either these soldiers don't bathe or my dragon's down here with them.'
Once Zero got through fighting a few more bouts of soldiers, she reached a dungeon where Mikhail was being held captive under iron chains. "Waaahh! Zero, I knew you'd come to save me!"
'I hate being right all the time.' She dragged her sword over to him. "How the hell did you manage to get captured?! I can't leave you alone for a goddamn minute..."
"H-Hold on Zero! Watch out!"
Zero jerked head back, narrowly avoiding the blade of a sword as it glided mere inches past her face. The sword lodged itself into the back wall, where top General Beatrix landed on the handle to mark her flashy arrival. "My, my, you're much faster than I thought, Intoner."
"-There she is! That's the nice lady who captured me," Mikhail said.
"You're calling this whore 'nice' for capturing you?!"
"I'm certainly more tolerable than you are." Beatrix jumped down then removed her sword from the wall and pointed it to Zero. "I commend your valiant effort against my men, but allow me to shatter your delusions of grandeur. Your pathetic powers are useless against me, and you will-"
Zero made the first move on Beatrix right as she was in the middle of her long-winded introduction and not only was Beatrix able to maneuver past her sword, but she instantly redirected her momentum in order to parry the Intoner's attack, forcing her into a defensive position instead.
"What a poor display of swordsmanship," Beatrix said.
She rolled her eye. "I rather stab my eardrums with a fork than listen to you stroke your ego."
"I see, then I suppose my actions will have to speak for themselves!" She knocked Zero's sword out of her hands, then followed up with a sword slash that cut diagonally across her chest.
"Zero, don't let her win! I believe in you!" Mikhail said.
"Your dragon is quite annoying, but once I claim your head I suppose he'll make a good companion."
"That's...an awfully cocky thing to say for someone who's about to die!" Pulling out Sinful Scream, Zero threw all of her weight into a counterattack, but just like before, Beatrix effortlessly dodged her sword as if her blade was moving in slow motion.
Although she missed the first time, Zero was dead set on connecting her attack and started aggressively pursuing Beatrix. Which was a bad move on her end because she left herself wide open and the General took full advantage of her sloppy defense to etch several deep cuts across her body, tattering her skin and clothes.
Zero's inner thoughts ran frantically as she was now dripping wet with blood that for once, was her own. 'Fuck, if I didn't waste my Intoner mode earlier this bitch would've been no problem. I need to think of some other way to kill her.' In a desperate bid, Zero relented on her attacks just so she could stick her sword in the ground and fling dirt in Beatrix's face.
"Wow...talk about fighting dirty," Mikhail said.
"How underhanded, I expect nothing less of you." Even with her being temporarily blinded, she still was adept enough to guard against Zero's incoming attack and they locked swords once more. "Is that all? You must take me as an amateur if you think your childish antics will work on me."
"God I wish you'd shut up."
"Then try giving me an actual challenge." Beatrix pulled back. "Oh but I fear that's something you're not capable of. Why don't I end this pitiful encounter once and for all, Intoner." She began darting around Zero at lightning-fast speeds, disorienting her. Then in one fatal move, she stabbed Zero's chest.
Mikhail struggled under his chains. "ZERO! NOOO! You- you can't die! You can't!"
Beatrix pulled her sword out. "What did I tell you Intoner, you were never any match for me from the start."
In her dying moments, Zero put her prosthetic arm on the General's shoulder and looked her dead in the eye. "You're the one...who's dying." Catching Beatrix completely off guard, her eye flower grew to a massive size and an arm drenched in blood emerged from its delicate petals.
There was a genuine look of horror on Beatrix's face as the woman she previously thought she killed was now sprouting out from her head like some kind of eldritch monster. "Wh...What the fuck are you?! You must be a demon!" She stumbled backward, her composure falling apart by the seams as the fear set in.
"Heh...you look like you're about to piss yourself." Picking up her sword from off the ground, Zero walked over to Beatrix, her footsteps leaving bloody imprints on the ground. The General tried in vain to hold her sword out in front of her, but Zero merely pushed it to the side and brutally stuck her sword straight into her skull.
"Now die."
What followed next was Zero repeatedly stabbing Beatrix and spitting out a storm of words so vile that they couldn't be transcribed to text with a shred of dignity left intact. After Zero got all of her anger out, she nonchalantly went over to Mikhail like she didn't just mentally scar the poor dragon.
"Wow Zero, you're...super scary..."
"She shouldn't have pissed me off." She broke Mikhail free of his chains, but he didn't move from his position. "What the hell are you doing?! Get up!"
"Uh, can we just rest here for a little while?"
"No. Get your lazy ass up, we still have ground to cover."
"I...can't do it."
"What're you talking about?"
"..."
"Answer me. I don't have all day."
Mikhail stretched his wings out as far as he could, showing her the injury he sustained.
She shook her head, annoyed. "You got yourself hurt too, dummy? What the hell am I gonna do with you."
"I...I'm sorry Zero. I didn't mean to get myself hurt or get captured, I just really wanted to find Riku. Y-You're not gonna leave me too, are you?"
"Of course not. Why would you say that?"
"'Cause...that's the reason why you don't wanna go back for Riku, right? His arm got all messed up and now my wing's messed up so... I thought you wouldn't want me anymore since I'm kinda useless now, you know?"
As if Zero didn't just go through a life or death battle, she was now faced with her toughest challenge yet and Mikhail had already dealt her a devastating blow. Zero was so taken aback, that she didn't even know how to begin to respond at first. "No, that's not..." No matter how she looked at it, there was no good way to explain her actions that wouldn't make it sound ten times worse, but she went for it anyways. "It's complicated, but I didn't leave him because I thought he was useless...things just didn't work out in the end."
She let out a sigh. "...And even though you're fucking incompetent, you're not useless."
"Y-you really mean it Zero?"
"I'm not repeating myself."
"So what is it then if you don't think Riku's useless?"
"Didn't I say it was complicated?"
"Well, it wouldn't have to be if you told me."
"That's not how it works. Just shut up and stop asking questions." She changed the subject. "So...I guess I'll set up camp here and then we'll go to Four's castle tomorrow. At least now I'll have time to clean myself up."
"Alright, I should be okay no problem by then! Hey, I know, since we're gonna be stuck here together for a while, I can share some good advice with you!"
She snorted. "Advice from you? I think I'll pass."
"Hey- hey hear me out! A wise person once told me that as long as you listen to your heart, then you can't go wrong!"
"You know what I think you're onto something!" Zero said in a heavily sarcastic voice.
"Really Zero?!"
"Yeah- in fact I think my heart's telling me something right now!"
"Oh-oh, what's it saying?!"
"For you to shut the hell up and stop bothering me."
"Wow...your heart's kind of mean, no offense."
"None taken. And stop saying that stupid corny shit Riku pulls out of his ass. It's annoying."
"Sorry..."
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Following Riku's initial attack, Five managed to slip away so he left the kitchen in pursuit of her, leaving just Four and Dito.
"Oh no...this isn't good. Not that Five doesn't deserve it, but I can't leave her to die!" Just as Four was about to chase after them, she noticed Dito was still relaxing in his chair. "Why are you still here?! She's your Intoner, you're supposed to stay by her side at all times!"
"Yeah, yeah, I was working my way up to it." He slowly got out of his seat and then pushed in his chair and then grabbed his spear and then-
"HURRY UP DITO!"
"I heard you the first time, god, and here I thought you actually wanted your sister dead."
"It's...complicated, but we can at least try to save her. That way if she does end up dying, I'll at least have a clear conscience about it."
"Ah, there it is. Your classic fucked up reasonings."
"Ugh, come on you imp, we can't waste another second!"
At the other end of the castle was Riku, who easily tracked Five down thanks to her smell of darkness being particularly foul. Now that she was within range, he threw his keyblade at her for a strike raid attack. "You're through, Five!"
Five did manage to dodge his onslaught of strike raid attacks, mostly due to Riku still not having his aim down yet, but being quick on her feet helped too. Although her luck was running out as they were nearing a dead end. "I'm used to men chasing after me, but this is a bit overkill, even for me! Luckily I know just what to do to get him under my spell!"
Skidding back on the ground to meet Riku, Five unleashed her power of song directly at him. "...That should've done the trick!" Her face broke out into a wide, devilish smile as she approached him. "Oh my you've been such a naughty boy, but don't worry, you're going to be making it up to me all night long~"
Without hesitation, Riku slashed her across the chest, spilling her blood.
"My song...it didn't work?" She fell down to her knees, bleeding profusely onto the ground. "How'd you manage to...resist my seductive powers?"
Riku's gaze pierced through her like a knife, but just as he was raising his sword to her head, something that had fallen from her person caught his eye. "What's this?" He picked up a little girl's doll, then after he read the tag, he finally looked at Five with eyes that saw her. "This is yours?"
"It didn't use to be...I just held onto it." Five felt herself getting embarrassed that the unabashed confidence she never let herself waver from could so easily be shattered by just a look. She tried to laugh it off at first, but she could barely muster a smile."...It's nothing, really. It's just a toy."
"No, it means something to you, that's why you didn't let it go."
"Like you'd know anything about me."
"...I destroyed my home too once before and uprooted so many lives. I think that's why I'm so angry because all I see in you are the stupid mistakes I already made." He squeezed the doll, then threw it back to her. "Do you get it now? There are a lot more lost dolls like that one because of what you did."
While Five stared at the doll, the pieces started to fall in place in her head. "It was...me?" Unintentionally or not, she realized that she inflicted that same, inescapable feeling of longing for her own father onto countless other little girls and it made her burst out into tears.
At long last, Four and Dito finally made it to the scene just in time to witness Five bawling on the ground.
"Oh shit, wasn't expecting this," Dito said.
"I'm the worst, most terrible person alive! I deserve to DIE!"
He shrugged. "And there you have it. She said it, not me."
Four marched over to Five with the most annoyed look on her face. "For god's sake, how are you still this insufferable when you're crying? Pull yourself together!"
She clung onto her sister's legs. "I don't know if I can go on like this! Waahhhh!"
Covering his ears, Dito turned to Riku. "God, what'd you say to her to make her start blubbering like a whale? She's never lost her shit like this before."
"I can tell, she acts like a child." He went over to Five. "Hey, I get you're upset, but crying's not going to solve anything. We need to keep going and defeat the heartless so no one ever has to get hurt again."
"Riku's right, the damage you did to your people is irreparable so there's no use crying over spilled milk, but we can make things right by helping my people," Four said.
She sniffled. "...Okay, then I wanna help out too, sis!"
"That's a good place to start, so what do you have in mind Four?" Riku asked.
"I'm glad you asked! I was thinking I'd take a little more direct action since we have the demon slayer as an asset and go to the villages that are being terrorized by the heartless."
"Then let me come with! I promise I won't disappoint!" Five begged.
"...Oh alright, you'd probably go into my personal things while I'm gone so this is perhaps better."
Five's devious smirk returned. "Mmm, 'personal things' does that imply you're hiding a few pleasure toys after all? You do have awfully long nails so I'm sure that finger-"
"D-Don't say those things in front of Riku!" She shrieked in embarrassment.
"Aaand she's back," Dito groaned.
"In any case, that settles it. We'll set out to destroy the heartless terrorizing my people at once," Four said.
"About time I do something good with this keyblade," Riku said.
"Follow me, we'll take my personal airship, the hangar's just down this hall."
"Wait, I feel like we're forgetting something," Dito said.
"No, everyone is accounted for."
"—Lady Four! Hah-hah hah-" Decadus stopped in the middle of the hall to catch his breath, then finally made it over to them. "A thousand pardons for my late arrival Lady Four! Unfortunately, I broke a few bones in my rib cage, but I got here as soon as possible!"
"Enough with your silly excuses, Decadus. You've disappointed me enough today."
Decadus promptly got down on his hands and knees in apology. "Then I have failed you as a disciple and that is an inexcusable offense! Please, I insist, punish your Decadus, beat me...unghhh...step on me... oooohh...you can even bound me up and t- torture me. Oh, I can't take it~ yes, torture me ...slowly...and painfully!"
"Wh-oa, sick, nothing like an old guy getting off in public," Dito said.
Four sighed. "And it embarrasses me every time he does this. Decadus, get up on your feet this instant. I haven't the patience."
"You are such a prude sis, but I for one am absolutely getting turned on!" Five winked at him. "I'd torture you any day daddy~"
"Literally anything that has a pulse turns you on," Dito said.
"Right, and please don't call my disciple 'daddy' ever again."
Riku shook his head. "All of you guys have issues."
"Hey, don't group me in with those nutcases. I'm a pretty normal guy," Dito said.
'Yeah right, says the sadistic freak.' Four walked ahead of the group. "We must leave. We've wasted enough time as is."
Once they boarded Four's airship, Decadus made preparations for their flight, then they took off to the skies.
"Now this is traveling in style I - urp, nevermind I take that back!" Five scurried over to the side of the ship where she started throwing up from a sudden case of airsickness.
Dito let out a sinister laugh. "Man, wouldn't it be so nasty if her barf actually ended up landing on someone's head?"
Four frowned at his comment. "You're disgusting. I'll just go see if I have a bucket or something below deck. Don't touch anything while I'm gone."
"Huh, Four may not want to admit, but she does take good care of her sister," Riku said.
"Only out of obligation. I bet she wouldn't give a good goddamn if Five kicked the bucket, I know I wouldn't."
"Four's really like that?"
"Yep, Four acts like she's some kind of a saint, but she's just as shitty as the rest of her sisters." He put his hands behind his head. "Eh, maybe I'm not cutting them enough slack, that Zero chick I keep hearing about is killing all her sisters, right? She's got the right idea if you ask me."
"It's not like she's any better." Riku left Dito, deciding to rest his arms against the guardrail and look out into the sea of clouds beneath him. 'I'm not really sure who to trust anymore, but my heart's telling me something's not right with these Intoners, so I can at least stick around and figure out what they're up to. I guess that means eventually I'll run into Zero again and she's the last person I wanna see. I just don't understand her. Right when I think she's a decent person she proves me wrong. It's like she does this on purpose or-'
"It's a beautiful sight, isn't it?" Four popped up beside him. "It's always prettier when you can look at it from a distance."
"Uh...I guess? So where is this village we're going to anyways?"
"Lindblum, it's the largest village of this land and it's located at the base of Mt. Bernstein of the Vice Norden. It's become severely overrun with those heartless creatures and with so many people there, you can see how much of a danger it poses."
"I see...that is a problem. Good thing we can help them out."
She smiled. "You're quite the heroic one, aren't you? I imagine you injured your arm for something of that nature?"
"It doesn't matter."
"O-Oh okay... I won't pry into personal matters, but I am curious about that sword of yours. I don't believe I've seen anything like it before, is it specially designed to kill the heartless?"
"That doesn't matter either." He walked away from her and sat down on the steps leading to the helm.
"Hey, you don't have to act so guarded around me you know," Four said, following him.
"I'm not here to make friends, just to get a job done. That was our deal."
'I wish he didn't act like a complete jerk! Well, maybe it's like in one of those romance novels where you have to break their walls down first before they open up to you. I suppose that's silly of me to think of, but Riku's so unlike any other guy I've met before, not that I've met other guys because I'm no harlot, but generally speaking I mean. If I can get close to him then perhaps he'll tell me more about himself, and that power of his of course...'
The second they landed down on Lindblum, Five was the first to rush off the airship. "Ughhh. I'm never going back on that death trap ever again!"
"Will you get up off the ground, Five? I swear that whole trip was the quietest you've ever been," Four said, she then waved to the two soldiers stationed at the entrance to Lindblum. "What's the state of affairs? Hopefully, there weren't any more casualties."
"There was a recent demon attack and the unit that was sent out has yet to return to their post, Lady Four," One of them reported.
"Then we must hurry before it's too late!"
When they first stepped past the entrance into the snow-capped village, nothing appeared to be amiss at first glance. Although the streets were devoid of people, largely replaced by the presence of soldiers, that was to be expected when heartless were prowling around.
Four walked over to Riku who appeared to be lost in thought. "So where do you think the heartless are?"
"I can feel their presence, but I can't pinpoint an exact location. We'll have to go further inside."
"Then it might be best to split up, conquer and divide as they say."
"No, that's not necessary. The heartless will find their way to me."
"Of course, you are the expert here after all, no reason to doubt you!"
"You don't sound convinced."
"I-It's not that, I just think the others will get in the way if we travel in a large group."
"Hmm, it sounds like you're trying to have Riku all to yourself," Five said.
"And leave me out of your affairs once again, unghhh," Decadus groaned.
"Th-That wasn't my intention at all! Let's just go already!"
"Sooo...where did the 'heartless' come from anyway? They just kinda appeared out of nowhere," Dito said.
"Don't know, but I'm sure they were attracted by the darkness of this world," Riku said.
"Oh man, 'darkness', you sound like such a friggin' nerd!"
"Quiet Dito," Four said. "If you don't mind, I'd like to hear what the darkness you're referring to is, Riku. I mean, since my heart is apparently 'full of it' I'm guessing it isn't the most pleasant thing in the world."
Dito chuckled. "He's already got you pegged, huh?"
"Heh heh, actually I think Four would be the one doing the pegging to Riku," Five said.
"What does that mean?" Riku asked.
"Just ignore them Riku."
"You don't have to tell me twice. Anyways, darkness is in everyone's hearts, for the most part. It's like a force of nature if I had to describe it. It'll give you power, but if you can't control it then it feeds off your negative emotions until it consumes you whole."
Four placed her hands over her chest. "That's...horrible."
"Hey I wouldn't sweat it, the whole darkness thing sounds like a pretty sweet deal if you ask me," Dito said.
"What part of 'it consumes you whole' did you not hear?"
"That would only suck if you had something to lose."
Five squeezed him from behind. "Of course you do Dito! You'll lose me!"
"Oh, yeah, right..." He mumbled.
"Ugh, imagine all the dreadful pain one would feel from slowly being destroyed. It-It's almost...ughhh...too much."
Riku rolled his eyes. "Please tell me that guy has an off button."
They reached further inside the village and the once pure white snow that blanketed the shops and streets were now stained with dark red blood. As gruesome as it was, the worst had far yet to come.
"They're here!"
Several neoshadow heartless lunged out from the snow as Riku's keyblade came to hand. He was quick to react to their presence, but as his blade tore through the manifestations of darkness, he had a sudden realization. 'Wait, these heartless are mutated just like the ones from the shrine! Does Five have something to do with this?'
However, Five seemed to be equally as surprised to encounter the mutated heartless once again. "Ugh, please not these terrible eyesores again! Haven't you little demons had enough of me already?" Taking extra precaution to guard herself this time, she let Dito do most of the dirty work then swooped in to skewer the rest with her spear.
Meanwhile, Four and Decadus were handling the mutated heartless threat quite well, with Four being exceptionally ruthless. When the mutations were on the verge of defeat, rather than accept their fate, they fused together, turning into a disturbing amalgamation of darkness. Then they disappeared into the shadows, enticing them to follow.
"Let's go! We can't lose track of them!"
"-Ah, goddamnit!" It was Dito, he tripped over something and fallen on the snow. "Huh, hold on, I think I found something!"
"Forget it, we don't have time for it!"
"No way, you're gonna wanna see this." He shoveled a heap of snow out of the way, slowly revealing the corpse of a soldier. "Holy shit, it's frozen solid!"
"Watch your language Dito," Five said sharply.
"He's probably one of the soldiers that went missing so we might find a few more bodies here if we look around," He said with an uncomfortable amount of enthusiasm.
"P-Perhaps he's the only one," Four said.
"I hope not- er uh, we should double-check just to make sure."
"If those are the missing soldiers then...we're already too late," Riku said in a low voice.
"There's only one way to find out."
Five crossed her arms. "Well you can leave me out of this, there's no way I'm digging up dead bodies."
"We're not digging up dead bodies!" Four insisted. "It was just that one- in fact, he likely collapsed from hypothermia or something!"
But as they began sifting through the snow, it was clear they were standing on a giant graveyard of dead soldiers and villagers. It wasn't enough for them to just be dead either, their bodies were thoroughly mangled and fed upon like animals by the mutated heartless that killed them.
There's an old saying that goes…
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
We act in ways for our own selfish reasons.
We abandon a friend because we don't want to feel guilty.
We help others because it makes us look good.
We protect our friends because we made a promise to.
Flowers for the Dead
A/N: Got art and memes posted on my Ao3, the handle is still Catch358, check it out!
