Another Kingdom Hearts Story: Another Story

"Zejie, Junko, Kilana." Arcanus spoke. "It is time to go to the next world. The children should already be there. If everything has been going according to plan, the one who teeters between light and dark should have fallen to the darkness. You three will welcome him into the darkness. I, on the other hand, shall appear as an ally. Try to lead him into the light. And when those attempts fail, and he falls to the darkness, our real target's resolve should strengthen to save her friend. And as she tries, her heart will get stronger." Arcanus turned around and opened a portal. A portal to Radiant Garden. "Strong enough to form the key to Kingdom Hearts." Arcanus finished his sentence in his mind.

 

Junko was right. Why did Junko have to be right? It made Kilana look worse for the wear, her own offer being neglected in the presence of the Junko's suggestions. Granted, the Master never actually SAID that he agreed, but the feral woman could sense it. The slightest change in posture, the turning of the head. Clinging to one's arm had its advantages.

Once the orders were issued, she unlatched herself from his arm immediately, moving to discuss the luring with Zeije. "How do I try pulling him to light? I have beauty, but I don't know what's the difference between 'being light' and 'being dark'." She asked him, clearly set on completing this task. Anything for the Master.

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Sei pulled out the gun into his right hand, tossing his dagger into his left. He made sure the small bottle of oil in the handle was secured.

" 'Bout as ready as I'll ever be." He told her, igniting the blade. And then he lunged forward, turning the tip if the dagger into a whip of flame, firing the pistol at the oncoming wave of heartless.

 

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Kuro stopped as he saw a dead end. He looked over the edge, huffing and puffing with his eyes transfixed on the far away ground below and the red castle standing with a rickety structure.
I just killed someone.
His body suddenly felt heavy with burden and he envisioned the blood staining onto the floor. He heard clapping from behind him. It was his father.
"Well done, my boy!" he exclaimed. Anger rushed through Kuro as he pointed his black keyblade at his cloaked father.
"STAY BACK!!!" he screamed.
The father smiled. "What are you going to do? Kill me like the others? Are you afraid of the darkness?"
Kuro had a tear run down his cheek. "OFCOURSE I AM! I just killed an innocent man"
The father zoomed up to his face and held his shoulder.
"That man was evil. He was always trying to eradicate who we are. We cannot help what side we are, Kuro. We are born like this."
Kuro looked back at the cliff, contemplating suicide. He didn't want to see Sora again because of this. He didn't want to see how upset she was with him. She wouldn't trust him again even though it wasn't his fault. Maybe love wasn't going to work out for him. What was there though to look to?
"Remember that night, Kuro when the nobodies taken over our house? Do you remember the light after-wards? That was him, Merlin the Darkness Killer. Sora is exactly the same and so is Sei. They will kill you in an instant and you know why? Because we're darkness. They may try to change you into something you're not and seem like they want to be friends with you but that is what happened with Merlin and I. We were good friends way back when. He then feared the darkness inside me and as I turned away from him for one instant, he did the inexplicable; he killed your mother with that light. Your friends will turn on you as well, even though, they may seem to be wanting to be with you."
Kuro let down his keyblade and just stood in that spot. Everything sounded correct; the burst of light, the flames, the nobodies. Sora and Sei did nothing to help him back at Traverse Town when he was bullied, punched and kicked. He was right. The light hated him. His father let go of the lad and turned away.
"You will meet some friends of mine. Do not speak of me while you talk to them. Understand?"
Kuro murmured, "Yes"
The cloaked man nodded. "These people will teach you everything you need to know of the darkness. Good luck, my son."
The father faded away. Kuro, trying to process what was going on, slumped to his knees, watching a worm slither through the purple ground. He grabbed it and crushed it in his fingers. He was frustrated. Why did the light hate him? Why did he have to be darkness? He envisioned Sora's beautiful face smiling at him and then gloom, as she would look at Merlin's death. Another tear rolled down his cheek, which was wiped away quickly. It was time to forget. She was his enemy after all.

 

Arcanus appeared in Radiant Garden. He knew where Kuro was. He began walking, his armor disappearing.

He reached Kuro. He acted as if he was a denizen of the light, playing the role perfectly. "Don't give into the darkness." He spoke to get Kuro's attention. "I can see it in your heart. You struggle between light and darkness. It's like you're walking along the edge of a blade. One slip and you die. You can't give into the darkness. I hear the dark echoes in your heart. Don't listen to it. The people the darkness tells you are enemies. They aren't. Looking into your heart, I can see everything. The girl you care for. She's special. If you fall to the darkness in your heart, she will be forced to strike you down. Fight the darkness."

 

Kilana nodded in agreement to every word Zeije said. The feral woman grinned as she heard the 'plan' or phantom thereof, seeing it work perfectly in her mind's eye. If - no, WHEN this worked, she would fall even more into Arcanus's favor. And who knows? Perhaps he would begin to respond to her affections! The whole affair made her giddy with joy, and she was not one to restrain such strong emotions easily.

"Yes, yes! Now, where do we start?" Kilana asked him, the euphoria seeping out like syrup from a broken maple tap. She sniffed the air, for a moment, then pointed down the road in one direction. "I've got a good feeling about this way!"

Taking the Nobody's hand, she began yapping.
"So, how should we act around him? Like husband and wife? Mother and father? Brother and sister? Best friends? Lovers? Oh, so many POSSIBILITIES!"

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Sei, stood in shock, once he learned about Merlin's death. But this shock was short-lived as something occurred to him.

"Wait, so Merlin is on the ground. . . And Kuro is not here. . . So it's obvious! Kuro saw the guy that did it, and ran away! Right? Right?" He asked Sora, not wanting to associate the murder with his friend. Sure, they weren't good friends, but the kid would never hurt a fly from his experience. Would he?

 

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Kuro shook his head.
"How can I fight the darkness when its a part of me?"
Darkness started to steam out of his hands and formulated a hand. It then thrusted towards Arcanus, punching him squarely in the stomach. Kuro then looked back down as he walked back towards the cliff face. He had enough of this. He didn't want to fight Sora. He spread his hands out, ready to fall down.
"I might as well just cease to exist. I can't control it. It has taken over me."
Kuro closed his eyes and fell back. With his heart pumping and his reluctance to take a breath, he started to fall down to the bottom. He thought of his friends turning their backs at him, stabbing him through while he was not looking, killing his mother. Suddenly the darkness which once formulated into a fist slithered across his chest and dissected itself. Both dissected pieces then transformed into wings and attached themselves to his shoulders. They started to fly in their own accord and Kuro, as he opened his eyes noticed he was flying. For the first time in a while, his frown turned into a slight smile but as he did, the darkness dismissed itself from the body and detached from his shoulders. The keyblade, for a slight moment, changed to a Kingdom Key, the symbol of light. Kuro did not notice, however, did not notice this light and closed his eyes once again, not wanting to look back. He thought about Sora revolting against him, striking Kuro down. That darkness that once were his wings interlinked with him again, stopping his fall. He landed on the ground, looking up at the cliff he fell with his keyblade back to black and red.

 

Arcanus let the attack hit him. Even though there was no pain at all, Arcanus grabbed his stomach and fell down as if he was in pain. Arcanus stood up and walked towards the cliff. He saw Kuro already down at the bottom. He made a blade appear in his hand as he jumped off. He stabbed the blade into the cliffside as he fell, allowing him to control his speed and whatnot.

Once he reached the bottom of the cliff, he approached Kuro again, his blade disappearing. "If you surrender like that, then the darkness will devour your heart. Seeing as how you still have a heart, that means there is still light there. You can fight it. Fight the darkness. You must. If you don't..." Arcanus twisted his body into a fighting stance. "I'll fight you. I'll fight you until you turn away from the darkness." "Not like that matters. Fight or not. Kilana, Zeije, and Junko will be here soon to pull you in. Alone and unaided, you shall fall into the darkest depths. And strengthen your friend's heart."

 

Kuro raised his blade, uncertain of what to do. His father would want him to turn to the darkness but he just couldn't get himself to strike against him. Then he realized. Why did he know so much as to what was going on? Something was wrong. Was it a trap?
"Who are you and how do you know so much about me?" he asked, feeling slight anger within his veins. He hated all this confusion.

 

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Arcanus sighed. "Were you not listening to me earlier? I said I can see into your heart. That's how I know of your struggling with the darkness. I'm here, trying to help you. Have you seen what the darkness can do? Your heart is one that hates violence and destruction. And yet you turn towards the very power that causes the things you hate." Arcanus paused, thinking of words to further through Kuro into confusion. "I can't make the desicions for you. Your heart is at a crossroad. Only you can choose where to go. But before you go all suicidal, consider your priorities. And think about who is your real enemy." Arcanus turned away, expecting someone to appear soon to bring Kuro to the darkness.

 

Kuro was shocked to find Sora standing there, watching him with his black wings attached to his shoulders. He looked away with a tear in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Sora but maybe its for your own good that you should leave. I don't want you to get hurt. Anyway, you don't care about me. No one does."
He stopped, placed his hands in his pockets and just looked down.
"I don't know whose side I am on but I know one thing. No one will never take advantage of me again, including you."
The keyblade then decided to point at Sora, which first resisted but then controlled itself, stabilizing the weapon. He turned, noticed the keyblade and yanked it back away from her.
"Just get away from me" he spat, walking up to the heartless castle.

 

Kuro's eyes burned with fury as he looked up. His usual hazel brown eyes flared red, in response to Junko. She infuriated him but she was right, which made him even worse.
"SHUT UP!" he screamed. His voice echoed across the silent world, with the wind carrying it over to the marketplace. He turned away much like he did with the bullies of Traverse Town. He always turned away from his problems. He continued to walk up to the castle, which once stood tall in the days of Hollow Bastion. The keyblade was urging, almost pulling him away from the chaos behind him. It wanted something from that castle.

 

Arcanus nodded, his armor encasing him as darkness surrounded him. He disappeared through a dark portal.

Arcanus reappeared in front of Kuro. "I see you are now fit for the darkness." As he spoke, his voice echoed in his helmet, making it unrecognizable to Kuro. "Succumb to your darker emotions. You have no need for the last shard of light that so desperately clings to your heart. The woman who was once your friend, Sora, comes to finish you off. She will try to deceive you, feigning ignorance of your fight a moment ago. Bathe yourself in the darkness, and you shall be free of your pitiful problems. You will be free to do what you want, how you want."

 

Kuro stared at the helmet, transfixed by his voice. It sounded godly, powerful and important. The last shard of light inside of him was rebelling to look away, to turn, to get out of reach for darkness but Kuro could feel the power within his veins. He had it in his genes and he couldn't stop the certain future. However, he did not believe Sora would hurt him in anyway and as he remembered his mother felling to the nobodies, revenge clouded his heart and Sora did not take account of his depression.

He suddenly felt as though he was falling through an invisible wall of darkness inside his own consciousness. In his right hand, was his keyblade which Riku once used and in the left, a chain of a broken heart was clasped. He forgot about the things Sora said about him and his feelings towards her but as he plunged down towards the darkness, he did not forget the memories of Traverse Town. He wasn't a heartless or a nobody; he was just a being of darkness.

Kuro was lying down with the two objects in hand, the broken oath and the keyblade. He looked unconscious to many, thanks to Arcanus' voice but he soon will awaken, ready to learn.