FSE

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formerly SoFurry search engine

A/N: For the music, I would use YouTube search to listen. Also I would like to put up 3 reminders: 1. the music for scenes will be centered in italics and 2. it takes me while to write up these chapters because I have hardly any free time write now. I'm having to juggle about 3 things that take up most of my day almost every day of the week. I try to write in all my spare time but plz be patient, basketball season is winding down and when it does I'll have a bit more free time. 3. most chapters will be told Rich's (my, since we share the same name) perspective. Now without further adieu on with the show.

Chapter 1: A New Adventure and A New Awakening

Sacred Moon (KH2)

Setting: My Awakening

Groggily opening my eyes, I look around; slowly coming back to my senses I realize I still can't see anything. Slowly running through my thoughts, looking at the possibilities, I began to think that it was just very dark. 'That can't be. I always sleep with the calming light from the Crystal Wastes (the area outside Radiant Garden).' I thought back at myself. 'Well, maybe I was just too tired last night and I didn't realize I had pulled my curtains closed.' Then some of yesterday's memories came back to me. I remembered the Heartless attack. "After that I have to be dead." I said aloud to myself. I sat up trying to see if there was anything to see at all. At that moment my sense of touch came back to me, I realized I wasn't sitting on anything at all; I merely seemed to be floating. I tried to stand up and, to my surprise, there was ground under me. At least that was what it felt like. After putting some thought into it, I remembered what happened after the Heartless attack last night. "I have to wonder why Sora and Kairi saved me. Actually, come to think of it, how did they know I left the city?" I said thinking out loud again. (If you haven't noticed I do that a lot.) Then I noticed something weird about this Darkness. It's as if it had oppressive, almost malicious feel to it. Yet it felt as if it was keeping this malice away from me. Before taking my first step in this Darkness, a voice that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time, spoke, "It is time to awaken your true self." Next thing I knew the "floor" beneath me shattered audibly and I fell; plummeting into who-knows-where.

Sanctuary-English opening version

I wasn't falling for long before I saw I was standing in the Bailey.

"We feel he is special in some way." I heard a woman's voice say. Turning around I saw 5 familiar figures: Sora, Leon, Riku, and my parents. Two young children were not far away playing, not paying any attention to what the adults were talking about. One was a girl with spiky, bright-red hair: Kari, Sora and Kairi's daughter. The other was a boy with dirty blonde, untamed hair: me. I realized that this was a vision from the past, as my parents were there. Then I remembered that this was the conversation from 10 years ago that caused Sora and his friends to take an interest in me in the first place.

"I do admit that being around him makes you feel as if Light and Darkness meet in harmony." Riku said, "and I should know beings I walk the Twilight road. But I have never seen them come together like this."

At that moment the ground shattered again dropping me further into whatever the hell this is.

Again I was not falling for long before my feet hit solid ground again. Noticing the types of shops around me I would have to say that I was in the Marketplace. Knowing I was looking at memories, and most likely important ones, I quickly ran through any important memories I may have had of this place. It only took me a few seconds to figure out which one and no sooner than I had, the scene started to play out in front of me. This one I remembered all too well. Many times had I seen this one replay in my dreams. It was like my mind didn't want to forget this one.

It was about 6 years ago. The scene started to play out showing me and my parents walking through the Marketplace. They were taking me to go see Kari in the Bailey as had been our usual playground for the past 4 years. None of us knew how much would change that day. My life would hardly be very much the same.

This scene showed me and my parents about to leave the Marketplace. Hardly anyone was there. The Marketplace was having one of their rare slow days. Suddenly, out of nowhere, 3 Shadows and a Barrier Master appeared. Three Shadows would be no problem even without weapons, but a Barrier Master makes them impossible to defeat. The Shadows could stop us before anyone could get near the Barrier Master and even then it would just float out of reach.

Even though I was only 8, I knew what this meant. Yet the next thing I saw surprised me: my parents put themselves in the way of the Heartless. My parents were willing to fight an impossible fight and die for me as evidenced by my father taking a boxing stance. My mother was never one for fighting but she was still there in front of me ready to fight to save me.

At this moment, in both memory and my true body, I was filled with emotions. Sudden, strong urges told me that I should help them, but I knew that would just accomplish the opposite of what my parents wanted. I focused on the 3 strongest emotions: pride, fear, and anger. Pride at seeing my parents do what they were. Fear at being surrounded by Heartless, about to die. And anger at knowing my parents would die first where they were and what they would become if that happened.

Centering on anger and letting my rage take control, I went berserk. A shadowy aura appeared around me and I floated off the ground, getting ready to let all hell break loose on these Heartless.

As soon as my strength gathered, I rocketed off towards the Barrier Master at a speed that made me almost invisible. I appeared behind it letting loose with a Dark Firaga. I disappeared again and repeated this process above, below, in front, and from both sides of it. All the movements were done in a split second and the Firagas impacted at the same time.

After the smoke cleared, the Barrier Master was left in mid-air hanging for a second before it exploded in a cloud of black smoke. My parents were rooted to the ground where they had stood before. They were watching in shock, awe, and possibly even fear of what their 8 year old son was doing.

Once the Barrier Master was dead the barriers around the Shadows dissipated and were left wide open for my darker, younger self to finish up with. The younger me proceeded to fly behind each Shadow and fire a flurry of Dark Auras at each. The Shadows were done in a matter of seconds.

Apparently my darker side decided that was enough and went back into whatever deep hole it had come out of in my heart. I floated slowly back to the ground and when my feet hit I blacked out, falling face forward onto the ground.

My parents walked over and my father picked me up as he was the only one who could actually accomplish that. Not calling myself fat or anything but I was pretty big for my age.

'So that's what happened and why I couldn't remember anything about that day.' I thought to myself as my parents carried me toward the Bailey. 'I really hoped that I didn't have to relieve this again though.'

This time, instead of the ground shattering, my body was just flung forward into another scene. I ended up on a rooftop overlooking the Crystal Wastes (the area outside Radiant Garden). "I might as well enjoy the view and try to calm myself down."

I realized this was my house because it was relatively secluded from the rest of the town.

And it had the balcony from my window that me and my father built after we moved in. I sat down enjoying the view and the calming yet eerie aqua-green glow of the crystals.

After a few moments I noticed a pressure on my left shoulder. I looked and was surprised, to say the least, to find the humanoid fox-creature from my dreams. She (somehow I knew it was female) was laying her head on my shoulder. At this point reality shattered for me. 'This isn't a memory. This can't even be real!' I felt her stir and it looked like she was trying to say something but I didn't quite catch what it was. I looked up at the crystals again and instead of being the aqua-blue they normally were they had a red tint to them.

A few seconds later, emotion set in. I felt a surge of compassion-or something more- towards the she-fox sitting beside me. It seemed that she was asleep and it seemed rude to wake her. I don't know if it was me or just the vision that made me, but I put my arm around her and as gently as I could I laid back with her and we fell asleep on the roof. As soon as I did I felt the world give away and I fell deeper into whatever this was.

Music Stops

I came to rest soon on solid ground again. When my feet hit the ground lit up and what seemed to be a large stained glass pillar was under me.

KH2 Dive into the Heart-Destati

I took a moment to study the platform. The top two-thirds of the platform was a deep blue and had a picture of a man in a black coat, kneeling, with two Keyblades crossed in front of him. Looking down at the picture on the left was a girl with spiky, red hair; her face was kind and had a look of determination on it. To the right was, again, that she-fox; silhouetted this time. The bottom third had an orange sunset over what looked like Destiny Islands. It showed the islands where Sora, Kairi, and Riku used to play. Two people were sitting on the bottom of the paopu tree and it looked like they were sharing a fruit. The edge of the platform was lined with dark thorns.

I jumped slightly when a strange voice spoke from nowhere, "It is time to awaken your true self." That one statement was enough to leave me confused but what happened next had me almost passed out cold on the ground: three pedestals started to rise up from the ground. When it seemed they would go no further items appeared on top of them. The one in front of me had a sword, the one to my left had a shield, and the one to my right was a staff. The voice spoke again, "Choose your strength. Give up one for a weakness. A warrior must make sacrifices." The meaning was clear enough: I had to choose one of these to use and give up one and be weak in that area.

I decided to see what the sword had to offer and walked up to the pedestal. Again the voice spoke, "The power of the warrior. Invincible courage. A sword of terrible destruction." After what had happened to me recently I wanted nothing to do with destruction. I left the sword where it was and walked over to the staff. The voice spoke, "The power of the mystic. Inner strength. A staff of wonder and ruin." Magic never interested me before and again the weapon was one of destruction. "Go ahead and take this one from me. I want nothing to do with it." In response the staff disappeared and the voice spoke again, "You have given up the power of the mystic. You still must choose your focus." I walked over to the shield and listened to its description, "The power of the guardian. Kindness to aid friends. A shield to repel all." 'Finally, something not to do with destruction.' I thought.

"I choose this one." Again the weapon disappeared from my hands.

"Your path is set. Fight well, Warrior of the Twilight." the voice spoke and as it finished, the pedestals started to sink into the glass. I backed away towards the middle of the platform and as I stopped I heard the sounded of glass cracking. Soon, instead of cracking, the sound changed to shattering. The platform gave way and I was sent plunging into Darkness again.

The bottom of the void soon gave way to a rapidly approaching light. My descent suddenly slowed and I again landed feet first on another stained glass platform. This platform was orange with thorns dotting the edges again. Instead of showing the black-cloaked man like I expected it showed the last thing I ever expected: me, holding Oathkeeper and Oblivion. At the top left of the platform there were two circles, each holding a picture. The left one held a picture of the red-haired girl from before, and the right one held a picture of the silhouette of the she-fox.

'Again? Why does that she-fox keep reappearing?' I thought at myself.

"Step forward for your final challenge. If you prevail, your true self will be closer to awakening. Step into the light for your shadow to grow."

I had to wonder what any of that meant, but I was still compelled to step forward, so I did. When I walked into the center it seemed nothing was going to happen. Then I noticed my hand was clenched around something. I looked down to see I was clenching a giant key-shaped sword. It had a silver body and grip with a golden hand-guard.

I realized that this was the basic form of a Keyblade: the Kingdom Key. Suddenly the platform rumbled and I turned around to see a gigantic, pitch-black Heartless with snake-like hair starting to stand up off the ground.

Music Stops

KH1 Fragments of Sorrow

As soon as he was straight up I noticed the giant Heart-shaped hole in his chest and stomach. At the sight of this monstrosity, I started to back away until my brain registered, 'Hey, dumb-ass; you've got a Keyblade, use it.' For reasons beyond me, I took Riku's fighting stance: right hand held at head level, palm facing outward; tip of the blade pointed at the enemy; left hand held out in front, palm up. "The eyes, if it can't see, it can't fight." the voice spoke. At this point the Heartless reared back and started charging something in its hand. I started backing off, preparing to defend if he struck at me but he didn't. Instead he stuck his hand into the ground, creating some kind of void.

"Hmph, lucky break." I took this chance and ran up his arm, at least trying to get near his face. As I got close he started to pull his hand out of the ground.

"Now or never." I said to myself. At this point I jumped off his arm and started and Aerial Combo: a right-to-left diagonal slash, followed by a horizontal left-to-right slash and somehow, an Aerial Guard Break. After the combo, I backed off to make sure he wouldn't attack again.

Imagine my surprise when he started to kneel. At that point, I thought he was beat. But he didn't keep going to collapse on the ground. Instead, he stopped when he was kneeling and a purple-blue aura appeared in the heart-shaped hole in his chest. I had no idea what he was going to do so I tried to be ready for anything. I was unprepared for the two dark orbs he fired at me and nearly took a hit. My mind registered that I needed to move and was barely able to Dodge Roll out of the way. Judging by his position, I figured he was going to try the same deal again so I got more ready this time. The next two orbs came at me and I just held my blade out in their way. When they made contact with the blade they were sent right back towards his face.

Since the adrenalin kicked in at the start of the fight, I felt some power building inside me. I looked down and saw my left hand was engulfed in the same dark aura he had in his chest. He fired again and instead of two, he shot four this time. As if in reaction, I felt the Darkness in my hand get stronger. As the orbs got nearer, I had no intention of blocking, I realized that I could manipulate the Darkness he was using. The orbs kept drawing nearer and the closer they got, the more a dark aura covered my hand. The orbs came as close as I dared and I threw out my hand. The orbs stopped in mid-flight.

If it were possible for Heartless with no faces to show emotion, I believe he would be surprised. The least to say: I was shocked. 'I have time to figure this out later. Right now, I have to deal with this thing.' I thought. I sent the orbs back at him and then followed with some Dark Firagas of my own. That was apparently enough to finish him off. He started to dissolve from the head down.

Dive into the Heart-Destati

After he finished dissolving, I noticed something on the ground where he was. I walked over and picked it up. It looked like some sort of card scanner. It had a screen in the middle, blank at the moment; under the screen it had 4 directional buttons for scrolling through items on screen; and on the right side of the device it had a slot that looked like you swipe a card, or something that size, through it.

"You have awakened a piece of yourself, yet more remains to be discovered." the voice spoke, "You must discover the rest on your own. For now, you must return. Keep that device with you. Do not let anyone take it. It will be of need and use in the future. One more piece of advice: do not be afraid of your power; you rule it, it does not rule you."

"Wait. Whats this all ab-" I was knocked out cold again before I could ask any questions.