I did a happy Kingdom Hearts fic, so now I'm doing a dark one. If you don't
want to see the boys get played with and treated none too nicely, do not
read. This fic is dark, I'm trying to make it as dark as possible. Enjoy
and leave a review. ^__^
Sora lay in his bed, staring at his ceiling. His thoughts continued to revolve around his best friend. Tomorrow the three of them left for new worlds and adventures. But still, was that what Sora really wanted. An image of those deep aqua eyes flashed into his mind.
"Riku." Sora whispered as his mind wandered. Ever since he could remember he and Riku had been together, playing, competing, everything. But a few years ago, everything changed. He wanted more. More from Riku and more for himself. He had started to feel jealous over Kairi and the attention Riku gave her. Riku should be his, and not some stupid girls. Sora lifted his fingers to his lips and wondered what a kiss from a boy would feel like. A few years ago he had been kissed by Selphie. It hadn't been altogether bad, but it didn't make him feel any different. It gave him less emotion than when Riku did nothing more than look at him.
The sun had set a while ago, and shadows were creeping across Sora's room, darkening everything into shades of night. 'Like in my dream.' The giant shadow of Sora's dream hadn't left him, and he wasn't sure yet what it meant. 'Maybe its telling me something.'
"Sora, time for dinner!" Sora sat up to head his mother's call, when he happened a glance out his window. A dark cloud was forming over the island across the reef. It swirled in a dark mass in the sky and lightning flashed from it. The soft brown spikes of Sora's hair where gently tossed back as a strong wind picked up.
Sora gasped. "Oh no, the raft!" He dashed out of his window and ran for his boat as quickly as he could against the strong gusts of the storm. His oar pushed him powerfully through the black sea. The waves churned and neither his reflection nor his shadow could be seen in the purple waters. When he finally reached the dock, he immediately noticed Kairi and Riku's boats tied up nearby. No doubt they both came to check on the raft as well, escaping from the island was as important to them as it was to Sora.
The second his heavy shoes struck the old wooden dock, Sora could tell something was wrong. Looking around, he tried to figure out what felt strange. He could feel the static in the air, but that was no different than any other summer storm that came by the island. Slowly, Sora's eyes drifted down to his feet, where something caught his eye. His shadow was moving away without him.
Without warning, his shadow grew upwards, and two small yellow eyes appeared in it. 'Those creatures, from my dream.' The dark shadows crawled towards him, multiplying out of the ground faster than he could count. Sora pulled out his ever present wooden sword and rushed through the pack of creatures, slashing at any of them that came too close. Their little antennae waved in the air before they would leap at him slashing with their claws.
As Sora headed for the paopu island where the dark cloud hovered, he noticed yellow eyes were appearing in every corner of the island. The shadows came alive with those yellow points, and attacked.
Riku stood in the wind, enjoying the way his shoulder length hair swept about him. Lightning flashed above and he opened his eyes, looking into the swell of darkness above him. It would take him away, finally. 'But what about the others?' Something inside Riku knew he shouldn't leave without Sora and Kairi.
"Sora." Riku shifted his gaze over the ocean towards the island where their houses were. No doubt, Sora was still sleeping in bed. Alone. Just once, Riku wished he could make sure that neither of them would be alone in the darkness of the nights on the island paradise. 'What about Kairi?' That other part of Riku's mind was yelling at him again. He knew that he cared for Kairi, and she was one of his closest friends. But he didn't feel any fire within him when he was with her. Not like with Sora. Those blue eyes set him on fire with just the barest of looks. Riku had tried, in all honesty, he had tried to like Kairi as a boy should like a girl. But every time he did, he would wish it were Sora standing there.
"RIKU!!"
Riku stood very still as his heart raced on without him. That voice. Turning around slowly, expecting his imagination to have finally gotten to him, Riku saw the brown haired boy running across the bridge.
"Riku, what's going on? What is that?" Sora pointed up at the hole in the sky above him, growing larger and blacker every second. He truly looked lost, searching for an answer from the one person who he knew would never leave him.
Riku felt something around his shoes. Shifting his eyes down, he could see a dark shadow growing beneath him and Sora. It moved as if it were alive, like a fog only much too thick. It began to crawl up his legs and weave its way around both him and Sora.
Sora gasped at the strange dark being which was sucking he and his best friend into it. When he looked up he saw Riku's extended hand, with the black glove which had become the boy's favorite piece of clothing. His hand flew to meet the other, but the darkness pulled him down faster, and pulled Riku out of his reach. Both pushed against the shadows, but it seemed as if their hands continued to grow farther and farther away from each other.
Riku took a deep breath as the black puddle reached his neck and he could feel it flowing over his body like water. His frightened aqua eyes looked to Sora's for help, but he couldn't see them anymore. Only the top half of Sora's head remained above the void, and even that was now being snatched out of reach. Riku closed his eyes, held his breath, and let himself be taken down. If Sora was there, he would save him, they would be together.
* * * * * *
Sora fell. Riku fell. Neither boy could tell for how far or how long. Like a black snake, the darkness curled around their bodies and squeezed against them.
Riku finally couldn't hold the breath any longer and gasped as it was forced out of his body. He cautiously took a breath and found that he could indeed breathe as if there was nothing out of place. Then he felt his back land on something solid. It wasn't soft and giving like the sand he had grown up on. It was smooth and hard. Like metal. But when Riku tried to figure out where he was, all he could see was a floor of black. There was no ceiling or wall, as far as he could tell. Everything faded into the darkness around him. The only thing he could definitely feel was the floor below him. 'Sora!'
"SORA! If you're here answer me!" Riku jumped to his feet, and half expected the floor to swallow him again. When it seemed sturdy enough, Riku began to run around yelling at the top of his lungs. If his friend was nearby, he would find him.
"Riku? Riku, where are you!?!?" Sora bellowed as he walked in a circle. 'Do I run in a direction? Where to go? There's nothing here.' Sora continued to squint into the darkness which surrounded him now. It was eerily calm. No sound, and no wind. The ground no longer shook with the thunder of the storm and no lightning flashed. There seemed to barely be enough light to see by, and even then it was only for a little way ahead.
Sora finally determined that he was not going to run around and get himself lost in this dark world and sat down. If Riku was here, he was bound to find where he was. Riku was, after all, the more adventurous one. 'There is no way Riku will just stand around. He'll search for me.' Setting his head in his hands, Sora waited for a glimpse of his beautiful rescuer.
Riku paused and leaned over, panting. He had chosen a direction and taken off full tilt and had been running ever since. But still, no change and no sign of Sora. It was as if this whole place was on a loop. There was still no wall or ceiling, and the floor may as well have been the very same one he started on. And still no red jumpsuit in the shadows.
After catching his breath, Riku stood up and finally, his eyes found something new. A figure in the darkness. Around twenty feet ahead, the figure was in shadows and had its back to Riku.
"Hey you." Riku took a few steps forward before stopping when the figure turned around. It took a few steps toward him as well. And now the outline became all too familiar.
"Sora."
"Riku!" Sora jumped up and ran forward as he saw a figure walking towards him out of the unfathomable darkness. He could tell from the height and the outline that it was Riku, he was walking forward slowly, with his head down. Finally Sora stopped.
"Riku?"
The dark figure lifted its head and Sora took a step back. It had yellow eyes. Bright, glowing yellow eyes. And now Sora saw that it wasn't the shadows which made this figure dark, those were its colors. It looked exactly like Riku, but there wasn't a speck of color on his entire body. Everything was in shades of black. Except the eyes.
"Sora."
At this Sora looked at the figure in shock. He had Riku's voice too. 'Could this place make someone look like that?' Sora looked down at himself, but he was as he had always been. Same clothes. Colors and all.
"You're not Riku. I don't care if you sound like him, you're not."
"Is that you Sora?" Riku couldn't move, the shadowy figure was still facing away from him, but that hair was unmistakable. But the entire figure was cloaked in black, the clothes he wore were indeed Sora's, but not the right color at all. He walked even closer until he was right behind the figure who's back still faced him.
"It's you, isn't it Sora?" Riku reached out and placed a hand on the figure's shoulder. Slowly, the shadow turned around, and Riku stared deeply into it's glowing amber eyes. He removed his hand from the warmth that felt much too real for him. The shadows must be playing tricks on him, this can't be Sora. 'Nothing could change Sora like that. Those eyes. And I haven't changed the way I look, so it must be a trick.'
"Hello Riku."
Riku looked sideways at the creature, it had Sora's voice. There was no mistaking it.
"Who are you?"
The shadow of Riku took a few steps toward Sora. In turn, he took a few steps back.
"Answer me! I know you aren't Riku."
"But I am your best friend Sora." Sora stopped and stared intently on the shadow Riku. 'That can't be him. I won't believe it.'
"You're not. Now tell me who you are!" Sora shouted at the figure and took a step forward, feeling braver now.
"I am Riku. Or at least, I'm part of him."
"Part."
"Yes, a part that you would be most delighted to meet." The shadow disappeared completely, though for all Sora could see he may as well have only taken a step back and blended with the shadows.
Strong arms wrapped around Sora from behind and he flailed and kicked out of panic. The arms surrounding him were shades of black and purple, dark colors. He looked up and was less than surprised to see the shadow standing behind him, smirking. Riku's smirk.
Okay, I hope the change of scenery at the end there didn't confuse you too much. I'll be going between Riku and Sora a lot in the next chapter, so get used to that change. The place they're in is kind of like when you're fighting SPOILER Ansem at the end of the game. When you go into the rooms filled with shadows and dark balls and such. I tried to describe that, I did my best...really. ^_^ anyway, review please.
Sora lay in his bed, staring at his ceiling. His thoughts continued to revolve around his best friend. Tomorrow the three of them left for new worlds and adventures. But still, was that what Sora really wanted. An image of those deep aqua eyes flashed into his mind.
"Riku." Sora whispered as his mind wandered. Ever since he could remember he and Riku had been together, playing, competing, everything. But a few years ago, everything changed. He wanted more. More from Riku and more for himself. He had started to feel jealous over Kairi and the attention Riku gave her. Riku should be his, and not some stupid girls. Sora lifted his fingers to his lips and wondered what a kiss from a boy would feel like. A few years ago he had been kissed by Selphie. It hadn't been altogether bad, but it didn't make him feel any different. It gave him less emotion than when Riku did nothing more than look at him.
The sun had set a while ago, and shadows were creeping across Sora's room, darkening everything into shades of night. 'Like in my dream.' The giant shadow of Sora's dream hadn't left him, and he wasn't sure yet what it meant. 'Maybe its telling me something.'
"Sora, time for dinner!" Sora sat up to head his mother's call, when he happened a glance out his window. A dark cloud was forming over the island across the reef. It swirled in a dark mass in the sky and lightning flashed from it. The soft brown spikes of Sora's hair where gently tossed back as a strong wind picked up.
Sora gasped. "Oh no, the raft!" He dashed out of his window and ran for his boat as quickly as he could against the strong gusts of the storm. His oar pushed him powerfully through the black sea. The waves churned and neither his reflection nor his shadow could be seen in the purple waters. When he finally reached the dock, he immediately noticed Kairi and Riku's boats tied up nearby. No doubt they both came to check on the raft as well, escaping from the island was as important to them as it was to Sora.
The second his heavy shoes struck the old wooden dock, Sora could tell something was wrong. Looking around, he tried to figure out what felt strange. He could feel the static in the air, but that was no different than any other summer storm that came by the island. Slowly, Sora's eyes drifted down to his feet, where something caught his eye. His shadow was moving away without him.
Without warning, his shadow grew upwards, and two small yellow eyes appeared in it. 'Those creatures, from my dream.' The dark shadows crawled towards him, multiplying out of the ground faster than he could count. Sora pulled out his ever present wooden sword and rushed through the pack of creatures, slashing at any of them that came too close. Their little antennae waved in the air before they would leap at him slashing with their claws.
As Sora headed for the paopu island where the dark cloud hovered, he noticed yellow eyes were appearing in every corner of the island. The shadows came alive with those yellow points, and attacked.
Riku stood in the wind, enjoying the way his shoulder length hair swept about him. Lightning flashed above and he opened his eyes, looking into the swell of darkness above him. It would take him away, finally. 'But what about the others?' Something inside Riku knew he shouldn't leave without Sora and Kairi.
"Sora." Riku shifted his gaze over the ocean towards the island where their houses were. No doubt, Sora was still sleeping in bed. Alone. Just once, Riku wished he could make sure that neither of them would be alone in the darkness of the nights on the island paradise. 'What about Kairi?' That other part of Riku's mind was yelling at him again. He knew that he cared for Kairi, and she was one of his closest friends. But he didn't feel any fire within him when he was with her. Not like with Sora. Those blue eyes set him on fire with just the barest of looks. Riku had tried, in all honesty, he had tried to like Kairi as a boy should like a girl. But every time he did, he would wish it were Sora standing there.
"RIKU!!"
Riku stood very still as his heart raced on without him. That voice. Turning around slowly, expecting his imagination to have finally gotten to him, Riku saw the brown haired boy running across the bridge.
"Riku, what's going on? What is that?" Sora pointed up at the hole in the sky above him, growing larger and blacker every second. He truly looked lost, searching for an answer from the one person who he knew would never leave him.
Riku felt something around his shoes. Shifting his eyes down, he could see a dark shadow growing beneath him and Sora. It moved as if it were alive, like a fog only much too thick. It began to crawl up his legs and weave its way around both him and Sora.
Sora gasped at the strange dark being which was sucking he and his best friend into it. When he looked up he saw Riku's extended hand, with the black glove which had become the boy's favorite piece of clothing. His hand flew to meet the other, but the darkness pulled him down faster, and pulled Riku out of his reach. Both pushed against the shadows, but it seemed as if their hands continued to grow farther and farther away from each other.
Riku took a deep breath as the black puddle reached his neck and he could feel it flowing over his body like water. His frightened aqua eyes looked to Sora's for help, but he couldn't see them anymore. Only the top half of Sora's head remained above the void, and even that was now being snatched out of reach. Riku closed his eyes, held his breath, and let himself be taken down. If Sora was there, he would save him, they would be together.
* * * * * *
Sora fell. Riku fell. Neither boy could tell for how far or how long. Like a black snake, the darkness curled around their bodies and squeezed against them.
Riku finally couldn't hold the breath any longer and gasped as it was forced out of his body. He cautiously took a breath and found that he could indeed breathe as if there was nothing out of place. Then he felt his back land on something solid. It wasn't soft and giving like the sand he had grown up on. It was smooth and hard. Like metal. But when Riku tried to figure out where he was, all he could see was a floor of black. There was no ceiling or wall, as far as he could tell. Everything faded into the darkness around him. The only thing he could definitely feel was the floor below him. 'Sora!'
"SORA! If you're here answer me!" Riku jumped to his feet, and half expected the floor to swallow him again. When it seemed sturdy enough, Riku began to run around yelling at the top of his lungs. If his friend was nearby, he would find him.
"Riku? Riku, where are you!?!?" Sora bellowed as he walked in a circle. 'Do I run in a direction? Where to go? There's nothing here.' Sora continued to squint into the darkness which surrounded him now. It was eerily calm. No sound, and no wind. The ground no longer shook with the thunder of the storm and no lightning flashed. There seemed to barely be enough light to see by, and even then it was only for a little way ahead.
Sora finally determined that he was not going to run around and get himself lost in this dark world and sat down. If Riku was here, he was bound to find where he was. Riku was, after all, the more adventurous one. 'There is no way Riku will just stand around. He'll search for me.' Setting his head in his hands, Sora waited for a glimpse of his beautiful rescuer.
Riku paused and leaned over, panting. He had chosen a direction and taken off full tilt and had been running ever since. But still, no change and no sign of Sora. It was as if this whole place was on a loop. There was still no wall or ceiling, and the floor may as well have been the very same one he started on. And still no red jumpsuit in the shadows.
After catching his breath, Riku stood up and finally, his eyes found something new. A figure in the darkness. Around twenty feet ahead, the figure was in shadows and had its back to Riku.
"Hey you." Riku took a few steps forward before stopping when the figure turned around. It took a few steps toward him as well. And now the outline became all too familiar.
"Sora."
"Riku!" Sora jumped up and ran forward as he saw a figure walking towards him out of the unfathomable darkness. He could tell from the height and the outline that it was Riku, he was walking forward slowly, with his head down. Finally Sora stopped.
"Riku?"
The dark figure lifted its head and Sora took a step back. It had yellow eyes. Bright, glowing yellow eyes. And now Sora saw that it wasn't the shadows which made this figure dark, those were its colors. It looked exactly like Riku, but there wasn't a speck of color on his entire body. Everything was in shades of black. Except the eyes.
"Sora."
At this Sora looked at the figure in shock. He had Riku's voice too. 'Could this place make someone look like that?' Sora looked down at himself, but he was as he had always been. Same clothes. Colors and all.
"You're not Riku. I don't care if you sound like him, you're not."
"Is that you Sora?" Riku couldn't move, the shadowy figure was still facing away from him, but that hair was unmistakable. But the entire figure was cloaked in black, the clothes he wore were indeed Sora's, but not the right color at all. He walked even closer until he was right behind the figure who's back still faced him.
"It's you, isn't it Sora?" Riku reached out and placed a hand on the figure's shoulder. Slowly, the shadow turned around, and Riku stared deeply into it's glowing amber eyes. He removed his hand from the warmth that felt much too real for him. The shadows must be playing tricks on him, this can't be Sora. 'Nothing could change Sora like that. Those eyes. And I haven't changed the way I look, so it must be a trick.'
"Hello Riku."
Riku looked sideways at the creature, it had Sora's voice. There was no mistaking it.
"Who are you?"
The shadow of Riku took a few steps toward Sora. In turn, he took a few steps back.
"Answer me! I know you aren't Riku."
"But I am your best friend Sora." Sora stopped and stared intently on the shadow Riku. 'That can't be him. I won't believe it.'
"You're not. Now tell me who you are!" Sora shouted at the figure and took a step forward, feeling braver now.
"I am Riku. Or at least, I'm part of him."
"Part."
"Yes, a part that you would be most delighted to meet." The shadow disappeared completely, though for all Sora could see he may as well have only taken a step back and blended with the shadows.
Strong arms wrapped around Sora from behind and he flailed and kicked out of panic. The arms surrounding him were shades of black and purple, dark colors. He looked up and was less than surprised to see the shadow standing behind him, smirking. Riku's smirk.
Okay, I hope the change of scenery at the end there didn't confuse you too much. I'll be going between Riku and Sora a lot in the next chapter, so get used to that change. The place they're in is kind of like when you're fighting SPOILER Ansem at the end of the game. When you go into the rooms filled with shadows and dark balls and such. I tried to describe that, I did my best...really. ^_^ anyway, review please.