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Chapter 2

"Such things I have to show you... horizons of possibility shattered into glimmering stardust. You've no idea what you've been dragged into lowly human creature. How weak you were I have now made you strong that when the time comes you will see the futility of the light. All will fall to the dark eventually."

Kyten sat up in bed quickly panting as he held his chest and looked about. He saw that Witch was still awake reading through a book by candle light while Irvine slept in a nearby cot. The human blinked a few times before looking back to Witch who was now looking back at him.

"Bad dreams I assume," Asked witch in a hushed tone with all of his voices.

Kyten shook his head as he spoke, "A voice... that's not really a voice. It's like my head is telling me things all on its own."

Witch nodded slowly as he looked to a nearby unoccupied chair while adjusting his reading glasses, "Come. Sit with me."

The human slowly stood himself up from the bed and sat down in the chair still rubbing sleep from his eyes. He looked to the book that Witch was reading and saw all sorts of diagrams before looking to the Siren.

"The man who attacked you used to be a part of me. It's a long story and not one I care to retell very often but considering the circumstance I felt it was fair that you know. I was not always a Siren you see. Irvine and I used to be from the same world but ours was always a dark place. Criminals were everywhere and death was commonplace," Said Witch in a whisper.

Kyten nodded slowly as he whispered back, "I can't even remember the last time someone died... or... for that matter the last crime committed in Tanyo."

"You are a lucky man then Kyten... but back to the story. I was young, foolish... I wanted to save the world. I met a man that said he had the power to let me do just that... Power he gave me and I let it get to my head. I became the monsters I wanted to get rid of. Eventually I learned of even greater power. The power hidden away in the multi verse called Keyblade. I was obsessed. I needed this power. I believed that with it I could cleanse the worlds of all Sin... but soon I became so self-righteous that I realized the only way to get rid of all sin... was to get rid of all mankind. I found my power and became the monster known as the Crusader," Said Witch with a deep frown.

"Eventually the darkness was too deep... and a part of me gave in. The Crusader became heartless and my intelligence became a nobody. Finding a heart after that point is... well it's almost impossible. I found mine in the body you see here. A being that was ready to simply give up and found it in their heart to take me in. An ancient that saw purpose in giving me what they no longer desired, life with feeling," Said Witch softly before slumping forward slightly.

Kyten sat in the quiet darkness for some time before whispering, "That's kind of dark..."

Witch nodded slowly as he put a hand on Kyten's shoulder, "Happy endings are rare these days."

"So he got away," Asked Kyten as he ran a hand through his hair.

Witch just nodded with a slight sigh, "I'm afraid so. He's been away for a long time now and we believed he wouldn't show himself again but... we were unfortunately wrong."

Pierce spit in the face of the man in black with a deep frown as blood trickled down his cheek. He was beaten to within an inch of his life yet still showed youthful rebelliousness. The man in black chuckled softly as he licked his lips before shaking his head, "Interesting what happened to your friend there boy. I'll find him later that's for sure."

The black haired man from Tanyo struck out with a kick even as he was held by the neck against a wall. The robed man let his hood slip free showing his face as that of a black fennec as he slammed the young man into the wall again with a chuckle. His eyes were completely black except for the glowing heartless symbol serving as their iris.

"I don't know what you're talking about freak," Coughed Pierce.

The crusader frowned deeply as he started to walk away in the darkness of the abandoned city. Pierce had an opportunity to look about at all the neon lights in the dark city but it only lasted a moment. Looking back to the man in black he saw the keyblade spinning towards him sinking the scythe blade into the wall while two teeth just barely pricked his neck on either side of his throat.

He was forced to stand held there by the blade's teeth sunk into stone as he swallowed hard. The Crusader walked up to Pierce and growled deeply as he shouted, "I know your kind has found the light! Your city is too pure to not have! Where is it human!? Tell me where you found Kingdom Hearts!"

Pierce struggled to try and get away from the fennec but found himself trapped quite securely as he shouted back, "I don't know what you're talking about! I've never heard of Kingdom Hearts!"

"Boy you have no idea how much danger you are in. I could tear your heart from your chest and leave you as a mindless monster! You'll watch inside for eternity as you go about spreading darkness to countless worlds," Replied Crusader as he showed his yellow and broken teeth with a hiss.

A gunshot pierced the scene as the Crusader howled and held his shoulder while black poured from it only to seal up the wound before he even caught his balance again. Looking up he saw a white vixen holding a long rifle with a black Stetson on her head. Her purple eyes narrowed as she took a second shot. Her body shook from the shock of the rifle from her black long coat to the matching black tactical suit underneath.

The shot found its way into the Crusader's head making him fall backwards onto the ground as the keyblade disappeared freeing Pierce. The Human fell to his knees, but as he saw the wound in the fennec's head was healing he quickly ran to the vixen as she threw the rifle over her shoulder and began to run as well.

Turning the corner into an alley they found themselves a motorcycle shaped much like a running fox in its overall design with the front and back paws gripping axles and its head and tail serving as wheel guards. Kicking the bike on the vixen offered and hand to Pierce, "Come on kid we gotta get outta here!"

Pierce wasn't about to argue as he took the hand and was helped onto the back of the bike just as a powerful roar was heard behind them. Looking over their shoulders they saw the Cursader at the end of the alley behind them while the shadows began to crawl and rush towards them along the walls of the buildings and the asphalt.

The Vixen wasted no time kicking the bike into gear and they were off so fast Pierce nearly lost his grip. With one hand the vixen reached back grabbing his hands and forcing them tightly around her waist she shouted, "goodness sake kid hold on tight!"

Turning the corner they were faced with a flood of heartless appearing from the street some of the small shadow variety and many of the larger kin. They were swarming about the streets making a path impossible in that direction. The Vixen hit the bike's front brakes hard making them tip forward and stand on the front tire as she swung all of their weight around spinning the bike and letting go of the brake she punched the throttle again.

The motorcycle sped off in the opposite direction directly towards a large building as she shouted again, "Hold on tighter kid! This is gonna be wild!"

Upon reaching the stairs of the building she used them as a ramp to launch them towards the third story and through a window into a hallway. They continued their rush to escape through the hallway just as a heartless jumped in their way. The vixen had reaction times faster than Pierce had ever seen as she pulled the rifle from her back and shot the heartless clean between the glowing yellow eyes allowing them to jump out the window on the opposite side of the building.

Pierce let out a howl of fear as they fell a good ten feet before landing on the roof of the building next to the one they had just escaped. Continuing as if nothing had happened the vixen leapt the bike from the roof to the street below as the bike itself began to glow under them making the vixen shout, "Things are about to get dicey kid! Just hang on tight and try not to scream too much okay?"

In a flash they were out of the street and flying through a void of some sort. Pierce gasped as he saw the bike quickly change under them and cover them in a bubble that quickly changed into a ship. Pierce found himself pushed into a seat pointing backward with a large turret's controls in front of him while the vixen piloted the craft.

"Now's not the time to relax kiddo. That was the easy part... now comes the hard part," Shouted the vixen over her shoulder as almost on cue hundreds of tiny ships bearing the symbol of the heartless started pouring through the hole their ship had made upon entering the space between worlds.

Pierce didn't waste time getting his hands on the controls to the turret he was firing away at their pursuers as the vixen yelled back, "Least I didn't have to tell you the obvious. Just hold em off till I find the ship kiddo!"

Pierce howled with excitement as he shot one of the ships down but kept firing not getting too caught up in the moment. His ears rang as the turret's firing mechanism was loud leaving him unable to hear any of the vixen's communications. A squad of five ships was coming straight for them and pulling off a one in a million shot the man from Tanyo clipped the wing of the center ship sending it into its two left wingmen. Their over corrections took out the second half of the squadron.

Pierce was about to fire at the nearest group of ships when a large shot fired over them blowing a massive hole in the attacking force making them turn tail and run back into the darkness they came from. Pierce watched in amazement as he saw overhead the great ship's docking bay. It had to be as big as Tanyo all by itself. Landing he found himself standing upright as the ship turned into another of the odd blades in the vixen's paw.

He quirked a brow as its design was something of a wispy, almost tail like, shape with fox head at the end baring its teeth. In an instant it was gone and the Vixen turned nodding to Pierce as she spoke, "Not bad kid. What's your name?"

"I... I'm Pierce. I'm sorry I... this is a lot to take in. I mean I saw my friend shot and then there was that dark place and now space ships and... whoa," Said Pierce as he held his head with a chuckle, "Either this is the most amazing dream I've ever had or I'm going crazy."

The white vulpine laughed softly as she shook her head and removing her hat she let a long silver braid fall behind her speaking softly, "I'm White Twilight. White for short and welcome to the Bane of Darkness. Flagship of the Blackwatch."

Pierce looked around slowly as he took in the sheer grandeur of just the docking bay of the ship and the amount of people working in it. The whole place was so huge he never believed something of its size could exist. He saw ships of all varieties in the bay from ones he could tell were built for speed and maneuverability to large hulks meant for carrying cargo and people en mass.

White smiled before nodding to the end of the docking bay, "Hey let's get moving. I'm sure you have a lot of questions. We'll head up to my place and talk about it kay?"

Pierce nodded as he started to follow his new companion through the bay and into a lift. After hitting a few buttons they were off and Pierce spoke, "So I'm not going crazy?"

"I wish you were Pierce. This is the real truth of the matter. We are the Blackwatch. A group that is mostly comprised of people who once lost their hearts but found them again. We are commonly known as Twilighters. Anyone with the last name Twilight was once heartless and nobody but through luck or through sheer determination we found our hearts and were able to come back. Some via the keyblades we held before we fell," Replied the vixen as the doors opened into her apartment. It was very minimalistic in design showing she rarely had visitors.

The main room held a single black couch while the walls were covered in guns of all sorts. She hung her current weapon up before removing her long coat and nodding slowly to an alcove. A fridge and stovetop sat side by side next to a counter with a sink while cupboards hung above it, "There's food and water there if you need it."

Pierce nodded slowly, "So those things that attacked me... they were what?"

"Heartless. They were being controlled by that greater heartless that was interrogating you. His words didn't fall on deaf ears by the way. If he's looking for Kingdom Hearts we have a long and hard battle ahead of us," Said white as she took a seat on the couch and patted the seat next to her.

Pierce sat himself down rubbing his neck where he felt the two tiny cuts from the keyblade, "So that thing he had was a keyblade?"

"Yep... That guy is the baddest of the bad right now. The Crusader. We've been after him for a long time now. He's responsible for a lot of us being Twilighters. It gave a lot of us family but still he's a terrible man. I'm not nearly good enough to take him down on my own let alone protecting a civi too," Said the vixen softly as she looked the man over and chuckled at his attire.

"Maybe we should find you something aside from... umm," Said the Vixen with a giggle before shaking her head.

The black haired man looked down and couldn't help but blush as he saw he was still just in his swim trunks. He chuckled a little sheepishly as White stood herself up and walked to a cabinet next to a computer terminal. Opening it she pulled free a one piece tactical suit much like her own, "It might be a little loose in the chest but it'll do for now. There's a washroom through the door next to the kitchen."

Pierce took the suit and retreated to the washroom. He put on the black suit and zipped it up to his neck before looking in the mirror. He frowned deeply as he let out a sigh as he saw the worry in his eyes. Kyten was hurt somewhere and he had no idea how Andrea and Tanyo were. That monster that captured him was powerful enough that Tanyo wouldn't stand a chance should he leave those creatures there.

It took him a few moments adjusting the suit before he felt ready to head out into the living area only to find a black fennec there with the white vixen. He gasped slightly making the two vixens laugh softly. The black one had one eye matching the crusader's own with the heartless symbol while the other had a different look to it. It was white and silver with a symbol similar to the heartless but slightly different.

"Pierce this is my partner Black Twilight. She's a Twilighter like myself... though she's a little more obvious than I am. Black this is Pierce he's the civilian I picked up in the city that never was, "Said White as she put an arm over the other vixen's shoulders. They had matching outfits though black's hair and fur was obviously the opposite side of the spectrum.

Black spoke much more softly than white with a more lady like way of weaving her words while speaking, "Hello Pierce. I am sorry to hear that you were captured by that creature. You are very very lucky you did not suffer our fate."

"Yeah a lot of people used to say I'm the luckiest man they know," Replied Pierce as he frowned thinking about his home.

"Hey I'm sure your home is fine. If he couldn't find it right away there he wouldn't care. He's big on stealth. He wouldn't start turning worlds to the darkness recklessly," Replied White with a bit of a hopeful look. Looking out the one window though, the three saw stars literally blinking out in the darkness.

Black shook her head slowly as she frowned deeply, "I think he's changed his plans White... We are going into another keyblade war. Let's just hope this time we will be fighting on the good side."