End of the World

The origin of the signal was a collection of fragments of mass floating tightly around a point. “Garsh, is that all that’s left of the worlds taken by the Heartless?” Goofy asks. “Is that what that’s supposed to be?” My question follows.

“Must be.” Replies Donald. We land on a fragment and learn that despite not being connected physically, there is a path. We follow this path, defeating many Heartless along the way. The paths continue and we reach a portal that takes us to a room with a strange circular machine. Someone left a notebook on the machine. I crack it open and began to read it. It’s a bizarre and pretentious read, using the words darkness and heart ad nauseam.

“The realm of Kingdom Hearts. The great darkness sealed within the great heart…”

“...Seven hearts, one Keyhole, one key to the door. The door of darkness, tied by two keys. The door of darkness to seal the light...”

“...Ones born of the heart and darkness, hunger for every heart until the dark door opens.”

“This doesn’t make any fucking sense.” I look to to Donald and Goofy who only shrug at my confusion. I reread it thinking it might be important. It doesn’t make much more sense a second time but something does resonate with me. I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly. I sigh, trying to keep the passage in mind. We continue onward. Reaching another portal we are teleported to a familiar place, the islands, my home. I’m stunned, I haven’t been here in so long. My daze turned to horror as pieces of my home started disappearing, consumed by darkness. I spot Riku, Ansem, in the distance, staring out into the sea. Hardly registering the action I’m closing the distance, ready to end this. He must of sensed our approach as he spoke.

“Take a look at this tiny place. To a heart seeking freedom this island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy sought out to escape from his prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds. And he opened his heart to darkness.” He turns around fading away and reappearing as a taller man with silver hair, the real Ansem I assume.

“Where’s Riku?”

“Don’t bother, his heart belongs to darkness. All worlds begin in darkness and so too do they end. The heart is no different.”

“If you don’t tell me what I want to know then I’ll have to beat it out of you.”

“So, you’ve come so far and still you understand nothing.”

I brandish my Keyblade and charge at him. He teleports away and produces a Heartless to fight with him. We battle for a long time, he changes tactics more times then I care to count. Ansem casts some sort of spell. I look around. We seem to of been teleported to some dark space. Donald and Goofy are with me but the most prominent figure is the large white door in the distance, a small floating island supporting it. Ansem is shaking, reaching out toward the door, beckoning to it. “Kingdom Hearts! Fill me with the power of darkness! Ultimate darkness!” This can’t be right.

“Wait a minute! I’ve heard a lot about hearts and darkness and light these past few days. Enough to know none of this insane shit makes any goddamn sense. But, at the same time, there is a strange logic to it. And if I’m right then I don’t want to know what that says about me. Anyway, the point is I believe that Kingdom Hearts is light!”

The door opens and as I guessed, many brilliant rays of light shoot out of it. The light is too much for Ansem’s dark heart and disintegrates him on the spot. The light dies down and we run to the door. “So do we have to close this thing or what?” I ask.

“What, you couldn’t figure that out, genius?” Came Donalds snarky reply. The three of us start pushing the door closed. “Oh, just when I was starting to give you credit for not being an asshole this is how you treat me.” He doesn’t respond, instead he and Goofy are looking inside the door. I do so too and see it’s teeming with Heartless. We focus on closing the door but it won’t budge “We can’t close it.”

“Don’t give up!” That’s Riku’s voice! I look inside again and see him, trying to close the door with us. “Come on, Sora! Together, we can do this!”

The door starts to budge when we hear a high pitched voice. “Sora, you have to use the Keyblade to lock the door.” The dog and duck seem to recognize the voice and shout “Your Majesty!” Suddenly I realize Riku will be stuck in there. “Wait, what about Riku?” The high pitched voice speaks again. “Don’t worry. There will always be a door to the light.”

“Sora, you can trust King Mickey.” Goofy informs me. I still didn’t want to leave him but we have **** anymore. As the door shuts I take one last look inside as Riku tells me “Take care of her.” You bet your ass I will. I lift my Keyblade in the air and lock the door, just as I did with the Keyholes. The door disappears. I turn around and spot my one true love looking around, confused. I run to her intending to keep my promise.

She’s floating away on a small floating platform. I call her name and she sees me. She almost falls but i grab her hand, helping her regain her balance. “Kairi, remember when you said you’ll always be with me? I’ll always be with you, too. I’ll come back to you, I promise!”

“I know you will!” We can no longer keep our grip as she drifts away. We let go and she floats off, into the distance, back to the islands.