Kingdom Hearts: Defenders of Heart Prolouge

Kingdom Hearts: Defenders of Heart Prolouge

You know...there are sometimes I wonder. I just wonder if any of this is real, or not?... It doesn't seem real. Creatures of darkness, waiting to take over any world just at the presence of a dark heart? That sounds a lot like a children's story to make them be good kids. But it seems real enough to me.

I was smacking them left to right with my cousin's jump rope. I remembered it well. I left my real weaponry on the porch to our apartment. I had to make myself a pathway through this darkness in order to get it. There were ant-like black shadows around me, watching with cold, emotionless white eyes.

I heard my name called out several times as I tried to clear a path for myself. "Tanitin!" I turned to see one of the neighborhood kids throwing me my real weapon. Dropping my little cousin's jump rope, I reached out and caught one end of the nunchaku. Now these things were in for it. Everyone else, who was human at least, knew it. I think even the Heartless knew it, because they were backing away.

I don't think they were backing away in just fear. I felt dark hands start to pull at my ankles, from a small vortex of black down below me. I was pulled in ankle deep, and I felt a shiver suddenly go down my spine. Where was it taking me? Wherever it took me, I would go without a fight.

However, it didn't matter how much I struggled or fought against it. The darkness was stronger than me. It continued to drag me down, and soon enough I was up to my shoulders in the darkness. The last thing I had seen was a dark figure staring down at me. I couldn't see most of their face, but I could see that they were smiling at me...

"Hey, you LAZY BUM! Wake up!"

(Switching to: Third Person POV, Omniscient)

Tanitin's eyes fluttered open, a blurry imagine in front of him. He closed his eyes to the blurry colors of white and blue. When he opened his eyes again, they were more focused upon the figure in front of his face. Dark brown eyes were staring into his own blue ones. Two long strips of white hair fell over this person's shoulder, but nothing else, the boy's white hair was shorter than just those strands. Tanitin immediately reconized this person, but was surprised by how close he was. He was laying right on the bed he slept on, leaning towards him. They weren't touching, as the other boy was holding himself up with his legs and hands, but they were still in an awkward position.

"RAZEN! WHAT ARE YOU-?" Tanitin snapped to an up-right sitting position, while Razen casually slipped backwards. He grinned at his orange-haired friend before breaking off into a bit of a laugh. His expression immediately turned cat-like, to fit his little mood.

"I was hoping that would wake you up... You slept like a cute little baby!" He laughed a little more, before suddenly becoming serious. "But, I had to wake you up. You were sleeping pretty darn late, and you were kinda...talking in your sleep. You have a bad dream?"

Tanitin blinked, then tilted his head down. He stared at the bed sheets that covered his legs. That dream again, when the heartless attacked his world. That was a bad dream to remember, and it hurt him to think about it. "Oh...the usual..."

"Well, cheer up!" Razen cried out. Tanitin glanced up, mouth opening to say something, only to have a spoonful of some sort of stew shoved into his mouth. Razen continued on, "And eat up!" Tanitin gagged and spat out whatever he was being forced to eat onto the floor.

"HEY, what's the big idea-" Tanitn immediately stopped. The stew left it's taste in his mouth...And the taste wasn't really too bad. In fact, it was kind of good. He reached out and made little 'grabbing' motions towards Razen. Razen handed up the bowl, and he started to dig into the stew.

"Who made this?" He asked his friend after swallowing a few spoonfuls.

"Oh, you know, my sister," Razen replied.

Razen's sister was just like him - a magic user. She was around three to four years younger than the fourteen-year old, though. And instead of learning magic through studying and practicing, all she had to do was practice it. She had magic in her blood, some had said. Razen told him that him and his sister had different fathers, so his sister's father was the one who passed it onto her. His mother felt that Razen was left out, so he learned magic around the same time that his sister's magic was developing. They were both from a world with magic in it.

"Come on, Tanitin. Hurry up and eat. We promised to help Cid find some more Gummi parts." Tanitin groaned at hearing this.

"Aww, come on! Cid might help us build a Gummi ship if we get him enough parts!" He could remember that Razen had said that to convince him to actually help, especially so early.

He glanced at the little alarm clock off to the side. Without one of those things, it was hard to tell what time it was, for it was eternal night in Traverse Town. 8 A.M. That was too early for his tastes, but Razen liked to wake up really early, around 5 A.M. He slurped the rest of the stew while Razen got their things ready. Their gloves, their shoes, and their weaponry were all put into one spot to quickly grab and go out at any time. They needed all of their equipment, especially weapons, to fight the Heartless at any time, whenever people needed help.

Tanitin began to wonder...Just wonder, why? Why did they have to fight Heartless so many times? Why did they have to wake up early and do little jobs like this? WHY was he stuck with Razen(Razen was just so weird sometimes!)? Eh... He assumed it was all apart of being a "Defender of the Heart".

"HURRY UP!" Razen tipped over the bowl a little bit more, spilling the hot stew all over Tanitin's clothing and bed. He let out a yell of anger. Razen realized what he did was wrong, and started to move away, while Tanitin jumped from his bed. Razen ran right out the door of their hotel room, for fear for his life!