Alright, this is it. This is what I came here for.
This fic is going to be one of my most ambitious ventures ever. It's an epic, written with the idea that it could be its own KH game in mind. At the same time, there's going to be plenty of humor, and I hope people find said humor funny.
Some warnings:
1: There are three OCs and two pesudo-OCs (characters based on established KH/Disney characters but drastically different from how you've seen them) in this fic. One of the true OCs, borrowed from an original idea of mine, is extremely powerful, to the point where I'm afraid people will interpret him as a Sue. I'm going to try my hardest to make sure he isn't, and he isn't the main character - he's really only in there because without his sheer power, some of the plot elements wouldn't be possible. I'm also gonna try to make him an interesting character who delivers a lot of the humor. Additionally, the villains (the other two OCs) are almost as powerful.
2: Some of the characters included in here are notoriously divisive (then again, in this fandom, who isn't?). Regardless, I hope that if a character you don't like shows up later, you don't stop reading just based on that.
3. This will include many Pixar worlds in addition to Animated Canon worlds. For the record, Nomura said it was possible, but if it still bothers you for some reason, stop reading now.
4. There will be some resurrections - mostly villains who return to being antagonists, but also two others, one of which comes back in the prologue. Again, if that annoys you, stop reading now.
Hope that wasn't too many.
A note: I kind of want to draw from both of KH's parent francises in terms of how this fic feels- I want it to be sweeping and epic and just plain awesome like a good Final Fantasy game, I want it to be charming and funny and touching like a good Disney (or Pixar) movie, and I want it to be emotionally powerful like both. Ambitious, yes, but I hope I can pull it off.
Finally, if you prefer, (or want to see the next chapter early) you can also view this here. Though you'll miss out on author commentary and explanations of what the heck I was thinking when I wrote something.
Now enough of that crap. On to the prologue!
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Prologue
An angelic creature that vaguely resembled an archaeopteryx hovered over the cluster of universes far below it. It had been observing these universes for a while, and it had seen many things –among them the rise of a race of darkness, the emergence of a boy hero and his companions that overcame that, and the same defeating a host of disembodied souls. At the moment, however, things seemed peaceful.
But the creature knew that there were other threats, things that lurked beneath the surface, waiting to strike. And not even the boy hero and his friends could deal with them all. He thought back to all the things he had witnessed, relived the adventures of various beings in his mind to find an answer to one threat in particular.
And, suddenly, he had it.
He stopped hovering and dove down to the universes below.
The creature homed in on one universe, slamming into it at full speed. He emerged directly above a castle, the residents of which were all busy making lanterns for a festival that would happen that night. Fortunately, the clouds obscured his arrival, and he immediately zoomed towards the sun.
The creature raced away, through the vacuum of space, toward the extreme heat and light of the sun. It kept going regardless of all these factors, until it had reached its destination. Then it outstretched its feet and raked into the surface of the sun with its talons.
Thousands of tiny droplets were catapulted towards the earth from the impact, heading to the planet at high speed. The creature focused its mind on about thirteen of them, manipulating physics to make them go as fast as he was back towards the kingdom.
When the thirteen droplets of sun landed in a field outside the kingdom's walls, he stopped to watch what would happen next.
Where the droplets had fallen, thirteen glowing orange flowers grew.
The creature immediately began to glow in response. When the glow faded, he had split into thirteen smaller versions of himself, and those flew down to the field and plucked a flower each from the ground. They re-fused in the air, and the collected flowers orbited around the creature's body in a ring. He rocketed off, and vanished from the universe entirely.
Once back outside the universe, he dove down, deep into the black parts below the Lanes Between. He flew face-first into darkness, and the forces lurking within it were only repelled by either the creature's sheer power, the influence of the flowers, or both. He didn't care what, only that it bought him some time. He focused on an image in his mind, and began to sing.
Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine,
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
Heal what has been hurt
Change the Fate's Design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine.
The flowers began glowing even brighter in response, and they rocketed off towards a particular region of the blackness. The creature followed, until he saw that the flowers were now orbiting a new target – a small piece of the blackness, a lump of nothing that was gradually forming into something.
Something that resembled a person.
The creature stretched out his talons once again, reaching for the object. The two collided full force.
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He… was the only one I liked… he made me feel… like I had a heart.
The last thing Axel expected was to wake up.
But woken up he was, by a sudden jolt that seemed to have come from a wrecking ball. As he oriented himself, and as the force pushing him along smoothed, he noticed the only light was coming from above him. He looked in that direction to see he was in the grip of a massive, bird-dragon entity.
"Wh-Where am I?"
The creature looked down at him. "You're in the Darkness. It's a pretty nasty place, I don't like talking about it much. Wanna get up on my back?"
Axel gripped onto the leg of the creature, and slowly made his way up until he was on its back. He wrapped his arms around the creature's neck, wondering if it would be enough to prevent him from falling off.
"We have to hurry now. Now that those flowers are gone some of this place's residents might get bold enough to attack us."
"Wait, wha…"
There was a screeching noise behind them.
"Oh boy, they found us." said the creature.
Axel looked behind him. Thousands of creatures, with red glowing single eyes and spindly robotic legs, were crawling towards them on some invisible surface. Bizarely, their bodies resembled bowler hats.
"What are those?"
"DOR15s, otherwise known as Helper Hats. They came down here because of a time paradox, and they took it upon themselves to guard the place. They don't like intruders, and they like escapees even worse."
"Are they a threat?"
"To me? No, of course not! You, on the other hand, they'll gladly rip to pieces, so it's best we stay out of their way."
And with that he began to swerve and zigzag, with the DOR15s in close pursuit.
"Going up!" said the creature.
He shot upward, toward a speck of light far above them, which got closer and closer by the second.
"Almost there…"
Suddenly, a gigantic DOR15 appeared, blotting out the light above, and shining its own red light from its central eye down upon them.
Axel, being a Nobody, could not feel true emotions. However, at that moment he felt the closest thing to actual fear he had ever experienced.
The creature, on the other hand, was prepared. He opened his mouth and fired a beam of pulsating white energy at the looming mechanoid. It was blasted to smithereens, and the pair shot up through the debris and out of the blackness.
The creature calmly flew to a nearby universe, emerging on a tropical island. He landed on a beach, and Axel quickly hopped off the creature's back.
"That was a close one!" said the creature. "You never know when shooting stuff from your mouth will be useful, will you?"
"Okay, birdy, two questions," replied Axel. "One, why am I not dead?"
The creature gave a shrug with his wings. "I brought you back."
"Very funny. Two, who are you?"
The creature seemed to literally swell up with pride. "That I can answer more thoroughly! I am Alphos, Prankster King, Lord of All Awesome, Patron God of Epicness…"
He suddenly seemed to droop, and his demeanor became far more serious.
"…And I need your help."
"Why would an ultra-powerful birdy like you need my help for? "
"Look, there's something going on right now. Something really, really bad. Worse than the Heartless, worse than that organization you ran around with. And the only one who can stop them is…"
"Me?"
"Heck no. Roxas."
Axel suddenly perked up.
"Yeah, you probably know Roxas better than almost anybody. And that's why I need you."
"But he's a part of that Sora kid now, right? How are we gonna get to him?"
Alphos smiled. "Leave that to me."
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In case you can't tell (If you couldn't, I'm overjoyed), the extremely powerful character I warned about is Alphos. *has morbid fear of people hating said character's guts*.
Anyway, give some constructive feedback and I'll have the next chapter up soon.
Alright, this is it. This is what I came here for.
This fic is going to be one of my most ambitious ventures ever. It's an epic, written with the idea that it could be its own KH game in mind. At the same time, there's going to be plenty of humor, and I hope people find said humor funny.
Some warnings:
1: There are three OCs and two pesudo-OCs (characters based on established KH/Disney characters but drastically different from how you've seen them) in this fic. One of the true OCs, borrowed from an original idea of mine, is extremely powerful, to the point where I'm afraid people will interpret him as a Sue. I'm going to try my hardest to make sure he isn't, and he isn't the main character - he's really only in there because without his sheer power, some of the plot elements wouldn't be possible. I'm also gonna try to make him an interesting character who delivers a lot of the humor. Additionally, the villains (the other two OCs) are almost as powerful.
2: Some of the characters included in here are notoriously divisive (then again, in this fandom, who isn't?). Regardless, I hope that if a character you don't like shows up later, you don't stop reading just based on that.
3. This will include many Pixar worlds in addition to Animated Canon worlds. For the record, Nomura said it was possible, but if it still bothers you for some reason, stop reading now.
4. There will be some resurrections - mostly villains who return to being antagonists, but also two others, one of which comes back in the prologue. Again, if that annoys you, stop reading now.
Hope that wasn't too many.
A note: I kind of want to draw from both of KH's parent francises in terms of how this fic feels- I want it to be sweeping and epic and just plain awesome like a good Final Fantasy game, I want it to be charming and funny and touching like a good Disney (or Pixar) movie, and I want it to be emotionally powerful like both. Ambitious, yes, but I hope I can pull it off.
Finally, if you prefer, (or want to see the next chapter early) you can also view this here. Though you'll miss out on author commentary and explanations of what the heck I was thinking when I wrote something.
Now enough of that crap. On to the prologue!
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Prologue
An angelic creature that vaguely resembled an archaeopteryx hovered over the cluster of universes far below it. It had been observing these universes for a while, and it had seen many things –among them the rise of a race of darkness, the emergence of a boy hero and his companions that overcame that, and the same defeating a host of disembodied souls. At the moment, however, things seemed peaceful.
But the creature knew that there were other threats, things that lurked beneath the surface, waiting to strike. And not even the boy hero and his friends could deal with them all. He thought back to all the things he had witnessed, relived the adventures of various beings in his mind to find an answer to one threat in particular.
And, suddenly, he had it.
He stopped hovering and dove down to the universes below.
The creature homed in on one universe, slamming into it at full speed. He emerged directly above a castle, the residents of which were all busy making lanterns for a festival that would happen that night. Fortunately, the clouds obscured his arrival, and he immediately zoomed towards the sun.
The creature raced away, through the vacuum of space, toward the extreme heat and light of the sun. It kept going regardless of all these factors, until it had reached its destination. Then it outstretched its feet and raked into the surface of the sun with its talons.
Thousands of tiny droplets were catapulted towards the earth from the impact, heading to the planet at high speed. The creature focused its mind on about thirteen of them, manipulating physics to make them go as fast as he was back towards the kingdom.
When the thirteen droplets of sun landed in a field outside the kingdom's walls, he stopped to watch what would happen next.
Where the droplets had fallen, thirteen glowing orange flowers grew.
The creature immediately began to glow in response. When the glow faded, he had split into thirteen smaller versions of himself, and those flew down to the field and plucked a flower each from the ground. They re-fused in the air, and the collected flowers orbited around the creature's body in a ring. He rocketed off, and vanished from the universe entirely.
Once back outside the universe, he dove down, deep into the black parts below the Lanes Between. He flew face-first into darkness, and the forces lurking within it were only repelled by either the creature's sheer power, the influence of the flowers, or both. He didn't care what, only that it bought him some time. He focused on an image in his mind, and began to sing.
Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine,
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
Heal what has been hurt
Change the Fate's Design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine.
The flowers began glowing even brighter in response, and they rocketed off towards a particular region of the blackness. The creature followed, until he saw that the flowers were now orbiting a new target – a small piece of the blackness, a lump of nothing that was gradually forming into something.
Something that resembled a person.
The creature stretched out his talons once again, reaching for the object. The two collided full force.
* * *
He… was the only one I liked… he made me feel… like I had a heart.
The last thing Axel expected was to wake up.
But woken up he was, by a sudden jolt that seemed to have come from a wrecking ball. As he oriented himself, and as the force pushing him along smoothed, he noticed the only light was coming from above him. He looked in that direction to see he was in the grip of a massive, bird-dragon entity.
"Wh-Where am I?"
The creature looked down at him. "You're in the Darkness. It's a pretty nasty place, I don't like talking about it much. Wanna get up on my back?"
Axel gripped onto the leg of the creature, and slowly made his way up until he was on its back. He wrapped his arms around the creature's neck, wondering if it would be enough to prevent him from falling off.
"We have to hurry now. Now that those flowers are gone some of this place's residents might get bold enough to attack us."
"Wait, wha…"
There was a screeching noise behind them.
"Oh boy, they found us." said the creature.
Axel looked behind him. Thousands of creatures, with red glowing single eyes and spindly robotic legs, were crawling towards them on some invisible surface. Bizarely, their bodies resembled bowler hats.
"What are those?"
"DOR15s, otherwise known as Helper Hats. They came down here because of a time paradox, and they took it upon themselves to guard the place. They don't like intruders, and they like escapees even worse."
"Are they a threat?"
"To me? No, of course not! You, on the other hand, they'll gladly rip to pieces, so it's best we stay out of their way."
And with that he began to swerve and zigzag, with the DOR15s in close pursuit.
"Going up!" said the creature.
He shot upward, toward a speck of light far above them, which got closer and closer by the second.
"Almost there…"
Suddenly, a gigantic DOR15 appeared, blotting out the light above, and shining its own red light from its central eye down upon them.
Axel, being a Nobody, could not feel true emotions. However, at that moment he felt the closest thing to actual fear he had ever experienced.
The creature, on the other hand, was prepared. He opened his mouth and fired a beam of pulsating white energy at the looming mechanoid. It was blasted to smithereens, and the pair shot up through the debris and out of the blackness.
The creature calmly flew to a nearby universe, emerging on a tropical island. He landed on a beach, and Axel quickly hopped off the creature's back.
"That was a close one!" said the creature. "You never know when shooting stuff from your mouth will be useful, will you?"
"Okay, birdy, two questions," replied Axel. "One, why am I not dead?"
The creature gave a shrug with his wings. "I brought you back."
"Very funny. Two, who are you?"
The creature seemed to literally swell up with pride. "That I can answer more thoroughly! I am Alphos, Prankster King, Lord of All Awesome, Patron God of Epicness…"
He suddenly seemed to droop, and his demeanor became far more serious.
"…And I need your help."
"Why would an ultra-powerful birdy like you need my help for? "
"Look, there's something going on right now. Something really, really bad. Worse than the Heartless, worse than that organization you ran around with. And the only one who can stop them is…"
"Me?"
"Heck no. Roxas."
Axel suddenly perked up.
"Yeah, you probably know Roxas better than almost anybody. And that's why I need you."
"But he's a part of that Sora kid now, right? How are we gonna get to him?"
Alphos smiled. "Leave that to me."
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In case you can't tell (If you couldn't, I'm overjoyed), the extremely powerful character I warned about is Alphos. *has morbid fear of people hating said character's guts*.
Anyway, give some constructive feedback and I'll have the next chapter up soon.