Fellowship & Fairydust

This bloated whale was insane, and I was starting to hate her more than I hated Jason. Whoa. I hate someone more than Jason? How disturbing. 

Regardless, as I watched the cards and the Keyblade wielders fight, I decided that now, while all this chaos was happening, was probably the best time to make a move for the younger princess. I also thought it might be a good opportunity to test out the power I had to discover back in Agrabah. The Unversed, a horde of fledgling emotions at my command. I gathered my darkness and focused it on my anger. Soon enough, those same creatures appeared before me. It felt weird to have the ability to summon creatures from my negative feelings, but as long as they can get the job done, I wasn’t gonna complain. I mentally directed them to their positions, ready to jump in at my command. However, I found myself face-palming when SOMEONE decided to act out of turn.

Cackling like he was having the time of his life, Leroy leaped out into the fray, pulling down the hat of the duck wizard while giving the tall captain a wet willie. Crying out in shock from that, Goofy looked at the alien life form with wide eyes while he leaped onto Jason and proceeded to bite down on his arm. Crying out in pain, the idiot began to wave his arm around like a fool while Leroy held on tight. Using his Keyblade in his other hand, the dummy tried to whack the experiment off. Guess he could think things through. 

While that was happening, I took a quick look at the princess, and saw that Sora was making his way over to her, as if he was going to get her to safety. Couldn’t have that happening. I chose this time to sic my Unversed into the battle, and summoned a slightly bigger one in front of Sora, blocking his way to Alice.

“What?” The Keyblade’s Chosen asked as he looked at the Unversed, but didn’t dwell on it long as he got into a battle stance. However, while he was busy fighting it, The Queen of Hearts took action. Ordering some of her cards around, two of them seized Alice and began to drag her away. Great. Now that means I’ve got to do something. 

I summoned two bird-like Unversed to distract the cards and leaped over to them, taking them out. Sending out more of Unversed around I took a look at the young princess in front of me, who stared back at me. Her eyes widened, but then became puzzled, as if she were trying to figure out if I was friend or foe. 

“Get off!” With one last jab, Jason finally managed to free himself from Leroy, though it wasn’t without a cost. Blood dripped down his arm, giving me an idea of just how sharp those teeth really were. The little red guy just laughed at the sight of his handiwork, and curled up into a ball to roll away from him. Intercepting his path the young mage swung her Keyblade like a mallet and sent him flying. 

Some of the Unversed were beginning to swarm around the princess Kairi while the Queen of Hearts just kept yelling for people to be beheaded. Sora, who had finally taken care of the larger Unversed I had created, looked over to Alice and saw me. “Hey, you! Get away from her!” 

Summoning my Keyblade, I replied, “Make me.” I then summon another Unversed who grabbed onto Alice, making sure she doesn’t get away. Something in the back of my mind was urging me not to hurt the girl, but I ignored it and focused my attention on the veteran Keybearer. Perhaps it was a good idea to see what he could do.

Gritting his teeth, Sora charged at me with his weapon. I managed to parry his blow and force him back, but he wasn’t done with me yet. Leaping up, he managed to land a hit with a solid slam of his weapon. I glared at him and then saw he had transformed his Keyblade into a pair of silly looking guns. So he was capable of that too. His experience showed. But I had no time to doddle as I found myself deflecting energy bullets. After a while, I started conjuring Dark Firagas back at him.

A couple managed to hit him, but it didn’t look like it did a lot of damage to him. “Why are you doing this?” Sora asked me as he fired again. “You have a Keyblade. You shouldn’t be doing this.”

“Like you’d understand,” I said as I rushed at him. I transformed Vengeful Chaos into its scythe form and started swinging at him. He managed to dodge my attacks left and right. After getting frustrated I gather dark energy through the scythe, and electric energy was charge at the red gem that ornamented the blade. Acting on instinct, I pointed it at Sora and blasted a beam of electricity at him. It was a direct hit as the veteran went flying backward from the attack. 

Smiling in satisfaction, I reverted my weapon back to its Keyblade form as I turned to look at the restrained princess, who looked back at me with fear in her eyes. I pointed my Keyblade at her, but I paused. I wasn’t sure why I was hesitating, except for the back of my mind nagging at me that she was just a child. For some reason, I was questioning whether I really should be doing this. But this was the only way I could think of to get my memories back.

“Stop that intruder! Off with his head!” I heard the queen yelling from behind me. Growling in frustration, I turned and prepared to fire a Dark Firaga at the fat hippo, only for someone to grab my arm from behind. 

“You can’t do that!” Alice said as she held me back.

Turning to her, I asked, “You would risk your life to save someone who would execute you on a whim?”

“She may be a fat pompous bad-tempered old tyrant, but she’s still Wonderland’s queen.”
“This world would be better off without her.” 

“That is not your decision to make. And if you strike her down, you’re no better than she is.” 

Throwing her off, I turned to her with a growl. I wanted to slap her for her naivety and getting in my way. But somehow I just couldn’t hurt the kid. Instead, I told her, “One thing I’ve learned, is that you don’t get what you need by being optimistic.” With that, I raised my Keyblade to do what I needed to do. Pointing it at her heart, I focused on it removing it from her body. Once the glowing heart was out, the girl promptly collapsed on the ground. I felt bad for her for some reason, but I pulled out the strange trinket from that ocean world. As soon as I opened the locket, the heart of light seemed to react to it. I could sense unusual magic emitting from the locket and the heart looked as though it was being dragged toward it until it came in contact and a flash of light occurred.

After that flash ended, one of the slots in the locket was filled by some kind of gem. With the heart nowhere to be seen, I could only assume that gem was the heart. After a few seconds of staring, I suddenly felt massive pain in my head, and a high pitch ringing in my ear. Crying out in pain, I then saw several images appearing in my head. 

I saw a much younger version of myself in a reflection of a pool of water, probably around the same age as Alice, wearing worn-out clothing, and covered in dirt and bruises. I saw myself on the streets of some town, stealing whatever food I could get. However, I also saw myself getting beat left and right by other people. 

“Get back here, you filthy thief!”

“Stay away, you… you devil!”

“What kind of a child kills his mother?!”

“How dare you kill the beloved priestess!”

“Demon!”

  And the last thing I saw, was me tied to some kind of wooden post, and being whipped and slashed at. I was surrounded by the people who said all those insults, who had tormented me night and day for something that was out of my control. Strange thing was, I was starting to believe them. Maybe it was my fault. Maybe I truly was a demon, but that didn’t mean that I wanted to be one. I looked out with pleading eyes to the murderous horde, but found no compassion or mercy among them. They wanted me dead and were going to get it. One man in particular, who I recognized as my father, brought forward an executioner’s knife, and had raised it up to plunge it into my heart when darkness suddenly surrounded me.

Needless to say, those images filled me with so much anger and hate. Back in reality, I was feeling so much pain and agony, and the ones I was fighting were doing nothing to help me keep it under control. As I focused, I saw the duck wizard cast a Thundaga spell that electrocuted me and fueled my rage some more. “Give back Alice’s heart right now!”

I did not respond to that.

“Are you deaf? He said to give it back!” Jason called out.

Still, I did not respond. 

Using her Keyblade to clear some of the smaller Unversed, Kairi told me, “Please, Mortem. The Keyblade chose you for a reason. Give the heart back, and we can try to help you.” 

“You… help me…” My voice came out much colder than I intended, but I didn’t care. “It’s too late for that. This heart has helped me recover a fragment of my memories, and now that I know the Hearts of Light can do that, nothing will stop me from claiming the rest of them. And yet… why did it have to be so disgusting?” Just thinking about the memories I had reclaimed filled me with more rage than I ever felt, reminding me of when the abuse had reached a boiling point in my childhood, when my innocence had died. I lost control of my darkness, and with a loud shout, I accidentally summoned a giant dragon-like Unversed.

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