One day, while Aqua was enjoying her free time, she came to the aid of an unconscious person. This simple, seemingly harmless action changed part of her destiny. And from sleep was born a new end for the seekers of darkness and the Keyblade Master...
On a beach of black sand and rock, stood a man and a young woman under the night sky.
The man wore a black cloak with the hood pulled up, hiding his face, of which all that could be seen was a blond beard and brown eyes. He also had a pair of black gloves and boots.
The young woman, she had blue eyes, short blue hair. She was wearing a black and blue sleeveless top, black shorts, and two pink strips of fabric crossing over her chest with a Mastery symbol at the intersection of them, as well as black stockings on her legs that reached about mid-thigh, leaving a small area of bare skin on her upper thighs. Without being attached to her top, was white sleeves on her arms starting above the elbows. She also wore a small piece of armor on each of her arms. And also appeared to have two strips of blue fabric hanging from each side of her hips, with a smaller white strip of fabric tied around her waist, draped in the same manner. With as shoes, black and silver boots with a "hook" on each side.
Both stared at the shore, waiting patiently.
"Tell me, do you plan to stay here?" Asked the man.
"I feel like these waters touch the shores of a place I've visited." Answered the young woman.
"The Destiny Islands." Said the man.
"Do you know them?" Asked the young woman, surprised.
"Yes, it's a lovely place, light years away from this place. Sorry." Replied the man.
"I'll stay. Someone will come and get me." Said the young woman.
"These waters are between light and dark. Its shores are on the edge of day and night. They brought you and me together. So, why not you and another?" Answered the man.
"Yes." Said the young woman hopefully.
They continued to wait, when someone wearing the same clothes as the man came up behind them, with his hood up. Revealing a dark-skinned man with amber eyes and long silver hair slicked back in three spikes on the top and sides of his head.
"Who's there?" Asked the woman as she turned to the newcomer drawing the man's attention.
"You..." He said immediately recognizing the man, while the young woman took a defensive posture.
"Master, I come to speak with you." Said the man with white hair.
The hooded man then pulled up his hood, showing that he is a man of about fifty years old with blond hair down to the bottom of his neck.
"Master? You're laughing at me now." Asked the man with disgust.
"Do you remember the experiments on the heart that you forced me to interrupt? Among the guinea pigs was a girl. She had lost her memory, like me. But memories can be reconstructed. You did it with Sora. I think you saw that girl's memories." Said the silver-haired man.
"What is your question?" Asked the man.
"Where did you hide the girl?" Asked the white-haired man finally.
"What girl?" Asked the man feigning ignorance.
"Very well." Said the man with white hair. "If you don't want to tell me..."
The white-haired man moved his hand closer to the man before being pushed away by the young woman.
"You'd better go." She said.
"A lost guardian of the light." Observed the white-haired man who hadn't paid any attention to her since she arrived. "Wait here... the King and his valet."
Suddenly behind the white-haired man appeared a muscular, inky-black humanoid form with a partially bandaged head that harbored relatively human features with glowing yellow eyes above a mouth filled with sharp, muzzled teeth, on its chest was a heart-shaped hole.
The humanoid form confronted the young woman in hand-to-hand combat which the young woman, although she seemed to have been initiated into hand-to-hand combat, struggled to follow.
"Where is your Keyblade?" Asked the white-haired man.
"I don't need it!" Simply replied the young woman, taking her distance before charging the dark figure.
Unfortunately for her, when she attacked, the figure took the opportunity to grab her while holding her tightly so she wouldn't escape, risking breaking some bones in the process.
"That's enough! I come. " Said the man not wanting the young woman to be hurt.
"That's wise." Said the white-haired man before looking at the woman who was struggling. "Poor little thing. I'm not going to leave you with nothing."
The dark figure then threw the young woman before the white-haired man sent him a kind of dark orb.
This attack would have hit her, had not a man wearing imposing armor and a cape reminiscent of a bat, who appeared out of nowhere, intervened. Shattering the orb before it hit its target, he caught the young woman before landing on her knees in the sand.
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Seeing this and recognizing this surprise guest, the white-haired man made the dark figure disappear and hurried to make a portal appear, before leaving with the man.
As the portal closed, the young woman felt a reassuringly familiar grip in the way the armored man held her as the armor disappeared, gradually revealing who the person who had saved her was.
It was a young man who appeared to be the same age as her, with short hair, combed back. He had dark blue eyes. He was wearing black pants with a red T-shirt and black sneakers. Over these, he wore a black tunic with red trim and two black belts around his waist.
"It's been so long... Aqua." He said finally, as tears of joy began to stream down his face until they landed on the face of the young woman, who began to cry as she recognized the young man.
"... It's really you... Nihil." She said, overwhelmed by emotion before hugging the young man.
"Yes, Aqua... it's really me." Nihil said as he returned her embrace, containing his own tears. "We have so much to talk about."
