I Want to be a Hero {KH Romance}

I Want to be a Hero (Chp. 33)

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I never expected to so willingly let a stranger sit in the chair my adoptive mother once claimed as her own, once sat every day for nearly a lifetime in, but there was truly something about this Mio girl.

"Repeat that last part one more time, please?" Blair narrows her eyes at the blond in front of her. The girl simply folds her hands on her lap with a nod.

"Sure. Nobodies are created when someone with a strong will loses their heart to darkness." My brain was aching, and it was taking nearly all of my strength to keep my blood pumping well enough to keep me from fainting.

"So.. Back in Agrabah, I did... die?" I rub my temples.

"Yup. Long enough for me to be created, giving me part of your soul and a duplicate of your body." I shiver. 

"Let's not put it like that, it sounds like I shed my skin and you stole it or something." She girl smiles.

"I feel like it's more like a hermit crab, you know? You left your shell and I was born inside it!" She was way to happy about all of this.

"How do you even know this? Is this what the organization told you?"

"Well.. It's kind of what the organization IS. A bunch of shells of people, no hearts, no pasts." She crosses her arms. "I think maybe that's why they need the heartless.. to collect enough hearts to make their own?" She shrugs.

"So what they were trying to turn the Beast into was a heart collector. They'd kill off someone's light just for the sake of their own gain?" Sora frowns and Mio nods, her blonde hair bouncing.

"Can you see why I wanted to get away, now? It's not like they tortured me or anything, but I can tell that they only want people like Roxas or Namine for greedy deeds. I'm not about that scene, so I got out as fast as I could."

"Who's Roxas?" Sora taps his chin "The organization sure does use that name a lot."

"Wait, how did someone like YOU get away from thirteen big guys like them?" Blair looks the girl up and down, granted; she was pretty tiny. I guess being made from my shell didn't exactly give her any sizable benefits.

"Oh, I had help. I never got his name.. but... Something tells me he must know you guys pretty well, that's why he brought me here, after all. Said I needed to get some answers and relay some information on to you."

"...Riku?"

"No doubt." Blair clenches her fists. "What information was that?" The blond looks to me, her eyes staring straight into my soul and nearly burning the heart out of me.

"Hikaru is behind the destruction of Shady Isle."

"That's impossible." I shake my head, feeling Taiyo rubbing against my legs as I rest on the sofa. "I watched him toss his darkness away, he went to go find a new life."

"Look, believe what you want, but this town is absolutely silent. You don't think that's the slightest bit odd? I bet you haven't even been uptown yet. Have you seen the heights? The new construction?" I stand up and walk to the window.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I rip open the curtains to my living room window and feel my whole body begin to shake as I stare into the distance. "...what.. is that?" A large tower, hundreds of feet taller than any building in the area sit right in front of the mountain on the east side of the isle.

"Hikaru's domain. Where he sends out heartless, meets with the organization, watches people from this Isle that he grew up in get brutally attacked by heartless, and most importantly-- watches you." I was going to throw up.