Fanfiction ► The Fall of a King

[individual23]

This is a fanfic about the story that happened years before Kingdom Hearts took place. It is the story of one king who in the ultimate search for knowledge unknowingly doomed his own world.
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The fall of a King

“Congratulations Ansem, it’s a girl.” “Oh darling…she’s beautiful.” “I know honey, I know.” In a quiet room in the north tower, the first heir to the Kedakai throne was born. “Will you be needing anything else King Ansem? Lady Sophia?” “No, thank you nurse.” Sophia cradled her precious baby in her arms. “So have we decided on a name?” Ansem gently stroked his wife’s cheek. “I was thinking …Kairi.” “Kairi” Sophia looked into her husbands eyes, “It’s perfect.” “Can I hold her?” She gently passed the bundle into his arms, but no sooner had she done that a wide eyed grandmother burst through the door. “I just heard! I just heard! Where is she, where is my new granddaughter?”

Five years later.

“Grandma?” “What is it sweetie? Here put your arm through this sleeve.” Kairi and her grandmother were getting ready for a party to celebrate a new advancement her father had made in his research, not to mention Kairi’s birthday as well. Kairi reluctantly slipped her arm through the itchy white sleeve. “Will mommy and daddy be at the party tonight?” “Of course, why wouldn’t your father be at the party? Kairi stop fidgeting, I need to zip you up.” Kairi patiently waited for her grandma to finish, then walked over to her mirror. “Oh Kairi you look so pretty. Do you want to wear your tiara?” She shook her head and stared at herself in the mirror. She didn’t like her poofy white dress, she would have much rather been in her other clothes. “Why do I have to wear this grandma? It itches my legs! Why can’t I wear my jumper?” Kairi we’re going to a very fancy party, maybe you can wear your jumper afterward, ok?” “Okay…” “Come on now, we’re already late.” She grabbed her grand daughter by the hand and led her out of her room.

Kairi and her grandmother entered a large ballroom that was already filled with people. Kairi lingered in the door way, scanning the crowd for a familiar face. Then she saw the face she had been looking for. “Daddy!!” she squealed, breaking away from her grandma. “Daddy I’ve missed you!” She wrapped herself around her father’s leg. “My, what a beautiful daughter you have there Ansem.” “Kairi this is Mr. Kingsley, he is thinking about funding my research.” “Hello sir.” Kairi responded shyly, burying her face into her father’s leg. “You look very pretty today sweetheart. I really like your dress.” “Thank you daddy.” “Honey, could you find mommy for me? I think she may be by the snack table, ok?” Kairi nodded then ran across the crowd in search of her mother.

“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming,” Ansem was now addressing his guests while standing on a large platform. Next to him, was what seemed to be a large box covered in a cloth. “It is a special day for me for two reasons. One, it is my beautiful daughter’s birthday,” He paused for a moment for the polite applause to die down, “Two, I have made a great advancement in my study of the human heart. This...” He gestured to the box beside him, “is just one breakthrough, to be hopefully fallowed by many more. Behold!” With a great flourish, he removed the cloth revealing a large cage. Inside was a small twitching creature with two antennae, and bright yellow eyes. “A shadow is its name. It is a small docile creature that can be easily tamed. I still need to do more research however, and that would be with the proper funding of course.” He nodded to a group of men who eagerly nodded back. “Now as a demonstration of passive it is I shall release it from its cage.” A murmur went through the crowd. Ansem coolly held up his hand and silence was granted to him. He slowly opened the door and stepped away from the cage. The creature timidly stepped out and studied its surroundings. Suddenly it leaped down from the platform and out into the audience. Queen Sophia, who had been standing in the front row, snatched up Kairi and held her close. Slowly it moved towards them, Kairi then leaned away from her mother and stretched out her hand, after all daddy had said it was okay…The shadow then stood on its hind legs and reached its antennae to Kairi’s out stretched hand. An electric current generated from its head and hit her in the hand. She screamed out in pain. Many guests started panicking and running to the exits. Sophia grabbed Kairi back away from the shadow, kicking it in the process, and proceeded to fallow the others. “No wait, I shall subdue it! Guards!” Obeying Ansem’s commands 3 guards armed with electric snares surrounded the shadow. Flailing around the shadow panicked, and then slipped into one the guards shadows. Dumbfounded the guard looked around for the culprit. Suddenly from the back of the room there was a scream. A black spot on the floor was making its way through the crowd, then sprinted out of the doorway. Ansem suddenly snapping back into reality, called out to his guards, “Go after it you fools!!” The guards also recovering from shock then ran through the crowd and into the hallway. Hesitant about what to think, the crowd turned to Ansem. He quickly addressed his subjects, “Do not worry, I shall have you escorted out of the castle in small parties by my own private guardsmen.” A flurry of conversation started again in the crowd. Alone on the stage Ansem thought to himself, “Where did I go wrong?…”

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comments appreciated.

 

[Lunaqua]

Nice. ^_^ Wonder why I never thought of that plot! Extraoriginal!!! =P Please continue.

~Lunaqua

 

[moomoomoo]

wow. that was awsome! ^.^ hehe, cute little kairi...

erm... ansem kairi's dad...? o.o ok... ill go with it...

continue! ^.~

 

[DaRkNeSs2LiGhT]

wow-O! i really like this! i'm glad someone started the story of what happened before Kingdom Hearts started. this is so kewlio, & original!! plz continue!!! ^^;

 

[individual23]

After everyone was gone Ansem was left sitting alone on the stage, wallowing in his failure. Across the room his wife entered through the doors. She said something to the two maids cleaning up the mess of today’s party. They bowed and then dismissed themselves from the room. Quietly Sophia walked across the room and sat next to him. “Darling,” she started off quietly. “No one cold have predicted what happened today, it was a complete accident-” “No,” He said, “I could have. If I had only done more research. I could have known how it would react.” He picked up a leather bound book that had been lying by his side. “If I had just researched a little longer…I was just too eager to show off what I had done.” “Ansem what have you done? I’m not even sure I understand it myself, but then again you didn’t have much time to explain.” Ansem sighed, almost as if we he were unsure whether to tell her or not. “Ok, you know how my studies have been mainly based around the heart? Well the shadow that I showed you was a solid manifestation of the darkness in someone’s heart.” Sophia stared blankly back at him. “You what?? Why would you do something like that?” “No see honey I was trying to find an effective way to remove the darkness from someone’s heart. In other words trying to turn them into better people, but the darkness seemed to be never ending. Eventually I had pulled so much out of one patient that the sample of darkness I had materialized into that creature…Amazing really. There is so much we don’t know about the heart. Do you know where Kairi is?” Caught off guard by the change in subject Sophia hesitated, and then thought of her answer. “Um, I believe she went to her room to change, but afterward she was going to go out to the garden. Oh it’s such a shame I think I’m going to have to reschedule Kairi’s party until we get that thing out of the castle. She’s going to be so upset.” “Do you think I should talk to her?” “Yes, I suppose that would be best.” “Alright then,” he stepped off the stage and turned around, “wish me luck.” He said, lightly kissing her on the cheek. “Good luc-” abruptly his wife was cut, by a scream that echoed through the castle. Ansem and Sophia both exchanged worried glances then ran to the direction of the noise. Two guards were running ahead of them snares ready. “It seems to have come from the garden.” One of the guards informed them. “Kairi…”Ansem said under his breath, he sprinted ahead of the two guards grabbing one of the snares as he ran past. Ansem finally reached the last turn, and pushed through the door that lead out to the garden. Kairi was on the ground with her grandmother and a servant standing over her. “Kairi, Kairi, are you okay??” Kairi said nothing only letting a steady stream of tears fall down her cheek. “Angel what has gotten you so upset?” She slowly raised her hand and pointed. Ansem looked up, where once a proud and beautiful garden stood was now a spot of death and decay. The whole family had worked on it just last spring. It had towered with flowers and other flora, but now that was all gone. “Oh angel!” He wrapped his arms around his fragile little girl. “ I knew how much that garden meant to you.” “Daddy?” She rested her wet cheek on her fathers shoulder. “Make them go away…please??” “Them? Sweetie there is only one…” His mother in law lightly touched him on the shoulder, “It’s true. I saw it with my own eyes. There were three of them, stomping out the last bit of life out of this garden.” Ansem picked up Kairi, with a stern look on his face. He then handed her off to Sophia who had just arrived, and was now surveying the damage. “Take Kairi, I have business to attend to.”

 

[Queen Kairi]

sweet! this is a great story! plz continue!

 

[individual23]

Sophia lay anxiously on her bed. She glanced at the words in her book with minor interest; her true attention was on the clock that lay on her side table. She quickly glanced at it. 1:42. She didn’t know how much longer she could stay up for him. The sound of a door opening came from across the room. She sat up as Ansem walked through the door. He laid the snare he was carrying by the door then walked across the room to a silk changing screen, not bothering to look in his wife’s direction. “Even after 7 years of marriage he’s still too modest to change in front of me…” Sophia reminisced, but she quickly remembered she was mad at him. “So, do you know how worried I’ve been?” “Yes” said the voice from behind the screen. “Do you know how angry I am?” “I have an idea…” “Well, I would have sent a servant to get you but your ‘Do-not-disturb’ sign was up. Was what you were working on so important that you had to shut yourself away for 8 hours? 8 hours Ansem…that’s a bit much, isn’t it??” He slowly walked out from behind the screen buttoning the last button on his nightshirt. “Is it a bit much when the lives of your friends and family are on the line because of some stupid mistake you made?” He lay down in bed hoping the argument was over. He had no such luck. “Well you could have at least said good night to Kairi. She refused to go to bed until all the lights were on in her room and my mother and one guard were watching over her.” “And that sense of insecurity that she has is what I am trying to correct.” Sophia turned out the light on her side table “I know…”
“You didn’t have to stay up for me.”
“I know, I just wanted to.”
“Just so you could lecture me?” he said playfully.
She smacked him lightly with a throw pillow “Good night dear.”

Sophia rapped her fingers on the dining room table. This morning he had promised. He had promised that he would at least break for lunch today and eat with the family, but now he was late. “Mommy I’m done can I go now?” Sophia looked up. “Kairi you most certainly are not done. You need to eat your sand which.” “But I don’t like ham!” “Kairi…” Sophia said sternly. Kairi, defeated, slumped down in her chair and began to nibble on the crust of her sandwich. Suddenly the double doors swung open and in stepped Ansem. “Sorry I’m late, I was conducting another experiment and lost track of time. So how are my two favorite girls?” He took the seat next to Sophia and eagerly looked at his family. Sophia cast a sideways glance at him. “You’re late.” He gave her a pleading look. “Well I am here aren’t I? That’s something.” Sophia looked in his eyes, he really was trying. “Yes, I suppose it is. Now eat, I want some food in your stomach before you head back to work.” Ansem, now forgiven, smiled broadly and took a bite of his sandwich. “So…any advancements in your research?” she whispered over her drinking glass, not wanting to disturb Kairi who was still not over the trauma of yesterday. “Yes, a big leap,” he leaned in closer, “I have discovered that when giving when giving then dead and live samples that- ” “You’ve been feeding them?!” She hissed back. Kairi wide eyed and curious stared back at her parents. Sophia and Ansem donned fake smiles to reassure their child. “Uh, dear…can I see you in the hall way for a moment, please??” She gingerly grabbed Ansem’s shoulder and dragged him into the hallway.

“What are you thinking? Are you offering them living sacrifices now?” Again Ansem gave his wife a desperate look. Why didn’t she understand what he was trying to do? “Sophia have you been outside yet?” “What?” “Just tell me…have you?” “No I haven’t.” “Sophia there are numerous small animals dead out there. Birds, bugs, toads, I’ve even heard one of those cats that usually lurks around our garbage cans was found dead. Well I have reasoned that it had something to do with those creatures that were created. So I took some dead and live specimens down to the basement where I have stored some of the captured creatures…” “And?” “It’s as I feared. They seem to have no hearts, so to compensate they take the hearts of others, leaving their prey dead.” Sophia rubbed her face with her hands and leaned against the wall behind her, “Ansem do you know what this means? We are no longer safe inside our own castle.” “Yes, I know.”

 

[Queen Kairi]

great chapter!

 

[individual23]

Thank you! ^_^ im glad other people are enjoying my fic.

 

[Lunaqua]

This is very exciting! I'm in suspense for the next chapter. Please write soon! ^_^

 

[individual23]

“Honey you must see this!” Sophia was being jostled from her sleep. She wearily looked at the clock, it was now 2 in the morning. She squinted then blinked trying to adjust her eyes to the dark. She had decided to no longer wait up for Ansem, after all she was the only dependable parental support Kairi had right now, so she couldn’t afford to groggy in the morning. But now her sleep was being interrupted by a black blob, she could only assume was her husband, rocking her back and forth in her bed. “Ansem what is so important that you’re waking me up at 2 in the morning?” He leaned in close, his breath was hot against her ear. “Darling, trust me.” He grabbed her hand from beneath the covers and pulled her out of bed. Soon she was on her feet and being pulled out the door way. “Wait,” she said suddenly aware of her surroundings. She ran back into the bed and draped a blanket around her shoulders. “Ready” She grinned in spite of herself. She knew she would regret it in the morning but this was Ansem’s fearlessness and sense of adventure that she had fallen in love with. She said nothing as he pulled her deeper and deeper into the depths of the castle, not wanting to spoil the surprise. Suddenly she knew where he was taking her. The basement. “Ansem?” She slowed him down a bit, “Ansem, you would have told me if you had killed them right?” “Hm, oh yes, but I didn’t kill them. I just found something.” He gave her a smile then resumed his quest. Sophia remained silent all the way trying to figure out what her husband could have found at 2 in the morning…in their basement. The more she thought about it, the more she was dreading coming with him in the first place.

They finally reached the basement door, it was old and worn. No one was allowed to go down except for Ansem and a select few who had permission. Sophia herself had only been down there a handful of times, and each time she had been promptly shooed out, with the simple explanation that “it’s too dangerous,” eventually she just stopped going. Ansem opened the door and Sophia was able to look down the drafty cold steps that lead into darkness. “Ladies first,” Ansem said playfully. “You’re kidding, right?” He only smiled and flicked on a light, which didn’t seem to help at all, and pulled Sophia down the steps. At the bottom of the stairs he flicked on another switch, the lights flickered for a bit then dimly lit up the work room. “You work down here??” Ansem ignored the comment and pulled his wife to the other side of the room to a poorly constructed doorway. “Where are the creatures? I thought you said they were down here…And what’s this hole doing here? I don’t think I’ve seen it before.” Ansem turned around and put Sophia’s hand in his own. “Today while I was over at my work table I noticed a shadow with his head up against this far wall. I thought nothing of it until a couple hours later a few more had gathered. This intrigued me but still nothing was happening. Then at about 10 I was about to go to bed, but I realized the number of heartless had grown even more and now they were using the electric current that is generated out of their antennae to chip away at the wall. That’s when I realized there must be something on the other side of the wall that they were trying to get to. So I started to help by tearing away pieces of the wall with my fingertips and my hands.” Sophia then looked down at her husband’s hands. They were scratched horribly and a few wounds were still bleeding. So he really had been using his bare hands… “As soon as there was enough room the heartless filed in through the wall, but it was a while till there was a big enough hole that I could get through. But when I did I sprinted down the hall way and…well, you just have to see it!” He turned sharply and started climbing through the hole, beckoning for her to fallow him. Sophia crawled through then fallowed her husband down a long passage way. The hallway finally opened up to a large room and on the back wall was a set of double doors with a swirling mass of darkness on the other side. The creatures were gathered around it like children around a fire place. “What is this??” “It’s the heart, the heart of this world. I’m almost sure of it. This mass of energy, is…it.” “I still don’t understand Ansem.” “I believe that the creatures are without hearts, the heartless we’ll call them, well the heartless are seeking hearts, from people, from animals, and now from worlds. They lead me here, this is what they seek!” “Ansem this is too much to take in, I think I need to go back to bed and I suggest you do the same.” The excited spark in Ansem’s eyes seemed to flicker out at the thought of going to bed, but rationalization seemed to creep across his face and gave in. “Alright, you win. Perhaps I am being a little…” he searched for a word. “Crazy?” Sophia suggested. “Well not exactly but a nights rest will do me some good.” They exited the basement and strolled through the castle.

“This is nice, just the two of us. Reminds me of when we were still courting.” Ansem smiled and squeezed Sophia’s hand tighter. Sophia looked up at her husbands face, but something behind him through the window caught her eye. “Oh Ansem…look!” Outside a brilliant meteor shower was taking place. “It’s so beautiful, lets move onto the balcony so we can see it better.” They quickly climbed the stairs, gaining more excitement with each step. On the balcony they looked out upon their kingdom. “Oh Ansem isn’t it beautiful!?” “Yes…” he answered but there were more pressing matters on his mind.