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II
Day of Blackest Night
Knox arrived at Sherri’s house out of breath, still clutching Omen. After catching his breath he began knocking furiously on her door. Sherri eventually answered, irritated at he racket Knox was causing.
“Knox what are you doing?” She asked.
“Wha- What am I doing? What are you doing? We were supposed to map out the woods today. Where were you?” He had completely forgotten about Omen or the Heartless, and Omen had reverted to a Keychain.
“I’m so sorry! I was watching the news. They were talking about the meteor shower last night. They were saying something about strange objects fall to the ground. They sounded worried so…”
“I saw those blocks!” Knox was now completely distracted from his original purpose of coming to her house. “They’re all over town!” He grabbed her arm excitedly. “Come on, I’ll show you!”
Sherri went with him for a moment then tugged back abruptly.
“Wait, I have to show you something.” Sherri tore form Knox’s grip and went into the house. Knox could hear things being thrown around inside. Sherri returned a few moments later clutching something shiny in her hand.
“Look at this,” She held the shiny object out for Knox to see. He immediately recognized it as another Keychain. “I found it this morning outside my house.”
“Did you have a strange dream last night?” Knox asked her tentatively. She looked at him strangely.
“Yeah, why—how did you--?” Knox held up the Omen Keychain and realization flooded Sherri’s face. “Than, that must mean that these are…” Knox nodded, then he produced Omen as a full Keyblade. They stood there for a moment, before Knox finally spoke.
“You still want to see those blocks in town?”
“Yeah. Let’s go.” Sherri answered quickly.
Knox brought Sherri to the spot in town where he had seen the blocks earlier that day. Sure enough they were still there, and still people were walking around them, not paying them any mind. It was like they could not even see the blocks…
But Sherri saw them immediately. She stared at it for a second then placed her hand on it. She pulled it back quickly then returned her hand to it. “It’s…warm. And…moving.”
“What? No it isn’t.” Knox protested, since he could clearly that the block was stationary.
“No, it’s moving in place. Vibrating. Can’t you hear it?” Actually Knox could hear it, but didn’t want to believe that that block was making a noise.
Then they both noticed it. All of a sudden, the noise stopped, the birds stopped chirping, the wind stopped blowing, and everyone in town seemed to have vanished. Knox stepped away from the block and walked down the street and then across to see if anyone was there. He looked down alleys and in buildings, but there was no one.
“Knox!” Sherri called. Knox immediately stopped and ran to her. There was a tone in her voice that made Knox suddenly fearful. Before he got to her he saw why she had yelled: the block was sinking into the ground, leaving a perfect square hole. He peered into the hole and saw darkness. The hole seemed to reached to the center of the world…
He stumbled back and pulled Sherri away from the hole. Now he was afraid. He saw the darkness move inside the hole. Sherri struggled briefly against his grip, but gave in when she saw what he did.
Darkness was flowing out of the hole and onto the pavement around the hole. They watched as small lumps of the shadow lifted off the ground and formed figures with golden eyes. Knox recognized them and they seemed to recognize him. He pushed Sherri away from the Shadows and summoned Omen.
He brandished the Keyblade, but these Shadows did not seem afraid of it like the others. In fact they advanced on him. One lunged at him and he swung Omen, catching the Shadow in midair. It flew back a bit fore dissipating. This seemed to anger the others as they all began to lunge at Knox. He was able to fight them off, but they distracted from Sherri.
Several Shadows had advanced on her, backing her against a wall. One jumped at her and she held up her arms to protect herself, summoning her Keyblade inadvertently. The Shadow slammed against the blade and fell to the ground. He retreated to join his companions. Sherri lowered her hands and held her Keyblade, which she now understood to be called Pirouette, as one would hold a rapier sword. She felled the Shadows that threatened her.
The two stood there hold their Keyblades, recovering their breath from the fighting. Sherri, unable to contain herself any longer, rushed to Knox and threw her arms around him. He stood there holding her for a minute, before she snapped back to reality.
“Mom!” She gasped, letting go of Knox. “I have to see if she’s alright!” She ran off for her home without waiting for Knox, though her followed closely behind her.
Sherri rushed in the front door and into her mother’s room. Knox was right behind her. “Mom?” she called. The bed was empty. Knox did not like this. Sherri, throwing caution to the wind, stepped inside to inspect it further. Knox followed her in.
They both saw they blankets on the bed moving. Something was in the bed, and it was not Sherri’s mother. “Stand back,” Knox told her. She did so. He grabbed the blankets and threw them off the bed. There sat a Shadow like the ones they had fought earlier. He quickly summoned Omen and prepared to strike the beast down, but Sherri stopped him.
“Wait! That’s, that’s my mom.” Sherri stepped towards the Shadow, but it shrank back.
“I don’t care who it is! That is not your mom anymore, its just…Darkness now!” Knox shoved past Sherri to kill the creature, but it leapt off the bed and slink out the door. He turned to give chase and Sherri ran after yelling for him to stop.
They followed the Shadow outside where they were confronted with more of the mysterious blocks. Both of them stopped and watched as the blocks sank into the ground like the one did before. And just like before darkness came spilling out of the hole, spawning more Shadows.
Knox and Sherri summoned their Keyblades and prepared for a fight, but stopped and looked overhead. Many of the blocks could now be seen falling to the ground rapidly. The ground began to shake. The Shadows retreated into the Darkness and vanished.
“Knox, what do we do?” Sherri was frightened and beginning to break down. Knox was loosing control over his emotion s as well.
“We…uhm…go…the, the woods! Come on!” He tugged at her and she followed. He led her into the wooded area they always played in. He stopped by the tree and sat down.
“What are we doing here?” Sherri asked, on the verge of crying. Knox shrugged. Realizing what he meant, Sherri began to cry softly. Warm tears rolled own her face and onto the ground. Neither was sure what happened but after seeing Sherri’s mom, they felt safe in assuming that everyone else had ended up the same way.
What was to become of them?
Knox noticed the Shadows first, but was reluctant to fight them. He was just going to give up. But then Sherri screamed. He snapped out of his sorrow and thought only of helping her. She was knee deep in Darkness now and struggling to get free. Knox stood up and ran over to her.
Rather, he tried to get to her, for when he stood up he saw that he was already sinking into Darkness. No, I won’t give up! He thought to himself. “Sherri!” He called to her, still pushing through the Darkness.
“Knox!” She called back and began to push to him. They struggled towards each other for a few minutes, slowly becoming more and more consumed in Darkness until only their raised arms and heads could be seen. Finally they reached each other. Knox reached out and grasped her hand, and she grasped it back.
“Don’t let go!” he told her as the Darkness swept over them.
“I won’t let go!”
The world went dark for them both. They could still fell each other’s presence, but all they could see was Darkness. Knox tried to call out but his voice was lost in the Darkness. He began drifting into a deep sleep. He still held on to Sherri. He could see a light begin to glow around him, but the sleep overtook him…
Kraine and Zais watched Midnight Town blow itself apart from their Gummi Ship. Zais remained silent but Kraine was furious. Mewtwo had betrayed them, and he was going to pay for it. He turned the Gummi Ship and headed for Meteo.
From the ruins of Midnight Town, a bright light began to shine. It hovered for a moment then zoomed off, away from the Darkness…
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Well? Was it worth the wait?
