Challenge [305]: Rise Up

[nacromatic.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [305] Rise Up
Title: Sentience
Word Count: 370
(anything else): Spoilers for Birth by Sleep and Dream Drop Distance. This is the first piece of anything fanfiction I've produced in practically years, so apologies in advance for any goof-ups I may have missed. Also, I may or may not be taking some liberties over my KH knowledge. If so, I hope it's minor enough to not be abhorrently noticeable...? :o

sen·tience n. 1. the state or quality of being sentient; awareness. 2. sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling.

In the beginning, they did not conceive that choice was an option. Events existed on a predestined pathway of great harmony and repugnant chaos. For several millennia, peace ruled their worlds as one cohesive whole. Each planet remained ignorant of each other’s existence save a few adventurous souls. Near the end, it was the darkness of greed, power, and envy that shattered this fragile preservation of light, love, and kindness.

One by one, they heeded their masters’ calls for aid amidst the peril of the Keyblade War. They clashed and clanged against their darker counterparts in their fight to defend Kingdom Hearts. They are the silent soldiers who are unable to cry out or sob when their brethren fall, especially for the ones who didn’t ask to have a dark master.

And then the χ-blade cracks into twenty different pieces. Seven are light. Thirteen are dark.

It is, to their knowledge, the greatest price ever paid to avoid a fate worse than eternal darkness.

Generations of Keyblade Masters have perished during the war. This imbalance of Keyblades and wielders stagnates the traditional Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony wherein, on this side of camaraderie, they are reincarnated or continue their lives within the grasp of a new master. Although the Keyblade Masters do not recognize young wielders as masters until after a successful trial, they wholeheartedly acknowledge whom they belong to.

Kingdom Key continuously battles with itself during its time as Sora’s protector against the heartless. It knows its rightful place is within the hands of Riku, as decreed by Terra all those years previous. However, the longer Kingdom Key fights alongside Sora, the more it immerses itself in his everlasting faith, determination, and candor.

These are traits Kingdom Key hadn’t felt since before Kingdom Hearts was lost to the darkness.

And that is partially why it isn’t gummy ship science for Kingdom Key to materialize back into Sora’s hand after Riku thought to repossess the keyblade. Other reasons consisted of discovering an allergy against the darkness that resides in its ex-master.

Choice was an obscure option seldom used before and after the Keyblade War. Through destiny, or coincidence, or just in association with Sora, Kingdom Key chose its own master—a companion.

Comments

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO!!!!

AWESOME drabble!!!

The win in my opinion.

[nacromatic.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And you are far too kind to make such declarations, lol. I really do appreciate the vote of confidence, nonetheless! :D Cheers!

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Very interesting look into the minds of the Keyblades! :)

[nacromatic.livejournal.com]

And you have the coolest username with the creepiest icon! Thank you! It always intrigued me that the people Sora meets always tell him that the keyblade chose him, and choice is a conscious thought, therefore I went on to ponder, "Well, to have thought is to have cognition and to have the lowest capabilities of this would make you a species of some sort, wouldn't it?"

Then the challenge came along and I took the Tim Gunn philosophy, along with too much Spock fangirling, and made it work. :)

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Awww - but plushie spider is friendly! ;)

It does make sense - also explains why Sora keeps getting new keychains at the drop of a hat. They've got to be kind of lining up in droves at this point. XD