"Thinking of you, wherever you are.

We pray for our sorrows to end,

and hope that our hearts will blend.

Now I will step forward to realize this wish.

And who knows:

starting a new journey may not so hard

or maybe it has already begun.

There are many worlds,

but they share the same sky-

one sky, one destiny."

The Keyblade War. That's what they're calling it now. If there was a better name, I wouldn't know it. I guess it fits. To think, not too long ago the same guys we're fighting were our sparring partners. I can still remember when we were forced to pick sides. I'm not even sure there is a right side in all this mess. They both want the same thing. They both want the x-Blade. It's supposed to be some king of Keyblade more powerful than the rest of ours, so much more so that people seem willing enough to kill each other over it. It's said that this is a battle between light and darkness, but from what I've seen there's darkness on both sides. Sure, when Master, well I guess I'm not supposed to call him "master" anymore, Xenohart drew the line, he was all about using darkness to find the x-Blade, while Master Harik claimed that light was the only way to summon it. About half our ranks left with Xenohart. The other half...the half I'm now stuck with...they remained loyal to the light.

That was four months ago. The battles started out as small skirmishes, but they grew. And now stars are going out? We're dragging innocent worlds into destruction with all our fighting, and yet the promise of the x-Blade is all we're give. 'All will be fixed with the x-Blade in our hands,' I've heard Master Harik say more than once. I've already killed three of my old brothers and watched their hearts disappear above their heads, and I don't like it. We all want the same thing, but there's so much death.

There's something else. Something new. Strange dark creatures are starting to appear wherever we go. They seem to attack both sides, us and the darksiders. They're hungry for hearts. Someone jokingly called 'em heartless and the name has since stuck. Every time a star disappears I swear more of them show up. This war is proving to be too destructive, and I'm beginning to doubt whether or not this so called x-Blade will be able to solve all these problems.

Listen Mom, I hate to worry you with all this, but I don't know who I can trust anymore. Say one wrong thing and people begin to wonder what side you're on. I'm too full of questions to just follow these orders blindly anymore. Maybe there's others who feel the same way, I don't know. I just want you to know that if you don't hear from me again, or for a long time, I love you, as always. Hopefully I'll be there to talk to you soon. Just have to get to the bottom of things.

Your Loving Son,

Edward Kurst


Kurst leaned against his keyblade, starring out over the beach. It was night time, but that mattered little to him. He was getting less and less sleep lately that the time no longer mattered much. The War was having its toll on him. What worried him most was the darkness following him to this world, Destiny Islands. He had found it almost by accident a few weeks back and had since turned it into his own, private place of contemplation. Whenever he was troubled by something, this world seemed to instill in him a sense of peace. As a result, he had been coming more and more often. Usually at night though. During the day a bunch of kids would row their boats out here and play around. Kurst didn't want to bring the war to them in anyway.

After finishing his letter, Kurst stood up and opened a portal back to Radiant Garden, where the Lightsiders had taken residence. That world served as their Headquarters, and it was currently unknown where the Darksiders made their home. Walking into the castle, he handed the letter to a servant. "Make sure this gets to my mother." The servant nodded and ran off. He couldn't afford the time to take it to his mother, personally. That would take too much power, and, after all, he did have a war to fight.

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OOC: Ok! In a fit of nostalgia I bought my little sister Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts 2 for the PS2 for Christmas presents, and I just watched her play for two hours. So, for nostalgia's sake, I figured why not try and RP it. Of course, I'm older now, and so the story I want to write I feel should grow with me. Therefore, our story's going to take place during the Keyblade war. Not a whole lot is known about the war, so there's plenty of details for us to play around with all we want. You can have a character either on the Light side or the Dark side, and, hell, they can change back and forth if the story you're telling demands it. There's plenty of room here for personalization, romance, action, betrayal! Everything a good RP needs. So let's do it!

Character Sheet:
Name:
Age: (17+)
Gender:
Appearance: (A picture or description will do)
Side: (Light or Dark)
Keyblade: (Again, pics, or you can always describe it. You can also dual wield if you like, though if everyone's doing it then it loses it's cool.)
Personality:
Bio:
Other: (Is your character really good at magic? A good pilot? Anything else you want known, let it be known.)