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20_heartbeatschallenge! 02. Breath; Footfall
Title: Heartbeat
Claim: Luxord
Rating: PG
Prompt: 02. Breath; Footfall [the only sound in the world]
Word Count: 300
Summary: To make a Nobody, you lose a heart.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is, most obviously, owned by big name companies and not by a girl sitting at a laptop on her bedroom floor.
A/N: Yeah, super original idea, I know. xD Bear with me; I felt like playing with abstract things.
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The silence echoed, the darkness shone. It was empty, and the emptiness was crushing him. He stood, flexed his fingers, looked around, and there was no movement. Touching his face, he felt nothing.
It was fairly unsettling, to say the least.
In the dark before him, memories began to play. One, then two, then three — they stretched and shrank and overlapped like multiple movie screens crowed onto one wall. He stared at them, the images familiar and yet he knew none of them. Soon, the faintly shining squares of memory began to fade away, leaving three, then two, then one, and finally, darkness.
Nothing happened after that, and he, afraid of losing himself completely, stepped forward. If he moved or not, he couldn’t tell — there was nothing around to compare. But as he stopped, the sound of footsteps fell away in the distance.
He wondered what could become of him, floating in darkness that was too bright, trapped with only his past footsteps and shimmering screens of memory.
As if brought up by his thoughts, a pain cut through his chest. A heartbeat began to sound, loud and booming, and he realized that it was his own. The noise rang in his head, a pounding on his skull. It pulsed through every vein in his body, through the emptiness surrounding him. He clutched at his chest, willing the noise to stop, the pain to go away, the pressure to release.
At last, the noise gradually disappeared, sounding further and further away with each passing second. The pain cleared, the beating silenced, and he realized that instead of those he felt nothing. His heartbeat had left him hollow inside.
There were no second thoughts, no long bouts of contemplation or wondering. He stepped forwards into the darkness and kept on going.
end.
Claim: Luxord
Rating: PG
Prompt: 02. Breath; Footfall [the only sound in the world]
Word Count: 300
Summary: To make a Nobody, you lose a heart.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is, most obviously, owned by big name companies and not by a girl sitting at a laptop on her bedroom floor.
A/N: Yeah, super original idea, I know. xD Bear with me; I felt like playing with abstract things.
[[list of awesome]]
The silence echoed, the darkness shone. It was empty, and the emptiness was crushing him. He stood, flexed his fingers, looked around, and there was no movement. Touching his face, he felt nothing.
It was fairly unsettling, to say the least.
In the dark before him, memories began to play. One, then two, then three — they stretched and shrank and overlapped like multiple movie screens crowed onto one wall. He stared at them, the images familiar and yet he knew none of them. Soon, the faintly shining squares of memory began to fade away, leaving three, then two, then one, and finally, darkness.
Nothing happened after that, and he, afraid of losing himself completely, stepped forward. If he moved or not, he couldn’t tell — there was nothing around to compare. But as he stopped, the sound of footsteps fell away in the distance.
He wondered what could become of him, floating in darkness that was too bright, trapped with only his past footsteps and shimmering screens of memory.
As if brought up by his thoughts, a pain cut through his chest. A heartbeat began to sound, loud and booming, and he realized that it was his own. The noise rang in his head, a pounding on his skull. It pulsed through every vein in his body, through the emptiness surrounding him. He clutched at his chest, willing the noise to stop, the pain to go away, the pressure to release.
At last, the noise gradually disappeared, sounding further and further away with each passing second. The pain cleared, the beating silenced, and he realized that instead of those he felt nothing. His heartbeat had left him hollow inside.
There were no second thoughts, no long bouts of contemplation or wondering. He stepped forwards into the darkness and kept on going.
end.
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I really liked it!
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