Xehanort

Surprised Sora? Really, I thought even with your intelligence you might have been able to figure it out. Ask your friend Riku, he should know how I think by now...

Yes, I have your Kairi... your little manifesto of darkness was baiting you the entire time. Your precious little princess is now under my grasp once more... The final Princess of Heart... I finally have the simple last piece. Of course fate would have it that this Kairi is always the most difficult Princess to take... The others succumb so much easier... Honestly Sora, I can see why you continually run after this little princess. Beautiful, smart, brave... You should have seen the look on her face when I came for her... nothing but defiance in every pore of those blue eyes... She can be timid, but she's a tigress inside... Inside...

Don't worry. I have no intention of  permanently harming your Kairi. All I want is a little something, thats all. Is it so much to ask for such a rare power? Seven people in the entire universe with hearts untouched by darkness. Can you imagine the power held within? Can you imagine the untarnished energy burning within those seven bodies? I don't need to imagine... I've seen it...

Your Kairi is about to take part in the greatest step in human history... and there is nothing you can do to stop me...

I have to say, this is one of my most beautiful works yet. Sleekness of design, containment of power, and the focus of the darkness within. Quite brilliant if I do say so myself...

He looks just like you....

You should see him now. He stands at about your height, Sora, although he's a bit taller. His spiky black hair is jet black, and gleaming in his eye sockets are two brilliant yellow spheres. Oh, how he hungers for the hearts... Don't worry though, he's completely under my control. I've even burned my own mark on him, although I made it removable for the purposes of convenience. There is so much to do now, so much to do...

Sora, meet your own artificial Heartless, created from your own darkness, and wrought from a small piece of my own black heart. A clone of your other Heartless, if you would consider it that. Subject X replication is complete. Now, I control a Heartless with such promise, such intelligence, such power....

However, since Subject X can still read my thoughts or these journals as it seems, I will not reveal the method in which I will be taking Kairi... It appears that your Heartless has become mentally unstable... Don't worry about it though... Some say I've been unstable for years...

Heartless, I advise you to do one thing. Do not lose your head. You are a unique specimen among mostly intelligible Heartless. If you collapse into chaos, something bad might happen. Really bad. And I've done my research on this, so heed my warning.

 While the first time I stated this, the case was literal, in this scenario, it is a bit more metaphorical.

The pieces have lined up perfectly, and now my plan finally comes to fruition. In a journey like this, it is this pivotal moment, the point in history where one can simply look back and smile at the perfect way things fell into order. Like pieces on a chess board, the king had been cornered, the defenses cast aside, and the queen brought into full view. But enough of my metaphorical banter. I am too satisfied right now to care about secrecy.

A little while ago, I met with a certain someone... Sora... It is true what you said Heartless, you are the true physical manifestation of darkness. However, since Sora is not a manifestation of the light... Not a Princess of Heart, or PoH as I have taken to calling them, his heart spawns darkness anew in the absence of the darkness that has cultivated into existence. So? This is the darkness I have taken. Oh, do not worry as you often do. Sora is perfectly fine. I have not harmed him as you asked me, and not a single hair on his spiked little crown have I harmed. All he had to do was stand there... Open up his heart to the festering blackness within for a single moment... .Oh, how it was marvelous. The twisting black tendrils, the roaring scream of power, and the rippling shockwave of darkness upon light... It was almost poetic the way the darkness so easy took over his body once he was open to it. I cannot deny that I was sorely tempted to let him succumb to the darkness within... He would truly be a wonderful asset to the cause of Darkness and of the pursuit of Knowledge...However, in all the blackness of my heart, I do keep my word. With a single swipe, I summoned forth the Dark Keyblade... The Heart Unlocker from its small pocket realm where it had been stored. The Dark Keyblade was as sinister as before... still incomplete, it served the same purpose as it did amongst my Heartless. However, I have made a few short modifications to its nature... I would now use it to extract the darkness from the consumed Sora...

And it went smoothly of course, as most of my plans do. I successfully extracted a large enough portion of Sora's inner Darkness, so that he reverted back to normal form. Quickly, I transferred it into a containment device, which I now hold in the palm of my hand... Sora, I do not understand why such a powerful warrior as yourself cannot comprehend the power within... A swirling vortex of crackling energy... a blackness so twisted and vile, that the brightest of lights cannot hope to extinguish its chaos... A hurricane held in a bottle...

I left you soon after that, although I doubt you were able to see me go, as you were still recovering from our 'operation.' Rest assured that our deal remains affirmed. I hate to bring your friends to the truth, but unfortunately there is no other choice at the moment... It appears I underestimated the connection between you and your Heartless/Manifestation of Darkness... He knew of my plan the moment you did... It matters not though. I did not reveal to you how I would be 'rescuing' Kairi, so that part of the plan is not yet compromised... But do not shake in your shoes (which are a good ten times bigger then your size I noticed)... Everything is going according to plan...

Ienzo, start the machine... We have a Heartless to build...

And so it finally starts. We have reached success before, and now we put it into motion. It appears that it will all go down in Twilight Town yet again... My apprentice DIlan tells me that he can see the twisting black tentacles from the across the entire town... Such a grand attack from such a small creature... Heartless, you are one amazing specimen to be sure... Even a Heartless on the level of a Darkside has difficulty with such an endeavor....

We will make haste at once... Even, Ienzo, and Dilan, you are already stationed at Twilight Town. Report to the virtual one assembled by that fool at once. We must make haste if we are to set our plan into motion...

Otherwise I have no other words... It is starting. There is only one piece left to touch upon.

Sora...

(Chariot of Fire: I don't know how to do private thoughts, but this is supposed to be intended for Sora, this part)

You have mentioned a desire to take Kairi... From what I have gathered from this Heartless, he will do no such thing. I will make you a deal, despite our past misgivings. Give yourself over to darkness for a single moment... A single moment. I have am in possesion of a certain weapon... One I'm sure you are very familiar with. The Dark Keyblade given to Riku when my Heartless possessed him. I will use its power to extract the darkness from your heart.... This is all I ask. Once I have a small piece of your Darkness, I swear on the memories that are no longer mine that I will retrieve Kairi....

The choice is yours. Remember that I have been dealing with these Heartless for longer then you will ever care to know...

The time has come my comrades. After the extensive research that has been done through our... little friend, we have successfully documented the events surrounding the creation of Subject X. Therefore, we shall utilize the machine to artificially create a duplicate of Subject X, in order to finally achieve my desire...

Kingdom Hearts... I can hear you calling for me...

The next time I post here, it will be with the taste of success on my tongue. The scent of victory, of power, of lavish greatness... Subject X will allow us to accomplish what we failed to do before... Possibly what my own heartless failed to do as well... However, if we're to get a sentient Heartless,we'll need its unique Nobody also... Which unfortunately, is unaccesable to us right now...

Even, work on that.

As for you Breig... If I catch you listening to my sessions in the Room of Sleep again, I will personally feed you to it... You know she's always hungry...

As for the dispute involving the lost PoH... It seems we have our work cut out for us. Let them scramble over her. We'll get her in time.

Now we're getting somewhere. Ienzo, where in the worlds did you get that new generator? Did Even do some of his experiments on it? At any rate, the machine is working perfectly now, and we can finally work on creating certain type of Heartless. However, in order to do this, we need to know the conditions under which Subject X was created. We can assume it was similar to the creation of my own Heartless because of a few similarities in their behavior. However, we still need to be able and recreate the process. Unfortunately, this means we're going to need a hell of a lot energy... A kind of energy released by the purest of hearts.

Dilan is on his way to collect the other PoH's as well as it, and now it is time to begin our search for the 'seventh' piece of our dark puzzle. Fortunately, we are not alone in our search. No doubt the fools that hinder us constantly will lead us to her location.

As for Subject X... We'll need to do some investigation... Data doesn't show much, but we do know a few key points... He is not simply a Heartless, for he was born out of the darkness of anothers Heart, and is capable of existing without his other's participation. He is truly a Heartless, yet his other still has his heart... Is he simply darkness manifested into physical form? Was I simply darkness manifested into physical form? Obviously not, since my Nobody, Xemnas, came into existence... Yet I wonder... I have seen a certain person named Roxas running around these journals, existing separately from his other, Sora. Is it possible that this is connected to it all?

Ienzo, I thought I told you to fix the generator! I activated the machine just now, and it happened again! If we're going to execute this plan properly, we've got to get this machine working properly... Get one from Breig, he should be able to retrieve one...

Now I've been forced to let the Emblem Heartless run amuck under the castle. We'll let them stay there until we can get the machine working again. Once we perfect the technique for creating the Heartless, we'll be able to try and replicate Subject X... What conditions was he born under though? That is the question...

An experiment always has complications as we discovered today with the initiation of our new Project.

Concerning the subject I discussed with you earlier, we shall initiate this new Project starting with our next meeting. The subject we discussed, which we shall hereby reference as Subject X, will be the target of our next experimentation. Utilizing both Subject X and the lost PoH, we will currently be able to unlock both one of the greatest mysteries in the physiology of Heartless, and the one thing I desire most...

As discussed, we will carry out in the phases discussed. Ienzo, you will search out for the other PoH. They must be retrieved once more in order for our experiment to be carried to completion. Dilan, you attempt and retrieve it. I daresay you'll remember it from your time as a Nobody. As for Subject X and the lost PoH... We'll take them last if we must. Let them play out their games. It seems like they want to play with each other before they play with us. That is fine...

The fool might be suspicious if we endanger too many worlds in our endeavors. Tread carefully my brothers, and do not be careless. Remain in the shadows, and do not step easily into the light. Just because the others are distracted from our plan, does not mean that we can count on their inactivity.

Here are todays notes on our current experiment.

After trial testing on Subject A, we have determined that the collapse of the heart into darkness was partially due to the Subject's own lack of willpower. Breaking will therefore holds great promise in breaking the heart. The figures of the data will be emailed to each of you, my fellow apprentices, and the graphing must be reconfigured to take account that small anomaly in our experiment.

It seems many 'old friends' have taken interest in this site, so we must be careful how we word things here. DO NOT reveal any crucial information...

In conclusion, Ienzo, make sure that you replace the generator in the machine tomorrow. We don't want it to be overloaded like it happened today...

Also, it appears a certain PoH has been presumed missing... There are several clues to her 'absence.' This may be an opportunity for us to 'acquire' a piece of the puzzle that we once held before. Shall we attempt to retrieve her? We discuss this in our next meeting...

Of all the people to decide to utilize this journal contraption, they had to use it.. .. Heroes... Warriors of light... Huh... So much for this account being secret...

However, this is no setback. I will utilize this disadvantage to my advantage. It does me no harm if they see some of my notes. They will not understand it anyways... Also, it seems they have enough on their hands as it is...

This... Heartless however... Is interesting... And things that interest me tend to go through a lot of pain, very, very quickly...

My research... all of it hindered by that fool...

It is only through the grace of some unknown fate itself that I have managed to discover this virtual means of recording this data. A journal of sorts... Hidden in a place so ingenious that even my 'Master' will be unable to interfere with my reports....

I will continue my research via regular updates to these 'journals' That fool will be unable to know that I am continuing my research unless he manages to uncover this secret hidden in plain sight... Of course, I intend for my fellow workers to see such reports... Ienzo, Dilan, all of you... You must view these journals at the end of each session so that we make mark our progress within the fields of our experiments. Keep a watchful eye for any who might interfere as well. It is likely that we may be subject to quite a few questions in our research... It will be simple to deter them. From what I have seen, most of the participants in this site have the grammatical knowledge of a Shadow Heartless...