Riku's P.O.V, 1038 Years ago
Boredom, that sums up how I'm feeling right now. Earlier today, my friends and I had came to Comic Con because this year the convention was near were we live. So three out of the four of us decided to go and dress in our favorite character from our favorite series. However it did not go as planed since three out of the four of us are waiting at a table in the food court for our dick of a friend Spencer.
Alex was currently sitting right across from me, he went all out as Link from the Zelda series, he got his hair dyed dirty blond, wore the iconic green outfit, and even had this whole set up where he has his IPod play the infamous " Hay, Listen!" line though a speaker that is hidden in his shirt that would play every now and then.
Stripes(don't ask) was sitting right next to Alex on his right, now because he was a brony, he got dressed in a half-assed Rainbow Dash costume, he had a rainbow wig, had both blue shirt and pants, fake plastic wings on his back, and on each side of his pants was Rainbow Dash's cutie mark. Now I have nothing against bronies, hell I even seen a few episodes and I like them, but Stripes can really take his love of My Little Pony a little to seriously sometimes.
Now we get to our A-hole of a friend named Spencer, he was the only one of us that didn't want to come here and the only way we got him to come was to pay for his admission, costume and get Titanfall when it comes out for him. He got dressed as some dude from a card game called magic and the dudes name is Ralf Zimmerman or something like that. Now I would go into detail on what he looks like, but his costume was so freaking odd and dumb looking that I don't want to.
As for me, I went as Riku as he was in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, I dyed my long hair from brown to silver, was lucky to be born with the same color eyes that Riku had, and I had commissioned the black coat from some chick on the internet that makes costumes and sells them as a part time thing. Conveniently, she was already making these coats for her boyfriend's friends that were also coming here as Organization XIII. When we were in Stripes' car, Spencer had asked who I was dressed as, so I told him that I was Riku and that I was a member from Organization XIII, now I know that Riku isn't part of Organization XIII, but Spencer doesn't and I love to screw with him sometimes... alight most of the time.
Speaking of that asshole, we have been waiting for him for the past hour and a half.
"... My god what is keeping Spencer so long!?" I said out of complete boredom and annoyance and to further my point, I slammed my fist down on the table. Spencer had went to where the booths are to look at something and we haven't seen him sense.
"Calm down Mr. 'I can't control the darkness inside', he'll get here when he does... whenever that is." Alex said to me in his laid-back manner. Out of all of us he was the only one that never really took anything to seriously, but that didn't stop the fact that were missing someone.
"Well I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think that he ditch us or something, after all he didn't want to come here in the first place."
"Nah, I don't think that he would, besides if he did then he sure as hell isn't getting that game he's been wanting for the past few months." Alex stopped talking to point with his thumb at Stripes. "Hell, maybe he disappeared like Stripes' mystery man did." Alex said in a joking manner, however all it did was make Stripes mad.
"Dude! I thought that we weren't going to bring that up again!" Earlier today, Stripes had tried to take a staff or something from some guy who had just bought it and then the guy had randomly disappeared, or at lest that's what Stripes told us what happened.
Since I decided not to speak, Alex was forced to talk. "Dude relax I was joking, the chances of someone actually disappearing right in front of you is very unlikely, so I doubt that Spencer or anyone else at this convention has or will disappear from thin air." Just when he said that, a new voice came from behind us.
"Excuse me, but are you sure about that?" We turned around to see who was behind us, it was a guy and a girl dressed up as Booker and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, the same cosplayers that we saw when we got here, except they were with the Lutece twins when we saw them. Realizing this, I decided to speak up.
"Hay we saw you guys when we came here, but you two were with two more that were dressed as the Lutece twins, what happened to them?" Just when I said that, the guy dressed as Booker took a set right next to me well the girl dressed as Elizabeth was standing behind him.
"That's why we came over here to talk to you. You see, we over heard you three saying that your friend has disappeared, if that's the case, then I guess that doesn't make you three the only ones because our friends disappeared as well." The guy said in a serious tone of voice, but despite his tone, Alex thought that this was a joke.
"Yeah, like I'm supposed to believe that."
The girl who was dressed as Elizabeth spoke to Alex. "It's true, Earlier today our friends got a replica of a coin from Bioshock Infinite, after a few seconds, the coin started to grow in my hands and then both of them grabbed it and they disappeared."
Well me and Stripes were shocked to hear this, Alex was still thinking that this is a joke. "Look, it was kind of funny the first time but now it's starting to get annoying." He said in an annoyed voice.
"They're telling the truth." Came from a voice that was coming this way, it was some guy dressed as Ezio from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and the guy had his hood on so I couldn't see his face. Behind him came another guy in a gray vest, write button up long sleeve dress shirt with the sleeve's rolled up, blue jeans, black dress shoes, brown short hair, goatee, beach sunglasses and had a name tag that read 'I'm from GTA Online' on it. The two of them walked up to Alex and then 'Ezio' proceeded to speak.
"Awhile ago, me and my friend Leon here saw this muscular six-foot tall dude that was dressed in what I think was a Wizard costume had bought these gauntlets, but when he did, he looked like he was going to pass out before he vanished." After he finished, everyone was quiet for a few seconds until his friend spoke.
"Geoff and I have been asking around and apparently there has been multiple case's of people going missing or have disappeared today; a guy dressed as a big sister from Bioshock 2, another guy dressed as Trevor Philips from GTA 5, and hell, an entire group of fourteen people dressed as Organization XIII just went up and disappeared." He stopped to point at Stripes and continued. "I even heard that this guy was in a fight with someone when he disappeared in front of him."
Stripes let out a large gasp and spoke. "Holy shit... I was right! He did disappear!" Stripes said as he was looking back at me and Alex.
Finally Alex looked like he didn't think that this was a joke but was still unsure about it. "Ok, lets just say your right, what are chances that are friend has gone missing like the people you have mention?" Before one of them can answer, I raised my hand to ask my own question.
"Sorry but I have my own question, exactly what connects these people to each other?"
It took the guy dressed as Ezio awhile to answer both of are question's but when he did, I knew I would not like the answer. "Well from what I can gather, they either got something from a booth or they found something before disappearing, why do you ask?" My blood ran cold when he said that and with out thinking, I jumped out of my seat and ran as fast as I could to were the last place were I saw Spencer. Now let me be clear, just because I think Spencer is a complete dick, doesn't mean that he's not my friend.
I finally got were the booths are and went to the first one that I saw. "Excuse me, but have you seen a man dressed as some dude named Rally Zipper or something from the card game Magic?" I asked the guy behind the booth and for a second he thought it over.
"Can't say that I have, but you look like you could use a weapon to fulfill your costume Riku." He said as he brought up a replica of Riku's Soul Eater and put it on the table between us, now I would have gotten it but I need to find Spencer first, plus the way he said 'fulfill' really made me want to get out of there.
"Sorry but I have to find my friend." However just when I turned around, the guy had somehow came behind me and was holding the Soul Eater.
"Oh but I insist, take it Riku." Just when I was going to question how did he get behind me, I heard my name being called out to my lift, I looked to see Alex, Stripes, both cosplayers of Booker and Elizabeth, GTA man, and the guy dressed as Ezio. However the guy that was at the booth had put the Soul Eater in my hand and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't let go. Then out of no where, a pool of darkness had formed under me and was swallowing me like how it did to Sora in the beginning of kingdom Hearts.
Before the six of them could help me, they became trapped within some dome of what I think was more darkness that I think was created by the guy of the booth, and no matter how heard I tried I couldn't get out. Just before my head was swallowed by the darkness, I looked at the man and asked him a question. "... Who... are you..."
The man looked at me with a creepy smile and the last thing I heard before being entirely swallowed by darkness was what he said.
"My name is Ted."