Kingdom Hearts: Difference between revisions

In the first game, [[Xehanort's Heartless]] and the horde of villains led by [[Maleficent]] seek out Kingdom Hearts. Both want to draw out the darkness that surrounded it in order to gain immeasurable power and knowledge.

To accomplish this, Maleficent searches for the Seven [[Princesses of Heart]]. These maidens possessed hearts that had absolutely no darkness within them. When brought together, these princesses would reveal the final keyhole and the way to Kingdom Hearts itself. Thus, Maleficent attacks many worlds with the [[Heartless]] in her pursuit of them, and manages to capture all seven.

All the while, she is being used by Xehanort, who had been the first to discover the nature of hearts as well as Kingdom Hearts itself.

At Hollow Bastion, Xehanort's old residence, the seven princesses are finally gathered, but only when [[Sora]] sacrifices himself to release [[Kairi]]'s heart, using a Keyblade constructed from the hearts of the six other maidens, is the path to Kingdom Hearts finally opened. With Xehanort having gained possession of Riku's body, forcing Riku's heart to wander into the darkness, he disappears behind the darkness that poured out from the keyhole, on the way to Kingdom Hearts.

After Sora is restored from his Heartless self, he once again goes to Hollow Bastion, and seals the Keyhole made by the princesses, holding off the great darkness. Regardless, Xehanort remains a threat, so Sora and company venture to the [[End of the World]], a place created out of the remains of the worlds taken by the Heartless. There, the Heartless thrive, and beyond it, in the eternal abyss, lies the door (now unlocked) to Kingdom Hearts.

After a long battle, Xehanort, wounded, reaches the endless abyss, where the [[Door to Darkness]] lies, with the [[Realm of Darkness]] and Kingdom Hearts waiting behind it. Xehanort forces the door to open, hoping for Kingdom Hearts to fill him with the power of darkness. However, to his horror, Kingdom Hearts is revealed not to be darkness, but light. The light overwhelms him, destroying him. But even with his defeat, the darkness that surrounds Kingdom Hearts threatens to overwhelm the [[Realm of Light]]. Because of this, Sora is forced to close the Door to Darkness, trapping Riku and King Mickey on the other side, in order to stop the Heartless threat. Nonetheless, the sealing also restores the many worlds, along with the barriers between them, while preventing billions of Heartless from invading the Realm of Light.