Kingdom Hearts

A Twist of a Key.

Prolog

There are many worlds. Many with counterparts or "zones" as many call them. This story has to do with one of these "zones". One of the zones of the world of Kingdom Hearts! Unlike the KH world we all know of Sora, Riku, and Kairi do not live on Destiny Island. Instead they are living in a town that is about ten miles from the beach and that the adventure they go through is a little bit more different then the original. I mean way more different then the original. Same people, different lives.

Chapter I

The Beginning

"Where did Sora go now?" Kairi asked herself.

She looked around in the park; so far all that Kairi saw was Selphie playing with her jump rope and Wakka and Tiddus wrestling with each other while calling each other weird names and smacking each other with sticks and volley balls. Kairi sighed; she always thought that boys were strange for liking to do weird stuff and call each other names like that. Then she heard a scream; she ran toward the scream till she saw Sora on the park bench kicking and yelling in his sleep. Kairi swore that he would kick his big yellow shoes right off of his feet.

"Mommy!" he screamed as he tossed and turned.

"Figures." She sighed,

She ran to Sora who just woke up gasping and his eyes bugged out.

"Well rise and shine sleepy head." She teased.

Sora looked around franticly, looked at Kairi, and then said this in one breath. "I was? But I was falling and there was Riku holding out his hand and then I was falling then I saw you and there was someone falling and it was me that was falling and then I was the one falling and then I landed on the ground and there was birds then a voice and strange music with voices singing like AAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaa then some weapons appeared and I had to pick one that I wanted and then pick another one that I didn't want and then small black creatures popped out after something with boxes and doors and I fought them and all of the sudden I was in the park where Selphie, Wakka and Tiddus were asking really strange questions like what I was afraid of and what I value and stuff like that and then I was back in that strange room and the voice and then a big ugly thing came out of nowhere and I fought it and then I was getting sucked up in some dark, blob thingy and the voice came and…!"

"Sora!" Kairi said in a slightly raised voice. "Take a deep breath will you; you're going to pass out!"

Sora gasped for air.

"A breath Sora. Not a gasp."

Sora managed to go back to a normal breathing level.

"Sora, it was just a dream." Kairi sighed with a small smile.

Sora looked at her and said quietly, "Yeah, just a dream. But it felt so real."

"Well dreams are like that." She replied.

"Um… yeah, I think so." He said rather clueless.

Kairi smiled at him and giggled slightly. He smiled back.

The moment got ruin by a voice. "Hey! Am I the only one that wants to know what's going on beyond this little town?"

They looked over to the cause of the distraction to see Riku in that hands-on hips, foot-tapping pose he always assumed when he wanted you to know that he was getting impatient, but was far too polite to say anything.

"No." Kairi smiled, "I found "Sleepy head" here."

Riku sighed "Figures, Sora is lazy."

Sora shot right up to his feet, glared, and then pouted "I am not!"

"Wanna prove it?"

"Yeah!"

"Race ya."

"You're on silver spider head!"

"Alright then lazy bum."

Then the two boys dashed off as fast as they can further into the park.

"Wait for me!" Kairi yelled dashing after the two rivals.

They stopped at a spot. It was an entrance into the woods with a creek running into the park. Near the woods was a shady tree with a tree house where the three liked to hang out. The tree house looked like a large wooden box with a pointed roof, a door, windows that opened and close, and a small patio. Around the tree were some bleeding-hearts that Kairi planted with Selphie when their class had to clean up and plant some plants in the park for a community project.

"Imagine what it is like to see other places." Riku sighed with a slight smile.

"Well we do go to the beach." Sora pointed out with a grin.

Riku looked at Sora and said, "Yeah, but that's every summer for a week. And we all know that summer vacation is almost over."

Sora looked at Riku and said the only thing he could think of at the moment "Oh yeah." Then there was a long silence.

"Well are we going to prepare ourselves or what?" Kairi said to break up the silence, "We all know you can't explore without being ready."

Riku smiled "You're right. Kairi you're in charge of making sure we got everything on the list and get some of it ready in the tree house. Sora! You and I will be getting stuff for the trip. Bet I can get my part of the stuff before you can!"

Sora looked at his rival and said, "Bring it on!"

"Good luck you two and don't do anything rash." Kairi called out to the two rushing off.

It took most of the day for Sora and Riku to find half the things needed for a journey. It was practically sundown by the time they gotten back to Kairi waiting for them in the tree house.

"I got more stuff then you did Riku! I WON!!!" Sora cheered.

"Well there's always tomorrow! We still need a few more things before we leave." Riku calmly said.

Sora gave him that pout he always did when Riku acts all calm. He always hated it when Riku acts calm over a loss; it makes gloating about it rather pointless. That was Riku's last laugh at him.

"Calm down you two." Kairi said with her hands on her hips, taping her foot like how Riku did earlier.

"Sorry Kairi." Both boys apologized.

"Well it's ok." She said before looking at her watch, "Look at the time! I better be going. See you guys tomorrow!"

"Bye!" the two boys said as Kairi dashed off home.

After Kairi left Riku looked around to make sure Kairi was out of sight and handed Sora something star shaped.

"Here, Share it with Kairi tomorrow! I know that you wanted it. So here it is." He told Sora while looking smug with himself.

Sora looked at his hand and saw that it was a paopu fruit. "Hey!" he yelled, "What do you mean and where did you get this?!"

Riku just laughed "I picked it off of a tree when we were at the beach; I'd figured that you needed something to keep Kairi in your destiny since you are to chicken to propose to her. Everyone knows that when you share a paopu with someone they'll intertwine with each other."

Sora looked angry "I AM NOT IN LOVE!!!!"

Riku laughed and thought, "Sora, he's a nice friend but he ain't all that bright."