Hey everyone! This is my first story so I don't expect it to be my very best, but I got this idea from looking at Kingdom Hearts II for a while, and playing the first and second thru a couple times. I was thinking along the lines of how Sora looked kind of like a girl in the game. I'm not really a big yaoi or yuri person so I knew this wouldn't be quite that kind of story. Basically Sora is a girl! I thought it would be kewl since all those hotties from FF games are in the game and Sora befriends them all so that could get interesting if you knew my mind very well. I don't own Kingdom Hearts nor any of it's characters, including Disney.
Sesshomaru-lover93
'Sora's thoughts'
"Speech"
Sora felt like she was falling. Her eyes felt heavily lidded and when she opened them, there was water seemingly all around. Few thoughts were processed through her mind;
'I've been having these weird thoughts lately...Is any of this for real... or not?'
As she continued her descent, she began to notice the nauseated feelings dissipate, which left her slightly more alert. The water or whatever it was darkened slightly, until there was only light where she was going to land.
Turning upright Sora looked around in wonder, her mind in overload about where she was. She landed on what seemed to be nothing for only darkness surrounded her. Taking a slight step forward, Sora covered her eyes when doves began flying all over.
What they revealed was something of wonder, a giant stain glass portrait which held a lovely picture of a girl.
'So much to do... So Little time... Take your time, don't be afraid.'
Sora felt slightly alarmed as she heard the weird voice. Generally she'd like to consider herself a pretty sane person, but that was in question.
'The Door is still shut. Now, step forward. Can you do it?'
Running forward, Sora reached the light and steadied herself as three objects appeared. A shield, a sword, and a staff. She grabbed the sword, because wherever she was seemed better to have this. It disappeared in her hands and for a moment she was surprised.
'Your path is set. Now what will you give up in exchange?'
Sora looked between the staff and shield. The staff seemed like it would hold power beyond her dreams, but the shield would always protect her... Sora grabbed the staff and watched it too disappear.
"Weird..."
She fell off the pedestal she was already on, because the stain glass shattered leaving her to free fall once again. After what seemed like an eternity of this she reached another stain glass with a different girl on it. She noticed the sword in her hand and swung once for good measure.
Sora heard a noise behind her, and looked to see a dark creature with antennas that were crooked. Tightening her grip on the sword, she lunged with all her might at it and slashed. It receded then jumped into the air to hit her. Sora ran behind the creature and cut it two more times, making it disappear.
'Behind you!'
She locked her gaze onto the one behind her and noticed in annoyance as a few more popped up behind that one. Sora began slashing like crazy, taking each one down one by one until there was only one. The one left began to melt, until darkness began to seep across the whole picture.
She struggled but it was no use, for she only was sucked in. Sora came to on another stain glass portrait, this time with a picture of a girl with a rose. She ran forward and heard more of the dark creatures appear near her, prompting her to grab her sword.
They were all defeated quite easily for Sora had gotten used to the devilish things. A bright light shone leading the way to a stain glass that seemed farther up, if the steps leading to it were any indication. Curiosity of what it could be lead the brunette, and as she looked back the steps too began to dissipate.
This stain glass was mostly golden, from the dress of the girl in it. Sora felt nervous, for there was no telling what she would find up here. She once again ran into the light and looked up, taking slow measure steps.
'The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.'
Sora slowly turned behind her, and noticed the irregular shadow that came form her body. It began to rise from the floor, Making Sora inch backwards.
'But don't be afraid.'
She kept moving away from the thing, for it soon grew bigger than what her shadow was. The head moved in resemblance to snakes almost, and it was MUCH larger than the other creatures.
'And Don't forget...'
At this point Sora freaked out, running and hoping she would reach another stain glass. Hope was soon crushed by how she almost fell into the dark abyss. She swallowed her indecision and grabbed the handle of her sword tightly.
The large creature formed a ball of energy, and Sora was forced to jump out of the way before it crushed her. From where the darkness was came the smaller ones. Sora ignored them and began attacking the large one, moving only when he pulled his hand up.
This cycle repeated a couple times, her attacking the hand she could reach and maybe the head if she ran along the arm. Eventually the thing hunched over, and her sword disappeared like the weapons before. The thing began feeding darkness into the stain glass like the one before, sending Sora to land on her butt.
The thing moved in closer, and the voice from earlier began speaking to her.
'-But don't be afraid.'
Tendrils of darkness were enveloping her legs, and the creature moved closer than before. Sora at this point was in a state of complete fear.
'You hold the mightiest weapon of all.'
Sora was crawling away from the giant thing until she noticed the tendrils begin to cover her arm,and evenyually she couldn't move at all. Darkness covered eyes and face.
'You are the one who will open the door.'
Sunlight from a clear blue sky penetrated Sora's lids, waking her from her nap. Blinking slowly she sat up to see the ocean, and noticed she was on the beach. Yawning loudly Sora noticed a red haired girl above.
"Whoa!"
She sat up quickly, and turned to look at her. The Girl laughed lightly, and Sora grinned.
"Gimme a break, Kairi."
"Sora you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here."
Sora was kneeling at this point and gave Kairi a serious but frazzled look. "No! This huge, black THING swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't-- Ow!"
Sora reached for what seemed to be a knot on her head from Kairi's knock. She gave the girl an fake evil glare which was only returned with a smile.
"Are you still dreaming?"
"It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place? So bizarre..."
"Yeah sure."
She turned to see Kairi walk towards the incoming waves. Sora's clothes consisted of a black and white short-sleeved hoodie, with white and dark blue tank-tops that reached her hips. With that accompanied red shorts that reached mid-thigh with chains, and yellow tennis shoes. Complimented with shoulder-length ponytails.
There was a mutual silence between the two until another voice invaded their ears. "Hey, aren't you guys forgetting about me?-"
Sora felt her eyes soften from their previous agitation when she stared at the silver haired boy. "-I guess I'm the only one working on the raft."
Riku threw the log at Sora who caught only from trained instincts. Unfortunately that didn't mean she didn't end up back on her back.
Riku continued on to Kairi until he was a mere couple feet away, and put his hands on his hips. "And you're just as lazy as she is!"
"So you noticed!. Okay we'll finish it together. I'll race you!"
"Huh?"
"What, are you kidding?"
"Ready, go!"
There was a split second of no movement until both Sora and Riku took off running, Kairi trailing behind them. Sora snuck a glance a Riku and he did the same. Both gave the other a grin as they ran faster and faster, Kairi laughing as she attempted to keep up.
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Sora walked around afterwards for a little bit, until she found where Kairi had situated herself. "So, I guess I've gotta get the rest of the supplies huh?
"Yup. Here's what you need to go find: two logs, one cloth, and one rope. Make sure to bring everything back here."
Feeling pretty good after their race, Sora stretched then set off to find their supplies. If she could remember where to find any of them anyway, not like stuff like that was ever ingrained in he brain. First Sora headed to where Riku threw the log at her on the beach, then checked around for another.
Luck obviously wasn't on her side today, for the next log she found was again near Riku. Maybe he was a tree hugger gone extreme. Just as she was going to slowly back off with her quarry a voice interrupted her movement
"Hey Sora, how about a quick round? Grab your sword."
There could never be anything good out of trying to duel Riku. Sora's like to think she was the better swordsman but, Riku honestly was the better one. This question had two questions beneath: Would you like a bruise or a reason to be dogged on. Too bad her pride wins this battle.
"Okay, you're on!"
She quickly grabbed a wooden sword from the nearby shed, and readied herself to face Riku. Full frontal was the same thing as suicide, and she never saw his back long enough before he beat the stuffing out of her. Blue eyes scanned over the circular mini-island with coconut trees.
Riku noticed her pondering and pulled his sword out as he jumped down from the tree. "This one decides champion!"
With speed that was great for someone who trained with wooden swords Riku came at Sora with a quick swipe, her dodge rolling at the last averting the force. Making sure her sword was held in a tight grasp, Sora moved in, most of her attacks being blocked.
"C'mon Sora!"
She mentally fumed and parried Riku's last lunge, silently laughing as she managed to get a few hits in. Riku narrowed his eyes slightly, unleashed a strong swing that caught Sora on the side. This knocked her off balance for a moment, but she recovered in enough time to avoid Riku once again.
"Is that the best you can do?"
He smirked when she began to glare at him. He couldn't resist taunting her, especially when she tried to look imposing. Seeing her release her guard slightly Riku moved in for the kill and whacked her on the stomach, sending the brunette on her back.
Sora groaned as she felt her stomach. She definitely would be feeling that one in the morning, Riku never easy. One day she would make sure he enjoyed his own slew of bruises. Just no this one. Moving to sit up, Sora sighed as the wooden swords tip was held at her throat.
"Aw man, now the score's 0 to 1!"
"If you weren't such a tomboy I wouldn't be forced to answer your challenge."
Sora grinned at this, and moved the sword aside as she stood. "Just wait Riku, I'm gonna beat you good someday!"
She could hear him laughing lightly as she walked off, face tinged pink. The nerve of him to tell her to be more girly-ish. Best part about not being girly was the whole not having to wear a skirt or dress. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but she spent her childhood as a legendary super swordsman... Kinda.
Eventually looking around for all their items led her to a broken-off boat that smashed on the beach of the island some years back. Here she found Tidus practicing his repetitions, and her rope. Nabbing it and throwing it on her waist, she approached Tidus.
"Heya!"
"Hey Sora, You feeling lucky today?"
Sora shook her head and lifted her shirt to show Tidus her newly forming bruise. "Nah, just a present courtesy of Riku."
Tidus whistled then laughed, very amused by the mark that sat above her right hip-bone. "He did you in good today huh?"
She ignored this comment and ran the walked the distance of the beach, the day seeming rather bland. But again that could be her sulking. Riku was the only person in Destiny Islands who could annoy the crap out of her. Him and his stupid silver hair, and green eyes that were calculating....
This thought pattern made her stop,as she could see him still laying on the tree from this distance. Sora would admit it, she liked her best friend. And it was the most frustrating thing to know that he still had no idea! She'd eat a fish raw rather than tell him and risk their friendship.
Moving along quickly, Sora reached Kairi by staying along the beach.
"Hey Sora, thanks! Tired? want to call it a day?"
"Yeah, let's go home."
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It was sunset By the time they'd gotten all the supplies that they needed for their raft. Riku was standing, while Sora and Kairi were both perched on the tree. The weird silence between them was unsettling, so Sora looked to Riku.
"So, Kairi's home is out there somewhere, right?"
"Could be. We'll never know by staying here."
"But how far can a raft take us?"
Riku uncurled one of his arms and waved it slightly. "Who knows. If we have to, we'll think of something else."
It was here Kairi interjected. "So, suppose you get to another world. What would you do there?"
"Well, I haven't really thought about it. It's just... I've always wondered why we're here on this island. If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up one this one? And suppose there are other worlds... Then ours is just a little piece of something much greater-"
"-So we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?"
Sora turned on her back, and sighed lightly. "I don't know."
"Exactly. That's why we need to go out there and find out. Just sitting here won't change a thing. It's the same old stuff. So let's go."
"You've been thinking a lot, haven't you?"
"Thanks to you. If you hadn't come here I probably would've never thought of any of this. Kairi thanks."
"You're welcome."
Sora slid off the tree as Kairi and Riku began to move, and noticed the distance between them all was farther than usual.
"Sora!"
Sora turned to see Riku throw a star-shaped fruit at her. She stared at it for a while, and looked at Riku in confusion.
"You wanted one, didn't you?"
"A Paopu fruit?"
"If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each others lives, no matter what."
At this point Riku had closed the distance between them, and gave her a famous Riku smile. One that was too hard to explain.
"C'mon, I know you want to try it."
'WHAT! Why I oughta-'
"What're you talking-"
She was cut off as he laughed cool sounding as ever. Chucking into the water, Sora ran to catch up with the silver haired boy.
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Much of the next day was spent the same. Kairi gave Sora a list of things they needed for the raft, and she went to go find it. The fact that she had to go out and find it though was slightly depressing. Kairi busied herself by making shells, and she beat Riku in a race.
It was the first time in a LONG time she'd beaten him at anything, so of course he was quite the sore loser about it. By winning she named the ship Excalibur, because it had a hardcore ring to it. The only weird part of the say, Sora mused, was the weird guy in the black cloak in the Secret pace.
He freaked her out for a second, because she didn't see anyone before her go in, nor did hear anyone come in after. Then just disappeared with a poof.
She was currently lying in her bed, when she noticed the stormy weather outside. "A storm? Oh no, the raft!"
Sora snuck out of her window, ignoring the calls of her mother who she could partially hear over the thundering sounds. Grabbing her boat, she rowed as fast as she could to the island, the larger than normal waves making it already difficult.
After 15 minutes of this she reached the island, and noticed a mass of dark energy. "What's that?"
She looked along the little pier and saw that two other boats were docked there too. Sora had no idea what was going on, but she was feeling anxiety take over.
"Riku's boat... And Kairi's!"
Creatures from her dream a couple days prior appeared, and Sora drew her wooden sword. She wasn't very sure how well it would guard her but hell if she were to go down without a decent fight. She avoided most of them, and noticed they dissipated along the path that led to the mini-island.
Jogging along as fast as she could, she spotted the familiar head of silver. Giving the mini-island a quick glance she noticed their red-headed friend was very much missing.
"Where's Kairi?! I thought she was with you."
Riku still stood with his back facing to her, and Sora began to feel trickles of an unknown emotion cross her mind.
"The door has opened."
"What?"
Riku cut his eyes to hers, and Sora felt like she'd been hit with a cinder block. Her tongue was heavy, and felt like cotton.
"The door has opened Sora! Now we can go to the outside world!"
Sora balled her fist in irritation. "What're you talking about? We gotta find Kairi-"
"Kairi's coming with us!"
Sora recoiled slightly, and blinked.
"Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!"
"Riku..."
Similar to another part of her dream Riku reached a hand out to Sora, darkness from below now swallowing him in it's embrace. She moved forward, and found the darkness was beginning to envelope her body too. Try as she wanted, Sora reached and reached for his hand, until darkness covered her eyes.
From the darkness appeared a brilliant light, that dispelled the darkness and showed her Riku was no longer with her. In her hand she gripped a weapon shaped like that of a key. Seeing as Riku was no longer there, she ran to the secret spot, dodging the dark creatures along the way.
Jogging along the path, Sora stopped short when she saw Kairi standing by the door. "Kairi!"
Kairi turned to face her slowly and as she uttered one word, darkness spewed from the wooden door; "Sora..."
The force knocked Kairi toward Sora, and as Sora prepared herself to get hit she was surprised when only air embraced her. Eventually she lost footing and was knocked out of the secret place. She landed on what seemed to be what was left of the island, for only wreckage was spinning around the sphere of dark energy.
"Whoa!"
Turning to look behind her, Sora's eyes widened fractionally as she noticed the GRANDE sized creature from her dream. Bringing the weird blade close and crouching, she began to watch the things every movement. If things went like in her dream, then she could attack the arms and head when it hunched over.
As soon as she moved to attack, it kneeled down and began shooting dark energy that she knew to avoid. Going to the inside of the arm Sora began hacking away until it stood back up, completely out of reach. It then summoned more energy, and she jumped as she saw a shock wave head her direction.
Sora began hitting the exposed arms, over and over again, until it stood once more. It seemed there were only a couple things the brute could do, and it always involved a dark sphere of energy centered around the arms or chest. She would climb the arms to the head but it seemed quicker to attack the body.
Dodge rolling out of the way when it summoned some of the smaller creatures, Sora quickly did away with the small fry. No need for them to get in her way. She kept repeating this process. Hacking away at anything she could make a good target of, then destroying any smaller ones lying about.
After a while of this the thing was sucked into the much larger than before sphere of darkness. Sora held on to the remains of a boat, only one hand keeping her from whatever fate awaited the dastardly beast. But it didn't last very long, for she too was sucked into the dark abyss...
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Donald and Goofy arrived in Traverse Town, only to see a peculiar happening. A star, just as King Mickey described, was blinking out.
"Look, a star's blinking out!"
The star shone brilliantly, before succumbing to darkness. Now there no longer was another world, and the two both knew what they had to do.
"C'mon, let's hurry.
Both of them walked of to find Leon, the man who seemed to be able to help them find this key-bearer. "Where's that key..."
"Hey ya know, maybe we ought to go find Leon."
Pluto began sniffing in another direction, and Goofy gave it a quick thought. "Uh, Donald. Ya know, I betcha that..."
"Aw, what do you know you big palooka?"
"What do I know? Hmm... Come on, Pluto!"
Pluto was in the back alley, sniffing a scent that smelled rather interesting. He found what seemed to be a young girl, and gave he a big lick the cheek. This method effectively woke the dreary-eyed brunette from unconsciousness.
"What a dream..."
She began t snooze off again until Pluto pounced on her stomach.
"Whoa! This isn't a dream!"
Standing up slowly, Sora winced as some of her bones popped from her weird sleeping position. "Where am I? Oh, boy..."
She glanced around, and noticed she was in a deserted back alley. Bending over slightly, she leaned into the cute dog. "Do you know where we are?"
His ear popped up, and the dog darted off, leaving Sora rubbing her temples. This was just great, Riku disappeared in darkness and she had no idea what happened to him or Kairi. She still trying to discern what happened to her!
"What a night..."
Sesshomaru-lover93: Well I reviewed over the story as best I can so tell me if you like something, or feel free to suggest something. I'm all ears for anything unless it's something I clarify I won't do, so keep looking back every once in a while!