This is the redone version of OUAH and OUBH. EG is taking her plotbunnies back, and we are in business! Standard disclaimer applies, EG owns nothing, her beta and almost cowriter FredtwinoftheCOCA owns nothing, and KH is all Disney and Squeenix. Please, please, please ignore the next set of chapters until the edited versions get posted. This is the combination of the old chapters one and two...yes, the plotline is different.
"Hey, Jillie-kuns, is it alright with your mom if you come over right now, instead of later?" Jenny's voice whispered across the aisle in math class.
"Now? Now, we are still in school. Of course my mother has a problem."
"Ugh, you know what I mean!"
"Do I?"
"Guys, shut up!" Sarah stage-whispered at them. "Algebra is not my friend. I need silence to do it!"
Jenny rolled her eyes and went back to "doing" her homework.
"Hey Sarah, did you get number six? I thought I had it but Jenny interrupted my thought process."
The tall dirty blonde looked up from her work indignantly to glare at Jill. Jill stuck her tongue out at and then turned back to her algebra work. Jen's hair fell back in her face as she leaned down to ignore her friends.
Sarah glanced down at her cramped equations, scanning the page for a moment.
"Uh, sorry, I kinda skipped that one."
Jill rolled her eyes at Sarah's sheepish grin.
"Did you get seven?"
"No."
"Eight?"
"Skipped it."
"Did you do any of the sheet yet?"
"Well… I did finish number twelve…"
"You are useless." Jill spun back around in her seat to face the dreaded algebra again.
The three girls sat gathered in Jenny's living room, playing Kingdom Hearts. Or, they were trying to, but the file claimed to be not found. Jenny finally sat down in defeat before throwing her head back and screeching, "WHY MUST FATE BE SO CRUEL???"
"Calm down Jenny! It's not that big of a deal!" Sarah groaned from behind the distraught hostess.
"NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL? IT'S A DISASTER! I'M NOT GONNA MAKE IT TO SEE MY NEXT BIRTHDAY CAUSE OF IT!"
"It's okay! We'll help you!" Jill shouted. She tugged on the ends of her red-brown in despair, hoping to anything that was holy Jen would shut up.
The tall girl continued with some incoherent mental breakdown while the shorter girls snuck off to grab snacks. Once in the kitchen, Sarah grabbed the bag of Skittles lying on the table. "Mine!" she called, popping a purple candy into her mouth.
Jill rolled her eyes. "You can keep 'em."
Jenny had apparently stopped with her meltdown for at least the moment, because she entered the room now. "Oh no they're not!" She tried to grab the sweets away from her brunette friend, but Sarah turned around and shoved more in her mouth. "Come on, Sarah! I need comfort food now! Gimme sugar!!!"
"No! Suffer…you always do this to us!"
"Do not! Name one time."
"Today. At lunch. My cookie."
"…You suck…"
Jill got bored as the two bickered. She went back into the living room and started playing from the beginning. "Hey Jen, why don't you just start over?"
"But Jill-person!" Jenny whined, "It took me six months to get that far!"
"We'll help you get to your place faster then," Sarah offered. Jenny stopped yelling and looked at her in amazement.
Sarah must have been desperate to shut Jen up because she was anti-Kingdom Hearts to begin with. If she offered to help play, something was definitely on her mind.
"Really?" Jenny questioned.
"Yes," the other two obediently replied, greatly relieved that she had finally decreased her volume.
"Ok." She said brightly. Her bipolar-esque mood swings had kicked back in, letting her instantly drop the subject.
They loaded a new game, but instead of the usual prologue playing, the TV screen went totally blank.
"Huh?" Jenny said stupidly, poking the screen.
Jill put her hands up in the air next to her head, shouting, "I swear to God, it wasn't me!"
A weird voice came out of the TV, making all three jump out of their seats. Are you ready to seek your destiny? it asked the general room.
They all looked at each other in confusion and, in the case of Jill and Sarah, apprehension.
"Uh, sure." Jenny said uncertainly, facing the TV. Sarah nearly face-palmed. When strange voices start coming out of your television asking odd questions about your destiny, you don't answer them. Then again, if Jen hadn't, either she or Jill would…
Very well. Your journey shall begin now. Do not be afraid if things are not what they seem. It has all been planned. Your destiny has been sealed. And remember- you are the ones…who will help seal the fate…
The screen turned a weird bluish color and they were sucked into its swirling depths.
"What the hell?" Jen mumbled, grabbing her throbbing head in a lame attempt to stop the pounding ache attacking her skull.
"I would like to know the very same thing," groaned Sarah.
"Ditto," Jill croaked as she squinted her eyes against the bright sunshine and shifted on the sand beneath her. It didn't exactly register to her that sand was generally not found in the middle of Jenny's living room. The setting was familiar to Jill and Jen, but Sarah was the first one to actually place it.
"Uh, guys?" she asked. "Tell me I'm just going insane again, but I think we're in Kingdom Hearts."
They looked around in shock, assessing every detail of the landscape surrounding them.
"Oh."
"My."
"God."
"That's what I was afraid of…"
"Hey, what are you people doing here?" a voice shouted from across the beach. They turned around and found themselves looking at Sora, Riku, and Kairi. "We haven't seen you before…are you new around here?"
The girls nearly passed out again in complete shock.
Jenny fell back down into the sand, acting "emo" and depressed. "Great, we come to pursue our destiny, and where do we end up? DESTINY Islands! Great joke irony played on us, isn't it?"
Sarah looked at the island natives with a suspicious guarded look. "So what do you know about getting out of here? We're not from the islands and we should probably get going, as soon as possible."
Sora looked at her with an exaggerated pout. "You guys are leaving already? But you just got here!" he whined.
Jill shook her head and silently agreed with Sarah. "We're sorry, Sora, but we really cannot stay. Can you help us?"
Kairi looked at Sora in shock as he grinned his special grin at Jill. Sarah snickered against her will as she noted the look of jealousy on the Princess of Heart's face.
Riku silently walked over to Jenny and held out a hand to her in his signature pose. "Need some help up?" he asked her quietly. Without a word, she grasped his hand and yanked herself up to a standing position.
Her brain finally caught up to the conversation the other four were having.
"No! We can't leave! We just got here…c'mon guys, think about it! We just got sucked into Kingdom Hearts-"
"You've been to Kingdom Hearts!" Sora exclaimed.
Jenny ignored him. "-where we have the opportunity to see if there really is another adventure to live through in the action of Kingdom Hearts II! They haven't even finished contract negotiations for it yet or developed a plotline! This is our chance to help change the course of the entire game!"
"Not to be rude or anything," Riku started, "but there is no way to get out. The world just got restored and the ties between the worlds get severed. Darkness is the only way out, and I'm not going back there any time soon. You're stuck here, for good."
Jill looked at Sora again when the perfect idea came to her. "The Secret Place! There's a door there, right? Can you try to open it? After all," she grinned, "you ARE the Keyblade's Chosen One, right?"
He smiled and ran off to the Secret Place, Jill and Kairi following closely.
Sarah muttered under her breath. "Great. Am I really the only one who has not completely lost her mind?"
Riku turned to her as if noticing her as an individual for the first time. "So…how did you say you guys got here again? And how do you know about Kingdom Hearts?"
She sighed, looking up at him and frowning. "I hope you don't have any plans…it's going to be a long story…"
Thank you for putting up with the rewrites. Eventually, you will not be sorry for sticking with it! We promise!
EG