Title ; The Lion and the Fairy.
Disclaimer ; I do not own Kingdom Hearts, last time I checked anyways.
Summary ; Something's revived the heartless and Radiant Garden has fallen, but two still stand against the darkness, with Sora seemingly gone what hope do they have.
Note ; Going with a popular idea in kingdom hearts fanfics I'll be constructing pasts for all the FF characters in Radiant Garden, so they they'll have grown up together, of course I won't fundamentally change their situations, Leon and Cloud will be orphans ect.
Chapter 1 ; Dawn of Darkness
( Leon's P.O.V. )
Fire, that's what he remembers first when he thinks back to when the heartless had first seized his home all those years ago. Roaring flames that towered high above his head, that consumed and burned everything, the home he had shared with his guardian, an almost father to him, and he was powerless to stop it.
Fire, that's what he saw now as he raced through the Bailey, roaring monstrous flames danced along the rooftops of the homes in Radiant Garden, and he couldn't do a thing, Cid even had his Gunblade because it had needed to be repaired.
Screams, it had been the screams that effected him the worst, women and children calling for help, dieing battle cries of men trying to save their families, and the one that still gave him nightmares, Cloud pleading for help as the darkness swallowed him up, and the choice he had made, to save the girls instead of Cloud.
Screams, that's what he heard now, the same heart rendering calls for help that had haunted him for years, they pushed him on harder now as he picked up his pace to the committees H.Q.
Sprinting Leon had reached the house in moments and with a swift kick had blown the door in, he wasted no time in entering the burning house, he quickly searched for anybody, or with a heavy heart he thought, any bodies, their where none, moving swiftly Leon grabbed a backpack that he had prepared for such an occasion, and people had called him paranoid.
Leon quickly went to exit the burning building and set out for the gummi port, only to find a heartless barrier blocking his path, as the first heartless moved to attack Leon dodged to his right and sent it a devastating roundhouse with his heavy boots.
Quickly dealing another heartless a hook punch Leon noticed a blade lying of one of Cid's work benches, it wasn't his beloved Gunblade but it would do.
Grabbing the blade Leon struck out with a devastating horizontal ark cutting several shadow knights in two, Leon allowed a small smirk at his handy work, before his eyes narrowed in readiness once more.
Another heartless Knight fell to a swift cross cut from Leon, turning he quickly squired another Knight before kicking it off his blade, his new blade was on the go again in a flash in a violent spinning strike, cutting the remaining Heartless down and removing the barrier.
Leon was off the second the barrier had lifted, he hoped that his friends where safe at the port or already gone on a ship, Leon didn't care if they left him, so long as they were safe.
Several more heartless jumped Leon outside the port entrance, Leon had used a quick Firga spell on them, it served them right after what they had done to his home.
Entering the building Leon found no one waiting for him, though several ships were missing from their docks.
Leon quickly entered one of the ships, and ran a quick check the computer terminal for messages from the others to let him know if they had escaped, it was part of their safety plan, there were no messages.
Letting out a sigh Leon hear a noise from outside the building, quickly exiting the ship in hopes that it was one of his friends Leon had let his guard down.
In from the ports main door burst a shadow knight catching a startled Leon off guard with it's aggressiveness, heartless rarely burst through doors since they couldn't tell them apart from walls and preferred to simply lie in wait in an area for unsuspecting victims, and had managed to give Leon a nasty slash across the chest.
Stepping back from the kamikaze shadow Leon noticed the army of Heartless visible, through the now open door, gathering outside the port. It was time to go !
Without turning his back on the Heartless Leon quickly made his way back onto the gummi ship, shut the door and punched the launch button.
As the ships engines roared to life Leon was swept from his feet by the force of the take off, from his place on the floor Leon thought, some delusional thoughts of going back, destroying the heartless and waiting for his friends, others of guilt and of course what his next move would be.
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Leon decided to tend to the wound on his chest first, pulling himself up Leon got into the pilots seat before opening his bag to get the first aid kit he had put in their, Leon found something else instead.
"Mmm, that was a nice nap !" announce Yuna, one of the three fairies who worked with the restoration committee.
"Yuna ?" asked Leon unbelievingly to the fairy girl, somewhere inside him Leon felt a weight lift, it seemed he had saved someone after all.
"Oh ! Hello Leon." Yuna greeted, blushing at being caught napping when she was supposed to be working.
"What were you doing in my bag Yuna ?" asked Leon eyeing the bashful little fairy, don't get him wrong, he was happy she was in their and safe, he was just curious.
"Um well you see, um Rikku, aha, hey where is Rikku ? I can't sense her." Asked Yuna looking at Leon with wide eyes.
"Sense ?" Only Leon could ask a question in so few words.
"Oh, I didn't tell you, since we became fairies I've always been able to feel where they are, they must be really far away for me not to be able to sense them." Explained Yuna as Leon pulled out the first aid kit from beneath her.
"Where are we Leon ?" asked Yuna looking at Leon curiously, and blushing furiously when he took off his shirt to check his injury.
"On a gummi ship." Answered Leon, his mind raced to try and figure out what to tell the little fairy, should he tell her the truth, or lie.
"Duh but why ?" Yuna faintly noted how much she was beginning to act like Rikku.
"I have some things that need to be done outside of Holl- Radiant Garden, important things so we can't go back yet, but I promise I will restor- get you back to Radiant Garden." Announced Leon with a few small slip ups.
"Okay, so where to first boss ?" asked the perky fairy with a mock salute to Leon.
"Destiny Isles." Leon had returned to one word answers as he began bandaging his chest, that was until Yuna stopped him, actually a rather impressive feat for someone her size.
"Your doing it wrong." Stated Yuna removing the bandaging that Leon had done so far.
"Really, I didn't know fairies knew so much about human medicine." Said Leon, sarcasm heavily tinting his words.
"Hey, I wasn't always a fairy, ya know ?" responded Yuna a little annoyed that he didn't remember, no it didn't matter.
"So what were you then before you became a fairy ?" asked Leon content to allow the fairy girl to bandage him up.
"I was a white mage, in training at least." Revealed Yuna, giving a small victory dance when she finished her work.
"So what inspired the treasure hunting then ?" asked Leon pulling his shirt back on, much to Yuna's relief, honestly she wasn't disappointed, not really.
"Well, I was told that their were certain items, ones with lots of magical power that, if worn, would negate the spell, I'm trying to find one, well three actually." Explained Yuna.
"So how'd it happen ?" asked Leon moving to the controls to input his co-ordinates and set course for Destiny Isles.
"Um, I don't really want to tell you that." muttered Yuna sadly.
"That's fine, I won't force you." Comforted Leon as he took the gummi controls.
As they flew away from their home Leon pondered on if he'd be ale to see his friends again, that and his new partner, at least she's better than Yuffie, that though actually bought Leon down when reality kicked in.
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Okay so what's the verdict then, good, bad, horrible I want to know, I'm hoping for some reviews, and since I have quite a few stories on the go, the ones getting reviews tend to be first, well I'm sure you can figure it out.
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