A/N: Okay, now for KH2, and it's continuing with Night's POV, and then it'll go to Shadow's! Also, the italics are the dream sequences. Enjoy~
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Shadow, Night, and Kurai.
KH2, Shadow's Story
Chapter 1
Another Dream About Them…
"Sora, Shadow."
Sora and Shadow woke up and yawned. Then they see Kairi. "Whoa!" She giggled. "Give us a break Kai-!"
Sora, Shadow, Riku, and Kurai were racing on the beach. "Giving up already?" Riku and Kurai taunted.
The five of them were watching the ocean at twilight. "If there are any worlds out there, why did we end up on this one?" Riku wondered aloud as Kurai nodded.
Sora and Shadow were gazing at their chalk drawing of Sora and Kairi in the secret place.
"This world has been connected," a lone figure said. They got up, distressed.
"Wh-who's there?" Sora called out.
"Tied to the darkness…"
Sora, Shadow, and Kairi were watching the ocean at the dock. "Sora, Shadow, don't ever change," Kairi said.
"The door has opened…" Riku and Kurai said. Sora and Shadow run to their outstretched hands, but are stopped by the darkness.
"What?" Sora and Shadow said. They stood and faced a giant beast.
"You understand nothing."
The door behind Kairi in the Secret Place blew her toward Sora and Shadow, who ready themselves to catch her.
"So…ra…" Kairi murmured. She vanished as Sora and Shadow caught her. They were blown out of the tunnel…
Roxas and I woke up from the dreams then.
"Another dream about them," Roxas and I said as he sat up. I groaned as I stretched like a cat. We opened the window and listened to the sound of the train station bells off in the distance. I inhaled deeply, taking in the fresh scent of the morning air. We joined our friends Hayner, Pence, and Olette at the Usual Spot, where we sat and thought about those weird dreams. Our friends were enjoying a chat as we started to think to ourselves.
"Man, doesn't that tick you off?" Hayner asked.
"Yeah, that's just wrong," Pence agreed.
"Seifer's gone too far this time," Olette pointed out. They all looked at us, and we just nodded. Hayner hopped off his seat and started to pace.
"I mean, it's true that stuff's been stolen around town," Hayner started. "And we've got a score to settle with Seifer and everything. So if he wants to think we did it, I can't really blame him. See…that's not what really bugs me. What really bugs me is that he's goin' around telling everybody we're the thieves! Now the whole town and their mothers are treating us like the Klepto Club! Have you ever been this ticked off before in your life? 'Cause I haven't. Nuh-uh, never. Now…what to do." Olette looked at us, not knowing what to say, and we just shrugged.
"Uh…well…We could find the real thieves," Roxas suggested. "That would set the record straight."
"Hey, that sounds fun!" Pence said excitedly.
"What about Seifer?" Hayner asked. We stood up and Hayner folded his arms.
"First, we gotta clear our names," I said firmly. "Once we find the real culprit, everyone will get off our backs." Hayner growled slightly at that. He was always raring to fight.
"Oh no! They're gone!" Pence cried out. We looked and saw he was holding up a camera. "Our - are gone!" Pence put his hand to his throat, realizing he couldn't say the word "photo". "What?" he said in confusion.
"All our -, gone? Huh?" Hayner said, and put his hand to his throat, too.
"Huh? You can't say -? Why not?" Olette gasped.
"But you do understand what I'm saying, right?" Pence asked. "Our - are gone!"
"Stolen…" Roxas and I murmured. "And not just the -. The word -! They stole it, too!"
"What kinda thief is that?" Hayner asked in disbelief. "Seifer could never have pulled that off."
"Yeah!" I agreed.
"All right, time for some recon!" Hayner said, and we began to leave to investigate the matter. While the others left, though, Roxas and I paused when we felt dizzy.
"Huh?" we said, confused by the suddenness of it. We blacked out.
"Their hearts are returning," a deep voice said. "Doubtless they'll awaken very soon."
We woke up on the ground, and got to our feet, Roxas brushing the dust off of his pants, and I shook the dust off of my silver armor. "Huh?" we said again. Olette came running back for us.
"Roxas, Night, come on," she said, and we quickly followed after her. We talked to some of the shop owners around the Tram Common, and found that their photos had been stolen, too. After a thorough investigation there, Hayner began to speak.
"Looks like the culprit is going around stealing -," Hayner remarked. "And not just -, but the word -, too."
"This isn't your average thief…" Pence said worriedly.
"I wonder if Seifer would know anything about this," Olette wondered aloud.
"We gotta talk to him," Roxas said. "C'mon, to the Sandlot!"
We got to the Sandlot, where Vivi, Rai, and Fuu were talking. Vivi noticed us, and when he stopped talking, the others looked, too.
"Thieves," Fuu said. She always spoke in short sentences, most typically one-worded ones.
"That was low, y'know!" Rai said. He was always saying "y'know", and it drove me nuts. I just wanted to clobber him at times. Vivi shook his head at us.
"Oh yeah?" Hayner said, taking it as a threat. Seifer walked in then.
"Nice comeback there, blondie," Seifer taunted Hayner.
"What'd you say?!" Hayner snapped at him.
"You can give us back the - now," Seifer said.
"Yeah! You're the only ones who would take it, y'know?" Rai said.
"That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers," Seifer told us. "So what did you do? Burn it? Ha, not that we need some - to prove that you're losers." I growled in response.
"Replay!" Fuu said suddenly with a smirk, and Seifer laughed.
"Now you're talking!" he said to Fuu. They all got ready to fight, as did Hayner. "I guess if you get on your knees and beg, maybe I'll let it slide."
Roxas and I moved forward to Seifer and his gang, who laughed at us. Seifer folded his arms as we began to kneel.
"Roxas, Night!" Hayner protested. Roxas chose a Struggle bat to fight with, and chose one with great strength. Seifer pulled out his own Struggle bat, and we prepared to fight. I would fight without one, which suited me; I have claws and fangs, so that's good enough for me.
"Roxas, Night, focus!" Pence cautioned us.
"Kneel, loser!" Seifer yelled, and we knocked him around a bit. "Come on…quit playin' around and fight!" We then proceeded to fight and beat Seifer, much to his annoyance. Rai and Fuu moved in to protect Seifer.
"Seifer's not feeling so hot, y'know!" Rai said.
"Tournament decides," Fuu added. Pence pulled out his camera to snap a photo, and as soon as he did, he gave us a thumbs up. When he took the picture, however, suddenly, a white creature appeared out of nowhere and snatched the camera. The creature fled to the Tram Common.
"What was that?" Hayner yelped.
"The thief!" Olette cried out, and we ran after it. Roxas and I followed it in hot pursuit, chasing it through the woods of Twilight Town. It danced through the trees, as though it wanted us to follow. When it stopped, though, it was in front of the Old Mansion. As we approached the creature, a voice spoke in our heads: "We have come for you both, my lieges."
"Huh?" we said in bewilderment. The mouth of the creature unzipped, and it opened its mouth. We tried to attack it with the Struggle bat, but nothing was hitting it.
"It's no use," Roxas said as we back off. Suddenly, the bat swirled with data, and my claws glowed.
"What?" we said in shock. His Struggle bat turned into a large key, and my claws continued to glow. The large key pointed itself at the creature, and Roxas wondered, "What…what is this thing?"
We decided to try and fight the white thing again, and this time, destroyed it. Once it had vanished, the photos from the camera dropped. The large key disappeared from Roxas's hand, and my claws stopped glowing. We picked up the photos and returned to the Usual Spot. Once there, we all looked them over.
"What's this?" Hayner asked, looking at a photo which showed Roxas and me standing with one of the shop owners when he opened his shop.
"We were his first customers after he took over the shop," Roxas explained. "So we took a picture together."
"It's really nice photo," Olette said. "Oh…!"
"Hey! You just said 'photo'!" Pence said.
"So, Roxas and Night—tell us about the picture thief," Hayner said.
"Not much to say," we admitted. "The pictures were just lying there."
"Then how do we prove we weren't the ones that took 'em?" Hayner grumbled. He looked at the next picture and chuckled. "It's a girl…"
"You look happy Roxas," Olette teased.
"Do not," he argued.
"So, like, anybody else notice that all the stolen pictures are of Roxas and Night?" Pence asked.
"Ohh, so that's why everyone thought it was us," Olette said in realization.
"You mean Seifer didn't go around accusing us after all?" Hayner asked. Roxas and I went over to Pence, who was holding the photos.
"Are they really all of Roxas and me?" I asked.
"Yep," Pence said, and held out the pictures. "See?"
"Look!" Olette said as she saw the pictures.
"Right? Every single one," Pence said, nodding. "Wouldn't it be weird if the thief wanted to steal the real Roxas and Night or something?"
"C'mon, get serious," Hayner said. "Why would anyone wanna steal two boneheads like Roxas and Night?"
"Oh, thanks!" my blonde friend and I laughed, and we all started to laugh together. The bells rang in the distance, and our friends left for their homes, Olette waving as they ran. Roxas and I paused, then left after a bit. We had to shield our eyes from the afternoon sunlight as we walked out, it was so bright. Suddenly, two voices sounded in our heads.
"Where…are we?" they said.
"Who's there?" we demanded in our minds.
"Who are you?" the voices asked back, and it ended. We slept that night, dreaming about that boy, Sora, and his dragon, Shadow. Sora was awoken by a dog, and both Sora and Shadow jumped to their feet.
"Oh…Where are we?" they wondered, and ran into another area. "What happened to our home? Our island?" Strange creatures appeared around them, and Sora suddenly had that large key that Roxas had used earlier in the day, while Shadow's claws began to glow like mine had.
"Riku! Kai-!" Sora yelled, and a static image of Kairi appeared in our minds' eye. Sora and Shadow were confronted by a man. "Who are you?"
"They will come at you both out of nowhere, as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade and light," the man told them. The scene changed. Two people were knocked out of the sky, and landed on Sora and Shadow.
"Hey, why don't you come with us?" the taller one asked. "We can go to other worlds on our vessel."
"Sora and Shadow, go with them. Especially if you both want to find your friends," the man from before told them.
"Donald Duck," the short one said.
"Name's Goofy," the tall one said.
"We're Sora and Shadow. We'll go with you guys," Sora and Shadow replied. The scene changed again. The man from before was standing with Sora, Shadow, and a woman.
"The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade and light," the man told Sora and Shadow.
"That's right. The Keyblade and light," the woman said.
"So…these are the keys?" Sora and Shadow said. Suddenly, a voice spoke from a room, where it looked totally different from before.
"But the boy and dragon are a problem," a harsh voice said. "They found one of the keyholes." We saw Sora and Shadow locking a keyhole in a different place.
We woke up from the dream, feeling weird. Roxas sat up, and I pulled myself up onto the bed.
"A key…blade?" Roxas said curiously. I shrugged.
"I don't know, but what's this about light?" I asked him. He shrugged as well, for neither of us had a response. We left for the Usual Spot. Before we went inside, though, Roxas paused, and picked up a random stick on the ground.
"A Keyblade…" Roxas murmured, and swung the stick as though he was trying to fight with it. I concentrated, but didn't feel the light come to me, either. "What was that about?" he wondered, and tossed the stick over his shoulder, where it hit a man in a black coat in the chest.
"Oh!" Roxas gasped, and we looked. He walked down the steps, not acknowledging us. "Sorry…about that…." We walked into the Usual Spot, where Hayner, Pence, and Olette were sitting enjoying some Sea-Salt Ice Cream. Hayner gave Roxas and me one each.
"Thanks," Roxas said, and we sat down.
"Do you guys think we'll always be together like this?" Pence asked out nowhere.
"I sure hope so," Olette replied.
"Huh? Where did that come from?" Hayner asked, confused.
"Oh, well, you know. Just thinking out loud," Pence explained.
"Well, I doubt we can be together forever," Hayner said. "But isn't that what growing up's all about? What's important isn't how often we see each other, but how often we think about each other, right?" Pence laughed in response.
"Get that off a fortune cookie?" he asked, still laughing.
"That's it, no more ice cream for you!" Hayner said jokingly. "Man, today's turning out to be a drag."
"Maybe because of yesterday's memory thief," Olette guessed.
"Nuh-uh. You know what it is?" Hayner said. "We don't want summer vacation to be over. That's all! So how about this?" He stood up. "We all go to the beach! And why do we go to the beach? Because we haven't gone once this entire vacation! Blue seas! Blue skies! Let's just get on the train and go!"
We didn't say anything as we stood up, too.
"No?" Hayner asked. "Aww, c'mon!"
"Maybe you forgot, but we're broke," Roxas informed him.
"Maybe you forgot I'm smart!" Hayner argued, and we all left for Market Street.
A/N: And there's the first chapter of KH2 from Night's POV to start with! R&R, peeps!