A/n: Hiyo! This is my third fanficy with…I forgot…anyway, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I only own my OC people. That's the balance...If I did own it, the scale would be tipped off into Kaos...yes, I purposely misspelled "chaos" and I'll do it again! Mwahahahahahaha!
Chapter 1 (Nina POV)
There was always this thing that felt missing, after she passed away. I never knew what it was. But, I know that me and my twin brother haven't found it. One day, several weeks ago or so, I saw a star blink out of existence in the night sky back in my home world, where it was never cold. I wanted to check it out. So, me and Roy, my brother, decided to see what's out there. Stars blinking out…there's gotta be something going on. With a weird ship a wiz kid made, he called it a "gummi ship", and all our belongings, we went to different places...
"Come on man! I told you that lunch was a bad idea!" My twin brother is walking very, very slow as if bowling balls are attached to his ankles. He has very pale skin since he looks sick and like a zombie minus the ugly teeth and craving for brains.
"I was hungry and I thought that the special is good! Not food-poisoning…I think I need a trash can…" He runs across the plaza and finds a garbage can to barf in near a door with a picture of fire on it.
"Ewww…maybe we should go back to the 2nd District before you pass out Roy. Now where is the door to the place anyway…?"
I look everywhere and see a door on the upper level with a "2" on it. "Found it! Now let's get out of here…Roy?" I look and see that he's at the trash can, but he's looking somewhere else, with a little bit of barf on his t-shirt. "Hellooo, I found the exit." He still didn't look at me. "Oh well…here we go." I pick up a pebble and throw it at him, but it hit the trash can. Screw my bad aim, but he didn't even flinch. I brush my hands against my shorts and glared at him.
"Okay that's it! What is so cool that you won't listen to me?" I stomp to where he was and I punch his shoulder. He just shivered and pointed to my right. I look over and I see a huge fat monster with a weird heart emblem on it and there are three flying monsters that look like huge aviator fans with the same emblem with it. "Oh, well this sucks…Look a dancing polar bear!"
The monsters didn't listen to me and came closer. "Do you have a plan B Nina?"
"Um…yeah. It's called: RUNAWAY FOR YOUR LIFE DAMMIT!" I break into a run and grab my brother's arm with me.
"Ow you're gonna break my arm off!"
"Would you rather have an arm or be lunch?"
We are getting close to get to the door to the 1st District, but five more monsters appear. Now we're cornered.
"Um, you guys shouldn't eat us. My brother has food poisoning and I have very yucky and tough meat or whatever and I don't like drinking milk…just don't eat us!" I cover my eyes and wait for the inevitable destruction that was just around the corner. But then I hear another person around and a few seconds later I open my eyes to see all the monsters gone and there is a boy with silver hair not reaching his shoulders completely and startling aqua eyes and dressed in yellow and dark blue clothes.
"Hey, you okay over there?"
"Um…yeah?"
He walks over with a weapon that looks like some creepy wing. I don't know if he's a good guy or not…I wouldn't want to end up like those monsters that he just killed.
"You must be brainless."
"What did you say?"
"It's practically empty here and you decided to wonder around here. Why would you do that?"
"First of all we didn't know about monsters walking around here and don't call me brainless!" I felt like punching this guy, but I know that doing what I want to won't get me anywhere but…he's so rude!
"Can you two just shut up and help me get a doctor or…hold on!" Eron clamps his mouth until he gets to the trash can to throw up again.
"Food poisoning. My brother ate some bad meat from the special. All we need is a hotel room in the 2nd District so we can get him some-"
"Heartless are there too."
"Those are the monsters that were just here?" He nods in response to my question. "Well where can we go?"
"You'll have to stay in the 1st District. That's the closest safe area around here."
"But…there is another reason why we were wondering around…I've heard of these Dalmatian puppies and I wanted to see them."
The guy isn't saying anything at all. All he's doing is staring at me as if I'm stupid. "Are you brain dead?"
"No I'm not! What's the harm in wanting to see puppies? How about after I put my brother in the care of someone in the 1st District maybe you can help me get there and I can see the puppies for like five minutes. Pleeeaaaaase?" I use my signature kitty pout that I use on tough people like this guy.
"I have to wait for someone. He is around here somewhere."
"Pretty pleeeaaaase?"
"…Fine. But it has to be quick. Alright?"
"Scout's honor."
(Riku POV)
'Why the hell did I decide to do this?' Sora could be getting back to the 3rd District any time now and I'm babysitting this girl. And I want to see if Maleficent is right. If Sora has abandoned me and Kairi, I'll take care of Kairi on my own. I feel a poke on my right shoulder and see the girl with hair, the same color like that other guy, platinum blonde, in two low pigtails past her shoulders. Her eyes are the same as her brother, teal, as well and both of them look slightly tanned.
"Okay he's gonna be fine, so let's go."
"Fine, but why do you have a drink?" She is holding a medium cup of some sort of drink and she seems like she has no clue.
"Oh…I wanted a shake. Is that a problem? I have a right to buy stuff for my thirst."
"…Sometimes I wonder why kids are annoying."
"Hey! I'm not a kid. I'm fifteen."
"You're joking right? You act more like an eight year old."
"Whatever. Let's go." She walks ahead of me and takes some of her drink.
'This is going to be a long day…' I think to myself as I catch up to her.
"Aw, they're so cute…but I noticed something. Aren't there 99 puppies?" The girl is holding a puppy while sitting on the floor and petting it.
"The puppies went missing and someone has been able to find some of them and bring them back."
She looks at the dog with a red collar and stands up. "Who's helping you get your puppies back?" The dog barks a few times and the girl looks like she actually knows what it's saying. "A kid with weird brown hair and wearing red is helping you? That's so nice…"
"You understood what the dog said?" And a kid with brown hair and wearing red? That sounds like Sora...
"I grew up with a lot of animals back where I lived. I had tons of pets." She puts the puppy down and pets the dog. "Don't worry you'll get your puppies back."
She gets up and looks at me. "I'm ready to go now."
"Alright. Stay close so none of the Heartless get to you. Got it?" She nods and leaves the house behind me.
While walking she kept humming something and drinking her shake. Then she pokes my arm until I stop.
"Do you get the freakin' enjoyment of poking people or are you trying to annoy me?"
"Well I wouldn't be poking you if I knew your name. I'm Nina."
She lets her hand out toward me and I just stare at her. "Aren't you gonna shake? Or do you think that I have a deadly disease?"
"Are you serious?"
"Uh duh. What do you think I'm waiting for?"
'She is weird…might as well go along with it or I'll never get to Sora.' "Fine, I'm Riku."
We shake hands and Nina grins for some reason. We continue walking and she picks up the pace to be in front of me. Now she's walking backwards. "Okay I guess we're friends now."
"Since when?"
"Since introductions. Anyway…where are you from?"
I hesitate to tell, since that part of my life is something I don't want to tell anyone, including her. "No where special."
"Huh…back where I'm from it's always warm. No snow unless you go to a mountain area over there and there is pretty much no need for coats and that kind of stuff."
"So if you're traveling, what about your parents?"
She stopped walking backwards and looks down for a moment. Then she just brightens up and continues walking backwards. "They didn't agree with letting me travel around at first but decided to let me. Me and my brother, Roy, are looking for something. But we don't know what it is."
"Why do that? You might never find it."
"Never say never. And I looked in other places other than here. Besides, what are you doing?"
"…Looking around…you should stop walking backwards."
"I'll be alright. Besides, careful is my middle-" And her head gets banged against a street lamp. She grips the back of her head and winces at the pain. "Owie! Damn it my head!"
"I tried to tell you…You need some help with that?"
"No my head is just fine. Maybe I'm not as careful as I keep telling myself…Heheh." She starts laughing at herself as we get to the door to the 1st District.
"I'll get ice before I have to go. The back of your head will swell up."
"Thanks."
Roy is better from the food poisoning and is heading to the door to exit this world. "Alright, we're going to leave now. And Riku, thanks for keeping my sister safe while I was…"
"Food poisoned?" I finish his sentence and Nina lets out a short laugh. He gives her a look of embarassment and she stops laughing.
"Food poisoning is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to me…I'll never eat a steak with the smallest degree of rareness ever again. It'll be cooked all the way now…" Roy opens the door and leaves to get to the gummi ship. Nina turns around to see me while holding the ice pack against the back of her head.
"Thanks again. So are you staying here?"
"For a while. You be careful and don't act like a klutz."
She sticks her tongue at me and walks to the door. Before she left, she gave me a wave goodbye. As soon as she was gone, I leave the 1st District through the door to the 3rd District. I see Sora walking out of the door with the emblem of fire on it and he is with a duck and some sort of dog-like creature. A couple of Heartless appeared in front of them and they get ready to attack. I quickly get there and destroyed them with one blow. I am about to see what Sora is really all about.
(Nina POV)
It's been many weeks since I last seen Riku in Traverse Town. Me and Roy have been to a little more than a handful of worlds so far. But, we still didn't find what we were looking for. Now we are in our green and yellow gummi ship looking for more places we've never been to before.
"Found a new place yet?" I ask him while playing with a Rubik's cube (those things are so freakin' hard to solve).
"No. We can always stop by Traverse Town if we get tired."
"Don't worry. We've got plenty of soda to keep us awake."
"Too much soda isn't good for you."
I stick my tongue out at him and continue solving the puzzle. "Alright I solved the white side!" Then there is an abrupt rumble in the ship and I put the cube away. "What was that?"
"I don't know. Put your seat belt on." Then the gummi ship moves uncontrollably and there is a bang on the side. "I think something is shooting us! Hold on!"
I grab my bags and hold them tightly around my chest. I keep my head tucked down and I brace myself. Then the ship was violently shaking but I kept doing what I was doing until everything was calm. I lift my head up and see that everything is dark, but there is a bit of a fire at the back.
"Nina! Come on and get up." Roy helps me get out my seat and he opens the door to exit the gummi ship. When we got out, I see that the ship is battered and it took a dive to the ground. It is on fire at the back and it is spreading. All our stuff, except for what we have in our small carry-around bags, is in there and will be destroyed.
"What are we going to do?" I stare at the flames on the ship as it starts to completely take over it.
"Forget about that. Where the hell are we?"
I look around to see that we were in some weird place with floating ice, water that is moving upward to make walls on both sides and behind us, an orange-pink sky, huge bubbles just staying still, and a weird and ominous castle that looks like a long way from here. I take out Poh-Coh, a hand-held computer that the kid who built the gummi ship made, and type in different words to describe this place, with notthing came up. But after I typed in "Castle", a few pictures came up. I finally found it, well, it was the same thing except there was no weird emblem on it, and a short paragraph came with the picture.
"It says that no one has lived here for years because of Heartless…Roy I think we should find a safe place to hide."
"But there's no where else to go. I don't see any other paths or anything that can lead us out."
I put Poh-Coh away and sat down. 'We're really stuck, and we never found it…' Suddenly I felt something grab me by the shoulders and I'm lifted into the air. I start to scream and I see Roy is captured too. We are being taken away by orange flying monsters with the heart emblem on them. They are the Heartless. The Heartless start to fly faster and they go up the castle until a certain level and they fly through an opening into the castle. Then we fly through a weird place with blue light beams making some sort of wall and in the next place it looked like some sort of chapel.
The Heartless drop us and I get up. "Hey! What's the big idea?"
"My, my, my, what have we here?" I hear a voice of a woman and I turn around to see a short pillar of green and black fire. The fire died down and a woman in a very long black cloak, black horns, a gold staff with a tiny green orb on top, and pale green skin appeared. "Intruders with mouth. And they are children, no less…"
"Um hey lady I don't mean to be rude but can you help us get out of here?"
"Nina I don't think she gives a rat's ass about us…"
"You see our ship got shot and now we're stuck. These Heartless took us and dropped us here like rag dolls and now you come. If you help us get our gummi ship fixed, we can leave your property and be out of your hair…if you have any…"
Roy smacks his forehead and mutters something that sounds like "We're gonna die."
The lady doesn't do anything though. She just looks at me and smiles. "Child, are you afraid of me?"
"Um…not really."
"Just say yes you ditz!" He yells at me and now he looks as pale as the time he was food poisoned.
"Enough! You two will pay for your insolence. Take them to the dungeons and don't be too kind to them."
"Hey wait a minute you can't just-" But before I could finish me and my brother are grabbed by the Heartless and flown away.
A/n: There you have it! Chapter 1. Send reviews and no flames please. (Makes a sad pout face). I shall update as soon as possible.