AN/: Hey! It's Alice-chan here! I posted something about a possible Kingdom Hearts and Fairy Tail crossover on my popular story The Dragon Masters. I posted a poll on my profile on whether I should post it and decided that I don't really care! I'm posting it anyways, as you can obviously see! :) I've been listening to Sanctuary all day! :) It's a great song! I hope you enjoy the story I've cooked up for you guys! I take pride in my stories, so if this sucks, please let me know.
This is a NaLu story with a tad bit of Sora x Lucy. Don't worry, though. Sora will always be with Kairi! :)
Summary: Fiore is slowly being overrun by Heartless, but Lucy Heartfilia didn't know that when she ran away from home in search of adventure. When she runs into a peculiar, key-using boy, she gets exactly what she left home for. After a tough battle, Sora is left beaten and fading, so when he fades from the world he knew, Lucy set's out to fulfill the last wishes of her friend: to join Fairy Tail for both of them and to keep killing the Heartless in his place. But, is Sora really gone?
"No, you can't just leave me here to do this on my own!" Lucy shouted at the boy lying on the ground in front of her. His light-brown, spiky locks waved gently in the breeze that blew. His soft, blue eyes gazed up at the blonde whose brown eyes overflowed with tears.
Lucy had run away from home in search of adventure. She hadn't even been gone a month when she met a peculiar fellow with a giant key. She made so many friends in such a short time and found herself with a very important job. She hadn't known that being a Celestial Mage would lead to anything so big, yet here she was.
"You won't be doing it on your own, Lucy. You think that I would just abandon you?" the boy said softly, letting out a weak chuckle.
"No," Lucy muttered out, biting back the sobs in her throat. "B-but…" she stuttered out. Her friend had begun to glow and was fading away. The little specs of light that floated from him drifted to her and she was enveloped by the brilliant light.
"Sora, don't you dare disappear on me!" Lucy shouted at him with pain. Her fading friend reached for her wrist and held it weakly in his hand.
"I won't. I'll be right here with you," he breathed out, almost like a whisper. "I promise."
In his other hand, he summoned his Keyblade and held it out to Lucy.
"I know you're strong enough to use it, Lucy. And besides, you practically grew up using keys," Sora said with a weak smile and a feeble laugh. Lucy took the weapon from his hand and frowned at him, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Sora, you're the Keyblade Master, not me!" she sobbed out. "You're the hero, Sora. You're not supposed to die!"
She didn't want to be alone. Sora was trying to pass along his mission to her, and she didn't want to go through it without him. She was scared. She didn't really know much about the Kingdom Hearts, she only knew what Sora and the others had told her. She was still so new to it all. But, most of all, she was scared of losing her friend; her first friend, to be exact.
She remembered the first time she met Sora. She was walking through a town she'd stumbled across and was surrounded by creatures that she'd never seen before. They were unlike anything she'd ever heard of. When she reached for one of her gate keys it somehow transformed into a giant key-like sword. Shocked out of her wits, she didn't move when the creatures charged at her.
"Watch out!" a boy with a weapon like the one in her hand shouted. He jumped up and swung the big key around, slicing about half of the creatures and killing them. Hearts floated away from the creatures as they disappeared into nonexistence.
Lucy jumped in surprise when the boy shouted. She ran from the scene, distancing herself from the fight. She didn't go far, though. There was a boy back there risking his life for her, and she felt a bit guilty for not helping herself first.
The boy killed the last monster and turned to Lucy.
"You okay?" he asked with a friendly smile. Slinging the giant key over his shoulder, he made his way over to Lucy.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said with a shaky voice. She clutched her own oversized key in her hand. It was like the boy's, but different. "Thank you, by the way," she said, smiling at him.
"No problem," the boy said. "It's kind of my job to kill those things anyways."
"Your job?" Lucy asked curiously. The boy nodded and smiled again.
"Oh, my name's Sora, by the way." He held out his hand, his weapon vanishing into thin air. Lucy smiled at Sora and took his hand with her free hand, unfazed by the disappearance of his weapon. She figured he was probably a mage, too.
"My name's Lucy. It's nice to meet you." Lucy's key shrunk back to its original size and she placed it back on her key ring. Sora released her hand.
"So, what were those things?" Lucy asked, tilting her head to the side again.
"Those were creatures known as Heartless," Sora replied.
"And it's your job to kill them? Why?" she asked curiously. Was it a job he took at his guild or something? Was he in a guild?
"Well, you see, my job is to kill Heartless and collect the hearts they release. Apparently, it's a job that only I can do," Sora explained, ruffling his light-brown hair.
"Why only you?" Lucy asked with confusion and curiosity.
"Because only the Keyblade can capture the hearts that are released," he said, his weapon reappearing in his right hand.
"But why are the creatures called Heartless if they have hearts?"
"I think it's because the hearts they have aren't their own. They're stolen hearts. At least, I think that's why."
Lucy nodded, her eyes falling on the big key Sora held in his hand.
"That's your Keyblade?" she questioned, pointing at the weapon.
"Yep!" Sora replied cheerfully. They had started walking to the side of the road they were on. It wasn't a busy road at all, which is why no one else had helped Lucy when she was surrounded. They stood by a rail that ran along the edge of the cliff that dropped off into a body of water. The setting sun caused the waves to sparkle beautifully as they moved.
Lucy smiled as she looked into Sora's eyes. They were a powdery blue, soft yet dark in the light of the setting sun.
"So, you can use the Keyblade, too?" Sora asked excitedly. Lucy looked at him with confusion. "Earlier, you had a key that kind of looked like mine."
"Oh, that wasn't a Keyblade, I think." Lucy reached for the key she had grabbed before. "All I did was grab one of my gate keys and it transformed," Lucy explained, holding out Taurus' key for Sora to see.
"Gate keys?" Sora said, looking up in thought. "Oh, so you're a mage?" he asked cheerfully. Lucy nodded.
"Aren't you?" Lucy asked sitting on the ground and slipping her legs under the railing, letting her feet dangle over the edge of the cliff. She folded her arms and let the rest on the rail that at about neck-height to her. Sora did the same, sitting beside her and dismissing his Keyblade.
"I guess," he responded. "I've never really thought about it that way, though," he lightly laughed out, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. Lucy laughed amusedly at Sora's reaction.
"So, are you in a guild?" Sora asked. Lucy shook her head.
"Not yet. But, there's one guild that I really want to join. It's called Fairy Tail and it's like the coolest guild ever!" Lucy squealed in excitement and joy. "Are you going to join a guild someday?"
"Maybe," Sora answered. "I don't really have a specific magic though. I have different abilities and can use different types of magic. How about you, do you use different types of magic or something?" Sora asked pointing at the key Lucy still held in her hand.
"Well, I use celestial magic. What happened today with my key, well, that's the first time anything like that has ever happened." Lucy hung her head in confusion and sadness. She couldn't say that the incident wasn't a bit scary. She had no idea why the key had done that or how it even happened.
"Well, since it happened when those Heartless appeared, maybe it has something to do with them," Sora suggested.
"Yeah, maybe," Lucy muttered looking up at the sky. "But how will I know for sure? I've only ever run into a Heartless once, and that was today. What are the chances that I'll run into them again anytime soon?"
"Well, maybe if we travel together, we'll find out. I run into Heartless all the time," Sora said with a smile. Lucy simply stared at him. She felt in her heart that she could trust him, yet her brain screamed one very obvious fact. He was still a stranger.
"I don't know," Lucy said, letting her brain get the best of her. "I mean, I hardly know you. You're kind of a stranger," she said, feeling slightly awkward. She felt like she was turning down a date offer or something.
"Well, then let's be friends. That way we won't be strangers!" Sora exclaimed, giving her an enthusiastic thumbs up.
Lucy smiled warmly at him. She'd never really had a friend before. Sora seemed so nice and carefree. She felt happy around him for some reason, and she couldn't quite explain it.
"Yeah, friends," Lucy replied, mirroring his thumbs up and smiling brightly. "I've never had a real friend before," she mumbled.
"Well, I'll be your friend," Sora said, holding out his pinky finger. "I promise."
Lucy smiled and wrapped her own pinky finger around his.
"And I'll be your friend. I promise." Lucy smiled. She felt truly happy for the first time since her mother had died. She sat for a little while longer with Sora, her first true friend.
The memory flashed through her mind as she looked at Sora's fading body. Her first friend she'd ever had, her best friend, was fading away right before her eyes. It didn't make any sense though. He shouldn't be disappearing. He wasn't a Nobody!
"Sora, you're the hero… You're not supposed to die!" she shouted again.
"Even heroes have to take a break sometimes," Sora breathed out softly. He continued to smile weakly at her.
"But you promised!" she choked out between sobs. "I promised! I promised to be your friend and I can't do that if you die on me!"
Sora let out another soft chuckle.
"Just keep on killing those Heartless for me, would ya?" he said with a faltering smile. "I promise that when I'm all better, we'll still be friends."
Sora continued to fade off. The glittery light crawled over him, leaving nothingness in its wake. Lucy choked out another loud sob.
"No!" she screamed trying to hold Sora's body closer to her, as if that would keep him from fading.
"Lucy, I promise," Sora said quietly and the last bits of him faded away, the sparkling particles pulling together above him as the last bit of him dimmed. The specs that had gathered exploded out, enveloping Lucy in its blinding glow.
Lucy gasped as she felt a blast of air rush through her. It felt like it was literally going straight through her, entering her body. The light dimmed and she gasped when she caught a glimpse of her hair from the corner of her eye. It had been changed to a darker shade of blonde, or a light brown.
Sora was gone, and more tears flowed from her now dark blue eyes. Sora… was gone.
"No!" she screamed out in sorrow and pain. She knew that crying and screaming wouldn't bring him back though.
She sat and cried for a moment longer, but decided that it was useless to cry anymore. Sora hadn't asked for her to cry for him. He asked her to continue killing the Heartless in his place. She couldn't let him down. She wouldn't let all the things she'd learned while she traveled with him go to waste.
Lucy lifted the Keyblade that lay on the ground where she had, at some point, dropped it. He'd given the Keyblade to her. His Keyblade, Sora's Keyblade. Lucy shook her head and wiped her tears away.
She clutched the handle in her hand and propped the giant key up on the ground, using it to lift herself from the ground.
"I'll do it," she said aloud. Sora had once decided that he too wanted to join the Fairy Tail guild. "I'll join Fairy Tail for both of us and I'll kill the Heartless." Her lips trembled as she spoke. "I'll do it for both of us!" she declared.
She dragged her heavy feet along making her way to the next town, Hargeon. She would clean up there, possibly buy some new gate keys, and maybe run into some Heartless. But, she would ultimately make her way to Magnolia, home of the famous magical guild, Fairy Tail.
END NOTE: I hope you enjoyed this! I had tons of fun writing this! I had one of my friends read it and she just about bit my head off yelling at me to hurry and write the next chapter! Thank you to all of you who are my faithful readers. You have no idea how happy I am when people follow me from story to story simply because they love the stories I write. It's an amazing feeling. I hope you look forward to the next chapter, because I'm looking forward to writing it! Until next time...
~Alice-chan