Keys of Destiny

In a universe parallel to that of Sora's, he never takes up the Key, instead, a young girl, her best friend, and her crush take on the parts of Kairi, Sora and Riku. This is one girl's destiny, that original, never would have happened.

Disclaimer: Though this is based on, and uses the contents from Kingdom Hearts, I don't own it. I also do not own any disney places/characters or Square Soft characters. Characters that are unfamiliar our mine, as well as the idea. I know this chapter is basically the whole awakening thing done again, but it has purpose. Everything else will change after this, for the most part.

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

NOTE: This chapter was redone, so most spelling errors should have been caught. I'm still looking for a grammar check site. If you have one email me.

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Real Or Not

Destiny Islands

The sun was high, and for Cocolyn, it just made her more tired than she already was. She wasn't sure if it was the heat, or the fact that the sun seemed merciless. Whatever it was, sitting on the sandy beach, looking at the water wasn't helping at all. She should be helping building the raft, but found she couldn't get up. She was drifting, drifting off to where she was never sure what was real or not. She fought to keep her eyes closed, but it wasn't working.

Cocolyn opened her eyes and blinked as she realized that she was falling through the sky. At first, she was overcome by pure fear, seeing as how she was dead afraid of falling. Her recent thoughts came to her, those of wondering what was real or not. What was the truth and what were the lies.

'I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real or not? I've been wondering if destiny is defined by our dreams, or by our actions. I want to know, what lies out there, other worlds, darkness, or light? Is this all just a game, and what are the stakes involved?'

Coco closed her eyes, somewhere deep down inside, she started to understand, that this was only a dream, no matter how real it felt. She opened her eyes to face the dream, and her fear, to find herself on solid ground. She was back on the beach, her feet slightly buried in the white sand from one of Destiny Islands' numerous beaches.

'It was only a dream Coco, that's all. Now, steady yourself, Lianna's standing right in front of you. You don't want her to see how weak you are because of a nightmare.'

Lianna was indeed standing in front of Coco, but not facing her. She was standing in the water, her long blond hair, in it's usual french braid, floating on the calm wind. Her orange T-shirt was meant to compliment the beginnings of womanhood as it started to show itself. Her blue jeans were slightly loose on her long legs. Lianna turned around, her brown eyes beckoning Cocolyn to come over to her. Cocolyn started to move forward, as a huge wave started to form. Lianna put her hand out for Coco to grab, adding on to the fact that she wanted Coco to come forward.

"Come on Coco, the water's great today!"

Cocolyn ran towards Lianna, only to be swept backwards and around by the giant wave crashing into her small body with it's full force. Cocolyn closed her eyes, than opened them. She looked forward to see Lianna still there, hand out. Coco started to swim with all her might, trying to grab Lia's hand. She couldn't hold her breath to much longer, and she let it all out. She emerged from the water a moment later, taking deep breaths, looking around frantically.

'This isn't real, or is?'

Again she was questioning what was real and what was not. She couldn't help it. She looked towards the island to see if Lia had swam there, only to see Drago standing there. his dark brown hair was more messy that normally, defying gravity by standing every which way. His sapphire blue eyes were filed with worry about something, but hinted happiness. Her was wearing black shorts and a white T-shirt-shirt. Coco ran over to him, and bent over panting.

"Where's...Lia?"

"On paopu island training, again."

Drago grinned at Coco, till he saw something falling from the sky. Coco followed Dragos glance and gasped in surprise. Someone was falling from the sky, about to crash into her. The figure had strangely familiar long red hair, pulled into a messy ponytail. The figure had blue jean shorts, and a red top that cut off just below the elbow. Ten bracelets hung from the girls wrist. A bright yellow anklet was seen above black sandals. Just moments before the figure, that was Coco herself, landed, she started to fall backwards into the water. She watched as Drago tried to reach for her, and was engulfed in darkness. She was falling for what seemed like hours, when she slowly turned to a standing position and landed on a black floor.

She looked at her feet, her black sandals blending into the darkness. She blinked, and the darkness of the floor started to turn into white doves, that flew off into the stormy looking sky. She watched them until the last one disappeared than gazed at the platform she was standing on.There was a picture of a woman, hair as black as the sky without the stars and moon, blood red lips, and snowy white skin. She was dressed in a blue and yellow dress. The picture seemed fragile, like a stained glass window. Somewhere, more in her head than anywhere, a voice spoke.

"So much to do, so little time. Take your time. Don't be afraid. The door is still closed."

'A little contradictory, telling me there's little time, but to take my time. What door is this person talking about?'

"Take a step forward, can you do it?"

'Of course I can take that step, but what awaits me. Will the floor collapse beneath my feet, is looks like a window. A fragile one for that matter. I can do this.'

Coco stepped forward. One step, two, than three, and she was now at the center of the platform. She started to take another step, when it started to shake. Coco fell on her behind, as three stone pillars, a little shorter than she was, rose out of the ground. Each one was bearing an item that appeared in a flash of light. Coco looked at them, there was a sword, a staff and a shield, each looking ready to be wielded by her. Cocolyn turned her head to look at each of the weapons, as the platform return to be unmoving and stable. She silently stood up, waiting for instructions.

"Power sleeps within you, give it form. Strength lies within you. Choose well."

Cocolyn approached the sword, which for her, symbolized strength. She tried to take it from where she was standing, but than jumped up to look at it. She picked it up, something about it called to her, make her want to take it.

"The power of the warrior. Invincible courage. A sword of terrible destruction. Is this the power that you seek?"

Cocolyn nodded a yes, though the yes, than said it out loud. She turned around to look at the other two weapons.

"You're path is set"

The sword disappeared from her hands, leaving Coco with her eyes wide in surprise.

"Now, what will you give up in exchange?"

'There's always a price to pay, isn't there?'

Coco jumped off the platform, and turned towards the shield. She was never one for defense, knowing how to block and move away from attacks quickly. She scrambled up the pillar, and picked up the shield.

"The power of the guardian. Kindness to aid friends. A shield to repel all. You give up this power?"

"Yes"

The shield disappeared.

"You've chosen the power of the warrior. You've given up the power of the guardian. Is this the form you choose?"

"Yes"

Coco jumped off that pillar than went to the center of the platform. Suddenly, the pillars started to fall, than vanish. The floor beneath Coco started to shatter, and once again she was falling into the darkness. This time, she could see as she approached another platform. This one too had a woman on it, and looked like stained glass window. This girl hand blond hair, by the looks of it, and a blue dress. Coco landed softly, and looked around, when she felt a weight in her hands. The sword had appeared in her hands.

"You've gained the power to fight. Use this power to protect yourself and others."

As Coco listened to the voice, four shadows appeared.

"There will be times you have to fight, keep you light burning strongly."

The moment the voice finished, the closest one attacked her. Coco moved out of the way, but not quick enough. Her arm was scratched, and bleeding light. She glared at the shadow, and attacked in. In three slashes, the shadow disappeared leaving behind three green balls. She picked one up, and felt her arm mending itself. The three shadows that remained disappeared, leaving Coco confused. She put her sword down a little, as a shadow appeared behind her.

"Behind You!"

The voice said, sounding off a warning. Coco turned around and sliced the shadow in half. She turned around and saw three more. This time, there was five of them left. She took down four of them in a series of swings and blows. She was breathing heavily, and about to attack the last one, when is dissolved into the platform. Coco sighed, but than looked at her feet. The whole platform was turning into the darkness that she'd been falling through. Coco tried to fight it, but eventually was sucked into the mess of darkness. She continued to fight it, and when she opened her eyes, she was on a new platform, with a heart shape on it.

There was a semi-transparent door on the middle of the platform. Coco went over to it, and placed a hand on it, trying to open it. It refused to budge. She turned around as a chest appeared, and the other end. She opened it and found a potion inside. She quietly tucked it away, than began to hack away at a crate that was there. When she took a final it and it broke, the door frame appeared.

"Hmm..."

Coco examined the door frame, than turned around to see a barrel now sitting in the middle of the platform. She picked it up and threw it. The doors to the doorway appeared. Coco went over to the door.

"Hopefully it opens now..."

She only said it out loud, hoping the voice would hear her and let her through. She grinned as the door open, and she was engulfed by a bright warm light. She stepped through, and when the light was gone, she found herself on Destiny Islands, on a piece of deck the kids had made for training. She looked around, and saw Tidus, Wakka and Seilphie standing at different points. Coco answered their questions, and the voice told her, her adventure would begin at midday. Coco silently laughed, until a bright light wrapped around her like a warm and fluffy blanket.

"The day you will open the door is both far and near."

Slowly, she opened her eyes, hoping that she was going to be on the beach, wide awake. She didn't have her wish, she was standing on a platform, and the heartless were surrounding her. She waited, wanting one to attack her, and not her attack it. Coco quickly turned around, sliced the air and a heartless, who'd jumped to attack her. That was the signal, all the heartless jumped or ran towards her. As she fought the heartless, she barely noticed the dull pain in her knee, or the sweat that was attempting to blind her. Finally, she'd finished off the last one by running it through. She started to lean on the sword, feeling tired. Sweet dropped from her face, on drop at a time, sometimes combining with other drops. Carefully, Coco bent down to pick up on of the strange green balls.

She started to relax, as a green light bristle over her skin, repairing scratches and bruises. She picked up another one, regaining the strength she had lost in the battle, and the energy that was ebbing away, came back full force. She than went over to a red chest that a heartless had left behind, and opened it. She grinned wickedly as she found another potion inside of it. She knew that she had this amount of potions in the real world, and the dream world. She looked up, to see a stair way leading over the bottomless darkness.

'If I fall from there, I'll be stuck falling and not even knowing if I'm going to hit the ground or not. It seems more like I'll just keep falling more than anything, and I can't test how far the fall really is. That's more scary than facing those shadowy thingys that keep attacking me.'

She found herself slowly and carefully climb the stairs, a feat which amazed the girl considering she was the most reckless one of the group. She stopped, only steps away from the next platform that would be her last one. She bent over and placed her hands on smooth cold glass.

'It feels so real, but so does the light throbbing in my knees from walking so long.'

She stood up straight, looked over the edge, than ran up the rest of the way of the platform. The stairs had disappeared from behind her, leaving her trapped. She went over to the edge, knowing that she would only see the long fall of darkness. She turned back around and walked towards the shining light. She stopped, soaking in it's warmth, till the voice started talking again.

"The closer you get to the light..."

Coco turned around to see her shadow start growing, and standing on it's own. It continued to grow.

"...the greater your shadow becomes."

The body of the shadow shot up in the air, as Coco watched, fearful and wide eyed.

"But don't be afraid."

'Yeah, right. I'm going to wet myself if this keeps up.'

Now the arms and legs hand grown bigger than her body. One giant foot came down, and a hand swept through the air.

"And don't forget..."

Now the monsters head appeared. Her shadow had become a large monster with a heart shape hole through the middle. It had a lot of moving hair, it raised it's hand for an attack, as Coco waited to know what she had to remember.

"Forget what?"

Coco called out, and dodged the fist that had gather some weird dark energy from the shadows around it. When the fist came in contact with the ground, a big pool of dark energy spread. The little shadows from earlier started to appear from it. Without thinking about what she was doing, Coco dived into the mess of darkness, and stuck the had of the creature. It seemed to let or a roar of pain, and left Coco smirking dangerously.

Dodge, attack the hand, dodge a shadow, attack the hand. That seemed to be her pattern of fighting, till she stopped in front of it. She was tiring, but would be rid of the shadow before she fell, weaken from exhaustion. The dark creature, which she though of as the dark side of life, seemed to start grinning and evil grin. Suddenly, Coco felt her feet being pulled into the platform, and something snaking it's way up her body.

"But don't be afraid"

Coco didn't care what the voice had to say, she had to escape. The sword had disappeared from her hand, her only protection in this dark and evil place.

"You hold the mightiest weapon of all."

Coco felt defenseless, which she had no choose the shield, but it was too late to take back her choices, to late to undo the mistakes. The darkness had crept up to her face, and as it tighten it's grip on her, she heard the voice speaking.

"So don't forget: You are the one who will open the door."

Now, her vision was completely black, as she felt something wet hit her face.

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I know, it's not the most original beginning, but the story will be similar, but there's new places, new faces. So of the things you'll see the same from the game:

Donald and Goofy

Traverse Town

Coliseum

Queen Minnie and Daisy

I'll probably use other familiar characters, but I need to use ones from other Disney movies. Don't get used to 5 and a quarter pages of writing. For the most part, the chapter will be shorter. I won't be on from the seventh to the fifteen, as I will be camping, but I'll work on chapters there, and maybe get some fresh inspiration for where this all leads.

Please also excuse spelling and grammar errors. For the most part, I can't avoid them. My computer only has crummy word programs, and I'm looking for a new site for spell and grammar check.

-Song Magic