Okay, so, one of you voted for a Kingdom Hearts Fanfiction. This is the first chapter. I will continue to write the Shugo Chara story. I'm working on Kari's name. If you have any idea as to what to change it to please tell me. Please Read and Reaview.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts!
I keep having this dream. It's almost like a memory. There are two boys smiling and laughing with me. I can't see their faces but I know them. I love them both but in different ways. One, the older boy, I have a huge crush on. The other one, younger than the first but older than me, is like an older brother to me. It's just the three of us on an island. We're all very happy laughing and playing together but it always takes the same dark turn. I go to the edge of a large rock that is connected to the island only by a hand built bridge. The two follow behind me as they're talking to each other. As I get closer to the water everything starts to go black. I fall to the ground. The two are running over to me but never make it. As I'm being engulfed by darkness I call to them but I don't hear my own voice. I call and call but hear nothing but my own heart losing its strength, its light. I've never before heard the last two words that I whisper before I'm completely engulfed by the darkness but today is different. I finally hear those last two words. The name of my brother and first love, Sora. Riku.
Kari woke with a start. She looked around at her surroundings. She saw a market that looked almost like a town square through the narrow opening of the alleyway she sat in.
"So this is were the corridor of darkness took me this time." Kari had been traveling the corridor of darkness ever since the keyblade had come into her possession about a month ago. The keyblade could talk to her and had told her to go looking for the keyblade master, who was also her older brother.
"Sora, Riku. Now that I know their names this should be a lot easier, right Angel Wing?" Kari said looking at the key chain that was hooked on her belt loop. (By the way, Angel Wing is the name of Kari's keyblade.)
"I sure hope so." Said the key chain to Kari's mind.
"Maybe we'll get lucky and someone in this town will know of them."
"It sure beats the planet with all the monsters." Angel Wing added,
"I already told you that I'm sorry about that. If I hadn't done that though, we would still be on that one world with all the heartless." Kari said, as she stood and stretched.
"That's true but you really shouldn't push yourself, mistress. Remember when you had to sleep in that one world of endless snow?" Kari looked down at her clothes. She wore a spaghetti strap shirt with cuffed shorts and short boots, open in the front, that go slightly over her ankles.
"Well, that one was pretty bad. Oh well. Let's go see if we can find those two, 'kay?"
"Alright." Kari slipped out of the alleyway and into the sunny market place. The first thing Kari noticed was the lack of people. There were a lot of good-looking shops but only a handful of people walking around.
"They look like they don't want to stay out here long either."Kari spoke to her keyblade through her mind. What do you think is going on, Angel Wing?
There was a brief pause before Angel Wing said anything.
"I feel a large source of darkness near by." Kari gasped.
"Let's go get them, Angel Wing." She said aloud.
"Alright! Go straight!" Angel Wing pointed her in the right direction till they got to a gate at the top of a large set of stairs.
"I feel it! There are enemies in the other side of this gate." Said Angel Wing
"What are they and how many?" Kari asked aloud.
"There are both heartless and nobodies. There are around 50 but their numbers are steadily increasing." Answered Angel Wing. Kari lifted the gate and started to walk through when the keyblade interrupted her.
"Hang on. There are others fighting the heartless. Be careful." Kari gave a sharp nod and walked through the gate. After passing a ruin sight and down a long rocky path with no one in sight Kari finally heard the sounds of the fight taking place below her. Kari edged over to the cliff in front of her and peaked over the side. Kari gasped at the sight below her. The medium sized clearing below her was covered, almost completely, with heartless and nobodies. Kari noticed places were people fought the heartless and nobodies all over the battlefield.
"We should go help them." Angel wing said to her.
"Yeah." Kari agreed, pulling Angel wing off her belt loop. Kari stared absentmindedly down at the fight below as Angel wing transformed into a key blade in her hand. She then turned her focus to the keyblade in her palms. Basically a white metal angel wing on the end of a handle with two black angel wings going in opposite directions around the metal bar her hand held loosely. The key chain on the end of the handle, a pair of angel wings, one black and one white, flapped lazily in the wind.
"Kari! Behind you!" Angel wing called to her.
Kari spun around, angling her keyblade in a block. In front of her stood a silver creature. It was hunched over with its arms, if you could call them that, barley inches from the ground. It had spins all over its body.
"Assassin." Kari muttered, readying Angel wing for a diagonal slash. However, before she could, a bolt of lightning struck the Nobody. It disappeared, as all Nobodies and Heartless do.
"Are you okay?" Quacked a strange voice to her left. Kari looked to her left and saw a very human looking duck, with a wand in his hand and a blue shirt and hat on, come running down the hill with a human looking dog, with a shield on his arm and a green shirt, brown pants, and a green hat on. They met up with her puffing a little.
"Grash, are you all right?" Said the dog smiling a big goofy grin at her. She nodded and smiled back at him, turning to them fully. When she did they both gasped. Kari spun around, thinking they were being attacked again, but there was nothing behind her. She turned back to them with a confused look on her face. They were both gaping at her. "What?" She asked them when they didn't say anything.
"T-the keyblade!" The duck squawked at her. She raised an eyebrow and held Angel wing in front of her for the two to see.
"How do you two know about the keyblade?" Kari asked them. Before they could answer though, there was a loud crashing sound behind them along with the sounds of battle.
"Come on Donald. We need to go help Sora, Riku and the others." Said the dog as he and Donald, the duck, ran past Kari. She froze for half a heartbeat then spun around and ran after the two.
"Wait!" She called to them. They paused and turned around to look at her.
"Can you take me to Sora and Riku?" She pleaded. The two just looked at her.
"Please?" Kari pleaded again. Donald and the dog looked at each other.
"Well, I think we should help her." The dog said looking at his companion.
"I don't know Goofy, it dangerous out there." Donald said.
"I can fight!" Kari yelled at them, making them both look at her.
"Please," She begged, tears forming in her eyes.
"Take me to them." They looked at each other and nodded then looked back at Kari.
"Aright." Quacked Donald nodding happily.
"Right this was miss..." Goofy started
"Kari." She told him. He smiled.
"Kari, we'll take you to them." Kari smile and ran after them. They ran down a racky path with a cliff on either side of her. In front of them was a group of heartless. Kari, Donald, and Goofy fought all the way to the to the bottom of the path where they emerged in the large opening Kari saw from the cliff. There were close to one hundred Heartless and Nobodies by now.
"Sora! We're here!" Donald called to a boy with spicky brown hair similar to the color of Kari's hair. Donald and Goofy ran towards the boy as he looked over at them.
"Donald, Goofy! Where were you guys?" Sora called to them. Kari's eyes widened. A memory flashed though her head.
Her legs throbbed in pain. Kari had been swimming when she slipped on some coral, slicing her leg. Tears streamed down her face. "Kari? What's the matter?" Called a medium high pitched voice. Kari looked to her left and saw her brother running towards her. His brown hair was slightly spiked. He wore a white shirt with blue trim and a pair of dark red shorts with large pockets on both sides of his pants. He ran towards her, his yellow and black double strapped flip-flops clicking against his heels as he ran. His big round sky blue eyes watching her with worry. Kari got up, with some difficulty, and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Kari! Are you alright?" He asked, worry clear in his voice.
"I'm alright, Sora." Kari smiled, trying to keep the tears from her eyes. Her brother looked her over and spotted her torn up legs. He gasped and crouched down to get a better look at her legs.
"You call this alright?!" Sora exclaimed. Kari smiled sheepishly. Sora sighed and turned around. He looked over his shoulder at her.
"Get on." Kari looked at him and shook her head.
"Its alright, I can get home on my own." Sora stood and turned to her.
"No way! You can't walk to the boats like that." Sora said, grabbing her shoulders as if that would make her give in. Kari gave a little, "Hmph!" sound and started walking towards the dock. After a few steps, however, she fell on her face.
"Kari!" Sora rushed to his sister's side. Kari remained where she was, her face buried in her arms. Sora put his hand on her back. She looked up at him, tears streaming down her face. Sora helped his sister so she was sitting on her butt instead of her face. He smiled a sad smile at her.
"Told you so." He said in a small voice, trying to cheer her up. Kari tried to wipe away her tears but the kept coming.
"I-I just wanted to be s-strong like you, S-Sora." She sobbed. Sora hugged her and let her cry into his shirt.
"Come on." He let go of her and turned, offering his back to her again.
"Let's go home." Kari complied, wrapping her small hands around his neck. Sora stood and placed his hands under her small legs.
"You don't have to try so hard." Sora said as he made his way towards the docks. He turned his head to look over his shoulder at her.
"I'll protect you. You're my little sister.' He gave her a toothy grin. Kari couldn't help but smile back. When he looked forward again she placed her head on her brother's shoulder.
"Thanks, big brother." She whispered, she was happy.
"Look out!" Called a voice. Kari pulled out of her memories in time to see a huge purple heartless with tusks charging at her.
"Tch. Behemoth." She jumped to the side and it ran into the cliff behind her smacking it's head on the corner next to the opening she'd come from. She pointed Angel Wing at it and sent a thunder spell straight for the horn on it's head. That wouldn't kill it and Kari knew it but before she charge after it Angel Wing called to her.
"Kari! Dusk! Behind you!" Kari ducked and placed her hands on the ground in front of her, throwing a kick behind her. Her foot connected with the Dusk's body and sent it on it's back. It's slithered on the ground till it came up to it's feet again. It walked towards her it's hands hanging by it's side. She felt the rumbling behind her. She knew the Behemoth was up. She blocked a strike by the Dusk and leaned to strike the Dusk. At the same time she felt the wind rush beside her and saw a flash of silver and white. At the same time Kari killed the Dusk, the person that pasted her killed the Behemoth.
Kari heard the thud of the Behemoth as it fell before it's heart left. She wanted to turn and look at the one who'd saved her but she found herself surronded by a bunch of Heartless and Nobodies. She felt something press against her back.
"I'll help you." The voice came from behind her but Kari also felt the rumbling through his contact with her back. She shivered slightly.
"Watch my back and I'll watch your back." He said. Kari felt his back leave hers as he charged at the enemies behind her. Kari did the same. The boy and Kari circled each other in a deadly dance as they battled the Heartless and Nobodies. Not once during the entire battle did the two leave a single move open were someone could attack the other.
They continued this dance for a good fifteen minutes or so before Kari noticed that there was only around ten enemies left in front of her. Kari felt herself tiring and heard the soft pants of the boy behind her, she still hadn't seen his face. Kari ran to the ten, they were about twenty or so yards off. Kari swung her keyblade skillfully at one of the ten, a Dragoon. Next to her a Dusk lashed it's legs at her. Usually Kari could have easily avoided it but she was slow from fighting for fifteen straight. The Dusk hit her ankle as she tried to dodge making her fall on the ground where the Dragoon was just seconds ago. Kari felt the sting of the attack pulse through her leg. She winced. A ball of dark energy flew past her, striking the dusk that had attacked her. The boy who's helped her ran past her and attacked one of the other eight that were left. He took it out in one shoot and moved on to the next one. After killing the next one he sent a ball of dark energy at the remaining enemies, killing them all.
The boy straitened and the keyblade he'd been fighting with disappeared. He turned to Kari, who was still sitting on the ground. Kari saw his face and gasped. The memories of her past came flooding back to her, again.
The thunder sounded over head. Kari whimpered. Her knees were pulled tightly against her chest, her face pressed against the fabric of her night gown and her hands were covering her ears. Kari was shaking. She didn't mind thunder storms usually but when she was stuck on the island she usually played on, at night, alone, she found the thunder and lightning scarier then she ever thought. She sat under a bridge connecting two parts of the island.
"Kari! Kari! Where are you?!" A voice called. Kari tried to answer but just as she took a breath the lightning struck again not far off and was followed quickly by a loud clap of thunder. Kari's breath to speak turned into a loud scream.
"Kari!" She knew the worried voice that called out to her. She wanted him to call to him. The lightning flashed again, followed by loud thunder. She whimpered.
"Kari?! Scream again or something. I need to know where you are." Kari heard him yell.
"Riku!" Kari screamed as more thunder sounded. With in a few seconds a figure appeared through the poring rain. Riku joined Kari under the bridge. His silver hair was wet and some of it stuck to his cheeks. His yellow vest was soaked, making the blue and yellow darker than usual. His blue shorts hung low on his legs, around his shins. His blue and white shoes were coated in wet sand. Even the cuffs on his wrists were wet. Riku looked at her with his forest green eyes looked into her blue ones with worry.
He got closer to her and crouched in front of her. She looked up at his, tears in her eyes. The thunder sounded again. Kari screamed and launched herself at Riku, who seem to see this coming, and knocked him over. Kari lay whimpering into his chest. Riku sat up and wrapped his arms around her. Kari was still trembling.
"Shh." He comferted, stroking her hair.
"I'm here." Kari stopped whimpering but still shook. Riku turned so his back was pressed against the cliff bellow the bridge. The thunder rumbled again. Kari pressed closer to his chest. Riku smiled softly. He let his one of hands rest on her tiny hips as he stroked her hair.
"It's alright. . .Say, Kari. Why did you come here so late at night?" She looked up at him for a momeant then reached down and touched her left ankle. Riku looked down at her ankle. She didn't have any shoes on but around her ankle was an anklet with a paopu fruit charm. Riku had given it to her not to long ago.
"I took it off when I was swimming and forgot it here. I thought the storm might blow it away and came out here to get it but my boat smash on my way out here and I couldn't get back." She said, her tears dry for the most part. Riku's eyes widened and he looked at her in surprise.
"Why would you do all that just for an anklet?" Kari looked up at him with round blue eyes.
"Because you gave it to me." She said. Riku blushed. Kari cocked her head to the side. Riku pushed Kari's head against his chest, hiding his blush. Kari was surprised at first but quickly hid further in his vest.
"Thanks." Riku said quietly. Kari smiled. That smiled lingered as she fell a sleep.
"Riku." Kari whispered. The silver hair looked at her in surprise.
"How do you know who I am?" Riku asked walking closer to her. The others that were fighting before were finishing off the rest of the enemies and didn't notice Riku and Kari. Kari sighed.
Of course he wouldn't remeber me. Kari thought to herself. She looked at the ground to her side. She heard Riku approach her. She didn't know what she was going to say. Riku stepped in her line of sight. Kari didn't want to look at Riku so she stared at his shoes. Riku crouched in front of her looking her in the eyes. She stared at his eyes for a moment before she looked away. She felt something touch her back and the underside of her knees. Before she could protest Riku lifted her easily in his arms.
"W-What the?" She exclaimed. Looking up at Riku who was walking toward the other fighters who'd finished off the last of the enemies.
"You injured your ankle when the Dusk hit you." Riku explained. Kari had forgotten about her ankle. Now that she remembered her ankle throbbed.
"Hey! Riku! What happened? Who's she?" Kari heard Sora called as he and a few others, Donald, Goofy, a man in a leather jacket with fur trim with a scar across his face, a hyper looking girl in a belly shirt and a shorts and a gruff looking man.
"That's Kari." Donald quacked. Riku's and Sora's eyes widened while the others just looked at Donald.
"Kari?!" Sora and Riku exclaimed. Kari looked at Riku then Sora and back again.
"Do you two know her?" The man with the scar asked. Riku up at Sora.
"She my little sister." Sora said his eyes wide. The others looked at Sora.
"Your sister?!" They choursed, exsept the one with the scar he just stared at Kari. She smiled and looked between the two.
"You guys remembered." Kari said happily. Sora rushed to over to her and took her from Riku, embracing her in a tight hug.
"I don't know how we forgot." Riku commented. Kari looked up at him and smiled.
"It's okay. I'm glad you remembered at all." She said. Kari felt Sora shake under her. She looked up at him. He was having trouble holding her up but seemed reluctant to let her go. Before Kari could tell him to put her down Riku took her from him.
"Hey!" Sora protested trying to reach for her. Riku side stepped him.
"You want to drop her?" Riku asked. Sora sighed at Riku's logic and let him carry Kari.
"Hello! Are you going to introduce us? I mean you never told us that you had a sister." Piped the hyper girl. The gruff man nodded while the man with the scar just stood there with his arms folded.
"Well. . .that's because we kind of. . .forgot about Kari." Sora explained, trying to find words that wouldn't hurt Kari's feelings. He looked up at her and gave her a sheepish grin which she returned with a kind smile.
"How did you forget you had a sister?!" The hyper girl exclaimed. Riku and Sora looked at each other then Kari.
"We can talk about it after we get to Merlin's house. Kari's ankle needs to be treated and we shouldn't sick around, the Heartless and Nobodies might return. Besides, I want to ask a few questions myself." Riku said walking toward the opening in the cliff Kari had come through. They all agreed and walked with Riku. The hyper girl tried to asked Kari a bunch of questions but the guy with the scar held her back and scolded her.
"Mistress? Are you going to be alright? Judging from the number of Heartless and Nobodies here I'd say those two were involved." Angel Wing spoke to her. His voice reminded Kari that she hadn't let go of his key chain. She looked at him.
"Yeah. I'll be fine. I'll make sure they don't do anything that will hurt people, like always." Kari responded in her mind.
"But your ankle's injured." Angel Wing pointed out. She smiled at his key chain.
"It's alright Angel Wing. I can walk if I need to." She told him.
"Walk, maybe, but fight?" She could hear the worry course through her mind.
"I'll be fine. Stop being a worry wort." She told him. She could feel him sigh.
"Alright. If you say so." With that Angel wing went silent. Kari couldn't help but hope that they didn't pull a move.
I wonder if this will actually be okay.
Little did Kari know that theywere watching her right at that moment.
"What do you think Demetry? Does she remember her past yet?" Asked a man in a dark blue cloak. It's sleaves were missing. His hood was pulled over his head. He was larger than his companion who wore the same cloak.
"No." He said looking down at Kari from his perch on the roof of a building. "I don't think so. She will soon though." The other man, Demetry, said. His companian smirked in the darkness of his hood.
"I guess we'll have to go and take the little princess away from her knights." The bigger one said, referring to Riku and Sora.
"Not till we talk to the boss." Demetry said, as he continued to watch Kari.
"Right. Shall we go then? I can't wait to get my hands on the little princess." His companion nodded under his hood and with that, they disappeared.
Ohhh! What do they have planned for Kari I wonder. And who's they? Well you have to wait. XP Please Read and Review.
Riku: Hey! Were do you think your going?!
Me:*Jumps* To go read R. Reeve's story.
Riku: No! What's with this story? Why am in love with someone else?
Me: Aw. Riku. Are you saying you want me to be the one in the story?
Riku: Yes!
Me:*Giggle* Don't worry. You can consider Kari a me.
Riku:Hmph. Fine.
Me:*Hugs Riku.* Thank you!
Riku:*Wraps arm possessively around me* You better thank Shezu for this! Otherwise I wouldn't waste my time here! Read and Review.
Me: Riku. Be nice to the readers.
Riku: Hmph. Am I done with this story?
Me: For now.
Riku: Good. Now lets go!
Me: Yeah! I still haven't finished R. Reeves-san's Vincent story.
Riku:*Sigh* That's not what I ment. *Kisses me.*
Me: Rikuuuu! Not in front of the readers. /////////
Riku:*Smirks* That's what you get for making me do this story.
Me:*Still blushing* Thank you all for reading. Please read and Review.
Riku:*Has had enough of this. Pick me off and runs off.*
Sorry I'm feeling random and I think I snapped a little from writing for 7 or 10 hours. I lost track.-_- Once again please read and Review. I want you guys to tell me how this story was. It will make my day.^^