A/N: Hey guys! As some of you may know, I had a Kingdom Hearts fanfic I wrote WAY back in middle school. Well, I decided to rewrite it since, let's face it, it wasn't that good. Plus I discontinued it a few years ago, at least on here, while it was completed on my DeviantART page.
Since I'm rewriting it, that means Keke's backstory will also change. No clue if I'll keep in her three siblings, but I figured I might as well do this now since Kingdom Hearts 3 is set to release in under 100 days! Aside from this prologue, I have two other chapters, but that doesn't mean the My Hero Academia fanfic will be canceled. I've just been working on this one longer. Don't worry, chapter 1 for that project will be coming soon, well, once I finish writing it. I've been swamped with school stuff. But this should hopefully tie you all over until then!
Prologue - A Meteor Shower
Four-year-old Keke sighed as she looked outside of her window. She had short brown messy hair and emerald green eyes. She was wearing a light purple t-shirt, a yellow vest that had a dark purple bands in the shape of an X over her chest, jeans with a yellow stripe where the fabric ended, a golden side-belt that had a chain on it holding an emblem, and yellow fingerless gloves. On her left shoulder was what looked like an armor plate.
As her eyes scanned the night sky, she saw a light streak the sky. Keke gasped, "A meteor shower!" She covered her mouth instantly and looked at her opened door. In truth, since she was still young, she wasn't allowed to be up so late. Sighing in relief that no one came to tell her to go to sleep, she began to hastily put her light purple sneakers on. As she was securing the grey strap, she whispered quietly, "There's no way I can miss this."
Standing up, she froze as footsteps echoed closer. Seeing a blond, spiky-haired boy run past, not noticing her, she sighed in relief again. Tip-toing, Keke went outside of her room and down the hall, following him out the door.
Once they were outside, she said, "Hey Ven."
Ventus turned around, surprised, "Keke? Shouldn't you be asleep?
"Shouldn't you?" Keke raised an eyebrow, "I wanted to see the meteor shower." She pointed to the sky where a few more streaked the sky.
"Fine, you can come." Ven sighed, and they began to walk toward the cliffs.
Looking up, both said in amazement, "Wow…" They lied down, and looked up at the sky as the meteors flew by. Keke, mesmerized by them, didn't hear Ven ask quietly, "Why does this seem so familiar?" After awhile, both had fallen asleep.
Later, Ven woke up. Looking over, he saw that Keke was still asleep. Yawning, he lied down to see a face staring down at him, "Whoa!" he jolted up, "Give me a break, Aqua."
"Ven, you hopeless sleepyhead. You know you and Keke should have at least brought a blanket." Aqua said.
Keke opened her eyes lazily, sitting up, she yawned and saw Aqua, "What'd I miss?" Both teenagers laughed softly at that, "No, really, what?"
Ven looked down, "But- Did I dream that place up? It really felt like I'd been there before… Looking up at the stars…"
"Same here… In my dream, I saw two people, and they looked scared… We were in a graveyard of some sort..." Keke said, quietly.
Aqua patted both their heads, "'Cept both of you've always lived here with us."
"Yeah…I know." Ven responded. They walked to the edge of the cliff and sat down. "Hey, Aqua."
"Hm?"
"Y'ever wonder what stars are? Where light comes from?"
"Now that you've mentioned it, " Keke said, "I'd like to know."
"Hmm… Well, they say-"
"That every star up there is another world." They turned around and saw the owner of the voice.
"Terra."
"Yep, hard to believe there are so many other worlds out there besides our own. The light is their hearts, and it's shining down on us like millions of lanterns."
"What? I don't get it."
"Me neither. Mind saying it in plain English?"
"In other words, they're just like you, Ven, Keke."
"What does THAT mean?" The two of them walked up to the older boy.
"You'll find out someday, I'm sure." Terra answered simply.
"I wanna know now!" Ventus wined.
"You're too young to know now."
"Quit treating me like a kid!" Ventus nearly shouted.
"Meanie!" Keke said, crossing her arms in a pout.
Aqua began to laugh. All three looked at her. "Hey, what are you laughing at?" Terra asked.
"I can't help it. You three would make the weirdest brothers and sister." Aqua continued to laugh, the others soon joining in. After they calmed down, they watched the shower continue.
"Oh yeah." Aqua got up, "Terra, you and I have our Mark of Mastery exams tomorrow." She took out four charms. One was blue lined with silver, orange lined with gold, green lined with silver, and purple lined with bronze, "I made us good luck charms." She tossed the orange one to Terra. Ven and Keke got up to look at it. "Here." Aqua tossed the green one to Ven and the purple one to Keke. Keke barely managed to catch it before it hit the ground.
"Cool!" She exclaimed.
"We get one too?"
"Of course. One for each of us. Somewhere out there, there's this tree with star-shaped fruit… and the fruit represents an unbreakable connection. So as long as you and your friends carry good luck charms shaped like it, nothing can ever drive you apart. You'll always find your way back to each other. Technically, I think you're supposed to make them with seashells, but I did the best with what I had." Aqua explained.
"Oy, sometimes you are such a girl." Terra said.
"Hey, what do you mean 'sometimes'?"
Hearing Ven sigh, Keke looked up at him, "Ven? What's wrong?"
"So this isn't a real good luck charm?"
"Well, that's yet to be seen. But I did work a little magic on it."
"Really? What?"
"An unbreakable connection."
After a while, Terra looked at them, "Well, tomorrow's the exam. Anybody wanna spar?"
"I'll take you on!" Ven said, summoning his keyblade. Ven attacked, but Terra blocked it, "Quit goin' easy on me! You're not gonna win unless you stay on the offensive!" They fought a little more until Aqua stepped in.
"Well, that works fine if you're fighting one-on-one, but you need to know how to handle a crowd too." Aqua proceeded to use a shot-lock attack as she fought against Ven.
"Let me join in!" Keke said, summoning her keyblade, Heart's Fractured Memory.
"No way Keke, you're too young." Aqua stated.
"Aqua's right, you could get hurt." Terra added.
"Yeah, well I've been training with Ven and Master Eraqus!"
"She has a point." Ven said.
"Fine, just be careful." Both older teenagers agreed reluctantly.
They began to battle two on two. "Let's go!" Ven shouted.
"Right!" Keke exclaimed. Ventus threw his keyblade into the air, as Keke aimed for it, she shouted, "Light!" A beam of light shot out of her blade and hit his. Ven's keyblade shot around, aiming at Terra and Aqua like a spear, then went back into Ven's hand.
"Whoa!"
"How'd you do that?"
"Sometimes if you team up, you can use a combined attack." Keke explained.
"The master taught us that. We call it the 'Light's Wind' attack." Ven added.
"Told you I'm not weak." Keke said, smiling.
After that, Terra and Aqua began to battle each other. "Hey!" Terra said, snapping Ven out of a daze. "We're gonna head back."
"Yeah. Me too!" he answered, running to catch up to them.
Keke yawned and noticed Aqua wasn't walking with them. She looked over and saw her looking at her Wayfinder and then too the stars, "Together… always."
"Hey Aqua, come on!" Keke shouted. She heard Aqua laugh and run up to them as they continued walking toward the castle.
That would be the last night we ever spent beneath the same stars...
