Just to start off, let me say that I'm going to start this with the first game. And I'm going to try and keep it as close to the script as possible so that it seems like my personal character fits into the game. I hope I got that clarified lol. I might continue this to the next game, depending on if it's well liked or not.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters in any way or form.
Chapter 1: Prologue and Destiny Islands - Day 1
She lay there, on a beach she predicted because of the warm water washing up around her. She could feel the sand beneath her as she tried to regain consciousness. In the distance she could hear waves crashing upon each other. It was soothing, they sounded so familiar. Through her closed eyelids she could make out faint sunlight. Where was she?
She couldn't remember anything. Where had she come from? How did she get in this situation? Who was she? What was her name? Wait…she knew her name. Nicole, no…everyone called her Nick. Who called her Nick? Of course she had friends but who were they?
"Is she alright?" Nick heard a young voice ask as she heard feet shuffling around her.
Finally, she slowly opened her eyes. Nick looked straight and saw a beach. In the distance was a small raised area with a curved palm tree right on the edge. There was a bright orange and purple sunset painted in the sky, illuminating on the light blue ocean below. This was nothing near what her home was like. But then again, how would she know that if she couldn't even remember her home?
"Look she's awake," exclaimed a girl's voice. It was high and obviously belonged to someone quite young.
Nick slowly pushed herself up on her knees as she looked up to see who was surrounding her. Straight in front of her was a boy about her age with white hair, a yellow cut off sleeved shirt with a zipper coming down from his collar and stopping towards his chest, black shorts, and blue and white shoes. His eyes were a bright aqua color that she just couldn't look away from. So unlike her bright green eyes. They reminded her of the ocean and it mesmerized her greatly.
To his right was a silly looking boy who looked about a year younger than her. He had spiky brown hair and bright blue eyes. He wore a white shirt with blue trimming on the openings, brown shorts, and sandals.
To the boy with white hair's left was a little girl that looked like the same age as the boy with spiky hair. Her hair was a brownish red color and came down to her shoulders. Her dress was purple and white, along with her shoes. She was rather adorable and looked slightly shy.
The boy with white hair kneeled down so their eyes were even with each other. "Hello, what's your name?" he asked in a soft voice.
"N-Nick," she managed. Her voice was a little rough. How long had she been unconscious?
"It's nice to meet you, Nick," said the boy. He then gestured to his friends, "This is Sora and Kairi. I'm Riku."
The boy named Sora gave her a wide grinned and placed his hands behind his head. Kairi simply gave her a small smile and dug her foot in the sand.
"So how did you get here?" asked Sora, joyfully.
Nick thought for a moment, trying to remember. It was all so unclear, she just couldn't picture what had happened. In response she shook her head glumly and shrugged.
"Well it had to be some place really cool because that's a really cool sword," Sora told her as he pointed to her side. She looked down and saw a brilliant sword in a sheath strapped to her belt. She then looked down at her clothes. She wore a corset over a baggy white shirt. Her pants were brown and tucked into her boots. Then she felt her forehead where a black headband was tied tightly around her head.
She tucked her brown hair behind her ears as she felt humiliation fall over her. She must've looked like a fool compared to these normal kids.
"I like your hair," mumbled Kairi. Nick blushed and thanked her. Her hair was dark brown and reached her chin in length. It flipped out in back as her bangs fell around her face and on her forehead she hand more bangs that fell side swept just over her right eyebrow.
Riku finally stood and watched her closely. Then said, "Welcome to Destiny Islands, Nick." He held out his hand and Nick eyed it carefully. She reached out to take it but stopped. She glanced at the boy next to him, then back into the aqua eyes. She then took up his offer and took his hand.
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Nick sat on the top of a palm tree. It had been years since that day, considering now she was fifteen. Her hair had grown longer, about to her shoulders. But her bangs still hugged the side of her face. Her clothes had changed and she now wore a dark red corset with a white tank top underneath. She had sleeves on her arms that tied snug and remained in place just above her elbow and fell to her wrist. Her pants were now black and tucked into her boots like they always had been. She still wore her black head band tied around her head and her sword at her waist. It was comfortable and it seemed to make her feel like she was somehow still connected to her old home.
She sat there, arms around her knees, eyes closed as the wind blew across her face. Such a peaceful place, Destiny Islands. This was her home and she loved it.
"Nick! Nick where are you?" a voice called beneath her. Her bright green eyes shot open and she looked down to see her three friends below her.
"Sora, we've already checked here. She's not here," Riku said holding out his arms. Kairi giggled as Sora struggled with a log he was carrying.
Nick saw Riku's outstretched arms as a perfect target and jumped off the tree without fear. She landed perfectly in his arms as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He gaped at her in complete bewilderment.
Nick laughed, "Well hello there, Riku. Nice of me to drop in wasn't it?"
"Nick! Why do you do that kind of stuff?" scorned Riku. He placed her feet on the ground as she dropped out of his arms. "We've got a raft to build."
"Well sorry, Mr. Grumpy, I was just having fun," she said as she crossed her arms. Kairi giggled at this but was quickly shushed as Riku gave her a stern look.
Taking this as a hint, Kairi handed Nick a list of items. "These are the things you need to get. Riku and I have already gotten ours, so it's just you and Sora that need to get things, since you two are so lazy," Kairi said with a grin.
"Hey, we aren't lazy. We just want to save everything for the right minute, right Nick?" said Sora.
Nick smiled at him and rubbed the top of his head as spikes of hair poked out from in-between her fingers. "That's right."
"Come to me when you got it all, okay?" ordered Kairi. The two saluted her and took off to find their items.
Nearly an hour later, Nick was almost done with her list. "Let's see, I've got cloth, rope, sandwiches, some spare wood, and fishing poles. What else?" she said to herself as she looked over her list.
Just then she was hit in the face with a blitzball, nearly knocking her over. She looked up at the thrower and merely smiled.
"Oops! Sorry, Nick! You're alright, ya?" said a tan boy with red hair and yellow pants that had X's printed on them. He wore a blue head band and a pale yellow vest. He smiled as he leaned down and picked up the blue ball.
"Hiya Nick!" said another boy next to him with blonde hair. His white and yellow shirt hung open and his blue shorts were uneven in length. He carried a stick over his shoulder and smiled brightly at her.
"Hi Wakka, Tidus," she waved to them as she rubbed her head. "It's fine, I needed a little waking up."
"Wakka, you jerk, why did you throw it at her?" asked a girl who came running up behind the boys. Her brown hair flipped out on the sides and she wore a bright yellow dress. In her hand hung a jumping rope.
"I didn't mean to, Selphie! Tidus was supposed to catch it, ya," replied Wakka in distress.
"Awe it's fine, really. I'm kinda busy right now though, so I will have to talk to guys later, alright?" Nick told them as she started to walk away.
"Wait, don't you want to have a round?" Tidus asked quickly stopping her. "Just this time I don't want you to take it easy on me. I've gotten better just so I can beat you."
"No not right now, Tidus. I've really got to get the rest of these things and get them back to Kairi before the day is over."
"Oh yea, you guys are all going away on that raft, aren't you?" said Selphie. She looked slightly disappointed.
"We'll be back, I promise," she said. The three before her nodded in agreement and bid her farewell as she took off to finish her collecting of items.
After she was finished she began to head over to Kairi. On her way she noticed that Sora and Riku were having a duel just off on the island where the curved palm tree sat. Finding it interesting, Nick headed over to watch her two friends.
Sora appeared to be getting terribly beaten as Riku swung away with his wooden sword. Riku knocked Sora off his feet and kicked his sword aside. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity to step in, Nick pulled out her wooden sword and swung it at Riku who blocked her hit in sudden surprise. Sora sat up breathing heavily as Nick continued to give Riku the beating he deserved. Nick knocked his sword out of his hand and pointed the tip of her's at his neck.
"Way to go, Nick!" exclaimed Sora. Riku glared at him and crossed his arms. Nick lowered her sword and tucked it away.
"Why do you always have to prove you're better than me?" Riku asked.
"It's all in fun, Riku. You know you're good. I mean you're better than Sora," she pointed out.
"Yeah and plus Nick is from another world remember," said Sora as he approached them. Riku nodded in agreement but still didn't look pleased.
"So did you get everything, you two?" he finally asked changing the subject.
Nick nodded and Sora said, "Yup."
"Good, so now why don't you two go hand your stuff over to Kairi and then we can call it a day."
The two friends began to walk to the cabin where Kairi awaited them, carrying their many items. "So do you think we'll really find worlds out there besides ours?" asked Sora.
"I don't see why not. I mean if this is the only world then it's a bit small don't you think. And besides I still have a world out there, I just know it," she gazed across the ocean as if trying to see her world from the tiny island.
"I wonder what your world would be like. It must be exciting."
"We can only hope," said Nick with a small smile.
"Well, it's got to be since you're so cool," grinned Sora. The two friends smiled at each other. They're friendship was perfect. They could always talk to each other about anything. Sora was her brother and she was his sister. They were completely inseparable.
"So I see you two love birds got everything," Kairi said playfully. The two looked at her startled at her sudden appearance but soon realizing that they had already walked over to her. She placed her hands on her hips and giggled.
"We aren't love birds," blushed Sora. He rubbed the back of his head and looked away from the two giggling girls.
They handed over their things. "So how about we call it a night," Kairi suggested. They agreed and headed over to the curved palm tree.
Kairi sat highest up on the tree, then it was Sora, then Nick with on leg hanging off as she drew the other close to her, and Riku leaned at the bottom next to her. The four friends gazed across the bright blue ocean towards the sunset. It was truly a beautiful sight.
"So Kairi's and Nick's homes are out there somewhere, right?" asked Sora, breaking the silence.
"Could be, we'll never know by staying here," Riku responded without taking his eyes off the ocean.
"How far could a raft take us?" Sora asked, leaning forward to look at his friend.
"Who knows," said Riku, "We'll think of something else if we have to."
"I don't see any other options," said Nick. The raft seemed a bit far out to her even now. It wasn't the best plan in her opinion, but she respected Riku's ideas none the less.
"Suppose you get to another world," Kairi giggled, "What would you do there?"
"I've never really thought about it," answered Riku. "It's just, ever since you came here Kairi, and Nick just washed up on this beach, I've always wondered why we're on this island. If there are other worlds, then why did we end up on this one? And suppose there are other worlds. Then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. So we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?"
Sora laid down on the tree and placed his hands behind his head. "I don't know," he said.
"Yeah I guess so, but I like it here," said Nick, a bit confused at his thinking.
Riku continued, "That's why we need to go and find out. Just sitting here won't change a thing. It's always the same old stuff. So let's go."
"You've been thinking about this a lot lately haven't you," Kairi said softly.
"Yeah, I've never heard you talk like this, Riku," said Nick.
"It's all thanks to you two. If you guys hadn't showed up here I never would have thought about it. Thanks Nick, Kairi," Riku admitted.
Kairi answered with a simple, "Your welcome." But Nick however looked at the friend below her. She wondered why he had never mentioned this to her. Letting her other leg hang down, she merely repeated Kairi's words.
After a few hours the group decided it was time to turn in. They began to walk across the wooden bridge. Nick was behind them all as she took a double take at the ocean. For a second she thought she say a large ship on the horizon. She shook her head and concluded it was just her mind playing tricks on her.
She began to walk and over heard Riku and Sora's conversation. Riku tossed him a star shaped fruit, which Sora barely caught.
"You wanted one didn't you?" Riku asked him.
Sora gazed at the fruit in his hands in confusion, "A paupu fruit?"
"If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what," Riku explained as he walked passed him. "C'mon, I know you want to try it," he finally said, teasing his spiky haired friend.
"What?" gaped Sora. Riku laughed as he continued ahead of him. Nick approached Sora as he tossed it over the side of the dock and into the water.
"Just ignore him," Nick reassured him. "He's just giving you a hard time."
"What's he talking about?"
"Well, I thought you would know. But I think you should hurry up and decide whether you want to give it to that special someone soon. That is, before someone else does." She gave him a sly look.
"But, who would, what do you mean?" stumbled Sora. He looked somewhat frightened. His expression quickly changed as he noticed Nick looking rather upset. "Nick, what's wrong?"
She looked up at Riku who was over by the boats now. "It's nothing really. I'm just worried my destiny isn't going to join with the one I want it to," Nick responded sadly. She then walked to the cabin on the little island that had become her home ever since she arrived there.
