Well, this is exciting! This is a futuristic third/fourth installment to Kingdom Hearts! The original characters had kids, basically... And now they're faced with a multitude of trials. I'm going for 100K with this, so please support me however you can! It helps me continue onward~ I write short chapters mostly, so bear with me here.
Disclaimer- I don't own Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts, or any of the Disney stuff.
Onward young ones!
Chapter 1
The sun sank down toward the horizon, sending a glistening array of reds, oranges, pinks and purples over the ocean and sky. Three kids ran across the sandy beach of the play island.
"Hey! Wait up, you guys!" a girl with blue and brown hair shouted. Her gray eyes were wide with hints of exhaustion. Her bare feet kicked up sprays of golden sand. The fastest of the three, a boy with dark red hair spun around, looking back at her.
"Hurry up then! You're so slow, Syn!" he called back. A boy with dirty blonde hair with a similar likeness to his father turned and stuck his tongue out at her.
"Slow poke!" he teased. She frowned, glaring at the pair.
"Shut up, Sai!" she snapped angrily. Sai laughed and ran past the red haired boy. Syn sighed, her long braid bumping against her back as she hurried after the two. They ran across an old, swinging wooden bridge that led to a smaller island that looked out at the sunset. An oddly shaped tree with yellow, star shaped fruit hanging from its branches sat at the edge of the plateau. Syn sat on the large tree limb next to Sai. Xanthas stared out at the ocean in a sort of cool silence.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could go on some great adventure like your dad, Sai?" Syn wondered aloud wistfully. Sai snorted in disagreement.
"My dad would probably have a cow," he replied, shaking his head. She laughed in amusement.
"He'd have to deal with it, anyhow," Xanthas commented, running a hand through his fire colored hair. His eyes glowed with confidence, "I'm prepared to battle the world." Syn smiled cheerfully at the arrogant boy, swinging her legs in an absent minded manner.
"Be careful what you wish for, Xanthas," she added mockingly. Sai laughed.
"You might just bring the darkness my dad talks about to Destiny Islands again," he agreed, acting like the darkness was something big and scary, rather than what existed at night when the sun disappeared. Xanthas smirked.
"I can take down that darkness, no sweat," he grinned. Syn shook her head, brown with blue shocks swirling about her face.
"Yeah right, Xanthas! We all know who the real champion is," she giggled. She looked to Sai with a big smile on her face, "Isn't that right, Sai?"
"Psh, blood descendant doesn't mean anything in the real world. I bet Xanthas has a shot," Sai replied, waving her implications off nonchalantly. Xanthas pushed Syn into the ocean below. She squealed, falling into the crystal blue water. Sai laughed along with Xanthas while Syn shouted at them angrily from the water.
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Sora sat up quickly, he'd fallen asleep at his desk again. A bad feeling had washed over him, and he stared at the papers scattered about the room. Everything he'd learned all those years ago jotted down on those papers. It wasn't at all organized either. He stood, leaving the house in a rush. He had to check up on his friends. What if something had happened? He took his gummi ship and flew to Traverse Town, a yellow light still illuminating his office.
Traverse Town looked as cheerful as Sora remembered it to be. Cobblestone roads and tall, black streetlamps illuminated the world even at such a late hour. Only a handful of people were out and moving. A young, ginger haired girl stood in the town square waving to Sora.
"Hey Sora! Yuffie told me you'd come here," she said in a soft voice. A small smile had spread across her face, lighting up her dark brown eyes. Sora sighed, running a hand through his graying blonde hair.
"Are they all in Radiant Gardens then?" he asked.
"Uh huh," she nodded.
"That's good to know, Amatha…" he replied and left Traverse Town. On his way to Radiant Gardens, that sinking feeling of bad news only grew worse.
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Sai returned home after dark, and his house seemed like something out of a horror movie. It seemed that his dad had already gone to sleep. He walked into the kitchen, flicking a light on and noticed that the light in Sora's office was still on. He walked over, pushing the door open slowly. The lamp was still on, but papers were scattered across the room. Sai slowly made his way across the room to turn the lamp off when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Sai jumped and turned quickly, expecting it to be his father. Instead, a person that was clad in a dark cloak stood before him.
"Who are you?" Sai cried in surprise. The figure tilted its head, staring at him curiously.
"So… ra…?" he asked in a soft, whisper like voice that sent shivers down Sai's spine.
"No! That's my dad! Now get out of his office!" Sai snapped in anger. He hated it when people compared him to his father. He reached forward to shove the person out, but fell through him instead.
"Are you afraid of the darkness?" the figure asked him. Sai fell onto the wood floor, and before him was a paper. A crayon drawing of the figure he'd encountered was on it. Sai picked up the paper and looked to where the person had been, but they were gone. His eyes fell to the drawing again.
"What the…?" Confusion spiraled through Sai's mind. Had Sora's tales really been more than just a bedtime story that he had been told as a kid?
Thank you for reading the first chapter! Reviews will speed up the posts, just saying~
Every character who's name is mentioned, is important. :) Please review with your thoughts!
~Anarchy