Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Fairy Tail, because if I did Natsu and Axel would be eating fire together as Juvia and I stalked.

Quick AN: All KH characters are based off of their KHII appearances and/or attires, because, admit it, in KHI they all looked like nine-year-olds.

Chapter I: Gifts and Ultimatums

Kairi stood on the edge of the decorative, frost-white balcony, staring out at the night sky. Looking out of her clear cerulean eyes and through her syrupy-dark-crimson bangs, she could see the stunning scenery. She was wearing her favorite light pink gown that floated all the way down to her ankles and had a water-like appearance to it. It came with a scarf that wrapped around her arms loosely and drifted across her elbows as the sea-breeze picked up. The stars were blazing in their own individual spots, causing constellations to become even more apparent in the warm summer night. She recognized all of them and the story behind each. The moon reflected the sun from the other side of the world with such clarity, it seemed as if the sun was just replaced with a paler star in its place. Her eyes traced tiny patterns in the way the scene below her rippled, verifying that the beach still was there, even in the dark. The soothing oceanic noises took a different key as she began to sing a soft, sweet melody, her high soprano voice reaching such a high aptitude, not even the bells of the clock tower a half mile away could match,

"What is the point

Of unused potential if it's locked away in hiding

Insecurity

Is a barbarous thorn down the path meant for riding

Did

They lose their touch

Just

So we could learn to trust

They

Died in vain

If forgotten

The potential will remain

If locked

With the key thrown away

Is how

This precious gift was meant to stay

Then I fear

For tomorrow and the future generations

Waiting for

Their elders to show the demonstrations

Of what

Pure life is supposed to be

It's a broken world

And healing won't be easy." When she opened her eyes, she could see a shadow blocking the lights from the party inside, cutting down the balcony's pegs that kept her from falling off.

"You have a beautiful voice, did you write that song yourself?" inquired a voice that presumably belonged to the intruding shadow.

"I know you hate it," she sighed, "And that's okay, Saix, you're a royal adviser. Your job is to help enforce rules that stop people from singing songs like that. But since I'm the princess I get a free pass, right?" she laughed at the irony, "Is our government really that shallow?"

"Now, Miss Kairi, I came here bearing gifts, not to answer all of our monarchy decision making."

"What did father bring to shut me up this time?" she scoffed, turning around to face him, the golden light from behind the door flowed in and streamed across her face. With the beautiful night scenery at her back as she walked closer to the warmth of the castle made her regret every single step. He knelt down on his knees and presented her a box, with an intricate sun branded onto the golden-plated surface. She picked it up and opened the strange packaging delicately. Inside was navy cloth, woven with gold and white thread on the ends. Once she got through the ostentatious tissue paper, there was a gold key, with a sapphire hanging off the handle.

"This– this– it's..."

"A celestial-mage key. Your father, King Luxord, isn't all stones and ice, underneath it all, he's got a heart of gold. He's been paying attention, far more than you think. He said it was to be a fitting gift for your sixteenth birthday."

"This is my first one." she marveled, looking it over and swiping it through the air as if using it as a weapon, "Tell him, I love it!" Saix turned to go, but he called over his shoulder before he left,

"He said to only use it like a maid, not for combat."

"Of course," she nodded, "What reason would I have for fighting with it?"

"I don't know. His orders." He once again turned to go, but once again he couldn't leave. Kairi, a girl he'd known ever since she was born, a princess, was here alone, on her birthday. It broke his icy heart.

"Oh, and Kairi?"

"Yes, Sir?"

"You should come inside. You might find you like it, plus some princes from other kingdoms are here. It'd be a good time to find out who you'd like to be betrothed to, rather than having your father pick."

"It's okay," with a wave of her hand, she dismissed the suggestion, "I'm fine here."

"Well, okay…"

She waited patiently for him to leave, like the princess she wasn't, then right after she pulled out the key and examined it some more. There was something engraved into it,

"Gate to the Sky." she whispered to herself. She loved the taste of the name in her mouth. Swinging the key around, she yelled (on mute, in fear of being heard),

"Gate to the Sky, I open thee!" Unfortunately, she didn't know swinging the key around was what summoned the spirit. There was a swirl of different arrays of blue, white, and gold streaming past her at such a speed, she thought she was in the middle of a twister. There was a strange door bell noise. Suddenly, there was a figure hazily in front of her. The figure began to materialize.

"Sora, Gate to the Sky." The brown-haired spirit announced.

"Oh my gosh!" she was taken aback, "You're a spirit!" Sora nodded solemnly.

"So you, like…live in some sort of spirit world?"

"I guess you could say that." he smiled.

"Cool!"

"I guess you could say that too," he laughed a little at the end of his sentence, but his face hardened and he stuck his body in an at-attention type position, "How can I help, you Mam?"

"I…I…" she realized she had no purpose for conjuring a spirit to the human world, "I'd like to ask you some questions." Sora sighed inwardly. From what he'd been through, a few questions was paradise to him. But that was on the inside, on the outside he kept that gruff, G.I. Joe look on his face, hoping to appear loyal, but in actuality, scaring Kairi.

"What's this spirit-world like?"

"It's pretty, but I don't spend a lot of time there. I'm mostly out here, helping whenever I can."

"So how many people have owned this key before me?" she flashed the golden key at him. He winced, as if it was too bright. But really, it was because the key was the memory of when he first–

"Sora? Hello?"

"What? Huh?"

"The question…?"

"Oh, right. Maybe six or seven, probably more in the future. I'm just glad it wasn't Terra who still had this key."

"Who's Terra?"

"My last owner, it didn't go over too well with him. I hope Aqua and Ven are okay…"

"Aqua and Ven?" Inwardly, he face-palmed himself for letting his guard down.

"They were two keys that also belonged to Terra, The Gate to the Sea and The Gate to Daybreak," he cringed and closed his eyes, "Before I was sold, Terra said if Ven screwed up one more time, he would whip him until his form gave out, then he would burn his key which would evidently kill him. For good."

AN:

Yeah, as I'm sure you've gathered, I'm making Terra a douche bag for this fic. Sorry, Terra, but the Terranort is stronger. And, yes, I know, it's probably not smart to be making two fan-fics at the same time, but oh well. There will be some serious action in the next one, I promise. It starts with a bang! Don't you love how I just managed to not say what memory it brought back, seeing the key? Oh, it's terrible and gruesome…I'm going to have a blast writing it. It has something to do with Roxas, I'll give you that…

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