Destiny Islands and 8 year old Sora was stomping away in a huff. He was with his friends on the beach playing with wooden swords and as usual he had kept losing to Riku. Riku was great and he was his best friend but... Just this once he wished he could beat Riku at something... anything...
He was lying by the waterfall with his wooden sword next to him, looking up at the sun in the morning. Everyone's parents were busy so they practically had the entire day to himself.
Perhaps he would take some rest and challenge Riku to a rematch later or one of the others. He glanced at his wooden sword for a second only for it to resemble some sort of sword with the blade being a silver pole with the top resembling a key.
He blinked and then rubbed his eyes only to see that it looked like a wooden sword again. He picked it up and examined it and then sighed. It was just his imagination playing tricks on him.
"YOU WERE GLIMPSING AT YOUR OWN FUTURE SORA."
Sora jumped at the weird voice he just heard and wondered if he was imagining things again. He then looked behind him and saw there was some sort of giant keyhole at the back of the tree he was lying by. He stepped close to it fearfully.
"DON'T WORRY SORA; YOU WILL COME BACK SOON ENOUGH."
Sora then slowly walked towards it only to be dragged inside the portal.
Sora was amazed by what he was looking at once he went through the portal, he seemed to be in some sort of courtyard of a palace where there were sand and yellow bricked walls. It looked like it was some sort of palace and he could feel strong heat from the sand.
Naturally growing up on the Destiny Islands all of his life, it was unlike anything he had seen before. "Excuse me, anyone here?" Sora asked calling out but stopped when he heard growling.
He looked behind him and was shocked to an angry tiger club slowly walking up behind him. Near him was a yellow ball and Sora was taking steps back in fear.
"Nice tiger, I mean no harm..." Sora whispered cautiously, normally he would be excited to see a real tiger as he had never seen one before but this one looked ready to attack him.
"Rajah! What are you doing?" asked a girl's voice and Sora saw running towards them was a girl about a year older than him with black hair, a light blue headband with a jewel at the centre of it, a light blue Arabian shirt and light blue Arabian pants. Around her neck was a silver necklace with a silver crown pendant.
The girl then noticed them and gasped when she saw Rajah looking threatening at Sora and Sora looking quite scared. "Is this your tiger? I didn't mean to startle him if that's the problem so sorry if I did." Sora asked and the girl gave a slight nod while smiling.
"I'm Princess Jasmine and this is Rajah, we were playing ball when it came over here. Rajah came to get it." The girl explained introducing herself as the tiger Rajah was calming down. "Are you from another kingdom? Are you a visitor with someone who came to see my daddy the Sultan? I don't think I have seen clothes or hair like yours before." The girl asked wondering if he was going to be anything like the rude young princes who have came to visit the palace with representatives from their kingdoms.
Sora was excited as he had never met a princess before. "My name is Sora and I don't think I come from any kingdom and I live on this island. I came here from this portal." Sora told her introducing himself and showed her the portal in the wall.
Jasmine then gasped and asked "so are you like some evil Sorcerer? There are ones in stories that my father read to me before bed!" Sora then jumped and he did hear of evil sorcerers and wizards in stories he read.
"I'm not a sorcerer, the portal just appeared in a tree and I went through. Should probably go back..." Sora responded facing the portal only for Jasmine to take his arm.
"Before you go, do you think you would want a game of ball with me and Rajah? My daddy's busy with some delegates and the guards are busy in the market." Jasmine asked with a bit of pleading in her eyes. Sora then looked to the portal and back there again.
Rajah then picked up the ball with his nose and then threw it at Sora which he caught. Sora then grinned and said "why not, I don't think anyone is expecting me soon anyway." Sora then kicking the ball at Jasmine who caught it with a smile of her own.
Forty minutes were spent as the two kids and the tiger cub were having fun kicking the ball to eachother. "That was fun Sora, I am glad you came here. I don't have many people to play with." Jasmine told him as she had caught the ball from Sora.
"Don't you have other friends to play with?" Sora asked innocently and Jasmine looked down a bit depressed. "Sorry, did I say anything wrong?" Sora asked apologetically.
"No, it's just that I don't actually have any friends besides Rajah. Daddy keeps me in the palace and the only other kids I get to meet are visiting princes who come with important people from their kingdoms. They are usually big jerks and we can't stand them." Jasmine responded making Sora feel a bit sorry for Jasmine.
"Sorry about that but you can count me as a friend." Sora told her giving a smile to which Jasmine returned.
"I will, plus sorry if Rajah scared you and he is sorry too... right Rajah?" Jasmine asked giving a glare to Rajah who looked apologetic at Sora which made him laugh.
Sora then turned and noticed the portal getting smaller, "Nice meeting you Jasmine but I think I must be getting home." Sora told her going to the portal but Jasmine was asking him to wait.
"I want to give you something Sora." Jasmine told him taking off her necklace and giving it to him. "Daddy says it's an heirloom, the Heart's Crown. Daddy says one day I would need to give it to a very special friend and he would need to explain more when I'm older. I want you to have it and be that very special friend, so you don't forget about me." Jasmine told him as Sora put it on around his neck.
"I promise I won't forget about you Jasmine and you too Rajah. I hope I can come back one day." Jasmine told him as she started waving to him and Rajah began waving to Sora with his paw. Sora then started waving to them as he was walking towards the portal.
Then came a shout of Jasmine's name and then out came the Sultan who was shocked to see Sora as he walked through the portal and it disappeared. He went to check on his daughter to see if she was alright.
He asked what happened to Jasmine and his eyes widened when he noticed the Heart's Crown missing around her neck. He then groaned as Jasmine explained about playing with the boy that came out from nowhere and Jasmine deciding to give the necklace to him.
He should have explained the significance of the necklace more...
On Destiny Island Sora came back through the portal and washed a bit sad as it disappeared. It meant that he just lost a new friend but at least he now had something to remember her by.
Hopefully they could meet again one day.
He then went back to his other friends who noticed him and asked him if he wanted a game of volleyball. He grinned as he grabbed the ball and made the first short.
Some of the ideas I will be using for this story will be from fellow Disney fanfic writer and Sora X Jasmine fan DJ Rodriquez. I came up with this basic plotline inspired by the Ruto plot from Legend of Zelda: the Ocarina of Time. I will also have some inspiration from the Aladdin subplot of Once Upon a Time.
Originally the heirloom was going to be the beetle scarab but then I decided it be Sora's crown necklace since i don't know if we ever found out where he got it.
I so want Sora X Jasmine (tied with Sora X Ariel for my favourite KH shipping) to become more popular. I have been playing the PS4 HD remix collection of the 1.5 and 2.5 HD Remixes of the KH games. To get me prepared for Kingdom Hearts III (so excited for the Frozen worlds! I so hope for mini bosses of Hans and the Duke)