Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Kingdom Hearts, Disney concepts, or the creations of SquareEnix.
-
Chapter One: So It Begins Reprise
"Sora was a fourteen-year old boy from Destiny Islands. A little over a year ago, he and his friends, Riku and Kairi, were separated from each other when his world was consumed by darkness. The thing that saved him from being consumed by darkness as well was the fact that the mysterious Keyblade had chosen him to be the Keyblade Master: An individual who travel worlds to seal the keyholes of other worlds. That way, they would be safe from being destroyed by the Heartless - creatures of darkness born from lost hearts.
In Traverse Town he was helped by Squal "Leon" Leonhart, Yuffie Kisaragi, and Aerith Gainborogh of the overrun world Hollow Bastion. Yet, the two who he would recruit on his mission to save the worlds would be Disney Castles' Court Magician Donal Duck and Captain of the Knights Goofy Goof as his allies, as well as myself, Jiminy Cricket as their chronicler. Over a period of only a few months Sora, Donald, and Goofy faced the forces of the Heartless. However, the trouble was much more peril then simply the masses of Heartless. For there was a gallery of villains whose union was for the purpose of using the Heartless to further their own goals.
Hades - God of the Underwold who manipulated the mercenary Cloud Strife for the purpose of defeating Hercules. When his plan failed because of the intervention of Sora and the gang, he formed the Hades Cup tournament to personally deal with the trip yet was defeated once more. Jafar the Vizier of Agrabah nearly conquered Agrabah when he found the keyhole using the power of a genie. However, a young man named Aladdin with the aid of Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeated him. Ursula the sea-witch stole the triton of King Triton and became ruler of Atlantica. Thankfully, her terrible reign ran short thanks to the effort of the mermaid Ariel aided by Sora and the gang. In Halloween Town, there was as Oogie Boogie who stole a manufactured heart in order to use it to take over this oddly spooky world. This plot was foiled when the Pumpkin King Jack Skellington aided by the gang defeated Oogie even when he became giant creature fused with his manor.
The hardest trials had just begun. Along the way, he met his friend Riku. He alerted Sora to the fact that their dear friend Kairi had lost her heart when both met in the monster of a whale Monstro. Gepetto the puppet maker and his puppet turned son Pinocchio were inside Monsto at the time as well. Riku had kidnapped Pinocchio in hopes to use him to restore Kairi's heart. When Sora revealed he could not go along with the plan, Riku angerly released the puppet as well as a giant Parasite Heartless.
Later on, he would faced the crocodile fearing pirate Captain Hook trapped the group along with a floating boy Peter Pan and the fairy Tinkerbell. After dispatching the pirate the gang would faced the leader of the villains, the witch (or evil fairy depending on definition) Maleficient, self proclaimed queen of evil. When her magic failed to defeat the combined forced of Sora, Donald, and Goofy she turned herself onto a fearsome dragon. However, even in this ferocious form our heroes prevailed.
With the last of the villains defeated, Sora discovered Riku was possessed by Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness. The man who had first researched and tampered with the darkness and in turn caused all that had happended. Ansem had been manipulating all the villains and Heartless up to this point in an effort to collect the Princesses of Heart (princesses without darkness in their hearts) to open a way to Kingdom Hearts. However, to do this he would Kairi's heart, which was trapped with in Sora's body. When told that Kairi was inside him, Sora hastily stabbed himself in the chest with a keyblade. Revealing Hollow Bastion's keyhole, saving the girl, and turning the boy into a Heartless.
Though, all hope looked lost, with the outcry of Kairi and the strength of his own heart the boy was revived. Just in time to seal world's Keyhole and move on to confront Ansem at the End of the World - a world made form lost worlds. Though, a long and treacherous battle where at one point he was all alone within darkness and in Kingdom Hearts, the boy managed to free his friend Riku and defeated Ansem. All there was left to do was seal Kingdom Hearts before the Heartless poured out. However, to do this, two people needed to be seaed inside. One keyblade in the inside while the other on the outside.
Fortunately, King Mickey showed up just in time. With the help of Riku and King Mickey on one side and Sora, Donald, and Goofy on the otherwise, the five managed to seal Kingdom Hearts. With promise to find Riku and the King, Sora departed from his friend Kairi once more to continue his journey.
A week later, Sora, Donald, and Goofy would find themselves at Castle Oblivion - a castle where memories influence the rooms inside. Aside from that fact, none of us remember any of the events transpired within. Our only clue were the words scribbled within my journal, "Thank Namine." Nothing tells us about how or when Sora will awaken..."
Jiminy ended his narrative there. Queen Minnie and her lady-in-waiting Daisy Duck absorbing all the information that had been relayed. The queen sitting on her throne and out of habit resting her hand on her armchair where Mickey would usually hold and give a light squeeze when she needed to be comforted. Daisy watched Donald mope next to a saddened Goofy who had Jiminy standing on his palm with his journal open and in front of him.
They had just arrived last night thanks to Yen Sid, who said they were dumped outside his tower the week before that. Battered and bruised, they were in otherwise healthy condition except for two facts: They could not remember any of the events that had transpired within the castle save for the castle and a memories influencing the castle. The other fact was - Sora had been in a coma ever since.
"Accordin' to Jiminy's Journal," Goofy began. "From the time we first entered the castle to the time we were found in front of ol' Yen Sid's place was a has been a year. So the question is where we've been all this time"
"Sora seems to be fine," Donald added. "Except for he won't wake up."
"And we still have no idea where the King or Riku is," Jiminy finished, closing the journal with that.
Queen Minnie pondered for a moment. She looked at Donald. Though he had a temper like no other it was out of caring for those around him. She was not accosted to seeing him in any other mood besides his uniquely energetic self. Glancing at Daisy, she knew the other duck was just as affected by his melancholy. Especially after waiting for their reunion, which she believed it would have been a happy one.
Looking at Goofy she felt overcome by melancholy. A sad Goofy was a depressing one. He was usually so optimistic. Even after going through rounds of unusually brutal yet innocently random pain and surviving with temporary injuries. Though he was a bit of a fool and would get into trouble without realizing it, nevertheless cynicalism was not to be found when he was in the room.
Yet what brought her down was not the mood of anyone in the room but the one person who was not in the room. King Mickey. The situation must have been serious if he had left so abruptly and without telling of it. Doing so was either because he was forgetful (though, usually that was Goofy's department it still is not something you would put past the King himself) or he did not want her to worry. After hearing Jiminy's Report, it was definitely the latter.
She sighed. "I hate to bring down the mood anymore but I believe it's better I update you on events now. Though, I'm sure you would like to go off to find the King or learn more about Sora's condition, you must hear this first." Goofy and Donald as well as Jiminy looked up. "As you probably figured out on your way here, the worlds have not been disconnected yet and we don't know why. Though, thanks to your efforts many worlds have been returned to their original state, we are still losing worlds as time goes on. What's more is, an evil empire has been taking over worlds for approximately three years now. It's been reported that some of these worlds have been lost to darkness themselves."
"Gawrsh!"
"Whhaahh!?"
"That's terrible!"
"Yes," she nodded, though a bit irked that she had been interrupted. "I've decided that Disney Castle will join this alliance. We cannot allow any more worlds to be stripped of their freedom nor lost to darkness. That is why now more then ever we need the Keyblade master. You must go to Merlin and find a cure to Sora's state. Yen Sid has already sent me letter saying that he could unfortunately do nothing yet Merlin may know of something that could help."
"No need! I've got just what you're looking for!" Shocked that there was another person in the throne room, Goofy and Donald whirled around as Daisy and Minnie looked past them.
Slowly walking up to them was a tall hooded person wearing a long black coat with a silver zipped up zipper, black gloves, and black boots. Though they were in no mood to make humorful remarks, Goofy could not help himself. "Gawrsh, were we gone for so long it's now Halloween?" His friends looked at him, surprised he could say something like that.
"What?" the figure asked, stopping several meters away from them. "Halloween? You mean the town?"
"No, the holiday."
"You're pulling my leg. There's a holiday called Halloween?"
"Nope. There really is. A time where people dress up all spookily and go trick or treatin' and decorate their houses. Like a scary Christmas."
"Get out of here -- Wait a minute. Are you making fun of my uniform? Because this is standard issue!"
"No sirree! It's just that a lot of black is usually a Halloween color. Orange too but I don't think you're wearing orange."
"I think you're making this up to psyche me out. Candy, black and orange, dressing up."
"No I'm serious! Tell him Minnie!"
The Queen shifted uncomfortable. "Ah I guess so..." Before she could say anymore, the knight interjected.
"See! The queen says so and that has to be -- yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!" The court magician had apparently enough of his friend's banter with the stranger, summoned his staff, and lit his rear end on fire. Goofy ran back all around the throne trying to put his behind out.
"Donald!" Daisy scoffed. The magician gave her an apologetic smile. "Put his butt out now!" The magician nodded, pointed his staff at knight. "Blizzard!" A blast of frost struck Goofy, putting the fire out to his belief despite sending him crashing to the floor. If the hooded man's face wasn't, well, hooded - they would see that he was rasing his eyebrow at them. Luckily, he realized this fact and coughed to get their attention.
"May I continue?"
"Please do so," said Minnie. "You were saying you could help young Sora?"
"That's right!" said the hooded man as he snapped his fingers as if remembering just now. "Right. Here's the key to Sora's recovery." With wave of his hand a crown like card popped into his hand.
"Cards?" Minnie said, looking at him with a confused expression.
"Not just any cards your majesty!" he said, waving his gloved finger at her. "Memories. Each card is part of a chain of his memories. A chain of memories. When he entered Castle Oblivion, he along with the duck and the goof --" Jiminy coughed a rather loud cough for a cricket of his size, especially now that he was on the floor after being dropped by Goofy. "Right, and the cricket, they began losing their memories. To recover them, they would have to go all the way through each door to get to each floor until finally, they reached the topmost room and defeat the big bad boss.
"Unfortunately, along the way, the kid loss. And with that his memories. So now do you know what he has to do? He has to find each card to recover his memories. By going to every single world he visited in the past year. Meet his allies again. Traverse Town to Hollow Bastion. The works."
Donald eyed the man. "And how do you know all this? How do you know about Castle Oblivion or where we've been?"
He folded his arms and cocked his head to the side. "Because I was there at Castle Oblivion and saw a bit of his memories."
Goofy got to his feet and summoned his shield from nowhere as Donald raised his staff. "So you're the enemy we faced?" He was already reading a spell. "You're the reason why we can't remember anything."
"Don't be ridiculous. I wasn't so much an enemy but more of a sparring partner. In any case, I'm not the reason why you lost your memories. My colleagues are to thank for that, got it? If I wanted to kill you, you already would be dead. But if you want, I could do it now."
"Enough!" All eyes were now on Minnie. "I will not tolerate needless violence. If you really aren't our enemy and only wanted to give us that card then please give it us already instead of taunting my head knight and court magician."
"Very well, your highness," said the hooded man as he gave a mock bow. He pulled back his arm and tossed the card to Donald, knocking the magician's hat off.
"Hey!"
"See ya!" the hooded figure teleported away before the magician could blast him. "And remember!" His voiced echoed through the room. "There are fifty-one cards. You better collect them all!"
"Good riddance," growled Donald as he picked up his hat to plot it back on his head. He picked up the card lying a few feet was from him and turned to Goofy. "Let's get this to Sora!"
"Yep! This way, we can restore his memories and it'll be like the good ol' days! I mean, if that's alright with your majesty now, Queen Minnie?" He looked at the mouse.
She nodded with smile, glad that the two were in better spirits at this resent development. "Go on." And the two were off, sprinting to the castle infirmary.
-
-
Author's Notes:
Please give criticism, your opinion, and any advice!