Author's note: Hello everyone, before I start I'll explain the purpose why I made this Fanfic. It'll be loosely based on FFX/Final Fantasy 10's plot line, but I'll still be using some places from Kingdom Hearts, but not all of them. Also it's beenalong time since I've played Both 10 and kingdom hearts, so please don't be afraid to put your comments :3 I don't bite.
Disclaimer: I do not own, either Kingdom Hearts or some of the plot, after all its based on a game, like I said for those who are familiar with 10 some of the scenes may not really come from the game and they are solely from my imagination and what remaining creativity I have. With that said, Both Mentioned Merchandise came from Square Enix, while Kingdom Heartswas collaborated with Disney.
Chapter 1:
A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Destiny Island didn't use to have such a huge crowd near the shore, however today isn't any other day. The island might be small but the islanders know how to deal with boredom, it is inhabited by fishermen, people who wanted to get away from the city life, but it is mostly inhabited by refugees. By what you ask? Perhaps they were kicked out by the city states, soldiers from war or normal people that can't afford the taxes. Either way, the islanders didn't mind what kind of people, landed on their humble abode. However, the island's usual silence was broken due to the commotion, an unusual sports of sorts only known towards the younglings. It was a sparring game called "struggle" in which two people must face, each other with a wooden sword it was to hone their instincts on self-defense.
A silver-haired male, was to face off with a tanned sun-kissedblonde. The boys were about the same age, but strength wasn't determined by age, but by their attentiveness of the opponent/s' weakness, strengths and openings. The silver-haired male, has always been the calm one, he and the boy opposite to him got into a bit of an argument. Unlike the other male, the tanned one could be a brash person. They rarely got into fights like this, after all the blonde has always been practicing his "struggle" work out with a red-haired kid who seemed to have a funny accent. Well the red-head did have an unusual accent, the pale skinned male took a deep breath and tried to talk some sense into the other.
"Look, I'm not sure how it got to this… but we don't have to do this."
Not only was the sandy blonde acting childish, due to the other male bumping into him by accident and didn't apologize for it. He knew the blonde wouldn't be this annoyed unless his old man, got under his skin, the boy frowned and pointed the wooden sword towards the male's direction.
"Enough with your excuses… or are you scared to lose?"
The silver-haired teen's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, it seems like talking sense with the other teen would be futile. If his words won't reach him then his sword will, he made sure to watch the other teen's fighting stance or any openings that he could easily land a hit in. As he was thinking of a strategy, his light blue-green orbs widened at the sudden lunge the blonde did, there was no doubt the sun-kissed blonde was confident with his strength.
The muscular boy managed to side step to his left, before the wooden sword collided with his body.
He heard the sandy blonde groan, as he continued to swing his sword wildly to hit the other male, which the said male had no difficulty in dodging. People cheered for both, there were no wrong sides after all, for the islanders it was the only way kids could lash out their anger through a good game of "struggle".
As the tanned teen, started to take things seriously, and stopped underestimating the other male. He outstretched his hand which was clutching the sword in the direction of the male, he smirked as the silver-haired male was caught off guard for a bit. Until the male wrapped his fingers on the tanned teen's arm, he then kicked the boy's right sole, which made the tanned teenoff balance, he was sure he was going face first into the sand.
When the muscular teen, threw him over his shoulder, into the sandy beach. The sandy-haired blonde groaned, as his whole body ached from the assault, his blue eyes met light blue-greenones, a snarl came out of his mouth.
"That wasn't fair Riku! You can't use martial arts in a struggle!"
Riku smirked as he let go of the tanned teen's arms, his eyes held some unknown emotion in them, he then held out his hand for the sandy haired male to take.
" You were underestimating your opponent, remember swords aren't really that handy."
The blue-eyed teen, slapped the silver-haired teen's hand away and stood on his own dusting the sand from him. The other male might be true, but he'll never admit it to the said male.
"whatever."
The blue-eyed boy soon felt pain, as his ears was being pinchedby one of his friends. A girl with brunette hair, and yellow dress was the culprit for the blonde's pained howls.
"Tidus! Don't be a sore loser, and apologize!"
The girl was accompanied by their other red-headed friend, who was wearing a blue bandana on his head. He was never seen without a blitzball, other than struggle the teens also occupied themselves with blitzball.
"Selphie's right, ya? A little apology wont hurt."
The sandy blonde pried his ear from the brunette's clutches, anger clear in his blue orbs, he was about to explain why it was riku's fault when the said teen beat him to it.
"It's my fault, tidus had nothing to do with it."
He then eyed the tanned teen, who was still fuming as he was being judged by his friends. It was up to him to confirm the truth, and besides he was glad his stupid brunette friend wasn't here or he would have told the truth.
"sorry, tidus."
Tidus glared at the silver-haired teen, he could feel two pairs of eyes piercing through him waiting for the sandy blonde teen to accept the other's apology.
"urgh… I accept your apology…"
He then jabbed his pointer finger at Riku's chest, still annoyed his body ache due to him, not expecting the silver-haired teen would result to martial arts in a struggle game.
"Don't ever do "that" to me again!"
Riku couldn't help but stifle a chuckle at the other's condition, however he nodded his head in acknowledgement. He then held out his hand for the other to shake on it, the blonde was about to do it when he heard footsteps heading their way. He was unexpectedly placed in a headlock by a spiky haired brunette.
"Tidus, I heard Riku kicked your butt!"
The brunette didn't mean it ill willingly, it was usual for the six of them, after all they were the only teens there. The auburn haired girl shook her head, as the sandy blonde haired male was desperate to get out of the other's hold. She has pale complexion, and wears a silver beaded necklace, she's always seen wearing a school uniform.
"Sora… let go of him already."
There was a tone in her voice that meant she was serious, the brunette pouted but did as the auburn haired instructed. Tidusgasped and coughed as the sudden rush of air went back to his lungs he gave the auburn haired girl a look of thanks, and directed his gaze towards the silver-haired male's outstretched hand. A grin was shown in his face, as he took it and firmly shook the other's hand.
"that was a good struggle!"
People around them started to clap their hands, which caught the six teens attention. They had forgotten that their childish fight, managed to caught a crowd, the sandy blonde haired teen, place a hand on the back on his neck and chuckled sheepishly, his blue orbs directed towards a very fuming brunette, she frowned and crossed her hands on her chest. She let out a small "hmph." And refused the other's gaze, the auburn haired female noticed the tension between the two and furrowed her eyebrows to think of a way to dissipate the tension.
"how about we have a party at sora's house, ya?"
The silver-haired teen, raised an eyebrow at the red-headed male however a small party between the six teens. The brunette however was shocked, that the red-headed teen didn't consult him first. He has two reasons why he was against this idea, one his room was a mess, second if Squall knew the house was trashed he'd be grounded for life. He then crossed both of his arms in front of his chest, in an x shaped way, indicating he wasn't aboard with this plan.
"Now, hold your chocobos! Cant we just do it in the tree house instead?"
The others seemed to like Sora's idea better, as soon as the crowd lessened the six teens went to their respective houses to get drinks, and snacks. Sora started to search the cupboard for some chips, he might bring to this so called, "party" his blue orbs search desperately for them. His older brother Squall never like junked foods, so he never stored the cupboard with useless junk unless its healthy.
He sighed dejectedly as he found none, perhaps the others would understand if he came empty handed. He was about to close the cupboard, when a long yet rectangular orange can caught his sight. He smirked as he took the can in his hand, he knew his older brother liked this kind of junk.
Besides its not as if Squall is around the island most of the time, he made sure to close the cupboard and locked the house before heading towards the tree house.
The brunette whistled a small tune, it was familiar but he can'twrap his finger on it. He was sure he heard it somewhere before, he walked towards the stairs towards the tree house. A small pout was seen on the lanky tanned teen, of course the other five teens would arrive at the destination before him. It was the red-head who saw the brunette and smiled goofy at him, beckoning the brunette to join them.
"You're just in time ya?"
Sora's pout turned into a grin and gave the red-head, the orange can which made the other's eye widened. The said snack waswell known in the island.
"Brudda, I thought Squall banned this kind of snacks in your home?"
The brunette shrugged and made his way to his two best friends, the auburn haired female named kairi, and the muscularsilver-haired male named Riku. He sat in between the two who seemed comfortable with each other's presence before the brunette came. Sora had always been in love with the auburn haired girl, he hasn't mustered the courage to tell her yet in fear of being rejected by the said girl.
Besides he didn't want his friendship with the two teens to break due to him confessing his feelings for Kairi, he knew Riku liked her too. He just didn't want any awkward situations between the three of them, his blue orbs found the sun's glare, it's color a mixture between orange and yellow. As half of it seemed to be covered in water.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
Blue orbs, and light blue-green ones stared at the auburn haired teen, the sunset's glow seemed to help make the said teen more beautiful than she already is.
"Yeah…"
Blue orbs met light blue-green ones, they both narrowed their eyes at each other. After all, both of them had noticed that they both answered at the same time. However, the trio that was standing before them, caught whiff of the slight tension between the two teens. In which the brunette giggled which caught Sora and Riku's attention.
"How about a toast? To Riku's success in struggle!"
Selphie tried to change the topic hoping to ease the tension between the two teens, the red-head helped the brunette by giving Kairi, Riku and Sora their own respective carbonated drink. Which the auburn haired female took with a small thank you, the brunette's glare never left the silver-haired's eyes and the muscular teen repaid the brunette the same glare.
No matter how, the sandy blonde hated his defeat he wanted to help dissipate the tension between Riku and Sora.
"uh.. yeah! Sorry about that Riku… its just that the old man got under my skin again."
He then ran his fingers through his spiky sandy blonde hair, a sheepish grin plastered on his face. Riku's attention turned towards the sandy blonde, he had to give the other some credit, it must be hard to admit he lost, but it made him happy knowing there was a reason behind the sandy blonde's assault
"Don't worry about it apology accepted."
The auburn haired female glanced at the tall muscular teen, and gave him a small smile. Riku tried his best not to get flustered, he decided to check on the brunette by simply staring at him at the corner of his eye. It seems like the said brunette returned his attention towards the setting sun, a calm yet forlorn expression plastered on his face.
Sora found the beach more interesting, than what was really going on, he wondered what it's like to leave the island. His older brother is the sort to be a stick in the mud, but even Squall had his fair share of adventures. He let out an inaudible sigh, as the skies around them became to darken, something caught the brunette's gaze. He wasn't sure what it was, it seemed to camouflage within the beach's waters.
He was called back to reality when a frail hand was placed on his right shoulder, accompanied with the auburn's features etched with worry.
"Sora, are you alright?"
The brunette stared at those aqua colored eyes, and everything just seemed to have faded away, his usual dorky grin made its way to his tanned lips.
"Yeah… I'm fine, Kai… don't worry about it."
Kairi nodded her head, and continued talking to Selphie probably about homework, and earlier's event. He returned his gaze towards the far northern side of the beach, the creäture seemedto be closer than before, now that he got a good look it seemedto be a huge whale like creäture, with what seemed like scales attached to it.
It was a creäture he has never seen before, and just laying eyes on the creäture managed to instill fear in his every fiber of being.
His blue orbs snapped towards the brunette as she let out a shriek of horror, wondering if the brunette had also seen thecreäture. His guess was right, as he followed the brunette's Gaze, the creäture was close to shore, and it was somehow eating the wooden planks that belonged to the islanders houses.
As if it wanted to erase the island of it's existence, the sandy blonde teen, clutched the brunette's arms pulling her into safety. The female was frozen in fear, with tears trickling down her face. The silver-haired teen took The auburn haired female's wrist trying to get her out of the tree house, however she seemed hesitant to leave Sora alone.
"Sora!"
The brunette snapped out of his reverie, and turned his head towards the auburn haired female. Beckoning for the brunette to head towards them, Sora was about to walk towards the auburn haired female along with the silver haired teen beside her, when he heard the brunette female's scream for help.
His blue orbs widened as he whipped his head towards Selphie's direction, he gritted his teeth. As the poor girl was clinging on the sandy blonde haired teen for dear life, her feet was in the direction of the creature's mouth ready to swallow her whole. Selphie's eyes widened as she slowly lost her grip on tidus' hands, she closed her eyes as she could feel her self being pulled towards the unknown being.
Accepting her fate, however the brunette male grabbed selphie's fingers and pulled her to safety with the best of his ability and strength. He smiled lightly as the female gripped his fingers in return, without a hint of warning he threw her towards the sandy blonde haired teen's direction.
He smiled seeing Tidus was wrapping his arms around Selphie's body in a protective way and headed towards safety, Sora started to walk towards their direction until the last wooden plank he stepped on, flew towards the creatures mouth which made him slip and got sucked in the progress. He closed his eyes as tears threatened to pour out from his blue orbs, he might not see the love of his life anymore although the last thing he heard was the auburn haired teen's voice calling for his name in a state of panic.
"Sora!"
Until darkness finally consumed his consciousness, he hoped that nothing bad had happened to the rest of them. Hoping his sacrifice didn't go in vain, who knows what the brunette's future holds? After all even he gave up on living.
Author's note: So… sorry to end on a cliff hanger, next chapter would be sora's pov. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter! Also the cover photo is credit to rinmaru dressup that's why they look kinda ooc [sweatdrops]