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Kingdom Hearts Trinity Sight

Episode I: A rude awakening, beside the gate.

Standard Disclaimer

The following is a work of Fan-fiction. This means that it contains characters, locations, and other things drawn from various sources such as books, movies, television shows, anime and video games, none of which I own the rights to. In this episode they are Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, by Square-Enix Inc, the Wizard of Oz, originally created by L. Frank Baum, Sailor Moon, created by Naoko Takeuchi, and Stargate SG-1, owned by MGM television productions.

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Opening theme song

Three young men from different worlds scattered throughout space and time.

Three young men, all torn away from their homes.

Trinity Sight! Trinity Sight! What does each one see?

Seeking the Light, Seeking the Light, to shine on what could be!

Each young man must do his part, against the forces of Forgetfulness.

Together they must find the keys to their past,

The past which is part of them all!

Somewhere within an old castle, a pale shaft of light forced its way through some of the small barred windows high up on the wall of what was once the fortress's treasury, illuminating a scene of neglect and decay, as evidenced by the accumulation of dust that covered everything in the room. Most of the abandoned items were in themselves unremarkable, as they were the sort of thing you would expect to find in such a place, namely chests of gold, jewels, some important documents, that sort of thing. However, there were also a few items, such a crystal balls, broomsticks, scrolls, wands, and other things that announced that this vault did not belong to just any wealthy and important lord, but in fact that the owner was or had been a powerful sorcerer or sorceress.

Furthermore, at one end of the chamber, set into a slightly raised dais of its own was an even stranger artifact. This took the form of a large ring that measured about twelve feet across, with a central opening of about nine feet.

Lying in front of the artifact there were the figures of three beings. Strangely enough, for being the sole occupants of such a long abandoned castle, they were not dead, just unconscious. This was evidenced by the fact that soon one of them, a Human boy of about seventeen or eighteen years of age, began to stir. A moment later he awakened fully, coughing from the dust on the floor.

Besides having trouble breathing due to the dust, the young man had a splitting headache of the type usually associated with a hangover. Groaning, he tried to put his hands to his temples to try and massage away the pain, but found that he had trouble doing so, as if whatever had given him the headache had also sapped the strength from his limbs. So the boy just lay there for a few moments enduring the torturous throbbing, gathering strength to try once more. As he did so, fragments of memory danced through his mind, trying to form together into a recollection of what might have happened to leave him in this state. Finally, as the headache began to recede, a crude narrative began to coalesce involving a silver-haired boy, a girl with short red hair, and a log raft on what his mind insisted was an 'island'. Eventually, names came to be associated with the faces. The boy was 'Riku' and the girl 'Kairi'. He also remembered that he himself was called 'Sora'. By the time he recalled these things the headache was mostly gone and the boy now had the strength to sit up and take in his surroundings. He carefully turned his head from one side to the other, looking at the various treasures and to see if Riku and Kairi were anywhere around.

He didn't find them but he did spot the two other beings that were laying there beside him. They were very strange to his eyes, for they were clearly not human beings, although humanoid. The first was a tall gangly figure dressed in a green vest and voluminous tan pants, with a curious shield strapped to his arm. What was more unusual was that his face and ears were, literally, like those of a dog. The second being, wearing a blue jacket with an oversized zipper and having a wizard's staff lying by his wing hand, could not be mistaken for anything other than a duck However for all their strangeness, Sora found that these two were also strangely familiar to him, as he had known them from somewhere. Yet unlike his friends from his home on the Destiny Islands, their names did not immediately come to him.

Still, Sora was a compassionate and caring young man and with what strength he had recovered, he moved over to check on their condition. Shaking first the dog-man, then the duck gently with his hand, he found them still profoundly unconscious, although clearly they were alive. He tried to think about what he could do for them in this state, although he was not a doctor or a veterinarian and therefore did not have that much knowledge on medical matters. The only thing he could think of was to have food and water ready for when and if they did wake up.

When the young man thought about these things, he became aware that he was hungry and thirsty himself. Indeed upon a moment's reflection, that might be one reason why he was feeling as weak as he was. So, marshaling what strength he had, Sora began to rise unsteadily to his feet, and with a few moments struggle, just managed to stand up. As he did do, he had yet another surprise. Somehow, it seemed that the distance from his eyes to the floor was greater than it used to be. Furthermore, when Sora got a good look at his hands, they seemed positively huge, or at least bigger than he thought they should be.

"What the" he thought to himself. Somehow he had grown bigger than he had been before. He would have questioned how that had happened, but the growling of his stomach brought him back to more immediate concerns. Therefore he tottered along, checking among the dusty treasure chests and bags for something, anything edible or potable. However, all that he found were the old witch's treasures, useless in the current situation. Sora rested for a few moments, then proceeded toward the treasury's exit, which fortunately could still be opened with only a moderate effort.

Moments after he had left, one of the two remaining beings by the gate, the duck-man, began to stir, giving a little quack-like moan. Then, yawning, he inhaled some of the dust, which choked him.

"Qu-hack-hack" the duck-man went, coughing. Clearing his lungs, he looked around slowly. Then spotting his companion laying there beside him, he like Sora before him, he shook the dog-man weakly. With all the effort he could spare he said "Goofy, Goofy, hey Goofy, wake up!" coughing again afterward.

This time it worked, and the dog-man, Goofy, awakened. He muttered. "Huh, Donald, what's up?"

"You are, thank goodness" Donald answered sarcastically.

"Well, no" Goofy answered back in a matter of fact manner. "It seems like I'm lying down"

"I see that!" Donald shouted, or spoke as loud as he could anyway. Then, remembering what they were supposed to be doing, or at least what he thought they were supposed to be doing, he said. "Get up Goofy! We have to go find the King!"

"The King?" the dog-man asked. "What about him?"

"He's missing, that's what!" Donald said. "Don't you remember?"

Goofy scratched his head for a moment, weakly, then recalled "Oh yeah, he left that letter, telling us to look for some kind of key, didn't he?"

"Yeah, that's right" Donald confirmed, nodding. However, as he did so, the action brought his eyes to bear on his surroundings. Taking another quick look, the duck realized that this was no place he had ever been before. He asked his friend the obvious question. "Uh, Goofy, where are we?"

"Uh, gosh" the dog-man replied, taking his own look around. "But it sure isn't Disney Castle, I don't think. Queen Minnie would never let things get this dusty"

"Uh, yeah, but where are we?" Donald asked again.

"I don't know" Goofy told him. "But I do know that I'm getting kind of hungry all of a sudden. I wonder if they have anything good to eat here in the castle" This last statement was emphasized a moment later by the low growling sound that issued from both of their stomachs.

"Yeah, it seems like years since we last ate" the duck-man confirmed. He was just about to suggest that they go up to the castle kitchen when he turned and almost tripped over a small bag that was right by his webbed feet. Unlike the other bags in the room, this one had almost no dust on it. Picking it up, Donald found it contained three packages wrapped in brown paper and three bottles. Taking one of the parcels out the duck sat back down and fumbled with the wrapping. Goofy, seeing what Donald was doing, picked up one of the bottles and began to struggle with the cap. Fortunately for both of them the contents of the packages and bottles were not the kind that would tumble or spew out, so neither of them literally lost their lunches when they finally got them open. For that was what was in those containers. Donald found a loaf in his parcel and Goofy found out he had a bottle of water. Donald tore off a small piece of his loaf and tested it. Finding it good, he began to eat, after handing Goofy another of the brown paper parcels. Goofy in turn passed Donald one of the other bottles. The two friends ate and drank ravenously and were soon moderately satisfied. While they were consuming the last bites and drops of their meal, Donald commented, "It sure was lucky that this food bag was here"

"It sure was" Goofy answered him. "We were starving" Then Donald had a thought, "I wonder who left it there?"

"Gosh Donald, I don't know" Goofy answered him. "Maybe we had it with us all along and just forgot" he added as he finished off the last crumbs. Then, as the soporific effects of the meal began to take hold, Goofy yawned and said. "Well, I think I'm going to take me a little nap" and promptly slumped down in exhaustion.

"This is no time to sleep Goofy, we have to" Donald started to say, but without his usual fire, for the effects of the meal had taken hold on him too, and he too lay down and went to sleep a moment later.

Meanwhile Sora, who had not seen the bag of supplies that had been nestled between Donald and Goofy, continued to search though the castle rooms in quest of sustenance. This turned out to be in vain, since the fortress had been abandoned for decades and any food that the kitchen or storerooms once had contained had long since decayed. The search was also hampered by the fact that in his condition, Sora had to take frequent rest breaks to conserve his strength. It was on one of these rest stops that the young man spotted a break in the castle wall, through which the waning rays of that world's sun poured, showing a way to the outside. Staggering once again to his feet, Sora tottered over to investigate.

What the Keyblade Master saw through the opening was not paradise by any means, since it was obvious that the area outside the walls was overgrown with weeds and crowded with saplings that had sprung up over the years since the castle had been abandoned. Still it was evident that this had once been an orchard and that meant the possibility of fruit on some of the trees. So as carefully as his condition would allow, Sora climbed through the gap in the wall and made his way through the old garden. At times he stumbled and twice he fell on his hands and knees, as the combination of hunger and the unfamiliarity of his suddenly too long arms and legs worked to make him a bit clumsy. Still the young man eventually made it to one of the older trees, which looked like it still had a few pieces of fruit on it.

The challenge now would be to get to that fruit, since by the look of things, this particular tree had been long neglected, being severely overgrown with its limbs tangled and intertwined with each other. Sora did not have the strength to physically shake the fruit out of the tree, so he had no choice but to try and climb it. It would be difficult, especially in his condition, but he had climbed trees when he was younger, so he did have some experience at it.

Elsewhere in the Multiverse, within the Castle known as Oblivion, a young woman with short blonde hair was hiding from the minions of an organization known simply as that, the Organization. Fortunately she had managed to slip the Keyblade Master and his friends through the ancient portal she had found in a long forgotten chamber that predated the rest of the castle, using the nine symbols engraved on the keepsake her mother had left her long ago, before this same Organization had captured her the first time.

"Oh Sora, I'm so sorry" Namine apologized to the air, hoping that somehow the Keyblade Master would hear it, wherever the Stargate had sent him and his friends. Still she was very worried, for she had been unable to complete the process of restoring their memories, only having reconstructed up to the point shortly before their adventures together had begun. This meant that when they woke up, Sora would not know Donald and Goofy, or they him. Worse, they would not have access to most of their powers or abilities until they quite literally had a chance and attained the experience to relearn them.

Still, that was better than to have allowed the Organization to capture them. Now all she had to do was to keep the enemy from capturing her, or worse, finding the 'Gate Room' and following the Keyblade Master and his friends to wherever the portal had sent them. So, that's what Namine set out to do, lure the Organization's lackeys away from the Stargate, and keep herself out of their clutches as long as possible. Namine hoped that her power to affect people's minds would allow her to subtly misdirect their attention away from the critical areas, as well as her own hiding place.

Ending theme

I know I promised you my friend, my love, that one day I would return to you.

I know I promised you, the one dearest to me, that we would meet again someday.

But somewhere along the way memory grew dim, and my paths began to stray.

And now I search among the tangled weave of fate, for the red cord that binds us two.

I seek for a guiding star that will lead me to the way that I must go.

The one path that will bring me back home to you.

Next time on Kingdom Hearts Trinity Sight: Episode II: Esper Graduation

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Author's note: About the overall title of this series, Kingdom Hearts Trinity Sight. This is a reference to the format of the first few chapters or 'Episodes', each of which will follow the viewpoint of one of the three main heroes of the story, introducing the characters and getting things up to speed. This is similar to the way the early parts of the story were portrayed in the game Suikoden III. Also, the concept of the Trinity, the three who work together as one is a very important concept in the Kingdom Hearts milieu.

Respectfully yours, Talanane.