Out of Area 1
A shared Kingdom Hearts fic
I was falling, falling, falling into the water–through the water. I gasped out for lack of oxygen and the nightmare ended with a start. I groaned and looked up, around at the tropical camp my partner and I currently stayed at. Speaking of which...
"Yume, boss is calling you." Yuki said, crawling onto her bunk in the crowded tent we shared with two others.
"Yuki…" I trailed, raising an eyebrow as the purple-haired girl only grunted in response, "if he wants me he wants you, get up." Yuki groaned in a last minute attempt to preserve some energy.
"Fine, c'mon." she grumbled. I rolled my eyes and grabbed my jacket and staff. The jacket was a navy blue, with gold fabric along the end of the sleeves and lavender, and pale blue swirls along the tops of the sleeves and a heart, on the back, a swirl of pale colors. It complimented my lavender eyes and brown hair nicely; I never went anywhere without it. My staff was simple and purple, with a red ring at the bottom and top, forming a base for a red orb.
"Hold up!" I growled, almost skipping to catch up with Yuki as I tried to follow, put on my jacket, pull my mid-back length hair into a ponytail and hold my staff all at once. Yuki paused, then turned around; she was grinning.
"Sorry Yume, I worked double-guard all last night. I might be slightly cranky." I shrugged off her apology.
"It's okay." I said, pulling on my jacket, "That's what you get for being a warrior." Yuki rolled her ruby eyes but didn't say anything in response. I brushed a stray curl away from my face.
"Where do you think we're being called for?" Yuki asked, nodding to the guards at the gate of the only sturdy building on the small island. I shrugged.
"I don't know but hopefully it will be away from this stupid tropical place." I shivered. "Too many bugs." Yuki snickered and knocked on the wood door to the boss' office. He wasn't a bad boss, even if he was rather strict. There were rumors floating about what had happened to the old boss. Some even said it was Ansem himself.
"Girls, girls!" chortled the tall man. He waved them in and closed the door behind them. "It's been a while since you last got to prove your worth." She said. The jerk was laughing, at us. Yuki grabbed the sleeve of my jacket as my hand holding the staff twitched. She glared at me.
"Yes sir, it has been…"
"4 months." I muttered just loud enough for it to echo around the room. Yuki continued, as if I had not spoken,
"…4 months since we have had a mission, but we can assure you it is not our fault." A jolt ran through me-harsher than when my beginner's thunder spell had backfired.
"We're not in trouble?" I exclaimed, it was a rhetorical question the black-eyed man his hair sliced back, only watched, no expression showing. "It isn't our fault no one has bothered to call on us!" I had risen, Yuki tugged on my sleeve again-harder this time. My feeble body obliged and I sat once more, still tense. I glared at him; I've never claimed to have the best people skills.
The Boss laughed.
And laughed
And laughed a bit more. Yuki and I stared at him.
"Perfect, perfect!" he said, clapping at the overwhelming glee of it all, Yuki was startled into a response while I continued to sit there, dumbstruck.
"P-perfect s-sir? Perfect for what?"
"My newest mission of course! I need a warrior…" he nodded to Yuki, "and a mystic." He nodded at me, "We might also need a guardian. But we'll probably have to bring in an outsider for such, hmm?" He continued laughing and I continued staring.
"Okay, let me explain." He paused, his face suddenly serious, he looked at the door then continued, "There is darkness brewing. Stars are going out in the sky, which means worlds are dissolving." I gasped, "There has been a key…a key to end the darkness. Your mission is to find that key. Once you find the key wielder stick with them. They are the key to our future. Protect him." He stared at them, one after each other they nodded, "Okay then." He waved them up. "Your journey will start at midday, pack up only one bag each. And be ready. We nodded and left.
"Wow! I can't believe it!" exclaimed Yuki, skipping ahead of her friend, "a mission to save the world! No, the worlds! This is so exciting! I wonder what the Keybearer will be like-what do you think, Yume?" I blinked, only getting half of her rant, not that it mattered to her either way. I shrugged.
"My guess? Some young guy, seventeen or twenty or so. Probably wears like, all black or something. What do you think?"
"I don't know, maybe he'll be our age?" Yuki offered. I laughed, almost having to pause and leaning on my staff.
"Fourteen! Are you kidding, Yuki?" I asked, composing myself as much as I could, "come on, the blade chooses the master right? It would never choose a kid like us." I ducked into our tent, careful not to wake up our tentmates. Yuki sighed, looking to the sky.
Above her, a single star flashed, then went out.
She sighed and followed her friend, with one last glance at the glowing sky.
I was startled awake by a pillow, I pushed it aside and sat up, looking around with sleep still in my eyes, "Wanaerfep?" I mumbled intelligently. Yuki laughed. She was already dressed; her sleeveless, seafoam-green clad back was towards me, revealing the small wing pattern decorating it, she was pulling her fashion-patched jeans over white boots, decorated with a red line on them. She looked over as she finished, grabbing armbands-one pink with a heart on it, and the other blue and white checkered. After her checkered band she tied a red ribbon under it and pulled a metal shoulderplate on her other side, it was decorated with a line of green and a large yellow star, somewhat worn away with use. She finally strode over, while pulling her red, yellow and green headband under her purple, nearly pink locks, just after fastening her pink and yellow belt. She poked me. "Come on, it's almost noon." I almost fell out of the bunk at that.
"NOON!" I squealed, hopping out and dashing to the closet in only my huge purple nightshirt, "Are you INSANE? Why didn't you wake my up earlier!" I sprinted to the closet, which was really just a basket filled with clothes, and got dressed; I pulled on my baggy black pants-like Yuki's, they had a decorative patch, but mine was swirls of lavender and pale blue instead of stripes of orange and purple. I then ran behind the small screen and changed from the large purple nightshirt to a black one, sleeveless, with a single lavender stripe. I also slipped on my arm warmers; they were plain black and fastened at my thumb. I threw on my jacket and zipped it up halfway as I jogged over to the door and slipped on plain white socks.
"Yuki, are you almost done packing your bag?" I asked, finished with my socks and starting to pull on my plain black boots.
"Hmm? What now?" Yuki asked, turning to me with a carrot in her mouth. My jaw dropped.
"You haven't packed yet!" I squealed, rushing around the room, only one of my boots having the belt around it buckled properly. How on earth had she managed to wake up before me and not pack? Yuki snickered, having to sit on the bed to contain herself.
"I'm just kidding." She said finally, holding back a laugh and managing to swallow the last bit of carrot, "I just like seeing you freak out." I rolled my eyes, and fastened the other buckle, adding a second belt- this one light blue, just below my left knee.
"Fine, whatever, hand me my pack would you please?" Yuki complied, nonchalantly tossing the blue thing to me. I muttered something under my breath and the rainbow colored pillow and blanket disappeared from the top bunk; I scooped the shrunken items and dumped them into her bag, while Yuki glared. I responded by sticking my tongue out, then shrinking some spare clothes.
Magic was useful stuff.
I put my staff aside and grabbed a shelf-full of boots from the small one near my bed. I finally topped it all off with two notebooks, a pen, and two pencils. I sighed and topped that off with a worn-looking red stuffed toy, I happen to…you know what? Nevermind, moving on. I grabbed my staff, and took one last look around the small tent, turning to Yuki.
I sighed. "Ready to go?"
Yuki rolled her eyes. "Nah, let's stay here a while longer, 'kay?" She replied, voice dripping sarcasm. A moment later she snapped, as if she'd fooled me, "Of course I am, when do we leave?"
"Right about now, I'm guessing." I said, only rolling my eyes in response. Outside a small orb was glowing and a small sheet of paper flew out; I caught it in midair. It was a note.
"Your ship is waiting at the docks, good luck.
The Boss."
Yuki squealed. "Oooh, this is gonna be awesome!" A moment later she added perkily, her eyes lighting up hopefully, "Can I drive?"
"Eh... heheheh." I laughed nervously, my mind drifting along past memories of Yuki's 'driving', as she called it. "Uhh, no. I'll drive." At her crestfallen look I sweatdropped. "Maybe next time?" I suggested hopefully as we reached the ship.
Yuki pouted. "Fine. You're no fun." After a moment, she added sullenly-if, admittedly, a little doubtfully, "I won't crash it again...I think I've gotten better..."
"I said before, maybe next time." I said shortly, putting my hand on the scan sheet near the door, it opened and I walked in, tossing my bag on a nearby chair, and walking towards the driver's seat. "Come on!"
Yuki snorted, promptly depositing herself in one of the other seats without bothering to take her pack off. "Exactly, you said maybe, which means 'no'. I mean jeez, it's not like I'd try to kill us or anything." All the same, she still looked pretty excited, all things considered.
"Of course you wouldn't try,"I muttered to myself.
"What?"
"Nothing! Okay!" I pressed a button and the door shut. I strapped myself in and gripped the wheel tightly, pressing my belted boot to the pedal "Let's go!"
"Hmph," Yuki snorted. "Just because I'm somewhat uncoordinated..."
I didn't respond as the Gummi ship-which, in a fit of crativity, we had named Gumi-raised into the air slowly and then shot like the rocket it was towards a nearby world.
"Traverse Town here we come!" I yelled jovially.
Yuki perked. "Oooh, sounds interesting. Kinda. Do you think he'll be there?" A moment later, before I could answer, she added, "Heck, how do we even know the Keybearer'll be a 'he'? Maybe the Keybearer'll be a girl."
"Good point, it's a mystery." I replied, "It would be nice if it was a girl though, It'd be bad for a guy to be stuck with two girls huh?"
Yuki snorted in amusement. "Yeah. At least we aren't all uber-girly if it is a guy, y'know?" Even as she said this, she dug through one of her pockets-which could, seemingly, hold anything-before pulling out an old, well-worn rag. She set about absent-mindedly polishing the blade of her excessively large sword, even though the arrow-shaped blade was already probably as clean and polished as it could reasonably get.
"That too, I suppose." I said, checking a digi-map, "It'd stink if it was a girl and she was a girly-girl."
"Hm." Yuki replied noncommittally. "Well, I hope he or she or whatever is at least tolerable. I'd hate to be stuck with somebody I couldn't stand. I may be forced to kill 'em. And then you'd like turn me into a leech or something," she added darkly, "which would suck." She paused for a second, then snorted. "Hah, suck. Leech, suck. I made a pun!"
"Umm...okay then." I said, glancing at her out of the corner of my eye.
Sometimes it was best to just not ask with her.
"We're about there, strap in." As I said this, I pulled a lever near the ground of the ship and Gumi started to shake-getting ready to land.
"Eeek!" Yuki squealed suddenly, then stuffed her polishing rag back into her black hole of a pocket, briefly setting her beloved sword aside to strap herself in, only to retrieve it a second or two later.
As Gumi finally reached the ground I undid my strap and pressed the button, opening the door again. Standing, I grabbed my bag from the chair. "Okay then...time to explore a whole new world." I said, going out the door.
AN: Hey, Silvar here, Up until about when they leave it's all written by me alone, after that it's shared between me and Yuki! -
Sora: REVIEW.
Yuki: -pokes- Mwah. D Eat that, Keybearer.
Sora: -pwned- xx
Yuki: And just wait until I actually FIND you in here. Mwahah.