A/N: Once again I'd like to say, thank you, and welcome. Whether you're an old reader, or a new one, thanks in advance. This is the third and final installment to the Another Side Another Story novel.
Summary: It's been weeks since the event of the second happening within Castle Oblivion, and things are really looking up for everyone. Still as darkness looms around there will always be a need for the Keyblade, but that's something that doesn't bother them at all, they're the new dawn, but it's going to be a very long and dangerous night. Will the sun be able to rise up?
Title: KH3 Another Side, Another Story 2
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Square Enix at all, and if I did, well I'd be the happiest person in the world. I own, Amaterasu, Ames, Abedo (the concept) and Vieh the wolf, I do not own Xejicka because she's the concept of the author, Xejicka. I do own the members of 2 through 10, and that's it.
Chapter I: The Storm
A brown hare figure yawned watching the change of scenery through the tall window of one of the rooms. It was still the same shade of white it had always been, and his absence had done nothing to change it. The figure rubbed his eyes lazily hearing the sound of strings echo through the white hallways. He chuckled, and turned over in his bed staring up at the white ceiling. He could see faint traces of dried brown paste, he had tried to plaster glow-in-the-dark stars in the past, but that came out horribly. He closed his eyes and tried to relax, thinking of all the new possibilities that would most likely come their way.
Upstairs a young figure wearing dark hued Capri shorts, and a light colored shirt with designs of a crown and Heartless emblem on, was busy drawing things that crept into her mind. She tapped something on the white colored table and like magic a screen was produced out of thin air, the light projection gave it a transparent feel. She tapped something on the table, letting the keyboard light up and sighed in content. '33 restored and running,' she thought smiling. 'It's been two weeks, and they're recovering faster… I wonder if they're helping one another,' it was a thought that plagued her mind.
Ames, the Memory Witch, sighed dispatching the projected status report, and leaned back in her chair, trying to stretch her muscles for a while. She closed her eyes and breathed in slowly. Ames knew their secrets, their hopes and fears, she knew everything about them inside and out. Still there was one memory that made the insides envy the bond the two shared. 'It goes beyond the call of a friend,' she thought smiling sadly. The brown skinned adolescent was the mirror image of a young individual by the name of Amaterasu Diaz. Though Ames chose to become her own person creating the illusion of having silver hair, and blue eyes.
Being what she was, she now had the appearance of a twenty year old, and the others within the vicinity did as well, to keep up with the outside world. The silver hared youth paused putting her drawing instrument down. The door stationed in back of her opened slowly, and a man with a hairstyle between a mullet and a Mohawk walked in holding a tray of food. His green eyes stared at the closed pods for a moment and then traveled to the sitting Memory Witch. The man chuckled softly and walked graciously to the white table, he flowed just like his element. The man wore a sleeveless collared V-shirt with the roman numeral symbol 'IX' in blue stitching on the back, a black sash over his right shoulder, with blue jeans, and a pair of black boots.
"Just thought you might be hungry." The man spoke with such kindness, it made the Memory witch smile. "You like a mess," he said pulling up a chair. He sat on the chair in an unusual manner, sitting Indian style, wit his elbows propped up on the table, his chin resting on his hands. "So, you've been drawing this whole time then?" to which the witch nodded in response. "You really are something." The man said giving her a big smile. His green eyes watched as her colored hand reached for a piece of a cut turkey sandwich, and she stuffed half of it in her mouth, chewing slowly. Not once did she take her blue eyes off of the drawing.
Ames sighed, with still half an eaten sandwich hanging from her closed mouth. Her fingers brushed against the drawing. The man with the green eyes examined the drawing noticing that it was of a teen with unusual hair, fighting against someone with a blindfold. The setting seemed dark, and several buildings looked vaguely familiar to him. The words 'Roxas vs. Riku' were written on the top. She discarded the sketchbook, pushing towards him, as she continued to eat the food that was on the tray. The man flipped through the book and rested his hand against one page. '13 thrones,' he traced a finger to his chair and laughed. Flipping through more pages he looked at a woman that held a scarf, and a man with 13 spears floating through the air, with a sword that seemed to be stabbed into the ground. Another page, and the words 'Family' caught his attention, four teenage males, two teenage females, and a mother and father stationed right behind them.
"The rest are personal memories," Ames said softly placing her hand gently on the sketchbook, and man frowned and released his grip on the page. "Xehart, did you know he once gave up his own body just to restore one girl's heart," she paused taking the sketchbook back in her possession. "It's amazing how far the love from one human being o another is." The Memory Witch smiled. "These two," both of the individuals looked at the closed pods, "they're got something special."
"You mean, like love?" Xehart asked shifting slightly in his chair, like a child.
Ames nodded. "But not as in boy and girl. No…" she paused. "More like family, love comes and goes but not family. He made her a special promise." the Memory Witch felt tears form and shook her head, out of embarrassment.
Her stomach growled, and she uttered something of surprise while Xehart laughed. The Melodious Nocturne excused himself and said that he would return with more food, and once again Ames was all alone. The Memory Witch sighed, closing her mind for a moment. "You guys must be bored in there…"
With her red and black checkered shoes she pressed a button near a small device, and music emitted from it, echoing throughout Castle Oblivion. She smiled and got up from her white chair, and decided to take a stroll around the castle for a while.
Destiny Islands
A Keyblade flew through the air and was stabbed into the ground by the opponent. A female overlooked the match and announced the winner. There was another girl there who rushed to the fallen wielder's aid and sighed. The fallen opponent summoned back his Keyblade and looked up at the other opponent, what he lacked in size made up for his power and speed in battle. The winner grinned and helped the challenger to his feet.
"Good match, Riku." The winner said as the two shook hands. The two females sighed in relief, a little competition never did hurt anybody, but sometimes these two didn't know the meaning of the sentence 'I give up'.
"I almost had you that time, Ven…" Riku said sitting back down on to the sand textured ground in exhaustion. It had been some time now since Ventus and the other teen, by the name of Aqua, arrived on the islands.
Ventus, or his nickname, Ven, was a blonde hared teen who was slightly shorter than Riku. He wore a grey shirt with blue shorts. Strangely enough he held a striking resemblance to someone by the name of 'Roxas'. The way his blonde hared was shaped and his eyes, it was enough to send chills down Kairi and Riku's spine. The other teen by the name of Aqua, who was the same height as Ventus, had short blue hair and matching blue eyes with a pair of earrings. She wore a simple looking green shirt with blue jeans.
Riku, an eighteen year old adolescent with silver hair, who wore a white and black colored shirt with black shorts, sat up against a sturdy trunk of a tall healthy palm tree. Its mighty green leaves swayed alongside the ocean breeze. Kairi, a seventeen year old female with red hair, sat down next to Riku and Aqua, sighing in relief about the outcome of the match. Ventus yawned, leaning against the back side of the trunk away from the other three people.
"Hey Kairi," the blue hared female turned her head looking at the red hared girl. "Tell us that story. The one your grandmother told you."
Kairi smiled, and pulled her legs closer to her body. She was wearing a white colored dress, the edges were trimmed to give off a triangular shape, and underneath it was a separate style that was of a light pink hue down to the knee. Her shoes slid against the sand, the main body of the shoe was white, with bands of pink and red running across from it. Hey blue eyes looked up at the slightly clouded heavens and she opened her mouth:
"Long ago, the world was united and filled with warm light. The people, they loved the light, but they eventually began fighting over it…"
This part always made Ventus flinch, but Kairi was unaware and continued:
"Then, the darkness found its way into people's hearts. Darkness consumed the hearts and light of the people, and in a flash it spread… the world disappeared into the darkness…"
Riku looked down at his hands as their reaction consisted of clenching the sand tightly. For some reason he just couldn't let it go, no matter how hard he tried, despite being forgiven. Still Kairi continued:
"But a glimmer of light remained in the hearts of children… children gathered their glimmers of light, and recreated the world. The recreated world however was no longer united…" she said softly. "It was divided into several smaller worlds. Because the true light was still hidden within the darkness…" Kairi finished the story and exhaled loudly. She closed her eyes, and it brought back something, a memory…
The sound of the shore was crystal clear to her, and the soft sand was underneath her. The sun was right about her, and there was an ocean breeze. A young girl was lying on the shore, fast asleep, in a white and pink dress, with matching shoes. 'I'm supposed to look for someone… someone who I don't know yet. But how will I find that person? Can I find that someone, and why?' thoughts were running through the child's head, unaware of anything but the surroundings around her. She closed her eyes, taking in the touch of the sand, and breeze against her skin.
"Find him…" she repeated to herself. "Find the key…" again the red hared girl spoke. "But… I'm all alone, even Granny isn't here." She said sadly, and told herself that big girls didn't cry. "Okay, I'll find him… but…" the girl was tired, and the heat from the sun wasn't helping her, and before long she was asleep.
Slipping in and out of consciousness the girl could faintly hear a voice. 'I'm supposed to go back with the mayor and his wife…' the little thought with her eyes still closed. She heard another pair of footsteps, they got louder and louder, which meant someone was walking towards her.
"Who… are you?" a voice asked, and she opened her eye slowly. Whoever the voice belonged too, she was glad that the person was blocking the sun from her face. The girl looked up and noticed the spiky tufts of brown hair and blue eyes. "Where did you come from?" the boy asked.
"Me?" she asked, slowly sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "My name… it's Kairi!" the girl yawned. She remembered that her grandmother and the mayor reminded her not to talk to strangers, but for some reason this boy didn't seem like a stranger to her. The boy had asked her if she slept on the beach, and she nodded, and he asked her why. "I was tired… and well I'm here waiting for someone."
"Yeah?" the boy asked with curiosity sitting right next to her. "Well have you found that person?"
Kairi shook her head and sighed. "Maybe he'll be here tomorrow. I've got to go home now." with that she picked herself up and skipped down the shoreline, heading to the sidewalk and up a slight hill.
"Hey that's where the mayor lives!" the boy deduced, and smiled. "She's the girl from the meteor shower then! Wait till Riku hears this!" the boy jeered, and punched the air in glee.
The red hared individual smiled at the memory and looked at the others for a moment. "Riku, shouldn't you be at practice now?" she asked looking at the silver hared youth, he seemed to be lost in thought. He jumped slightly, and his turquoise eyes looked at the girl for a moment and thought about it.
"Damn!" Riku said getting up quickly, and ran down the shoreline. "Thanks Kairi! I'll see you guys later!" with that Riku ran down the area, and onto the sidewalk, where his bike was stationed and rode off down the street.
"I'm amazed, he's still able to run after that match, let alone ride his bicycle…" Ventus said looking off into the distance, until the silver hared adolescent was out of sight. Aqua giggled and peered to the other side of the trunk, Ventus was smiling.
"You went easy on him." Aqua said softly, and Ventus flinched looking at her slightly. "Is it because he reminds you of Terra?" she asked softly, noticing Ventus scowl slightly and looked away for a moment or two.
Kairi thought back to the name, Terra. She had heard bits and pieces from both Ventus and Aqua to know that he was a Keyblade wielder as well. Though something plagued her thoughts for some reason. Her blue eyes looked at the smiling individual, this girl by the name of Aqua. Kairi had never once seen her Keyblade, and yet she told stories that seemed to be older than her. 'Just who are they? Why does he have a Keyblade, and why did Ven call Way to Dawn his?' all these questions and more plagued her mind, but she knew that later one they would be answered.
The red hared Princess of Heart knew that Aqua was skilled in magic, which the blue hared teen said was on par with someone who they knew. Aqua had mastered the fourth level of all the spells that she and Sora knew, but they never once conjured them. The blue hared female had taken the time to train Kairi, and she was doing well, by the compliments that Ventus had given her. Aqua had told her that there was someone who was trying to get back to her, but Kairi didn't know who it was, but it must have been someone important to her, because every time she tried to think back to that person she felt something warm strike her heart.
"You think he'll be back, Kairi?" Ventus asked, making Kairi jump at the sudden question. The blonde hared teen grinned and looked up at the sky. 'No storm, maybe things will get better, or maybe this is just the beginning of the calm before the storm…' the blonde hared individual thought, sighing indifferently. He felt his body stiffen up slightly hearing Kairi answer his question.
"I… I don't…" the teen paused for a moment and hugged her knees closer to her body. "I don't even know what he looks like," Kairi began softly and looked away from Aqua's gaze. "But, something in my heart tells me that he would cross the ends of the universe to come back… it's funny," she chuckled to herself. "I don't even know his name…"
"You want a hint?" the other two asked grinning amongst themselves. Kairi frowned feeling as though they were trying to play with her head. "You're a smart girl…" aqua said patting the red hared teen. "You'll figure it out…" Ventus said starting to walk across the sands.
"Where are you going?" Aqua asked getting up and dusting herself off slightly. "Ventus!" she whined watching him retreat somewhere. "…Ven…" she sighed and huffed. "Darn jerk…" she said rubbing the back of her head. "Hey Kairi… you want to get something to eat?"
Back in Castle Oblivion
A twenty-two year old youth by the name of Terra let his fingers glide across the ivory keys of a device called a piano letting the music flow from the sheets he read with such mastery. His body may have been new, but his heart was old in the sense of time, not age as others have grown accustom to. Another person, by the name of Xejicka sat across from him taking n the chords that rang out for a while, and frowned when the other person hit a sour chord, he did it on purpose.
"She's coming…" he said softly.
It was too soft for Xejicka's liking though, as he had a bad habit of doing that, forcing her to lean forward. 'You'd think he'd be a bit louder…' she thought as her ears caught the sound of his voice. Why in the world did he speak so softly to her? Or how come when Ames speaks to her she's loud, but not with Terra? 'No… Wait could that be why? That sly dog!' she snickered to herself, some random idea entered through her head.
"What's so funny?" Terra asked, his voice was a bit louder this time.
The female grown-up decided to stop and scrunched up her face. "I was thinking about something…"
"About?" he pressed into the matter, letting his fingers pay a melody out of the memory from his heart.
"About this old story I read a long time ago…" she lied, she was able to mask such false tales with ease, and it almost didn't seem funny anymore. "It was about this guy… Oh never mind, it's not even worth telling…" she said hearing the door open softly. Xejicka spun around in her chair and looked at the female who wore a light colored shirt, with dark hued Capri shorts. "Our favorite little Memory Witch, so how goes the reconstruction?" she asked in that chirpy voice of hers.
"All right, I suppose…" she said rubbing the back of her head. That chirpy voice of the twenty year old, was enough to make a drunken person clasp their ears in pain as their head throbbed. Still Ames had grown use to it, and so did the others within their once working organization. "I want you two to do something for me…" she said softly, placing her hands together. "Find me a good place to dump them there."
"Dump…? You know they aren't trash Ames…" the female paused for a moment. "Why not just use Amber Pacific?" Xejicka asked, she had beat Terra to the punch. "It's been working before."
"I don't know if his Majesty can make it there on time…" Ames said pulling up a chair and sitting on it. She titled her chair back and looked up at the white ceiling with the messy stains of glue on them. "So until I get a letter from him, I want the two of you to go and hunt down some possible locations…"
Terra thought about it, searching through the memories of his own heart, and he paused for a moment. "What about that other place…" he said speaking up. "You know that resting area in the End of the World?"
"With Heartless crawling around? No way, we'd be a walking free meal for them, Terri!" Xejicka said throwing her hands up rage. "You want us to lose our hearts?" Terra flinched slightly hearing the word 'Terri', that's what they called him in the old days, since Terra sounded like a feminine name.
Ames sighed and looked at the two of them frowning. Good help was hard to find in this day and age, but she knew that despite the two acting like their old selves, they were good helpers. She insisted again that the two of them go out and look for a place instead of talking amongst themselves like that. It was strange to the other two, since Ames had told them before that she didn't want to leave the castle, but something didn't seem right with her now. Though, out of respect, they decided to go and walk out of the room.
"You think she's afraid?" Terra asked as the two of them made it out of the room and down the slightly bleak hallway.
Xejicka shrugged and looked back, noticing someone else run in their direction. The figure wore a black coat just like Xejicka and Terra, but he seemed to be taller than them despite his current age. He went by the name of Abedo, a replica created from a Soulless by the name of Shimasax, Abedo was meant to represent Terra, but the replica had a soul of his own, thus not acting at all like his original. The twenty-two year old, by the name of Terra had brown air, styled in an unusual way, with blue eyes.
"Upstairs…" the replica panted, holding a weapon by the name of 'Soul Eater' in his grasp. "N…Nobodies…" Abedo said straining to open his eyes. "By the entrance to the pods…"
"Did you fight them off?" Xejicka asked as all three of them ran in the opposite direction to where the two Keyblade Wielders slept. Abedo had explained to them, as soon as Ames had left for that spilt second he had sensed something. He had gone upstairs and found several Dusks and Dancer type Nobodies roaming the hallway in search of something.
"I fought them off…" Abedo said as all three of them ran up a set of white stairs. It brought back memories that were still fresh in their minds. Xejicka summoned her chakram, and they appeared in her grasp in a display of fire, and Terra summoned his weapon' Two Across', a Keyblade that was modeled after the former thirteenth member of the Organization. "But more came…"
The doors burst open on the last explanation, and all three of them scanned the area. Terra ran forward, and blocked an oncoming attack. A chakram flew through the air, colliding with the head of a Dancer type Nobody, sending it flying back to the crowd of the other gathered Nobodies. The light pastel colored creature, that was the Dance Nobody, moved about in a series of kicks and movement that could only be described as ice skating. Abedo ran forward wasting no time and jumped into the crowd of Nobodies. Terra noticed that in the distance several of the creatures were trying to reach the door, but a strange barrier was holding them back.
"We've worked too hard…" the other Keyblade wielder said gripping his weapon tightly and running forward, mustering enough force to cut two Nobodies down to size. Xejicka was off in the distance toying around with several of them, making them crash into each other, before sending a ball of fire in their direction. The sound of metal zipping by was the result of the circular weapons in Xejicka's grasp, the sharp edged weapons spun through the air with deadly force. Terra moved his arms upward, cutting several Nobodies from the shockwave of his Keyblade, and the beings disappeared in an array of white and black jagged ribbons of the sort.
Abedo was dodging attacks quickly and kicked a Nobody squarely in the face with ease and watched it fall back. A Dancer Nobody took the advantage and hoisted the replica into the air, and sent him falling back down with a kick to the abdomen region. The replica winced and recovered, flipping over and landing on his feet like a cat. More Dancer Nobodies circled around him, trying to intimidate him some more. The replica moved with speed, and slide across the white tiled floors, dodging the menacing hands of the Dancer types. He noticed a chakram that missed his nose by an inch, and the metallic object rammed into a nearby Nobody. He noticed that two Dancer Nobodies were moving closer to the fire wielder.
Xejicka spun around, as if she were dancing, moving with the grace that her own element gave her, she was unpredictable for now. The chakram in her command moved with the swift movements of her black gloved hands. A Dusk wriggled around her nad lunged forward with it's claw like hand drawn back, ready to strike down with force. A chakram spinning with fire reached the opposing Nobody and set it aflame, and sliced its arm clean off. The hazel eyed female turned around and noticed two other pastel colored Nobodies closing in on her. She didn't have enough time to act on the weapons at hand, and within an instant two distorted circular balls of dark energy collided with the two Nobodies, rendering them back from whence they came.
Terra and Abedo sighed in relief, and looked around, for some reason the Nobodies were starting to retreat, summoning a strange white and black bordered portal. Xejicka stopped with her display of fire, and looked around. The Dancer and Dusk types were starting to move back slowly, as if fearing something. They each blinked at one another and looked around, so far no one was there to their knowledge. Xejicka and Abedo scratched their heads in bewilderment and soon the barrage of Nobodies disappeared quickly. Around the white hallway there was an eerie silence, and within seconds a pair of footsteps broke the strange spell of stillness. A familiar silver hared female walked up the long and white winding stairs.
"Uh…" the female tilted her head holding a sandwich filled with mustard. The hallway looked a mess, and a column in the distance had fallen several minutes ago. The Memory Witch blinked and looked around, before biting into the sandwich for a moment. "What happened?" she asked finally swallowing that tasty piece of that turkey and mustard delicacy.
"Ames…" the replica began to speak clearing his throat slightly. "Nobodies entered this area a moment ago…" he said looking back at the others for reassurance. Their weapons had withdrawn to their side in a moment of rest. Xejicka and Terra nodded looking back at the silver hared individual.
She moved around slowly in a large circular path taking her time while munching on the piece of bread. Her blue eyes looked up and tried to catch residue of something that couldn't be detected by the naked eye but she found nothing. The Memory Witch sighed heavily, and bit into her piece of food once more frowning at the fact that she found nothing interesting.
"Also, before I forget…" she finally spoke turning on her heels to face them. "I made you guys something to eat." She looked at the replica and at Terra, they looked identical, but she could sense the difference in their 'energy' so to speak. "Also, Abedo…" the replica made a slight indication that he heard her, and she continued:
"I want you to go with Xejicka and Terra, they're doing an errand for me." She finished and walked back into the pod room, opening the door with easy and strolling inside.
'She makes it seem like this is going to be a walk in the park…' Xejicka thought placing her chakram in back of her, as she stretched for a moment. She scratched her right cheek and sighed, letting her hand rest on the crest of the Nobodies that was inked onto the right side of her cheek. 'This isn't exactly how I wanted to spend my free time,' the chakram wielder thought looking back at the other two individuals before her.
Within the pod room Ames noticed the wielder of the sitar and the element of water staring longingly at the two closed flower-bud like pods. Number IX turned around slightly frowning at the fact the Memory Witch was eating.
"Good thing I came back," Xehart said pulling up a chair for himself, watching the silver hared individual sit in her assigned seat. "They're warning you, Memory Witch." The Melodious Nocturne said letting an apparition of water dance about the area of the pod room. "I think the Superior is starting to look deeper into the object… He most likely knows you're a threat."
"If he already knew that, why hasn't he gotten rid of me?" she asked setting her sandwich down momentarily. "You know as well as I do he isn't so forgiving." Ames said crossing her legs slightly and looked back at the two pods, the brave Keyblade wielders of light and darkness slept in there to regain their memories.
Xehart tried to think of an answer, but nothing could come to mind. "For right now, Xejicka and I are still considered part of the Organization," the wielder of water said, letting the apparition disappear quickly. "I wouldn't hold it against you if you didn't trust us."
"That's what the Superior wants, that I'm most sure of, but I do trust the two of you…" she said softly looking down at her lap. "For right now, all we can do is just fall back into our original selves, and just wait for the tides to change, wouldn't you agree?" she asked looking up at the man, as he tilted back in his chair for a moment.
"I suppose so…" Xehart said sighing for a moment and stood up. "But Xejicka and I won't be around much longer to protect you from the Heartless and Nobodies." The man with the strange hairdo said walking down the room, and his hand rested on the white colored doorknob.
"That's why I have Terra and Abedo…" she said moving her hands slightly, letting them rest on the top of her head. Ames was starting to get a bit bored staying within the boundaries of the castle herself.
"Abedo may leave, he is after all somewhat human… But Terra… he'll feel torn from his heart. Jackie and you are the only two people he cares about now." Xehart said sadly for a moment.
Ames heard the footsteps of the Melodious Nocturne fade into the distance, and she opened up her sketchbook, taking in the drawings that were sketched from memory…
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There was one group of three friends, who lived on a place called Destiny Islands. If you think about it, it's really a fitting name for the beginning of their journey, they all met by destiny, believe it or not, but I'm sure the reader already knew that.
Two teen boys, and one teenage girl. The oldest, at 15 years of age was a silver hared boy named Riku, he was cool and confident, from what he remembers. Then there was another 14 year old boy, Sora, who had his hair brown spiked up and had blue eyes. Last, but not least, was a girl by the name of Kairi, at the tender age of 14, just like Sora. She had recollection of the past, but was glad to have made the best friends any girl could've made.
Their journey was simple, to be honest, but I guess destiny had other plans for all of them, and it happened to pick the most exciting day of their lives. To be honest, they were still kids, they were far too young to have such a task bestowed on the, but I am but a humble servant of time, so I can't really say anything about that. Now to go back to the topic at hand, if you already didn't know…
Those lines:
'So much to do, so little time. The door is still shut. Take it easy, don't be sacred…'
It's something that's plagued his heart for so long, and yet he manages to smile, and we're glad about that, though I'm digressing, so back to the explanation:
They built a raft to travel to other worlds, as any child would do, being bored on their tiny little group of islands. But, one day a stormed hit, and things went crazy from there, can you believe it? Of course you can, what am I saying?
Somewhere, very, very, very, very, very, far, far, away there was a king in search of a 'key'. From the memories of his good advisors, he wrote:
'Dear Donald,
Please forgive me for leaving so suddenly but trouble is brewing, and there's no time to lose. I'm not sure why, but the stars have been blinking out… one by one. Hate to leave you, but I have to check this out… As the king, I have a favor to ask of you and Goofy… There's someone out there with a key – the key to our survival. I need you and Goofy to find him and stick with him! Got it? Without that key… we're doomed…'
At the same time, what many don't know, was that there was a girl by the name of Amaterasu, and her family, which consisted of one older sister, and two younger brothers, and two older brothers. Because of a dispute between partners of the past, they decided to use the dark terminal, within the End of the World, to travel about worlds the way the Heartless did, which was no small feat, taking a toll on the hearts of those who were pure. At the time of the Heartless invasion they simply stood their ground, and let their still, fresh and new home, get swallowed by the darkness, sensing the new Keyblade Master…
Off in the distance the other islanders were off minding their own business, doing whatever it was children and grownups did on their weekend nights.
In the distance there was a teen with turquoise eyes that looked off into the distance, lost in though for some reason, something was coming, and his heart knew it.
"The door is opening…" he said softly to himself, stepping onto the white balcony of his home. The waves were crashing against the shore, and it looked like a storm was about to take over their calm islands.
Kairi was off gathering materials for their raft, and thought that the guys would do the same, but boy was she wrong. Sora was off in his secret hideout, looking at the drawings that they had done. Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka didn't know about it, but they had always wanted to explore the little cave hidden behind the leaves.
Sora sighed and looked at the drawings for a moment, taking it into his heart all the wonderful memories that were stored within the drawings of the whole area. One memory in fact caught my attention… Wait, did I say my? I meant his attention… Back to the recollection at hand…
"This is Riku's and my secret place!" a brave little boy said standing up to the only girl who thought he was awesome. The little boy blushed slightly and shook his head.
"Wow, that's cool!" the girl said running around the area, touching the rock textured walls with awe, and smiling feeling some of the chalk brush onto her fingers. The boy with spiky hair blushed, and finally caved in after what seemed like hours, but they were only seconds in the eyes of others.
"Kairi, I'll let you in because you're special!" the boy said the blush was apparent on his face, but the girl didn't seem to mind one bit.
"Thanks, Sora!" the girl said, and before anyone knew they were drawing the other's face on the rock wall.
Back to the present where the soon to be Keyblade Master was, he picked up a rock, and decide to do something before they got ready to leave in the morning. He drew an arm, extending to the one who would receive the drawn paopu fruit. It was there, that one voice would change everything for them…
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Ames sighed and closed the sketchbook, and the memoirs she had written using Naminé's book and that of her own. She had decided that the world needed to know the keepers of light and darkness, since no real records of them were recorded in a while. The current Memory Witch knew that Abedo and the others were having more than a difficult time finding a place for Amaterasu and Sora, every place seemed to hostile at this point.
Truth be told the Memory Witch just wanted some time alone to think, and gather her thoughts, everything seemed to be going according to plan, from what an ancient artifact had foretold years ago in her lifetime. Ames placed her left hand down, she had a bad habit of tapping whatever she had at hand on the table or on something that made noise. Memories of Sora and of the girl were running through her head, like crazy.
"I wonder if this was how you felt Naminé?" she asked herself saying loudly and staring up at the white colored ceiling. The color was starting to annoy her, everywhere she went white greeted her eyesight, it seemed so empty within the crumbling Castle Oblivion.
For not the Memory Witch had to say put, within the walls of this room, if she even dared to set foot outside the room most likely the Superior would have Nobodies and Heartless running around, trying to go and abduct the two Keyblade wielders.
Traverse Town
"You are a horrible pilot…" a voice said growling for a moment.
"Yeah well you didn't hear anything from me when we almost crashed into that asteroid belt…" a female voice said, sounding relaxed for some reason.
"You guys…"
"Oh and I suppose that, that little detour to Agrabah was just for a pit stop…" a male voice said sounding a bit annoyed.
"Come on you two knock it off…" another voice said, it sounded almost identical to another voice
"You were the one who said that we were out of gas, which was a lie, gummi ships don't run on gas!" the female said flailing her arms in the air.
"Do you know how ridiculous you look, a twenty year old acting like a seven year old…"
"But you're arguing with me, that makes you just as ridiculous…" the female voice said smirking, and hugging her companion in triumph, he had let his guard down. In the distance the other voice, or rather, the person came back holding three ice-cream bars, with such delicacy, that the other two stopped and looked at him.
"Hey… when did you get that, Abedo?" the female voice asked. Abedo rolled his eyes groaning in annoyance at the sight before him. His original self was being hugged to death by a female of the same class. Xejicka released one free arm, to grasp the stick tightly on the light blue greenish tinted ice-cream bar. The original self of Abedo opened his mouth, since his arms were pinned to his side, and the replica was more than glad to stuff it in his mouth, but not to satisfy the original, but more like to have the original choke on it.
"He's choking…" Xejicka said flatly, and something registered in her head. "He's choking!" she said screaming, and looking around. "Abedo, do something!" she panicked. "Oh man if Ames finds out he died from choking on a Popsicle, she's going to kill us! Wait no, she's going to kill me!"
Abedo sighed hearing Xejicka continue:
"If she finds out we were eating ice-cream she's going to be furious! Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die!"
The replica patted Terra on the back, trying to get him to relax, or at least be able to gasp for air. Xejicka was still going about describing the ways Ames would most likely kill them, but it didn't seem to phase the replica, or the Key of Destiny.
"Wait, what if she erases our memories?!" Xejicka flung her arm, and somehow the ice-cream went flying, but the better term was soaring through the air, catching germs, and probably smashing into airborne bugs, and it landed somewhere in the distance. Xejicka cringed slightly hearing someone yell out their window.
"She really wouldn't really erase our memories would she?!" she continued again.
Terra and Abedo sighed, shaking their heads, and they tried to continue in their consumption of their frozen treats.
"What if she locks me in Shimasax's room?! I'm too feisty and elegant to die!" the chakram wielder wailed, clawing at Abedo and Terra's black hooded coats.
"Take it, and calm down…" Terra said turning his head slightly, and offering the blue and greenish tinted frozen treat. Xejicka paused for a moment, and grasped it slightly, popping it into her mouth.
"Finally…" Abedo said voicing his opinion rather loudly. "I was wondering when you were going to shut up…" yet somehow the replica found his ice-cream on the ground, and his mouth hung open. "Great…" he snarled. He tried to lung forward at the Flurry of the Dancing Flames, but Terra held him back at arm's length.
"Protecting your girlfriend…" Abedo said noticing Terra slightly flinch at the mention of that word. "Come on, she ruined my ice-cream, let me at least just knock her ice-cream out of her hand…"
"No…" Terra said calmly trying to escort the replica away from Xejicka, but to no avail. Xejicka, the chakram wielder, just stuck out her tongue, making faces at the replica behind Terra's back. "Listen we're here to do a mission, and not to dilly dally…" he said seriously looking back at Xejicka.
"Dilly dally shilly shally…" Xejicka said spinning about in a child like manner, eating her ice-cream.
"Those things are selling like hot cakes…" Abedo said looking over at the direction of the stand, he was still bent on trying to knock that ice-cream out of her hand. There was a slightly small man, wearing a white and light blue striped apron, with a little white hat of the same nature. In front of the man was a cart with pictures on the side, with the words in red, 'New: Sea Salt Ice-cream'. People from this world were lining up to buy a tasty frozen treat.
"I always thought Traverse Town would be a bit more… different…" Abedo said softly, catching the confused glances of his companions. He explained in detail how he came to know of Traverse Town, it was all thanks to the teachings of the Chilly Academic, Shimasax. He had taught the replica much of what he knew, and so this knowledge stayed with him.
Traverse Town was a world that had been a mixture of the worlds that had been destroyed by the Heartless. It was a place where one could go to, escaping the threat of the dark creatures. The place was divided into three districts, the last one being home to a small fountain. The setting for this world was that of night. This world strayed too far from the light, and yet it was a safe place for those who had lost their homes. Tavern looking areas, and street lights brighten the First District, and a clock tower was the most noticeable in the Second District, and an empty house, along with a strange door that accompanied the Third District.
This place seemed very calm, and Abedo had suggested it on the map, while Xejicka and Terra had been fighting about 'personal matters' as the replica called it. Those two words could involve anything from 'apples' all the way down to the last letter in the alphabet, they always fought, and somehow neither of them won.
"I like this world…" the replica said noticing that something had set the other two off. Xejicka's Popsicle that was once Terra's, was on the floor, turning itself into something of a blue and greenish liquid and with sticky properties. Though, for some reason she wasn't mad, but rather disappointed.
"I guess this will be their place of awakening…" Xejicka said, but her eyes seemed glued on the former substance of the fallen ice-cream.
"How are we going to transfer those pods here?" the replica asked as the three of them walked out of the hustle and bustle of First District, and into the more relaxed part of Second District.
Disney Castle
"You know, Dad…" a tall looking knight looked at his son as his child began to speak. They were of the same specie, and the son was almost as tall as his father. The shield wielding knight looked at his son, allowing him to continue. "I want to go with you. I want to fight alongside them."
"Max…" the familiar knight, by the name of Goofy said, being slightly stern. "We've gone over this--"
"A thousand times, I know that." Max said frowning for a moment. "Come on, Dad, I'm eighteen now, I can take care of myself!"
"What about Roxanne?" Goofy asked quickly, getting his son to pause for a moment. "I know you wouldn't want to leave her behind…" the taller knight had made a valid point.
"But it's not fair though, you and Donald get to go and fight, I want to be a part of that!" Max said looking away for a moment.
To be honest, to Goofy's knowledge, Max had been given an opportunity to train with the rest of the soldiers, to provide their world with defense, but Goofy didn't want his son to get hurt, and so King Mickey obeyed his wish for his son not to join their ranks. Goofy began to wonder whether or not it was a good idea, but he was just doing what he thought was right.
After moments of awkward silence, Max let his anger subside, and looked back at his father:
"So, what are they like?" he asked, noticing the big smile on his father's face.
"Well, lemme think," the anthropomorphic dog rubbed his chin, and squinted trying to think. "Well there's one who's probably around your age, by the name of Riku. He's got a Keyblade he told was called the Way to Dawn, he's a good friend of this other Keyblade wielder by the name of…erm…" Goofy scratched his head, trying to think of the correct name for the wielder. He knew it started with an 'S'. "Sammy… Sam? Roxi? What was his name…?" Goofy tapped his finger on his head trying to think of the name. "Sara?" still nothing popped into his head. "I just had it too…" he said sounding defeated.
"Do you remember anyone else?" his son asked him, Max was trying to be patient with his father.
"There was a girl too, but I don't remember her name either…" the tall shield wielding knight said, being as honest as he could. Something didn't seem right about all of this to him, but to Max he simply thought Goofy was just getting old, which was true, but Goofy didn't forget friends.
Destiny Islands
Aqua and Ventus walked Kairi home, up this familiar hill that was home to the mayor's house. Sometimes on weekends or on holiday's she and the mayor's family would spend time in another home, close by Sora's house. The two teens walked away from the elegant looking abode that was nestled on a fresh crisp green hill. Aqua looked around the area taking in the scenery, she loved the setting, it was very different from Sunset Horizons, and she had wanted a change from that place for some time.
"Hey Ventus…" the blonde hared teen looked at the blue hared individual around his age, and she continued, looking around the area once more, "what if… they don't get all of their memories?" she asked.
Ventus looked away, hearing that ocean in the distance, and as he breathed in he could almost taste the salty breeze. The question had plagued them for some time now, upon their arrival of getting to know both Kairi and Riku. "I don't know… but I guess like Riku and Kairi, they would have very little memories of one another…"
Aqua stretched her arms, and took in the gentle breeze that brush up against her. In the back of her mind she missed one of her other friends, who went by the name of Terra. She remembered bits and pieces of watching him move across these plain white halls, and sometimes as they passed by one another they smiled, or smirked. The blue hared teen sighed and looked down at her feet, shuffling them slightly. At that moment though something broke their thoughts of tranquilly, and looked around them. The ground was starting to shake slightly, and several clouds were looming overhead.
"Damn…" Ventus cursed that the rotten timing, and pulled Aqua into a sprint. The two of them ran away from the little town, and found a couple of rafts. 'Perfect!' the two of them thought, and without a second thought about it, they were getting ready to sail off.
"Wait… Riku and Kairi…" Aqua said quickly, holding Ventus back from the edge of the pier. "Someone has to tell them."
"You tell them then… it'll get dangerous over there…" he pointed to the island, the door was located there.
"But…Ven…" she made up her mind, and nodded, as much as she didn't want to leave him behind. "All right, I'll catch up with you later then…"
"So much for a vacation, huh?" Ventus smirked, and hopped onto the raft. The seas were starting to become restless, the earth knew that something was going to happen, and it was afraid just as well. Aqua looked up at the sky, shades of grey and black were taking over the light shades of blue, it seemed depressing in reality, and Aqua could feel some sort of pressure hit her heart slightly.
In the distance, Riku was sitting down, taking a break from playing scales as a warm up, and only Selphie and him were left, just like always. Selphie Tilmitt was playing a couple of songs on the piano she had heard by ear, and it seemed to come out just fine. The silver hared teen looked out into the distance and noticed that clouds that were starting to form around them. 'Looks like there's going to be a storm…' he thought, remembering something. 'I hope Sora's doing okay…'
The brown hared Selphie jumped slightly hitting a sour note, and looked at the fallen chair, and then to Riku, he seemed nervous, but at the same time he managed to crack a smile, but a rather nervous one at that. There were a series of knocks at the door behind them, and the two teens looked at the wooden door of their somewhat private studio. The door was knocked upon once more, and the knob to the entrance turned slowly, and there in their view was a teen leaning tiredly against the entrance of the door.
"Aqua, what's wrong?" he asked noticing the exhausted look on the blue eyed individual's expression.
"The door…" she mustered enough energy to speak. "The door has opened…" she said.
A/N: You know what to do, one review please!
