Chapter 1 (Remastered Version)

AN: This story takes place three months after Kingdom Hearts II, and everyone looks the same as they did in Kingdom Hearts II, though in the next chapter, Kairi and Naminé will get a costume change.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything at all related to Kingdom Hearts in this story. It all belongs to Square-Enix.


Destiny Islands

On a warm sunset on Destiny Islands, Sora, the Hero of Light, was standing on the shore of the playground island, where he, and his other friends, liked to play as kids. He was very happy to be back home, and to be with his mother again, who missed him like crazy. Although at the same time, he missed all the other things. He missed Donald, and Goofy, and all the crazy adventures they had together. After all, he was basically an adventurer.

Though he still longed for adventure, he knew it might never happen again. Unless there was a problem with the Heartless, the Nobodies, or Maleficent and the other Disney villains, there wouldn't be one ever again. He was able to accept this though, and managed to have a normal life again on the islands. He and Riku would spar from time to time, like they used to do as kids with wooden swords. Riku and Sora were even in wins and losses.

Sora was also spending a lot of time with Kairi, who was as of their return home, his girlfriend. The two would still play together on the island the way they did as kids, or before Sora's first journey began. They would often talk about all the crazy stuff that happened after their world disappeared, as well as things that happened before Sora woke up from his long sleep, and after he and Kairi were separated after Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeated Xehanort's Heartless, Ansem.

Kairi has also learned to properly use a Keyblade. She used the one that Riku gave to her in the World That Never Was when he and Kairi fought off the Heartless to help Sora before he fought Xigbar, called Destiny's Embrace. Riku and Sora taught her some of their moves, as well as how to use some spells. After much training, Kairi discovered she was proficient with Limits.

On another note, Roxas and Naminé have been boyfriend and girlfriend for about the same time as Sora and Kairi. No one knew how it was possible, but Roxas and Naminé eventually found out they could physically live outside of Sora and Kairi, but all four were still complete beings. While no one understood how this was possible, or how it happened, they didn't really care. After they split from Sora and Kairi, Roxas and Naminé were both adopted by their former other selves parents. Roxas lived with Sora and his mom, while Naminé lived with Kairi her adoptive father.

Roxas is protective of Naminé because of the terrible things she went through in the past with how Organization XIII, and Ansem the Wise as DiZ, treated her. He promised Naminé he would never let anyone hurt her ever again. All he wanted was to see her smile and laugh like she always does. These promises reminded Roxas of his time of friendship with Axel, when they would watch out for each other and help one another.

Naminé could also use a Keyblade like Kairi. She used the Two Become One Keyblade. Like Kairi, she is also proficient at Limits.

Tonight is going to be a special night at the islands. Tonight was the annual celebration that everyone from the main island attended, which has been a traidtion for centuries. Sora was so hyperactive about it that he couldn't stop thinking about it.

When he went back to the main island, he looked up to the sky and saw two twinkles. He looked closer to see they were two big objects landing not to far from where he was standing.

He quickly ran in the direction they to confirm what they were. Getting there didn't take Sora long, but when he saw what the two objects were, he couldn't believe his eyes. They were Gummi ships. More specifically, the Invincible Lv.7, and the Falcon Peak models, both upgraded versions. Out of them, stepped Donald, Goofy, Mickey, and Leon's gang, with two he'd never seen before. "Hey guys!" Sora called, happily waving at see his comrades.

"SORA!" Donald, Goofy, and Mickey screamed with joy as the dog piled on him.

"Alright guys, it's good to see you to." Sora said laughing as he somewhat struggled got out of the dog pile.

"Long time no see." Yuffie said.

"What are you guys doing here?" Sora asked.

"There have been some weird things happening around the worlds, so we're checking things out." Leon answered.

"Your world was the next one we were going to check out." Cloud added in.

"Can I lend a hand?" Sora asked.

"Sure, we could use all the help we could get right now." Tifa said.

"Thank you Sora." Aerith added in.

"Sure. By the way who're they?" Sora asked looking at the two people he didn't know.

"Oh these are our friends, Rinoa and Zack." Aerith answered for Sora.

"It's nice to finally meet the Keyblade master I've heard so much about." Zack said shacking Sora's hand.

"Same here. Leon told us a lot of things about you." Rinoa added in.

"Well let's go!" Sora replied as he led the others away.

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Later that night, the celebration on the main island was under way. It pretty much had everything that a carnival would have. Food, drinks, games, rides, everything people would want. Sora and everyone else were walking through the place, making sure that nothing was going wrong. They would go on rides and play a few games every now and then. Sora of course, was eating food more than anything else.

He and Kairi had also released Roxas and Naminé from their bodies, thinking it was about time for them to live their lives outside their true selves bodies. They'd been having more fun then they've ever had in their short existence. But something happened that would spoil the fun for everyone. Something that no one really saw coming.

"AAAAAHHHHH! HELP! CREATURES ARE ATTACKING!" a woman screamed.

"That's our cue." Sora told the parties. He and everyone quickly ran in the scream's direction.

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When the parties arrived at where the scream came from, there were a vast amount of Heartless swarming around everywhere as the people fled in terror. The attacking Heartless were of both Pureblood, and Emblem. Air Pirates, Angel Stars, Invisibles, Wyverns, and Battleships in the air with Shadows, Large Bodies, and Soldiers on the ground. There was also a Dark Thorn leading them to boot.

"Oh come on!" Sora complained in annoyance of how many Heartless there were.

"Oh quit your complaining Sora! If you could kill a thousand Heartless by yourself, this should be nothing." Roxas retorted as he summoned Oathkeeper and Oblivion.

Following up, Sora summoned Ultima Weapon and Ultima Edge. (AN: Ultima Edge is the Ultima Weapon from Kingdom Hearts with a different name so the two don't get mixed up. Sora wields Ultima Edge in his left hand).

Kairi summoned Destiny's Embrace, and Naminé summoned Two Become One. Riku summoned Way to the Dawn, and Mickey summoned Kingdom Key D. Donald brought out Save the Queen as Goofy brought out Save the King. Leon drew his Revolver gunblade as Cloud drew his Fusion Sword, and Yuffie brought out her shuriken as Tifa readied her fists. Zack drew his Buster Sword, and Rinoa activated her Silenced Tear blaster edge, along with her own unique gunblade, Vanishing Star

(AN: Vanishing Star and Silenced Tear are weapons Rinoa wields in the fan-made movie series "Dead Fantasy").


Play this music: Night of Fate - Kingdom Hearts


The Dark Thorn turned and pointed at the group, commanding the Heartless to attack them. All the Heartless, on command, came charging in to attack them. Everyone leaped into the air to avoid incoming blasts from the Battleships. Sora landed on the ground, only to see a Battleship fired a cannon ball at him. He used a High Jump to avoid it, only to see there was another one heading for him.

Sora quickly used Aerial Dodge to avoid it, and at the same time landing on the Battleships deck. Flipping Ultima Edge backwards in his hand, Sora quickly stabbed the pirate captain figure in the middle, killing it instantly, and blowing up the ship. Sora jumped off beforehand and landed on the ground safely.

Roxas was quickly surrounded by a dozen Air Pirates. They all charged him at once. Roxas quickly jumped up and destroyed two with a slash from Oblivion. He quickly turned and stabbed Oathkeeper into one behind him before destroying another with Oblivion. As Roxas flew down, he threw Oathkeeper into the air. The spinning Keyblade slashed through the rest of the Air Pirates and flew back to Roxas's hand. Mickey wasn't having trouble at all as the Invisibles and the Angel Stars weren't able to keep up with him because of his agile movements. Two Neoshadows came up from behind, trying to get in a sneak attack. Mickey quickly spun around and sliced through the two Heartless with ease.

Riku was disposing of Soldiers with his Keyblade and his Dark Aura attacks. One appeared behind him and would have struck him, but a Blizzard spell launched by Kairi destroyed and saved it. Kairi swung Destiny's Embrace around and sliced two Soldiers in half, before spinning around and easily cutting down a Neoshadow and four Shadows.

A Battleship sent a cannonball at Sora's back, but Riku stopped it with his Dark Shield. Sora and Riku then gave each other a thumbs up. Naminé quickly jumped up and sliced the Battleship down the middle and destroyed it instantly.

Suddenly, a giant portal of darkness appeared on the ground, dispersing out a Darkside Heartless. "You gotta be kidding me!" Sora exclaimed seeing as they already enough problems to deal with. Riku quickly ran over to Sora's side.

"Let's take him down!" Riku told him. Sora nodded in agreement. They both ran towards the giant Heartless. It saw them and quickly brought its giant fist down at them.

Sora jumped over the fist and and began running up the Darkside's arm. The Darkside swung its arm around violently trying to shake Sora off. Sora jumped off and landed on the Darkside's shoulder. Riku quickly appeared on the Darkside's other shoulder. They used the first part of their Session Limit and delivered a series of powerful slashes and jabs to the Darkside's head.

Because of all the slashes they delivered, the Darkside lost it balance and fell down forwards. It suddenly got up and charged an energy ball in its hands. It quickly dispersed the ball into small dark energy balls that were targeting the two. Sora brought up a Reflera spell to protect them. Suddenly, Leon and Cloud appeared, and they activated a Limit they created.

Leon jumped up to the head and used Blasting Zone. His gunblade's blade was covered with orange energy that extended the blades length greatly. He attacked the head rapidly using a barrage of attacks similar to Sora's Ars Arcanum. After the final slash, Leon jumped down while Cloud jumped up, the two slapping each others hands as they passed each other.

Cloud was now on Darkside's shoulder. He summoned his energy and was surrounded by a fiery blue energy. He used Sonic Blade very fast going back and forth. Finally Leon jumped up as they both sliced down splitting the Darkside in half.

Rinoa used a Magnega spell and lifted many Shadows into it, destroying them in the process. Yuffie threw her shuriken which spun around like a tornado, destroying all the Heartless surrounding her.

Zack used is Limit Break, Blade Beam, and sent a blue blast of energy off his sword. The blast tore through three Large Bodies and one Soldier. A Wyvern came from behind and fired a ball of energy at him. Zack saw this out of the corner of his eye and jumped high into the air. He swung his Buster Sword down and sliced the Wyvern in half.

Rinoa quickly used her Angel Wing Limit Break. She casted multiple Thundaga's, Blizzaga's, and Firaga's which destroyed a great number of Heartless. Rinoa then used Rising Sun and sent her Blaster Edge at enemies slicing them directly in half. Donald used his Comet Limit and fired off a ring of magical sparks, easily destroying the many Large Bodies and Soldiers surrounding him and Goofy. Goofy used Goofy Turbo to knock a Neoshadow into the air before using Goofy Bash to destroy it.

Everybody was getting tired from using so much strength, so Aerith used Great Gospel on everyone. Tifa continued to whack enemies around with her fists, legs, and magic. A Large Body Heartless charged at Tifa, but she retaliated with Beat Rush and Somersault which destroyed it instantly.

Kairi and Naminé were destroying Soldiers, Shadows, and Neoshadows at a decent rate. One Large Body tried to run away, but before it could get away, Naminé used Strike Raid, and threw her Keyblade. The spinning Keyblade tore through the Large Body's back and sliced it in half. The Serendipitous Pair flew around and returned to her hand.

Now there were only a few Heartless left. Roxas jumped on a Wyverns back and grabbed the horns on its head. He used the Wyvern to direct him to the Dark Thorn. Roxas jumped off the Wyvern, and destroyed it with a Thundaga spell. He flew towards the Dark Thorn and swung his Keyblades at the Dark Thorn, doing a quick series of front flips to increase the hits.

The Dark Thorn swung its arm and smacked him away. Roxas used Aerial Recovery and regained his balance in the air. He summoned five of his 13 Beams and launched them at the Dark Thorn. The Heartless was only hit by three, and managed to dodge the other two. The Dark thorn then used its unique ability to turn invisible, but Roxas could vaguely see the Heartless's outline. It charged at him rapidly while spinning at very high speeds. Roxas used High Jump LV2, Aerial dodge LV2, and Quick Run LV2 to avoid them. He jumped in the air and smacked the Dark Thorn on the back with both of his Keyblades. The Heartless turned visible again and began stumbling from the major blow Roxas landed on it.

Sora!" Roxas called. Sora quickly ran next to him.

"Let's go!" Sora agreed. They activated their duo Limit called Keynado (AN: The name's a combination of key and tornado.). Roxas dismissed his Keyblades as Sora gave him Ultima Edge. They jumped in the air so they were facing diagonally down. They grabbed each others wrists and began spinning rapidly.

When they made contact with the Dark Thorn, it screeched loudly as it was being relentlessly assaulted by the two Keyblades. When the Limit was over, the Dark Thorn stood frozen in place. After two seconds passed, the Dark Thorn evaporated into a black mist. The others ran over to Sora and Roxas after the Dark Thorn disappeared.


Stop playing the battle theme here.


"Did you guys take care of the others?" Sora asked them.

"All taken care of." Riku answered for everyone.

"Now I get what you meant by what's happening across the worlds." Sora said as he observed the damage from the battle.

"Yeah. And I can tell it's only going to get worse. We'll be heading off to other worlds to take care of them. You guys should do the same." Leon told the party.

Sora's party nodded in agreement.

"I guess it's time for another adventure. Right?" Sora asked Goofy and Donald, who happily nodded in response.

"But this time," Kairi began as she walked in front of Sora, "We're coming with you."

"Yeah, we have to make sure you guys don't screw it up." Riku added in.

A small vein bulged on Sora's forehead as he shot Riku an evil glare. "Hey, what's THAT supposed to mean?-!" Sora exclaimed. Everyone else just burst out in uncontrollable laughter at Sora's reaction. Sora was soon laughing with them too. Sora suddenly gasped as he quickly realized something.

"Oh crap, that's right! We have to tell our parents!" Sora told Riku and Kairi. This shocked them as much as Sora. After the Heartless destroyed their world, Sora and Riku were gone for a year. And now, only a few months after their return, they would have to leave again.

"You guys go on ahead. We'll let your parents know." Cloud said.

"Thanks guys." Sora sadly said as he lowered his head with a upset face.

"Sora, remember what we promised," Donald said while waving his finger at Sora, "No frowning, no sad faces. Okay? This boat runs on happy faces!"

This reminder quickly pushed Sora's sadness back and replaced it with happiness. "Well, what are we waiting for?-! Let's go!" Sora cheered as he threw his fist in the air, and soon enough, his party returned the gesture. Sora's party quickly boarded the Falcon Peak and departed from Destiny Islands.


AN: Well, how's that for an improved starter?

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