Disclamer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Okami.
OC intro time:
Name: Eric Carter
Age: 16
Appearance: He is the same height as Sora. His hair is a sandy yellow and is slightly long. His eyes are brown and has a slight scar under his left eye. He normally wears a red shorts and a sea-blue tee-shirt.
Personality: Eric is usually very carefree and has a idealistic view of life. He often ponders on the purpose of life. He is often chivalrous and will often refuse to attack a lady (Goodhearted humor on the other hand is alright by him.) He is warm and humorous. He tends to be quite extroverted, and is often quite competitive in social situations. He is approachable and sensitive, and is honest and is trusting of others. He will draw humorous pictures of his friends and draw makeshift blueprints for it.
A new day is dawning.
It was a day not unlike others on the shore of the kid's island. Sora's sleep made it easy for Kairi and Eric to sneak up on him, startling him into full awareness. "Morning sleepyhead", Kairi said to which Eric added, "How long were you gonna sleep? Riku would have your head if he found you sleeping again." At this point Sora found words in his mouth, "I had this weird dream. This huge black thing swallowed me up! I couldn't see I couldn't breath. . . ", Sora's voiced trailed off at the skeptical looks that he was getting from his two friends. "Almost as weird as that dream where we were all eight foot tall and super fast there Sora", Eric said teasingly. Sora was about to retort but another voice had stopped him. "I thought I'd find you here. You guys are the laziest people ever", A young boy a year older than Sora but a year younger than Eric was walking down a ramp made of wood. Kairi giggled slightly, "So you noticed." Eric was slightly disappointed to hear him say that as 50% of the raft had be his doing while the others goofed off once but he quickly drooped that matter from his mind and said jokingly, "It's more fun to be here Riku. Some time in the sun is good for you, you know." "We'll get plenty of sun once we're on the raft headed to other worlds", Riku retorted. "Yeah, I guess ,but why put off to tomorrow what you can do today, right", asked Eric with a grin on his face. "That's why we need to get the raft done as soon as possible", Riku said with a small grin. "Well what are we waiting for, an invitation?" Sora burst out, "Let's get working! Hey guys, I'll race ya." With that the three boys went off running to the other side of the beach.
-x-x-x-
The day was nearly over and the raft had been finished. All that was left was to gather supplies. "I wonder what kind of worlds there are out there", Riku pondered out loud. "Probably have really weird looking people, like the drawings you two have in the cave", Eric said jokingly looking at Sora and Kairi. Both of them looked at Eric like they were hurt. "Sorry we aren't artists like you then", Sora shot back with a small laugh. Eric started laughing too and soon all four of them were laughing. After the laughter ended Riku asked "Kairi what was it like on that other world." They all quieted down and she answered, "I don't remember much about it." Riku then turned to Eric and said, "What about you?" Eric let out a small sigh. "I told you all that I remember about it, there was this giant tree on a hill and an elder with an orange on his head," Eric said while jumping off the Poupou tree. "Well we better get heading back to our . . . " He stopped before he said families and looked at Kairi, who looked to the ground beside her. (He lived with Kairi at the mayor's house. While they didn't remember much about their own homes they sometimes felt like they didn't belong. In the beginning they would mostly stay out of everyone's way. That was ended when Riku and Sora became their friends. And, after they could go to the island. . . well you can imagine the four of them spending a lot of time playing around.) "Yeah", Riku and Sora chimed in quickly, "We need to get our rest for tomorrow." They said their good nights and left.
-x-x-x-
It was another good day on the children's isle as Kairi's and Eric's boat pulled up to the dock. They jumped out and greeted Sora and Riku who were already there. Eric decided to make the first joke, "The world must be coming to an end. Sora bet me here", he said in a mock fear voice. That got a laugh from the others. After a bit they decided to get the supplies done with and split up in order to gather them. Sora and Eric got a bulk of the workload though. Eric started to look for mushrooms while Sora searched for the other items on the list. After awhile, Sora worried about Eric went looking for him. In the secret place Eric had stood transfixed by the mysterious door that was in the back. He didn't notice that Sora had come in even as the latter waved his hand in front of his face. Sora deciding to give up looked around and started to draw on the walls. He drew a picture of him giving a pompous fruit to Kairi. All of the sudden Eric snapped out of his 'trance' "Huh. . . what happened", Eric asked looking around and, noticing Sora, sat down. "About time you woke up. I was getting worried", the young boy said with a smile. All of the sudden they felt as if someone else was there. "Who's there", asked Sora, getting to his feet. "This world has been tied. Connected to the darkness", the cloaked figure said. "What are you talking about", Eric asked with a slight tone of anger while getting to his feet. "You who are so small understand nothing", the cloaked figure said as he disappeared. "What was that all about," John asked. "It doesn't matter", replied Sora, "Come on, lets get the rest of those supplies."
And so that day ended, but when day ends, night begins.
-x-x-x-
It was the middle of the night when Eric and Kairi heard thunder, which could only mean one thing, a storm. They climbed out their windows, reached their boat, and they quickly made it to the children's isle.
Eric quickly ran to the boat but found the door that lead to that side of the island locked. Kicking it angrily he said, "Looks like I can't go this way." Heartless started to appear around him. "What are these things. They don't look too friendly", he said backing into the door. One attacked him and he closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes he was in a strange area with stain-glass floors. "Where am. . . ", he began to say before a new voice spoke to him. "Welcome. There is not much time before you return so I shall bestow upon you your power", it said to him. My power? I have a power? Eric thought as the voice said to him, "Hold out that which is most precious to you. I will give it the form most suiting for you." Eric held out his paint brush, the one link he had to his past, out shaking. A light appeared around it and the voice said, "Your powers have been awakened young one. May they help the worlds recover."
Eric opened his eyes to see a tree had randomly poped out of the sand and hit the heartless lungeing at him. He would have written this off as luck but as mysteriously as the tree had appered it disappered. He wondered what had happened when something else caught his eye. Hovering over his right hand was what looked like a small sheild with flames coming off of it. "This is my power? A small shield", he said. He would have laughed at the irony of the situation, here he was with a small shield when he usually carried the biggest sword. However, as it stood, he figured, beggers couldn't be chooser. And he was a big begger at this moment. That moment passed however as the heartless left. He went to move but something was preventing him from moving. Looking down he saw that tendrels of darkness had caught his legs. As they began to drag him into the darkness a light shone forth from his pocket. Once the darkness had receded he looked into his pocket and pulled out his paintbrush. The paintbrush now had a symbol on it. He suddenly remembered the dream and looked around. He ran back out to the beach and looked around. He saw Sora enter a door that now covered the entrance of the secret place. It closed right before Eric could reach it. He tried to open the door but found it locked. Giving up he looked around at the island. He could see beach except in one spot, on the "duel platform". Running up there Eric saw that the ground had been cursed. Before he reached the area he saw a flash of light appear above him. Looking up he saw a strange constillation and felt a strange desire to finish it, for it was incomplete. However when he had gotten his paper out it had disintegrated and the world around him slowed. Without thinking he placed the dot in the air and, to his surprise, the star appeared and a dragon began racing down to him. It stopped and rested in front of him. "I am Yomigami. God of restoration. You have been proven worthy of my power. I give you the power to return things to the way they were. This can not turn back time or return worlds to the way they once were. You will never be powerful enough for that. However areas like that patch of sand is nothing to my power." Yomigami seemed pleased with himself as he transformed into a small orb and flew at Eric. Shortly after this he reached the cursed area and rejvinated it. After which he noticed that the island was slowly rising. Looking up he saw in an orb of darkness floating over them and was sucked into it.