Between the many worlds, a small ship drifted along its path. The ship, known as a 'Gummi Ship', held a group of very important individuals, currently on a quest to foil the plans of a dark organisation, while also searching for their friends, whose whereabouts were currently unknown.
The first of the group, a fifteen year old boy with rather spiky brown hair, light blue eyes, and a black suit covered with many pockets and zippers, was Sora. He was the Keyblade's Chosen. as the name implied, the keyblade was a key-shaped sword, which was used to release hearts from dark creatures known as the 'Heartless', as well as lock the Heart of each World.
The second of the group was Donald Duck. As his name implied, he was an anthropomorphic duck, dressed vaguely similar to a wizard. He was the Magician of King Mickey's court, who accompanied Sora on his journey, as per his King's wish before he had disappeared from the castle.
The third of the group, Goofy, was a tall creature, and the Captain of the Knights back at Disney Castle. He, too, accompanied Sora on his journey to each world.
Finally, there was Chip and Dale, two chipmunks who ran the Gummi Ship, keeping it in perfect condition.
The group were heading to yet another world to save from the clutches of Organisation XIII, a group of 'Nobodies' that seemed to be using Sora to their own ends, when their sensors detected a nearby world.
"Seems a bit odd, this one..." Chip muttered thoughtfully, reading the information that flashed up on screen. "I dunno guys, it feels different to every other world we've been to."
"But isn't each world different from the other anyway?" Goofy asked the chipmunk.
"Well, I guess, but this doesn't feel like it shares the same... you know, universe?"
Sora, Donald and Goofy looked at each other, confused. They weren't quite sure what Chip was talking about.
"Well, we might as well check it out," Sora shrugged. "Besides, we might find Riku there!"
Everyone knew that was highly doubtful. after all, Sora's best friend from their home world was incredibly elusive, even more so than from their first few months of journeying, when they didn't have Nobodies to deal with, and Riku was with the bad guys. Still, no one was about to shoot down Sora's hopes like that, and there was always a small chance...
Returning to the controls specially made for chipmunks, both Chip and Dale began to bring the gummi Ship down for a landing on the mysterious world.
"They have arrived, Yukari."
"So they did, Ran."
"What will you do now?" Ran, a tall woman who wore large, flowing white robes, with a two-pointed cap asked. As anyone with sight would point out, this woman looked rather odd. Mostly because of the nine large, bushy golden tails that erupted behind her. It was clear that 'Ran' wasn't a human at all.
Yukari, despite her far more human appearance, also had an otherwordly aura about her. It was clear she wasn't human, and very, very powerful. Wearing a cap over her long, golden-blonde hair, she grinned at the large crystal ball that showed a primarily red ship land within the cover of a forest clearing.
Yukari had been awaiting the arrival of these people. She had temporarily opened up the Border that separated her land of Gensokyo from the rest of the worlds to allow them entry. And now, they weren't going to leave until she was satisfied.
"I'll wait a bit. Right about now, Gensokyo's 'strongest' should be making her way in their general direction."
Ran stepped closer, peering into the crystal ball to see a brown haired boy, a giant duck and a tall... thing emerge from the ship. "Is that wise? I can't imagine this 'destined hero' guy struggling against her."
"Well, let's just wait and see." Yukari suggested.
"I don't see what's so 'different' about this place..." Sora muttered thoughtfully as the group followed a forest trail deeper within.
Glancing at his companions, Sora noticed Donald frowning. At least, what he assumed was a frown. It was hard to tell with a duck's bill. "Something up, Donald?"
I can feel something magical in the air..." Donald said in wonder. "It's like, his forest contains lots of ambient magic within."
"Gosh, that sounds interesting!" Goofy said cheerfully. "What's it feel like?"
"How am I supposed to explain that?" Donald demanded to know.
At that moment, there was a rustling of leaves all around them. With no wind to cause this, the group was immediately on alert, weapons drawn. Sora's Keyblade, Donald's wizard staff, and Goofy's round shield.
The trio waited several moments for something to appear, yet nothing did. They remained tense and alert for several moments, until Sora finally lowered his weapon.
"Sora! Don't let your guard down!" Donald snapped, and Sora grinned confidently at him.
"Ah, don't worry so much! Look, it's fine!"
Shouldering his Keyblade and whistling casually, Sora continued to travel down the path, completely at ease. Much more cautiously, his companion's followed, glancing suspiciously at the trees all around them. With the magic Donald was sensing, it wouldn't surprise him if the trees were sentient. And hostile.
It didn't seem to be the case, though. After a few minutes of walking, the group came to a large lake, with a mansion barely visible in the distance.
"A dead end?" Goofy observed thoughtfully, peering into the water. "Where should we go now?"
Sora looked around the area, a casual smile on his face.
"What?" Donald asked, noticing Sora's strange, more-laid-back-than-usual nature.
"Ah, nothing," Sora shrugged. "Just thought this made a better area to fight."
At that moment, a loud battle cry filled the air, and something burst from the forest behind them. As if he had been expecting it, Sora immediately whirled around, leaping forward and swinging with his Keyblade, which the charging mass of ice-blue just managed to avoid, ducking under the swinging and flying straight into the lake.
Blinking in surprise, Donald looked at the rippling lake. "Uh, Sora? What was that?"
"Dunno," Sora replied. "I thought it was a Heartless or something at first, but I didn't feel any Darkness emanating from it."
"Cirno!" Another voice cried from the direction that the thing had appeared from. From the trees, something that looked like a little girl appeared, with long, green hair and silver wings with golden, membrane-like edgings. She fearfully stopped when she realised that she'd shown herself to the group they were following, and another girl appeared a moment later from the same place.
This girl was blonde, with a red ribbon tied into her hair, with a white shirt and black dress. Again, Sora couldn't feel any Darkness from these girls, although the blonde one had an energy around her that seemed similar.
Donald, glaring at the flying girls, marched up to them, pointing his staff at the two "Okay, who are you? What do you want?"
The green-haired girl glanced fearfully at Donald, then at her friend, who glared right back at Donald, feeling no intimidation.
"You're the ugliest looking youkai I've ever seen." The girl stated, and Donald gave her a look of confusion, then rage.
"Ugly? Say that again, you brat!" Donald quacked angrily.
"Ugly!"
Goofy placed a hand on Donald's arm before he could throw a Fire spell at the girls. "Now now, let's calm down!"
"So what's the deal with you?" Sora asked the girls.
Before they could reply however, something from the lake splashed its way upward, and the group turned their heads to see the ice-blue mass from earlier, which turned out to be yet another girl, roughly a head smaller than her friends.
Her hair, eyes and clothing all seemed to be an identical blue shade, with a shirt that couldn't decide if it was also blue, or just white, and had six, crystalline wings sprouting from her back. She was also barefoot, sopping wet, and incredibly annoyed.
"A lucky swing, that one! I was aiming for the lake anyway, but you almost got me!" The girl, who was apparently 'Cirno', declared.
Snorting in amusement, Sora turned to face the girl, wondering if they had arrived in some sort of Neverland extension. "Oh? And why did you attack us anyway?"
The other two girls flew to the blue one's side as she cleared her throat, then Cirno pointed dramatically at the three below them. "Simple! We were told by a reliable source that a group of three super-evil people were terrorising the place with their monsters! As the strongest creature alive, it is my duty to stop you!"
The strongest? Sora, Donald and Goofy thought with amusement. Somehow, they doubted that very much. it sounded like childish bragging to them.
"Are you sure that's us?" Sora asked. "Because we're undoubtably good guys!"
"Ha!" Cirno laughed. "Please! I know it's you from the descriptions!"
Pointing at Sora, Cirno recited, "The leader is a stupid looking boy with a stupid hairdo, stupid clothes, and the stupidest weapon ever!"
"W-what?" Sora gasped, while Donald snickered.
Cirno then pointed to the laughing duck. "And his magician accomplice is an ugly looking duck who is also stupid!"
It was Donald's turn (again) to feel enraged, and was about to throw a Thunder spell at the infuriating girl when Goofy held him back once again.
"Finally..." Cirno pointed at Goofy. "... Uh, the goofy looking one?"
"Guess that's me!" Goofy chuckled.
"But 'stupid' sounds better, so you're also stupid!"
"Well, that's not very nice..." Goofy admonished lightly.
Sighing and shaking his head, Sora said to the girls, "Well whoever told you is wrong. We aren't here to terrorise anything! In fact, we're here to see if we can help out with that kind of problem!"
"Lies!" Cirno declared loudly, her voice echoing around the forest. "Now, enough pointless banter! Now is the time to fight like men! And youkai! And youkai who dress like stupid! For Cirno... It is icin' time!"
The trio looked at each other in confusion. "...Did any of you understand that part?" Sora asked.
"Not at all." Donald growled, still looking incredibly annoyed with the girl.
"Initiating Boss Battle!" Cirno shouted, blue lights beginning to form in her hands. The two girls with Cirno moved away, positioning themselves in a trianglular formation. "Daiyousei! Rumia! Let us purge Gensokyo of this evil!"
"My my, she's getting right into it!" Yukari chuckled heartily, while Ran watched the orb impassively. "Ah, kids... they'll believe anything you tell 'em."
"I believe that only the truly gullible ones do, Yukari." Ran replied.
"Hush Ran. the boss battle's starting!"
"Icicle Fall!" Cirno declared, and row after row of icicles began to form from the blue girl's hands and fall towards the group, who immediately took evasive action, leaping away from the icicles that flew for them.
That was easy enough... Sora thought to himself, before noticing that the green-haired girl was pointing the palms of her hands in the group's general direction, and bullet-like objects began to fly from her hands. A quick glance showed that the girl in black was also firing these bullets.
Combined with the icicles, Sora, Donald and Goofy now had a much harder time evading the attacks. Sora swung his Keyblade and rolled away from whatever he could, Goofy blocked the attacks with his shield rather skilfully, and Donald took to cowering behind Goofy and swatting at the bullets that flew from behind.
Heh, they're trying to stop us from attacking at all. Sora noted, barely avoiding having a giant spear of ice strike his head. Well, guess I'd better turn the tables around!
When the Keyblade Master felt that he had sufficient space, Sora crossed his arms, as if blocking. Just as a glurry of bullets, along with an icicle, were about to strike him, a field of energy surrounded Sora, stopping the bullets.
"Reflera!" The shielding spell suddenly exploded, spheres of energy launching themselves back at the three girls, who were too surprised to dodge.
Yells of pain filled the air as the girls were struck and fell from the sky, landing painfully on the ground. Well, Cirno fell back into the lake, but the result was still the same.
"Uh... maybe I overdid it?" Sora wondered, feeling a little guilty now. Sure, they were attacked, but these were still little girls, and the green-haired one looked like she was trying to hold back tears, while the blonde girl simply looked irritated.
Donald waddled to Sora's side, glaring smugly at the blonde girl. "Nah, you just gave 'em what they deserved!" He told the boy, who still didn't feel any better about it.
Ignoring the large duck magician, Rumia staggered to her feet, staring at Sora with narrowed eyes. "Fine, you win. But don't think we're the only opposition you've got!"
"About that," Sora replied, his Keyblade disappearing in a flash of light, "Why do you think we're the bad guys? What did we do?"
"As if you didn't know!" Rumia retorted. "Don't act like you never noticed sending all those monsters into Gensokyo!"
Monsters? Does she mean the Heartless? Sora wondered. "Look, I didn't do anything like that, okay! I'm here to get rid of them! I swear!"
A splash was heard from the lake, and everyone looked to see Cirno wading to the bank, looking rather angry.
Stumbling onto dry land, the ice-blue girl pointed at Sora dramatically. "Don't think this means you're stronger! I was just held back by my companions!"
"Thank you, Cirno." Rumia growled, while the green-haired girl simply looked ashamed.
"These people are weird..." Donald mumbled under his breathe. Goofy stared at the girls as they began to argue amongst themselves.
"They are? they seem like normal kids to me." Goofy said.
"Whatever, let's just go find the Heartless." Sora shrugged. the trio turned and walked in the opposite direction, leaving Cirno and the blonde to bicker, while the green-haired girl watched them go in surprise and wonder. For bad guys, they were pretty merciful about their victory. Was their information wrong?
"Ohohohoho~!" Yukari laughed at the fight's aftermath. "How quickly that match resolved! It was almost pointless, really!"
"His opponent was Cirno, Daiyousei and Rumia," Ran pointed out with a sigh. "I honestly couldn't see that fight ending any other way."
"Now now, don't be too harsh on them!" Yukari giggled. "They just didn't know what they were dealing with. Speaking of, perhaps we should inform them that its time."
Ran nodded in understanding, although she was worried about this little scheme of Yukari's. The group Ran would notify was incredibly powerful. In fact, pretty much all of them had powers that either rivalled or possibly even surpassed gods. Even if this boy was chosen by some silly looking weapon to save every world in existence, just how the heck did Yukari expect that boy to survive a mili-second against them?
Well, I'll just have to trust her judgement... Ran decided as she turned and left the room. Even if it seemed mad beyond belief, Yukari's little schemes usually worked out just fine in the end, and if that boy was capable of permanently quelling those unusual monsters...