The Mummy of Darkness.
Author's note: Hello and welcome to a new crossover, this time outside of my usual crossover stories. I was originally gonna start on my Pokemon and Final Fantasy VII crossover fic(which is set within the SM Continuum Universe), but a fellow author named bopdog111 has requested for a Kingdom Hearts and the Mummy crossover story, and was further encouraged when I encouraged him to read my previous the Mummy crossover, so, I'll start with this first before I return to my planned stories.
I do not own Kingdom Hearts or the Mummy. Kingdom Hearts belongs to both Square Enix and Disney, while the Mummy belongs to Universal Studios.
Prologue: Dark Calling?
"This...is hardly...the end... Your darkness-I gave it...all to you... My dark shadow...lingers... Someday... Someday... I will return!" The final words from his arch enemy, Ansem, continued to repeat in Riku's mind, even after the former had exploded and disappeared. But...did Ansem really just vanish?
Sora defeated Ansem, and yet the evil leader of the Heartless continued to live inside Riku's heart. A few times since arriving this strange castle that was filled with new enemies-Nobodies in strange black coats resided, Ansem nearly took over his body and his heart just like when he was tricked to work for Maleficent. Had Mickey not send his own spirit a few times to protect him even while the King had been trapped within the Realm of Darkness, Riku would've disappeared back into the Realm of Darkness himself and Ansem would've revived.
Thus all of Sora, Donald and Goofy's hard work in defeating would've been for nothing, especially when Sora himself was a target for Marluxia by using the power of a young girl named Namine who seemed to be similiar to Kairi. Still, Riku couldn't help but feel guilty in having relaying on king Mickey to protect him. It was strange, how Mickey so casually hanged out and spoke to him, as though he didn't care about his royal title.
Riku wondered where Mickey got to be so cheerful? Maybe that's why Riku was so comfortable wit him. Mickey and Sora were both very much alike. Mickey even said that the two of them are friends and that Riku can call him by his real name and not his royal title.
So after donning cloaks that would block out the Organization's senses in sensing Riku's darkness and Mickey's light for the time being from the mysterious DiZ and taking the middle road to dawn, the two ventured in a way of means of helping Riku control the darkness while he and Mickey decided to investigate the mysterious Nobodies, knowing that they are the new threat to the worlds despite them having returned to normal.
On the other hand, there were paths from all over the place in another fork in the road, or rather, multiple paths. Riku and Mickey both stopped and glanced around in thought. There were like at least five paths leading to places that seemed to somehow disappear like mist or paint.
"Which path should we go?" Mickey asked. He had no idea himself.
"I don't know...they all could lead to anywhere. I don't even have a clue on where we are." Riku admitted. They had been on an endless green field for who knows how long, and while it was much nicer than the paths within the Realm of Darkness, it still seemed to go on forever.
"Go...to the path in the middle..."
Suddenly hearing a familiar dark voice, Riku's eyes widened and just seconds later he felt a jolt of familiar pain within his chest, as though something was cutting deep into his heart. Gasping sharply, he bend on his knees while clutching at his chest, eyes shut tightly as he hissed in pain which caught the attention of Mickey who had been gazing at one of the paths to his right only to find that it was somehow blocked by an invisible wall.
When Mickey heard his friend's gasp, he turned to see what was happening and his eyes widened in horror. The king immediately rushed over to Riku's side and cried out in alarm, "Riku! Are you alright?" gently holding the teen's arm in great worry. He suddenly then sensed the darkness causing pain in Riku's heart and his worry instantly grew.
Mickey didn't want to think that Ansem was still within Riku's heart. He didn't want to see his friend to suffer even further, not when the two of them had gone through so much together.
Panting while trying his best to ignore the pain, also not wanting to worry Mickey, Riku rested his hand onto his friend's shoulder, answering, "Yeah, I'm fine."
As Riku stood up slowly, with a worried Mickey gazing at him, the former blinked as his sight gazed at the path in the middle. That voice, and Riku hoped it wasn't who he thought it was, said to go to the path in the middle. Not the only that, the more he gazed at the path in the middle, the more he could actually...sense a powerful oder of darkness reeking, and became concerned. It was a powerful darkness that seemed to be...sleeping somehow.
For some reason, it was still strong, and Riku didn't like it one bit. There was trouble...one that shouldn't be ignored and for some reason, it was somehow spreading, creeping closer and closer to the field Riku and Mickey were at right now.
"Riku?" Mickey spoke, worriedly.
"I think...we should try the middle road." Riku spoke, almost absently. "I can't explain why but...I can't ignore that something's there, even though I'm not sure if it's such a good idea."
"What do ya' mean?"
"I...I heard a familiar voice." Riku reluctantedly replied. "It said to...go the path in the middle. And at the same time, I can sense a powerful darkness down this path and...it borthers me a lot."
Mickey frowned at this. While he didn't like the fact that he and Riku both had a feeling who the voice the teen heard was, and that it told him to go to the path in the middle, and that Mickey was concerned that it could be a trap, he suddenly felt that maybe there's something worth looking into on this road.
"Hmmm...Well, I tried lookin' at the other paths, but something strange is stopping me from going any further." Mickey thought. "Maybe we should check this one out. I'm not sure why, but I guess there's something that's happening."
"Yeah...Just hope I don't regret it." Riku eventually replied after a few moments.
The two glanced at each other, before staring at the path again. Deciding to take the risk and bracing themselves for whatever trail that would most likely be waiting for them, Riku and Mickey both continued on to the road in the middle.
As though walking into a corridor of light, after about ten minutes, Riku and Mickey eventually arrived at the end of the path which came to a surprise to them because they now found themselves in what seemed to be a deserted of some sorts. Riku's first thoughts was that it was Agrabah, but the more he looked around, the more that case seemed very unlikely.
"What're those buildings?" Mickey blinked in surprise.
Riku gazed at what Mickey was talking about and he too blinked in surprise. In a distance ahead of them, appeared to be old buildings in ruin on top of a sand dune. It looked as though it's been abandoned for several years. Centuries even.
"Hold on...I can sense strong scent of darkness..." Riku suddenly gapped and he can sense it. It was powerful, alright. Very evil.
"Sounds like trouble." Mickey thought once he realised what Riku was talking about.
Realising that this was a new world and that trouble wasn't too far behind, Riku and Mickey both glanced at each other and with a double nod of determination, the two quickly raced towards the ruins to find out where this darkness was coming from and if they had to, stop it from causing serious danger. Though they noticed that, by wearing these coats, despite them protecting the two from the Organization's radar, the real downside was that wearing black was causing them to feel the heat from the desert and the sun.
When the two arrived at the entrance, they found that the ruins already had people, though these people obviously don't live here. Instead, there were campsites, supplies, and even digging. Riku and Mickey both glanced at each other in confusion, before deciding to venture around while wondering what these people were looking for.
Eventually, while everyone else were ignoring them despite Mickey politely asking them, he and Riku eventually found four people on top of a hill with pillers, three men and one woman who was dressed in a black dress. She and one man were busy cleaning up very large mirrors, another man, who looked like an adventurer, was tying up rope around a piller while the rest of it went deep into a hole in the ground. The third man...he just lingered around.
"Excuse me." Riku called up once he and Mickey approached the four people who heard his voice and turned to face him and his friend in confusion and surprise.
"Oh, hello." The woman greeted. "Who are you two?"
"My name's Riku." Riku replied.
"And I'm Mickey." Mickey added.
The man who had been busy with the ropes blinked in confusion, before introducing himself, "Uh, nice to meet you, kids. I'm Richard O'Connall. This is Johnathan, his sister Evelyn, and that guy..." he grimaced at the stumpy man, before he eventually concluded, "He's the warden."
"How do you do." The woman, Evelyn or Evy for short, greeted.
After a few hand shakes and hellos, Richard, or Rick for short, asked, "What are you kids doing here?"
"We kind of got lost." Riku replied, though it was half a lie since he didn't want to reveal the knowlage of other worlds. "Actually, we were wondering what was going on here."
"Is there something everybody's lookin' for?" Mickey asked, curiously.
"You don't know this place?" Jonathan asked, surprised.
"Well, nope." Mickey answered.
"This is Hamunaptra." Jonathan replied.
"Hamunaptra?" Riku tilted his head slightly to the side in confusion. The name was strange and very new to him.
It seemed to be new to Mickey as well, because he asked, in confusion, "What's Hamunaptra?"
"The City of the Dead, where the earliest Pharaohs were said to have hidden the weatlh of Egypt." Evy explained, "It also contains an ancient book that I'm looking for."
"And since I've been here before," Rick groaned, "I been hired as a guide for her and her brother. Though, if I were you two, I'd leave straight away."
Riku suddenly felt that he knew why and couldn't help but ask, "Because this place is supicious?"
"Even worse. I think there's evil here. People say that Hamunaptra is cursed." Rick said.
"Cursed?" Mickey flinched a little.
Evy rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, it's just a silly fairytale."
Suddenly hearing that this place is cursed made sense to Riku. Curses always meant bad things happening, and since curses were evil as well, he had a feeling that it was that darkness he sensed. Whatever this curse was, this world, though how he and Mickey got here in the first place was a mystery in and on itself, was in danger.
He didn't like the looks of this.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter was slow, bopdog111, but I will try and make it up for it in the future once I end up on a writers block again on my other stories. For now, at least this is a start. I'll post the next chapter when I'm able to.