Chapter 1: Training
Sora got up and did his morning routine of taking a shower, putting on some fresh clothes, and running downstairs to grab some breakfast. As he reached the bottom of the stairs, he was immediately talked by someone to the living room floor. "Riku?" Sora said.
Riku stood laughing. "Geez Sora, I would expect you to be more alert of someone attacking you."
"What are you doing here anyway?" Sora said getting up.
"Ever since we've returned, Tidus and Waka have been begging us to play a game of blitzball. You know them."
"Right," Sora said rolling his eyes. "And I'm guessing you finally agreed so that they would stop bothering you?"
Riku shrugged. "Hey it could be worst. Some crazy guy could be trying to take over Kingdom Hearts again."
Sora shook his head as he grabbed a bowl of cereal from a cupboard. A week ago, he and Riku had put an end to Xemnas, Xehanort's Heartless and the leader of Organization XIII. They had then returned to Destiny Islands through the Door of Light and were reunited with their companions. Since then, they reunited with their family and friends back at their island home. "So when do they want to do this game?" Sora asked, still quite groggy.
"About two p.m. which still gives us time to train our 'pupil' in half an hour," Riku stated emphasizing the pupil part.
Sora finished his cereal and put his bowl in the dishwasher. "How much longer do you want to train her? I mean, she's a skilled fighter even when we started."
"So you're admitting she could defeat you?" Riku said with a sly grin.
"No!" Sora said quickly. "It's not that. It's just that she's at a level where she doesn't need to train every day."
Riku rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sure."
Suddenly, Kairi walked through the front door. "Good morning!" she said happily.
"Good morning is an oxymoron," Sora said trying to become fully awake by stretching.
"Hey, are we still sparing today?" Kairi asked.
"Well, you other 'tutor' and I have been discussing that, and we think that today we step it up," said Riku.
"What!" exclaimed Sora.
Riku laughed. "I'm just joking you."
Kairi actually looked disappointed. "But guys, I really want to go train today."
Riku raised his eyebrow. "Intrigued, are you?"
"Yeah. I really wanted to work on my magic skills this time."
"Well, you heard her Sora. Let's get to the island."
"I'll be there in a minute," said Sora as he ran upstairs.
Sora ran upstairs and opened his closet and took out a small wooden box. He then pulled out four summoning charms he had gained from his last adventure. "This will test how good Kairi's gotten," he said to himself as he hid the charms in his pocket and ran downstairs. "All right ready to go."
"Hey, you know what I noticed," Kairi said.
"What?" Riku asked.
"We're all wearing the same clothes from when we came back home."
Sure enough, they all were wearing the same clothes, including Sora's drive clothes he had gained at the beginning of his last adventure. "Wow, talk about random." said Riku.
"Well, are we going or not?" Sora asked.
"Race you down to the shore!" Kairi said as she bran out Sora's house and ran for the shore.
Sora and Riku chased after her as they neared the small dock where Kairi's dad kept wooden kayaks that the three used to travel from island to island. She had already got into hers and was beginning to paddle into the water. Sora and Riku quickly followed suite and paddled after her and eventually passing her.
Once getting to their favorite island, they pulled up their kayaks and took a quick breather. "Remember how over a year ago, we were here and building a raft to go to other worlds?" Kairi said.
"Yeah, I remember. Sora was too lazy to build the raft," Riku said.
"Hey! I had to get all the food and everything. You know how long it took to find those stupid seagull eggs?"
The three laughed till they were energized enough to spar. "So Riku, you said today we were going to step it up. How?" Kairi asked.
Riku held out his hand, and in a flash, his keyblade Road to Dawn had appeared in his hand. "We're going to use our keyblades."
Sora gave Riku an odd stare. For the past days, they had been using driftwood and other crude forms of fake swords, but not their real keyblades. "You sure about that Riku?" Sora asked.
Kairi then summoned her own keyblade. In a flash of light, the keyblade Riku had given to her at Organization XIII's castle. "Come on Sora, I've been waiting to use Blossoming Heart two days ago."
Sora then summoned the Kingdom Key. "Alright, since you put it that way, this'll really prepare you."
Sora than ran forward and swung the Kingdom Key at Kairi as she blocked it. Kairi than pushed him off and swung twice quickly at him. Sora quickly did a dodge roll to avoid the attack and came back up with an upper cut. Kairi just simply sidestepped out of the way and pointed her keyblade a Sora. "THUNDER!" she yelled.
A strike of lightning then came from the sky but Sora dodged Kairi's spell. "Who said we were magic?" Sora asked.
"You heard me earlier. I wanted to work on my magic skills." Kairi said.
"You're on then. FIRE!"
A ring of fire quickly went around Sora as Kairi stepped back. Kairi then jumped in the air and swung at Sora's head. Sora quickly pointed his keyblade at Kairi and yelled, "AERO!"
Kairi was immediately was flown back by a whirlwind and fell on the sandy beach. Realizing at what he had just done, he ran over to Kairi. "Kairi! Are you okay? I didn't mean to do that! I overreacted. I'm-"
Sora didn't get to finish because Kairi's swiftly swung her keyblade at him. "BLIZZARDGA!"
Sora now flew back this time as he was hit by a blast of freezing cold. He sat up in the sand and reached up to hair to realize that Kairi had frozen his hair. Riku was laughing his head off at the way Sora looked. "It looks like he has an iceberg for hair!" he laughed.
Kairi was laughing too. Sora then quickly then did a fire spell to melt the ice, only to have his head soaked in water. Now they were all laughing, including Sora. "Well, that was different," Sora said as he stopped laughing.
"Yeah I think you might have had brain freeze," said Kairi, laughing at Sora.
"Still Sora, I think you learned something from Kairi this time," Riku said walking over. "And that is to never let your guard down. Not matter what or who the opponent is."
Sora scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, but I was just worried I might have hurt her, that's all."
"It's okay," Kairi said.
"Well Sora, I think it's my turn to take this fight," Riku said rising Road to Dawn and pointing his keyblade at Kairi.
"You're on Riku."
"But let's set a few rules. One: If one of us doesn't feel to well or admits defeat the will call 'done'. Two: No going easy on each other. This will be a test if you fought a enemy with the powers of darkness."
Kairi's eyes widened a little bit. Riku gave a small smile. "Don't worry, I'm not doing anything life threatening. Besides, both you and Sora know healing spells incase either of us don't feel too well. You ready?" Riku said as he positioned a battle pose.
Kairi swung her keyblade and readied herself. "I've been ready Riku."
Then at the same time, the two friends jumped at each other and their keyblades clashed with each other. They than jumped back from each other, and Riku ran back at Kairi to slash at her. Kairi quickly parried the blow as well as the next five consecutive blows. Kairi was then knocked down by one of Riku's attacks. She then swung Blossoming Heart from behind Riku, tripping him. He fell to the ground as well, and the two took the moment to get back on their feet. Riku then jumped back. "DARK FIRAGRA!" Riku shouted as dark flames shot from his keyblade.
At that moment, Sora almost jumped in to stop the dark flames, but he stopped himself when he saw Kairi use a reflect spell, stopping the dark flames. "Very good!" said Riku. "That was a weak version of the spell, but it was still a threat."
Kairi then ran forward and slashed he keyblade several times. Sora never realized she could swing her keyblade at the speed she was attacking. Apparently Riku was thinking the same because Riku jumped away from her fury of swings. "Since when did you start that?" Riku asked.
Then Kairi stopped for a second, slightly lowering her keyblade. "I…I don't know. I just kind of came out of no where."
"Maybe we should take a break," Sora suggested.
"Yeah, sure," said Kairi, and the three friends dismissed their keyblades.
Riku then looked overhead to see some dark clouds coming towards the island, ripples from raindrops on the ocean's surface. "Hey guys, we got rain."
"Hurry, to the Secret Spot!" Sora said as they ran in before the rain began to fall on the island.
The cave gave an echoing effect to the rain coming down on the island. The three looked around at all the drawings several kids had drawn in the cave by scratching other rocks on the cave surface. In the back of the cave was a tall wooden door. "Hey, I forgot about this door," said Sora.
"Why is it here anyway?" Kairi asked.
"It's the door to the heart of this world," Riku said simply.
Sora turned to Riku. "How do you know about that?"
"When we here as little kids some time, I remember looking at that door, and seeing a keyhole in the middle of it. Of course, I didn't think of it at the time, but know, I just put it together."
Just then, the outline of a keyhole on the door appeared. Sora's Kingdom Key then came back to him in a flash. "I guess you have to seal it," said Kairi.
Sora nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah."
He then pointed his keyblade at the keyhole, and a small beam came from it. The beam went into the keyhole, and a locking noise was heard. The outline of the keyhole then disappeared, and Sora dismissed the Kingdom Key. "So, you sealed all the Keyholes, right Sora?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah. The heartless can't possibly get to the heart of other worlds."
Riku then looked outside the cave. "Hey, the storms already gone."
"Really?" Kairi said as she followed Riku outside.
Sora followed suite, passing the drawing that he and Kairi had drawn on the wall at separate times. The storm was in fact gone, and a clear sky was left behind it as the dark cloud continued over the sea. "Weird," Sora muttered.
Long first chapter, but trust me, the good stuff starts to happen soon. It might be a day or two before chapter 2. Please review or give comments! Oh, and I made up that name for kairi's keyblade.
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