Author's Note: I was torn between updating this and my other stories, so I decided to do this and then maybe update "Second Being" later on afterwards. Sorry that this update was late.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH1: Revived in the Future.
The ground was somewhat hard. That was the first thing Strelitzia was feeling as she began to regain consciousness. Where was she? How long as she been out? Lit began to fill her vision as she opened her eyes, moaning softly while slowly pushing herself up for having been lying on her front. As her vision began to clear, as did her hearing, in front of her glittering in fading light was a familiar cat-like creature wearing a purse and a pink cape who was also waking up.
Strelitzia pushed herself into a sitting position and held a hand gently to her head, feeling dazed and disorientated, asking softly but aloud, "What happened to me?"
"Oooh..." The little cat moaned, before shaking his head and gazed up at the Keyblade wielder, inquiring in surprise, "Strelitzia? You're okay?"
"How did you know my..." Strelitzia trailled off as she focused solely on the little adorable cat, and almost instantly most of her memories returned. She almost immediately knew who this was. Her heart clutching tightly in her chest, and emotions getting the better of her, she tearfully and happily grabbed the cat into a tight warm hug, exclaiming, "Chirithy!"
"W-whoa! S-Strelit-zia! C-can't breathe!" Chirithy squeeled, despite also being happy to see his wielder again, but he was being squeezed.
Finally realising she was accidently hurting her Chirithy, Strelitzia loosened her grip and cringed slightly as her only friend slumped a little, dazed. "I'm sorry. I'm just so happy to see you again." She apologised before gently setting her companion down.
She then asked in confusion, "But...how are you here?"
"I don't remember much, but I do remember nothing but darkness after you and I faded away when we were attacked. Don't you remember?" Chirithy replied.
"I only remember dying and floating in darkness. I don't even remember who the attacker was. Though I do remember...hearing a voice. A woman's voice." Strelitzia said slowly, trying to think back through her memories. Most were okay, but there were pieces that were fuzzy and blur that she couldn't remember. She did though remember seeing a vision, which was then that she remembered what really happened.
A companion whom you lost along with your life shall be returned to you.
"You were the one she told me that would return to me." Strelitzia realised.
"So we're both revived? How?" Chirithy asked, puzzled.
The young woman shook her head, "I don't know. But, she said that we were both given a second chance. Thing is...centuries have passed and things have changed." before repeating what she was told to her friend as clearly as she could, about her mission, about the world being split to many that were seen from the past Strelitzia and many other Keyblade wielders had visited via illusions of the future, and her new mission, as well as the new generations of Keyblade wielders that have successfully protected the worlds during her absence.
"Hmm...I guess things really are different now. It's going to take us a while to get used to being revived in the future after many years of being gone." Chirithy thought deeply.
"I agree. It'll be very strange not being in Daybreak Town. I wonder where we are, though?" Strelitzia muttered, and after testing her strength, she stood up before realising she and Chirithy were in between two buildings of an alley. She ventured to the opening and peered out, seeing many people, adults and children, all casually going on their lives in a very modern like town with white and gray buildings in a bright sunny day.
There was also a train station nearby in an opening that overviewed the ocean nearby with train rails leading over it and green fields. A flock of white doves flew in the air.
{NEW BRESHA}
"This really is the new era." Strelitzia whispered in awe, never having seen anything like the city before her very eyes.
"Everything seems so peaceful here...in this world of many fragments of the old world." Chirithy added as he stood by the Keyblade wielder's side.
"Fragments...and yet many people do not know that. Or do they?" Strelitzia replied, gazing at Chirithy, "I'm not sure where we are or where to start with the mission."
"Maybe finding the person who is said to be reborn from another Calamity. You should start there." Chirithy suggested, before quickly adding, "But don't go asking or telling anyone until you spot the right person. Things are not the same anymore and there are no Keyblade Wars coming. At least not that I know of."
That's right. This was a strange new time and era and one of the many new worlds now. Strelitzia was on her own and quite possibly the only Keyblade wielder around here if those who saved the worlds twice did not live here. This mission wasn't going to be easy, and it wasn't going to be easy getting used to returning to life many centuries after her death either. Then again, it wasn't easy being a Keyblade Wielder when she started out back then. But she got used to it.
She would now have to get used to this as well.
"Right, and while on the subject, you shouldn't be around in the open either." Strelitzia agreed.
"I'll check in on you later." Chirithy nodded.
"Thanks, Chirithy." Strelitzia smiled, before finally emerging from the alley while Chirithy poofed away for the time being. As she ventured into the crowd, she looked around her new surroundings in complete awe, passing by people who noticed her, but didn't find her suspicious despite wearing completely different clothing.
As she walked while looking for someone that could possibly be someone she is destined to find, Strelitzia couldn't help but admire the beautiful world she was now currently in. One that isn't just a simulation of the future from the Book of Prophecies, but in actual real life of the very future that is far different than what she had originally thought. She then noticed a store with a sign that said "Gift Shop" and, given her situation, she was new around here and what better to know more about new world than to ask a shop keeper?
So she pushed open the door which ring the bell above her, and when she stepped inside, it was an accessories store which sold needed items for travellers; potions, elixirs, and other useful items. It also acted as a little cafe with tables and chairs.
"Hi! How can I help you?" The shopkeeper called from the counter, and when Strelitzia looked, she was a bit surprised to see that the clerk was a young girl, about closer to her phsyical age with curly blond hair and brown eyes. She wore an outfit that looked a bit like what people wore in the illusion of Agrabah.
"Uh, h-hi." Strelitzia replied, shyly. She always had been on a bit of a shy side, but after suddenly remembering her failed meeting with the one whom she would never met, she sighed before approaching the girl, saying, "I'm sorry for intruding your time. But I'm very much new in this town. Could you tell me the name of this place?"
"Oh, so you're a visitor, huh?" The girl asked, and when Strelitzia nodded, she answered, "This is New Bresha."
"New Bresha?" Strelitzia repeated. Well, at least she now knew the name of this place. She then asked another question, "So um, other than me, have you seen anything unusual here lately?"
The girl was a bit startled by the question, before sighing as she answered, "Yeah, actually. My good friend Serah, who's the local teacher around here, hasn't been in a good mood lately. Her older sister Claire-everyone calls her Lightning-went missing a year ago. On top of that, her boyfriend, Snow, went off looking for her, but he hasn't been back since either. Sure Serah's trying to be in high spirits, but it's really rough on her. Not mention those weird monsters keep appearing outta nowhere; black ones, white ones, though the latter haven't been seen at all lately."
Black monsters? Strelitzia tried not the let her shocked expression show. Could it be the Heartless? But why would they still be here? At the same time, though, she felt sorry for this Serah person, especially since she lost her sister and boyfriend. She knew that feeling, and, she realised, everything she knew in her previous life were all gone. All she had left was her heart, Chirithy and her Keyblade.
"...I see. I guess I should be careful then. Thank you for your help miss...uh..." Strelitzia trailled off, feeling a little embarrassed for not knowing the clerk's name.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Penelo." Penelo replied with a smile.
"Thank you, Penelo. I'm Strelitzia." Strelitzia nodded, acknowlaging the friendly girl's name.
Suddenly there was a sound of screaming coming from outside, which alarmed the two young women who gasped, before sharing a worried glance and then Penelo exclaimed worriedly, "Please tell me it's not those monsters again!"
Immediately sensing familiar darkness, Strelitzia knew what she had to do, and she then boldly said while racing out towards the door, "Leave this to me!" much to Penelo's shock and surprise.
As she bursted through the door and back outside, Strelitzia skid to a stop and gasped in shock as a familiar horde of black large ant-like monsters with yellow eyes appeared, causing many people who saw them run away in terror.
"The Heartless!? They still exist?" Strelitzia exclaimed in disbelief. Even after centuries of being dead, Heartless still existed? Shaking away her thoughts of questions that are yet to be answered, the young wielder knew what she had to do; she had to fight them to save the people of New Bresha.
But as she snapped her wrist to summon her Keyblade, to her greater confusion, instead of the evolved version of the Star-Keyblade she was given centuries ago, the Keyblade that materalized in her hand was very different now: it was similiar to her old one, but now it's teeth were a crystal like star-snow flake with a matching key-chain, and the hilt around the handle were shaped like feathered wings.
"Huh? My Keyblade...it's..." Strelitzia muttered, stunned beyond belief. Did the mysterious voice transform her Keyblade upon reviving her? She then gasped when a Heartless leaped right at her. Snapping out of her stunned trance and deciding to worry about the mystery of her Keyblade later, she quickly slashed at the Heartless, dispatching it.
Despite not being alive again for long, Strelitzia cartwheeled out of the way as the Heartless attempted to blindside her. She then slashed and sliced through the enemies and keeping them away from Penelo's shop and the innocent citizens who were in danger of losing their hearts to darkness.
"Fire!" Strelitzia chanted as she held out her Keyblade and a Fire spell shot out, eliminating the Heartless in the wake of the invasion. Still more kept coming, and she jumped back to avoid Armor Heartless that appeared from swiping at her with their claws, before responding in dispatching them as well.
But she didn't sense the Heartless coming behind her until it was too late, and Strelitzia turned and gasped as another Heartless made to attack.
"Look out!"
The voice of a young woman came to her right and Strelitzia only caught glimpse of a rose-coloured blonde hair tied to a ponytail on the left side of her head, delicate frame with pale skin, blue eyes, white sleeveless dress skirt under a semi transparent sweeper, long thigh-high black stockings, ivory ankle boots, as the other girl knocked her over out of the way of the Heartless and narrowly avoiding it herself.
But as the two hit the ground with the pink-haired girl over Strelitzia, there was a sudden transformation as, as though by each other's contact, light covered the other girl's clothes, morphing into a strange transformation which the light forced the Heartless to back off.
"Are you okay?" The girl, possibly no older than at least 20 or 22, maybe 21, asked as she slowly got off Strelitzia who stared at her in surprise and shock, finally noticing the full transformation of her savior's clothes.
"Y-yes, I'm fine. Thank you." Strelitzia replied, before blinking in surprise, "Did your..."
Wondering what Strelitzia was about to stay, the pink-haired girl suddenly noticed the change in her attire and gapped, gazing at her new out fit of a white top with pink sections on the front and back connecting to the top of a skirt over black shorts, cut-out sides on the waist and crisscrossing pink straps on the sides the two straps that now went over her shoulders into a cross-back shape. She also had a storage pack on her right hip which hanged from the waist, pink and black thigh-high leggings, purple ankle boots, a pink choker, short pink sleeves under the gray gloves and two gold armbands, one on each arm.
"These are...I wore them before...! But why are they...?" The girl muttered, stunned and seemingly briefly forgotten Strelitzia who blinked in confusion. Did she hear her right? She wore those clothes before and had no idea they were suddenly on her?
'Could she be...?' Strelitzia blinked, wondering if this woman was whom she was beginning to think she was. She and the girl then gasped as three more Heartless advanced on them and the former quickly stood up, holding a tight grip on her Keyblade. Now really wasn't the time to be asking questions.
The Heartless were instantly dispatched by a sudden arrival of a seven-foot long katana, wielded by a man in his mid thirties with short blond hair and matching thin beard, wearing a cap, a blue t-shirt, gray pants and black boots.
"Al!" The pink-haired girl cried out, recongising the man.
"Serah! You and that kid get to safety!" Al, or Alfred, ordered. He didn't wait for a reply and instead charged to fight off the Heartless, slashing at them.
"I can help!" Strelitzia called, only to be held off when more Heartless blocked her and the girl, whom was possibly the same Serah that Penelo just mentioned, and advancing on the two.
Then there was a ball of light that suddenly materalized next to Serah who gasped in surprise and it then formed into a bow and several arrows which floated to land in her opened hands. Gasping in realization, she then nodded and, to Strelitzia's surprise, stood in a fighting position herself.
"I'll help too!" Serah said with determination.
"...Right." Strelitzia nodded, then turned her attention back to the Heartless, before she and Serah fought against them, with Serah firing arrows at the Heartless, dispatching them, and Strelitzia slashing at the monsters as well. The bow then turned into a sword like weapon with Serah used to clash against the enemies as well and soon the two young women and Al dispatched all of the Heartless that had appeared.
Once certain that the Heartless were gone for now, Strelitzia sighed before dismissing her Keyblade for the time being and turned to Serah who approached her, prompting the former to say, "Thank you, Serah. I would've died if you hadn't saved me."
"Your welcome. I guess you know my name since Al mentioned it." Serah replied with a warm smile.
"That, and the kind clerk Penelo briefly mentioned about you at the store here." Strelitzia replied, before introducing herself, "My name is Strelitzia. I'm new in this city."
"I know." Serah replied, surprising Strelitzia and admitting, "I...saw you in a dream. You came from another world, right?"
Strelitzia was even more stunned and shocked. Could Serah really be...the companion the voice told her would join her in her adventure? "So...you know why I came here?"
"Sort of." Serah shrugged, then she and Strelitzia gasped as her bow glowed and transformed into a cute little creature with a staff.
"Hi, Serah, Kupo!" The cute thing said as he floated towards Serah who, apparently recongising him, teared up before she pulled him into a hug.
"Mog! It's so good to see you!" Serah cried happily, while squishing the Moogle against her chest without realising it as he then squirmed in her arms.
Seeing Serah somewhat reunite with the very different Moogle that could transform into a weapon made Strelitzia think about her own reunion with Chirithy with a smile, moved by the heart-warming scene.
"Uh, Serah?" Al approached as he finally saw what happening and he looked very confused. "What's going on? And where'd this Moogle come from?"
Strelitzia and Serah both shared a worried glance while the latter released the Moogle. It was then they knew that they had some explaining to do.
"Let's talk in Penelo's shop. It's more private there." Serah suggested.
The other three agreed and headed back inside where they would discuss the situation, especially since Strelitzia had to tell Serah of what was happening and had to confirm whether the pink-haired girl was one of the reborn from another Calamity or not.
A/N: I know, I still suck at battle scenes. I do try my best at them. And for those of you who aren't sure who Alfred is, he is a Character from Chaos Rings 3, a game which was published by Square Enix but developed by Media Vision. Couldn't think of a non-disney Character or a Final Fantasy character that wasn't from VII, VIII, X, and XIII, and New Bresha is the world which Bhunivelze created.
So I picked a Non-Final Fantasy character instead. Hopefully I'll post the next chapter sooner than before. See you then and thanks for favoriting and following this story so far! I'll do my best with it.
