Well it's been quite a long time and I apologize for that and hopefully it won't happen again. I needed a bit more time to plan the characters you'll see in this chapter as well as some the events.
I'm also working on three other stories. Two are currently being written at the same time as this one and the third is in planning stages. The two that are being written are Attack on Marvel (A Marvel and Attack on Titan crossover if it wasn't already obvious) and Sly Cooper 5. The one in planning stages is Monsters Revealed (Sequel to Monsters, Inc.).
I have a couple notes about the story itself on the bottom so if you would be kind enough to read them that'd be nice. So sit back relax and enjoy chapter 2 of KH: Into Darkness.
Chapter 2: Old and New Allies
Sora
The ship quickly sped through space headed towards Radiant Garden. Since we were in warp drive it didn't take long to get there. Lea told us to buckle up because he would land the ship in the castle gummi ship hangar. He must've seen the confused look on my face because he said that there had been several upgrades to the city. Within a minute or two the ship stopped and we exited and got a nice whiff of the Radiant Garden air. As I looked around I saw Kairi smiling and holding back tears, so I walked over to her and said. "Welcome back home, princess." She giggled and blushed. The hangar was fairly big and I could see the roof was still closing from our landing. It was made out of shiny platinum which confused me. Since when did Radiant Garden get access to these materials? I was taken out of my thoughts by a familiar voice. "Hey guys! Glad to see you made it." I turned around and saw Yuffie running over to us. "Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Sora, Lea…" She paused for a second and looked at Kairi and Riku. "Don't tell me… Riku and Kairi, right?" She asked. They both nodded and she smiled. "Sweet. Follow me guys, there are some people who'd love to meet you guys." She then looked at me, Donald, and Goofy and said. "Some already have." We exited the hangar and walked through the streets until we entered the plaza where we saw a group of people talking. I looked closer and saw both Hercules and Dumbo in the crowd. "Well if it isn't the heroes of Olympus Coliseum in the flesh." Hercules said. "Hey Herc, hey Dumbo. What're you guys doing here?" Leon walked out from in front of the group and answered. "We asked them and several other people to help rebuild, upgrade, and defend Radiant Garden." Lea walked over and said. "The former organization members and I are helping out too, since we used to live here before we became Nobodies." A man in a black shirt with a strange glowing circle pattern in the center walked over. "Hello, my name is Tony Stark. My acquaintances Bruce Banner, Professor Xavier, and I are helping your friends with the designing of the city." The man said. "That's a cool shirt, Tony." Kairi said. Tony chuckled and replied. "This isn't part of my shirt. A few years ago I helped build weapons, but when I went to a demonstration of one them a grenade went off and a piece of shrapnel went into my chest. This stops the shrapnel from piercing my heart and killing me." "Sounds painful" Riku joked. "Well it wouldn't be painful, since the second it pierces my heart I would die therefore I wouldn't feel any…" Tony was interrupted by a green, furry creature with large ears. "Your sarcasm annoying, it is." "He's so cute." Kairi said in a typical girly voice. "His name is Yoda." Leon stated. "And he may be cute but if you piss him off he'll cut you in half within a second. It's for this reason he is one of the commanders of the Garden Guardians." "Garden Guardians?" Donald asked, confused. "It's what we call the defenders of the city." Leon explained. "An honor to meet the keyblade wielders, it is." Yoda said. Out of nowhere Cid appeared and shouted. "It's done! It's finally done!" "It's about time. You, PJ, and Maxie have been working on the new ship for seven months." Yuffie said. "Maxie?" Goofy asked. "Did I forget to mention your son is helping us too?" Leon said. "Son?!" Kairi, Riku, and I all asked at the same time. Donald laughed hysterically at our reaction and managed to sputter out between laughs. "That's… Exactly… What I… Said." Goofy frowned and replied. "Gawrsh, did I forget to tell you guys that I have a son?" "Anyway." Cid interrupted. "Goofy's son Max, Pete Junior, and I have been building ya a ship. It's called The Eagle's Might and is pretty well built if I do say so myself." "Pete has a son too?" I asked even more confused than before. Cid sighed impatiently and answered. "Yes. If you wanna meet those two kids they're probably in Ansem's study with Sam." Without a word Goofy took off towards the castle with Donald struggling to keep up. 'Will anything keep those two apart?' Roxas asked in my head. I smiled and replied with no. "If you want, Yuffie can keep showing you around town." Leon said. "I'd do it, but I'm busy with these guys." We all nodded and looked over at Yuffie. "Follow me. I want you guys to meet my boyfriend, Max." She said. We followed her through the streets until we reached the burrow where we heard a huge explosion. We summoned our weapons and rushed inside to see three teenagers. "Alex, what did you do?" The oldest boy asked. "I didn't do anything Justin, the bottle just fell over." The girl named Alex responded irritably. "Do you two ever stop fighting? I'm trying to take a nap over here." The youngest boy asked. Yuffie giggled and then said. "Hey Max." The younger boy named Max smiled and replied. "Hey babe, who're your friends?" Yuffie introduced Kairi, Riku and I, Max and the others already knew Mickey and Lea. "Nice to meet you guys. We've heard a lot about you." Justin said. "I didn't know you'd be so cute." Alex told me flirtatiously. I thought I saw Kairi glare at Alex, but I brushed it off. There was no way she liked me back. Did I forget to mention the fact that I'm in love with Kairi? Suddenly Merlin appeared from a puff of smoke taking me out of my thoughts. "What's all the fuss about?" He asked. He noticed us standing there and then grinned. "Well if it isn't the keyblade wielders themselves, Sora and Kairi and Riku if I recall correctly. As you can see I've had my hands full will these three, always creating problems, especially Alex." Alex laughed and mischievously said. "Good to know that you've learned how I work old man." Merlin glared at her and mumbled something under his breath. He began eyeing Riku and Kairi with an intrigued look in eyes. "I sense the presence of pure light in you Kairi and as for you Riku you have a strange controlled darkness, the likes of which I have never seen." He then turned to me. "Yet Sora, I don't understand you. From what you, Mickey, and the others have told me, you got the keyblade after Riku lost it, then after Riku got it back it returned to you, and your heart's bond is the most powerful ever known. You are without a doubt, the most powerful keyblade wielder ever to exist." Kairi smiled and winked at me and I blushed a brighter shade of red than her hair. "You're back again!" A soft, girly voice said. We all looked to see Aerith enter the room. She came over and gave us all hugs. "I thought I saw the ship land in the new hanger." She said. "How is Cloud doing commanding the Guardians?" Mickey asked. "He's doing fine for a guy who doesn't play well with others." She responded chuckling. "Speaking of Cloud where is he?" I asked curiously. "Oh, he's either on a date with Tifa or back at the castle." Aerith said. "Speaking of which, is there any way to get the castle quickly?" Kairi asked. "Why yes, young princess. I can send you there in a blink of an eye." Merlin answered. "In fact, I must go there myself, to speak to some new recruits we rescued to other day. Does anyone else need a trip?" I raised my hand and the inside of the burrow soon morphed into the view of the castle entrance. Merlin said good bye and walked off, leaving Kairi and I alone, so I grabbed her hand and lead her inside of the gigantic castle. We walked through the hallways making our way to Ansem's study hoping to see if anyone was there. As we entered we saw Goofy, Donald, and two young boys who were probably Max, or Maxie, and PJ. "So you're the hero who's been hanging out with my dad for so long." Said the one who was most likely Max. I nodded and smiled. The chubby one, PJ, sigh and asked. "Did you find my dad and if so was he causing trouble?" "Sorry PJ, but we did and he vanished while we were taking down Organization XIII." Donald said. PJ sighed and sat down in a chair nearby. Then we were startled by a familiar, robotic voice. "Well it seems that this room is in need of a little cheering up." "Tron!" Donald, Goofy, and I shouted. "Calm down, Tron is a little tired at the moment." A man said as he walked in the room. "Who are you?" I asked wanting to know how he knew Tron. "Sam Flynn. My dad used to work with Tron when Ansem was still around but a week before Xehanort took over he disappeared." He explained. "Now I'm helping Tron establish a bigger control over the city that could hopefully work in our favor." "Sweet, can I help." I asked. Donald, Goofy, and Kairi started laughing. "You help work with computers?" Donald asked mockingly. "What's that supposed to mean?" I asked irritably. "Last time I checked you're the one who jumped on the computer and got us sent into Space Paranoids in the first place." I said pointing out one of Donald's many slip ups on our last adventure. Then Donald and I started arguing.
Riku
As soon as Merlin, Sora, and Kairi disappeared Mickey asked me to follow him and Lea. We walked to the edge of the city where there was a large titanium wall. I gasped, shocked at the scale of the thing. I'd been to The Land of Dragons and the Great Wall of China had nothing on this. "Inside the walls you'll find a few of the Garden Guardians." Lea explained. "If you don't mind I'm gonna go meet up with the other Organization members and discuss a few things." Mickey and I nodded and continued on without him. The inside of the wall was surprisingly hollowed out, yet at the same time extremely sturdy. We soon reached a large room filled with weapons and saw two people speaking in the corner. One was a brute like black man with a gun replacing one of his hands and the other was a teenage boy with a red jacket and black and green hair. "Hey there guys. Riku this is our weapons crafter and another captain of the Guardians, Barrett." Mickey began. The black man nodded. "The boy is Private Jake Long, he's in Barrett's team." "Not to seem rude or anything, but aren't you kinda young to be in an army, Jake." I asked curiously. Jake smirked and suddenly turned into a red dragon with his same haircut. "I am but as you can see I can take care of myself." "That is so cool! How do to you do that?" I asked astounded. "It runs in my family." He answered. "So Barrett, where are the other captains?" Mickey asked. "Cloud and Tifa are on a date, Zack is out with some of the Organization guys, Yoda is out in the square with Leon and the others, and Auron…" Barrett was then interrupted by a tall man in a red suit with shades on walking in the room. "Is right here." "Well look who finally decided to show up. Where have you been?" Barrett asked. "I'll explain later. Right now I'd like to know who you are." Auron said pointing at me. "I'm Riku." I said. Auron smiled a bit and replied. "So you're the boy Sora always talked about." "You know Sora?" I asked. "Yes, he helped me out of a few tight spots and I did the same for him." "Anyway Riku, we should probably get back to the castle. It's getting late." Mickey said. "Ok" I replied, starting to get tired myself.
Lea
Walking through the crowded streets of Radiant Garden when its dinner time is hard. However, I soon got to The Bar's Key (leave it to Sora to leave such an impression on these citizens that they name a bar of all things after his weapon) and entered the bar usually filled with all the former Organization members. I ordered some whiskey, sat down at a table, and observed my surroundings. Myde was on stage performing some acoustic song, Rould and Lumaria were playing poker with one of the Guardian captains Zack, Larene was flirting with several guys at once, Elaus and Dilan were arguing over something probably stupid, and Even and Ienzo were in the corner looking over some data charts. That just left… "When'd you get back?" I heard a voice behind me say. "Just an hour or so ago. What's been going on, Isa?" I asked him. Isa sat down next to me and set his beer down on the table. "Nothing much. Even and Ienzo still haven't gotten any information on how we came back. Myde got a record deal though." Isa answered. I laughed and said. "Who knew that Blondie would get a record deal out of the weird songs he writes." We both chuckled and began to drink conversing about random things. "You know, I really missed this place." Isa said. "I did too. I missed us, I missed hanging out like this and just having a good time." I agreed. "I've been thinking what it would've been like if we had been a quartet in the Organization. You, me, Roxas, and Xion." Isa stated. I smiled thinking about the idea. "We would've brought the Organization down on accident just by hanging out. We're all too reckless together." We both laughed but then as if to purposely ruin my mood one of the rioters entered the bar. Ever since we all returned as Somebodies some citizens decided to protest against us not getting punished for our actions when we were Nobodies. No matter how hard we tried to help by rebuilding, joining the Guardians, or even community service, they still hated us. The male rioter was obviously drunk and began shouting death threats and curses, but then he grabbed a bottle and threw it at Elaus. It shattered loudly on his face yet didn't faze him and he stood up ready to fight. I stood up, told him to back down, and Isa and I approached the rioter. "Sir you seem to be very drunk and you can't control yourself or your thoughts, do you need help?" I asked. He then spit in Isa's face and threw a punch at me. I ducked and uppercut him square in the jaw, knocking him unconscious. "Why do we even bother?" Isa asked. I placed my hand on his shoulder and answered. "I don't buddy, I just don't know."
Kairi
Night soon fell on the city and everyone began heading to the castle to rest in their rooms. Since Riku, Sora, and I didn't have any Leon picked our rooms out for us. I was the last to get a room and boy was I surprised. He gave me the princess's room, which I guess was appropriate since I'm the princess of Radiant Garden, but it was still kind of him to do. After sitting around and many failed attempts at sleeping I decided to go out for a walk. The castle was bigger than I remembered which was funny since it should've been smaller, but then again I barely remembered the castle in the first place. After a few minutes of walking I found a balcony and walked outside for some fresh air. The view was beautiful and reminded me of the view on the islands. With some peace and quiet I was able to start thinking about the day's events. Out of the entire group I was the odd man, or woman, out. I'd never been to other worlds besides Radiant Garden and Destiny Islands and if I had I didn't have a heart at the time. I just got my keyblade and I barely even knew how to use it. How was I supposed to help the others, if I could barely even take care of myself? "Couldn't sleep either?" A voice asked scaring me. "Oh, it's just you Sora." I said when I saw it was just him. "Yeah, I got a lot on my mind." He frowned. "Like what?" I shifted awkwardly but decided to tell him. "I just don't know how much help I'm going to be on this mission. You all have done this before and have skills and I'm…" I sighed and felt a tear roll down my cheek. "I'm just a no good, useless damsel in distress." I turned away and looked down at the city below me, the city that after all this was over I might have to rule. How was I supposed to be a princess and a ruler, much less a hero of the worlds? Tears started streaming down my face. How was I, the most pathetic person ever, chosen to be a Princess of Heart? Sora pulled me out of my thoughts by turning me around putting his hands around my neck. "Never say that about yourself, ever. You are anything but no good or useless, you are a smart, funny, brave, and beautiful person. Not to mention that you're a princess, twice." After he said this we both realized our current position and blushed. As if reading each other's minds we both leaned and shared our first kiss. Sparks few and it felt like fireworks were going off behind us. When we stopped for air we looked at each other and smiled. "Wow" We both said simultaneously. "It's about freaking time." A voice said behind us. When Sora and I turned around we saw a group of people watching us, the members being Leon, Yuffie, Cid, Donald, Goofy, King Mickey, Lea, and Riku. "Is there ever such a thing as privacy?" Sora asked annoyed. I giggled and thought to myself. 'This is the best day of my life.'
I get a couple characters seem different like Kari feeling useless but I have to make a few slight changes. Don't worry though, Riku still has regrets about his darkness and Kairi is still hopeful and happy, I just was setting up the final piece of the puzzle for Sora and Kairi to kiss.
I know people are going to get upset about me including Marvel, Star Wars, Wizards of Waverly Place, and American Dragon: Jake Long characters but I wanted to take a nod to the newly owned franchises and the fact that Square hasn't and may never use TV shows in Kingdom Hearts. However there will be no worlds for Marvel or any Disney TV shows or cartoons. As for Star Wars, their technically isn't a Star Wars "World" per say, but you'll understand when we get to that.
In regards to the cross series relationship between Max Russo and Yuffie, I thought it was creative and original and I'm a sucker for romance. That's it, end of story please don't complain as it won't be talked about that much in the story.
I'd like to point out that all the previous Organization members remember Xion now, as a result of turning into Somebodies again, Roxas however only barely remembers her by name.
Finally it think I should point out the new names of Organization XIII since they're all somebodies now:
Axel: Lea (Duh)
Siax: Isa
Lexaus: Elaus
Zexion: Ienzo
Vexen: Even
Xaldin: Dilan
Larxene: Larene (I know it's the exact same name just without the X, sorry)
Demyx: Myde
Marluxia: Lumaria
Luxord: Rould
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