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Chapter 2 – all for one, and one for all!

"Sora, dinner's ready! Come on down. Sora!?" a woman shouted as a storm raged outside the house. Unknown to the woman, Sora had left the house and was on a boat to Destiny Island, "gotta make sure the raft's safe," Sora stated to himself as he secured his boat to Destiny Island's jetty.

"What's that?" Sora asked as he looked at the dark sphere in the sky, "huh? Riku's boat, and Kairi's!" Sora yelled as he looked at the other two boats on the jetty. Sora looked around as he heard a strange noise and saw several creatures slowly coming out of the ground, he gasped as they looked at him. Sora quickly attacked them with his trusty wooden sword but it simply faded through them.

Sora soon ran to the small island to get away from the monsters, "gotta, find Riku and Kairi, gotta warn them," Sora uttered urgently to himself as he ran to Riku and stopped as he reached Riku. "Where's Kairi? I thought she was with you." Sora asked, "The door has opened," Riku answered as he looked at the dark orb in the sky.

"What?" Sora asked in shock, "the door is open Sora, now we can go to the outside world" Riku replied as he turned to face Sora, "what are you talking about? We've gotta find Kairi!" Sora demanded, "Kairi's coming with us!" Riku barked aggressively as Sora backed off in shock.

"Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" Riku shouted as he looked at the dark sphere before outstretching his hand to Sora.

"Riku!" Sora called out to his friend before a puddle of darkness began to grow around Riku's feet and grasped hold of him. Sora ran towards Riku but a similar puddle began to grasp hold of him, Sora tried to outstretch his hand to Riku but as he did the darkness pushed him away before trying to consume Sora.

The darkness overwhelmed them both, suddenly a huge glimmer of light forced the darkness away and in Sora's hand was a sword, but also a Key, "Keyblade… Keyblade!" a mysterious voice stated, Sora turned round to see several monsters, as Sora struck them the blade's light quickly killed them.

Sora made his way to the secret place but as he arrived a giant door was in the way, he opened the door and walked through instead of normally crawling. Sora ran through the cave and soon found Kairi looking at the door, "Kairi!" he shouted in relief to get her attention, "Sora…" Kairi uttered in a dull tone as she turned to face him.

Suddenly the door behind her opened and darkness filled the room, Kairi flew towards Sora but as soon as she reached him she passed right through him, Sora stared for a moment before the force pushed him back through the tunnel and outside.

As Sora reached the outside he slowly got to his feet to find the land he was on was in midair and the same giant from before was also there. Sora readied his weapon as the beast stood on its knees, dark energy filled its stomach and shot several dark bolts at Sora, he weaved in and out of the bolts and jumped on the giant's knee, Sora then jumped towards the giant's head and sliced it several times before landing on the floor.

Sora ran towards the beast's wrists and sliced them several times, as the beast groaned it slowly floated into the air and crashed into the dark sphere increasing the sphere's pull. Sora grasped a piece of wooden debris for dear life as the pull increased, Sora's hand slipped before he gasped and he flew into the sphere before blacking out.

Traverse Town

Donald and Goofy walked through the street and Goofy looked up at the starry sky, Donald turned angrily before looking at the sky. "Look, a star's goin' out!" Goofy yelled in a panicked tone before the star blinked from existence, "come on, let's hurry!" Donald commanded.

2nd district - hotel

Luke slowly opened his eyes to see a blur of someone, as his eyes focused he got a better image of the person, "Yuffie?" Luke asked, "I see you already know him" a man spoke up in the corner of the room, "I've met him before, he's a strong fighter that's for sure," Yuffie told the man, "where am I?" Luke asked.

"You're in Traverse Town, Leon found you unconscious in an escape pod a few clicks away from the world," Yuffie explained. "What are you doing here?" Luke asked, "Weird portals came out of the ground and teleported us to this world," the man answered, "how did you get here? And…" Yuffie asked, "don't even ask, how I got here, well firstly this man blew my whole planet up with this army, then I got a ride off this space pirate and the man showed up again to destroy the ship," Luke explained.

"So it was nothing to do with the Heartless, which means your world is gone, forever?" Leon questioned, Luke looked to the side away from both of them as sadness filled his face, "this town is a place where people appear after their world gets destroyed by the Heartless, we work as a group of people to protect it from such beings." Leon explained what his group did.

"I see, so, how can I help out, I'm sure the Heartless won't like the taste of this?" Luke asked as both his Holy swords appeared in his hands.

1st district – alley

Sora walked out of the alley and looked around the town, "this is totally weird, I'm in another world…" Sora uttered as he looked around. Sora entered the shop behind him, inside the shop he saw a man looking at some papers. "Hey there, how can I... Aw, it's only a kid…" The man stated in a patronising manner. "I'm not a kid! And the name's Sora!" Sora shouted at the man as he pointed to himself.

"Okay, okay, simmer down. So why the long face, Sora? You lost or somethin'?" the man asked his voice filled with concern. "No! Well, maybe. Where are we?" Sora asked, "oh, I see, another survivor," the man stated, "Survivor?" Sora asked, the man explained everything to Sora, "Traverse Town... So, gramps, is this really another world?" Sora asked.

"Don't call me gramps! The name's Cid! Anyway... Not sure what you're talkin' about, but this sure ain't your island!" Cid yelled, "Hmm... Guess I'd better start looking for Riku and Kairi." Sora replied, "Well, good luck with whatever it is you're doing. If you ever run into trouble, you come to me. I'll look out for you." Cid offered as Sora waved and left the shop.

2nd district - hotel

A woman in a pink dress came through a door and Luke stared at the woman, "Aerith?!" Luke asked in shock, "it's not the same one, she may look and dress similar but she's from a world called Hollow Bastion, that place is swarming with Heartless and no one knows how to get there," Yuffie told Luke as she placed her head in both her hands.

"Oh, hello, you must know Yuffie, have we met before? I'm Aeris," Aeris introduced herself. "It might have been possible, on another world, or maybe it's my imagination," Luke answered while shaking Aeris' hand, "oh, Leon, I think the Heartless may be attacking, I sense something," Aeris spoke to the other man as the group left the hotel room they heard screaming coming from the 1st district.

"Hero time" Luke stated with a smirk as he readied his swords, several Heartless slowly crept out of the ground and charged towards the group, "let's go!" Leon ordered. Aeris and Yuffie ran into the back to fight off the Heartless as Leon and Luke secured the 2nd district, "Leon, get to the first district, I can handle this!" Luke called to Leon as he jumped off a railing to the Heartless below.

Leon ran into the first district as Luke landed and sliced two Heartless in half, Luke struck over head to kill another Heartless. As his sword continued to descend he saw another Heartless behind the one he was killing, his left hand sword glowed as Luke swung vertically outwards with it to slice the second Heartless.

To his surprise he noticed he had moved several meters ahead instead of centimetres, he looked down at the sword to see the glow end and he smirked.

(A/N the Holy Swords have an ability called light flash, it covers 10 meters while doing certain slashed or stabs in seconds, so if it's a slash on the right hand side of the person with a small advance in distance it will switch to a large advance. Another move is called light blast, this will increase the wielder's speed and manoeuvrability causing the person to move twice as fast as before, it's only active if the person is fighting and won't affect their running speed).

Several Heartless jumped at him at the same time surrounding him, Luke turned his body while holding one sword in front of him and one sword behind him ready. "Wait for it…now!" Luke shouted as he spun round quickly with both his blades out cutting the surrounding Heartless in two, Luke looked around to see no more heartless were about.

"Slyther, what was that?" Luke asked his guardian, "as your skills grow, so too will your abilities with the Holy Swords," Slyther answered. "So the reason I covered 10 meters in one slash killing everything in-between?" Luke asked, "That was the light flash, taken from your knowledge of the art of quick draw and modified by the Holy Swords," Slyther explained.

"Wait, so the swords knows my every skill and move?" Luke questioned, "Yes, when you start thinking outside the box more skills will become open to you," Slyther answered, "that means…" Luke asked but he didn't get a reply from Slyther, "great, I've got to figure it out on my own…" Luke grumbled under his breath as he headed back to the hotel room.

1st District – Cid's shop

Sora ran into the shop Cid owned and slammed the door behind him, "what's up? Ah…" Cid stated as he saw Sora's face, Cid picked up a set of grenades and a shotgun and walked to the front door, he opened the front door "STOP, SCARIN', MA', FUCKIN', COUSTIMERS, AND, FRIENDS!" Cid shouted as he unloaded a shotgun round after every word.

Cid threw a few grenades at the Heartless before bolting the door, the building shook with the force and Cid smiled to himself,. "Still haven't found 'em? Keep your chin up. Take another look around town, I'm sure those Heartless pissed off after that blast." Cid stated triumphantly as he placed the shotgun and empty grenade rack behind the desk.

Sora slowly turned around and went out the door, "They'll come at you out of nowhere," Leon suddenly spoke up. "Who are you?" Sora asked in shock as he turned to face the source of the voice, "And they'll keep on coming at you, as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade," Leon continued as he pointed at the blade in Sora's hands.

"But why? Why would it choose a kid like you?" Leon asked himself as he placed two fingers on his head, "hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Sora shouted angrily, "Never mind. Now, let me see that Keyblade," Leon demanded as he moved towards Sora with his hand outstretched, "What? There's no way you're getting this!" Sora yelled angrily as he readied his Keyblade.

"All right, then have it your way," Leon scoffed as he jumped at Sora, Sora ran down the steps beside him and got into a more open area Leon followed and the two began to trade blows, soon fatigue came over Leon and he fell to his knee while still holding his gunblade. "Now... you're... gonna... you're gonna..." Sora stuttered before collapsing and falling unconscious.

"Aw, you're slipping, Leon…" Yuffie mocked as Leon stood up and turned to face her, "I went easy on him. Looks like things are worse than we thought. A lot worse." Leon replied as he looked at Sora.

2nd district – back alley

Donald and Goofy looked around as they continued to search for the King, "Gawrsh, there's nobody here. Sure is spooky!" Goofy uttered as he looked around fearfully, "Aw, phooey. I'm not scared!" Donald yelled at his comrade unaware that Aeris was behind him until she tapped him on the shoulder. Donald jumped on Goofy's back screaming in fear and shaking violently.

"Excuse me. Did the king send you?" Aeris asked them, she took Donald and Goofy to the second room in the hotel next to them, as they entered they saw Luke sat on a chair in the corner, "ok, I've seen creepier, a giant walking duck and…what is that…" Luke asked as he stared at Donald and Goofy. "Hey, who do you think you are you big paluka?!" Donald yelled in an offended tone as he glared at Luke. "Sorry, it's just I've never seen anything quite like this" Luke apologised as he got off the chair and looked at Donald's face.

"I think we need to do some explaining," Aeris stated, "good point," Luke agreed.

(A/N at this point the story switches back and forth between the two rooms so rather than typing where the people are, Sora, Leon and Yuffie are in the green room on the left while Luke, Goofy, Donald and Aeris are in the red room on the right. So if it says Aeris said something and then Sora, they're both in a different room and in a different conversation.)

"I think you might've overdone it, Squall," Yuffie told Leon, "that's Leon…" Leon uttered irritably as he came in to the room. "The Keyblade…" Sora questioned as he looked at his Keyblade on the doorway. "Yeah, we had to get it away from you to shake off those creatures. It turns out that's how they were tracking you." Yuffie answered as she walked next to Leon and turned to face Sora as she placed her knuckles on her hips.

"It was the only way to conceal your heart from them. But it won't work for long. Still hard to believe that you of all people are the chosen one." Leon uttered as he looked at Sora and picked up the Keyblade, Leon swung the blade about and it disappeared from his hands before reappearing in Sora's.

"Well, I suppose beggars can't be choosers" Leon stated as he walked closer to Sora, "Why don't you start making sense! What's going on here?" Sora asked.

"Okay, you know there are many other worlds out there besides your castle and this town, right?" Aeris asked Donald and Goofy, "yeah," Donald answered while nodding. "But they're supposed to be a secret." Goofy added while covering his mouth, "they've been secret because they've never been connected. Until now. When the Heartless came, everything changed." Aeris explained.

"The Heartless?" Sora asked, "The ones who attacked you, you remember?" Yuffie replied, "Those without hearts." Leon added, "the darkness in people's hearts—that's what attracts them." Yuffie explained, "And there is darkness within every heart." Leon continued as he looked at Sora, "Hey, have you heard of someone named Ansem?" Yuffie asked Sora as she turned to face him.

"Ansem…" Luke asked as he looked at Aeris, "He was studying the Heartless. He recorded all of his findings in a very detailed report." Aeris replied as Donald taped his foot, "Gawrsh, uh, can we see it?" Goofy asked, "Its pages are scattered everywhere." Aeris answered as she shook her head.

"You mean that they were scatter across the worlds…" Luke asked, "Oh, then maybe the King went to find 'em…" Goofy suggested as he placed his fist in his other hand and Donald nodded. "Yes, those were my thoughts exactly." Aeris stated, "We've gotta find him quick!" Goofy yelled urgently. "Wait! First, we need that 'Key'!" Donald shouted, "that's right. The Keyblade" Aeris replied.

"So… This is the Key?" Sora asked as he looked at the Keyblade, "Exactly" Yuffie answered, "The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade. That's why they'll keep coming after you no matter what." Leon explained as he walked to the doorway, "Well, I didn't ask for this!" Sora shouted.

"The Keyblade chooses its master. And it chose you." Yuffie told Sora, "so tough luck," Leon added as he leaned against the door, "how did all this happen? I remember being in my room..." Sora uttered as he though about his island, Sora suddenly gasped, "Wait a minute! What happened to my home? My island? Riku! Kairi!" Sora yelled as he looked around.

"You know what? I really don't know." Leon answered as he continued to lean against the door, Sora looked around the room as Yuffie and Leon prepared themselves. "Yuffie, let's go join Aeris. She should be there by now with the other visitors." Leon stated, "Leon!" Yuffie shouted as an armoured Heartless appeared.

"Yuffie, go!" Leon ordered as Yuffie ran through the door as Donald was about to open it from the other side, Donald got crushed against the door and the wall and Yuffie got her throwing star, "Yuffie?" Aeris asked as Leon kicked the Heartless out the window and Sora followed, the door Donald was crushed against slowly opened to reveal Donald had become temporarily one with the wall.

Luke removed both his Holy Swords and readied himself as Heartless ran through the door, he put one sword away and used a Holy fireball on the doorway to block the entrance. The group made their way out the hotel via the other door, the group went their separate ways to find the Keyblade holder.

3rd district

Sora ran to the centre of the open space in the 3rd district while Goofy looked over the balcony at him, suddenly Donald and Goofy got surrounded by Heartless. "Gawrsh, are these the Heartless guys?" Goofy asked as he hid behind his shield, "Let's go get 'em, Goofy!" Donald yelled as he readied his wand.

The Heartless attacked Donald and Goofy and caused them to fall off the balcony and on top of Sora, "The Key!" Both of them shouted at the same time while looking at Sora's weapon. Suddenly several columns came out of the ground to block off their exits and Heartless appeared as Luke entered the 3rd district, he ran at the Heartless he thought to be on the same level of footing as him.

Luke jumped at the Heartless and sliced it into 4 quarters before realising the large drop, "oh crap…" he muttered to himself as he quickly fell to the floor in front of Sora, Donald and Goofy. Luke rolled across the floor and quickly got up to slice another Heartless, "let's leave the introductions till we're not in danger!" Luke shouted as a Heartless jumped at him, the Heartless slashed his arm as 4 cut marks became visible.

Luke gritted his teeth as a small amount of blood seeped out of the wounds and the Holy armour healed itself, the group quickly fought off the Heartless. They walked over to each other before 5 pieces of giant armour fell from the sky, the armour quickly join itself as a 6th piece landed on the armour's torso. Each peace worked on its own and none of the pieces were connected to each other.

"The bigger they are the harder they fa…" Luke stopped as the monster's left gauntlet punched him into one of the columns hard enough for the hole to hold Luke in place. Luke fell out of the hole and slowly picked himself up as he struggled to stay awake, "damn, that's something powerful…" Luke muttered to himself as the other began to attack it.

The armour's right gauntlet hit Luke in to the same column again with a similar effect, "gotta, keep going, can't die now…" Luke thought to himself, his body jerked as blue electricity crackled around his hand on the floor. Luke shot up as an overwhelming force filled him with a new source of strength, his hair slowly changed from brown to a light Blue as his eyes glowed vividly, his clothes turned back to normal (A/N before he got the Holy Swords).

(A/N this is Luke's tribal form, it's like his body's abilities and tribal powers are X2 in this form, he can run faster, jump higher, strike harder and take more hits.)

The giant armour spun its claw like gauntlets round its torso causing a sharp ring to envelope itself. Sora jumped over the ring and struck its torso causing it to stop, the two gauntlets separated from the torso and began to follow and attack Sora. Donald and Goofy attacked the gauntlets while Luke ran up to the left side boot and struck it 18 times with his twin swords before removing the long sword from his back and shooting forward through the two boots with a stab.

The two boots removed themselves and marched after Luke as the gauntlets reattached, the two gauntlets spun round once more and the torso charged at Sora. The torso re-connected and the 4 attacked the armour simultaneously, Sora struck the armour's right gauntlet shattering it to pieces as Luke struck its right hand boot several times before using his destruction powers to blow both boots up.

Luke's hair turned back to normal, his eyes stopped glowing and his armour returned, "I guess I can't last long in that form for now till my body gets use to it…" Luke stated before firing a Holy fireball at the other gauntlet, Sora ran at the gauntlet and shattered it with his Keyblade, the torso began to spin and tried to ram the group. Everyone dodged the armour and attacked it in unison, Sora jumped away from the armour and readied himself, Luke jumped next to him and nodded. Luke grabbed Sora's arm and swung him round, he released Sora and Sora flew at the armour, Sora sliced the helmet with his Keyblade before flipping and landing on the ground as the armour evaporated and a heart flew to the sky.

The group turned to each other and Donald, Goofy and Luke looked at Sora, "look's like we found the Keyblade holder," Luke stated. "So, you were looking for me?" Sora asked before Donald and Goofy nodded, "They too have been seeking the wielder of the Keyblade," Leon answered as he folded his arms.

"And I'm just along for the ride," Luke stated, "hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel." Goofy offered as he looked at Sora and Luke, "I wonder if I could find Riku and Kairi…" Sora asked himself as he looked at the floor, "of course," Donald answered encouragingly, "Are you sure?" Goofy whispered to Donald, "who knows, but we need him to come with us to help us find the king," Donald whispered to Goofy while pointing to Sora.

"Sora, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends." Leon told Sora as he uncrossed his arms, Sora cheered up and looked at the 3, "ok, why not? I'll go with you guys," Sora decided, "Donald Duck," Donald told Sora and Luke his name while putting his hand in the middle of the 4, "name's Goofy," Goofy stated while placing his hand above Donald's.

"Luke," Luke introduced himself while placing his hand on top, "I'm Sora" Sora told the group his name as he placed his hand on top of the 4. "All for one, and one for all!" Goofy yelled before the 4 cheered.

Some where filled with darkness in a hollow chapel

"That little squirt took down that Heartless! Who'd have thought it?" a man with robes and flaming hair uttered, "Such is the power of the Keyblade. The child's strength is not his own." A man in a fancy outfit with a snake staff added, "Why don't we turn him into a Heartless? That'll settle things quick enough." A woman with 8 tentacles demanded.

"And the brat's friends are the King's lackeys. Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them." A man with a hook for a hand stated, "You're no prize yourself…" A being mocked the hook handed man before laughing, "Shut up!" the hooked handed man yelled.

"Enough. The Keyblade has chosen him. Will it be he who conquers the darkness? Or will the darkness swallow him? Either way, he could be quite useful..." a woman with dark robes and very dark grey skin stated.

End of chapter

Just adding that I have changed the name from Aerith to Aeris for a reason since the FF7 Aerith was killed by Sephiroth's dark blade.