Chapter II: The journeys start.

Traverse Town

Donald usually have to kinds of days, first there are the days that are more common fore him, bad days. Then there are of course good days, and for Donald those days are rare days, and for Donald this day is a bad day. First the King disappears to look for the reason to why the star's are going out plus sending him and Goofy on a mission to find some kind of key. Last but not least the one the queen sent to keep a journal on their journey was a CRICKET with no other use than to write the damn thing, plus they had to take the King's dog Pluto with them.

"So this is where this Leon fella's supposed to be?" Goofy said as he took a look around the first district that they currently were in.

"Yes, now let's get looking" Donald said as he started walking towards the door that would take them towards the next district. As they walked up the stairs that would take them towards higher ground, Pluto suddenly ran away, Goofy saw this Donald didn't.

"Eh, Donald, you know tha-"

"Keep moving you big palooka" Donald said as Goofy just shrugged his shoulders and continued.

Pluto continued towards the weird smell he felt, as he sniffed the air he took a right turn and stumbled across a dead end. He tilted his head to the side before shaking his and began to sniff for his owner. Unfortunately he didn't notice the small creature with antennas and yellow eyes rising from the shadows.

Donald opened the door to the second district expecting it to be full of people, what he found was a complete ghost town.

"Gawrsh, where is everyone?"

"I don't know, but I don't like it" Donald took out his staff as Goofy took out his shield so they were prepared for combat. They took careful steps while watching their surrounding. It didn't appear to be anything wrong until three creatures with what looked like knight helmets on their head appeared.

"What the hell are they?" (OMG DONALD SWORE) Donald said as he took a battle stance.

"Maybe they're friendly" Goofy said as he walked over to one of creatures to shake it's hand but got tackled instead.

"Okay they're not friendly" Goofy said as he prepared to strike.

"Thunder" Donald cried out as a bolt of lightning struck one of the creatures, which seemed to have made some damage but not enough to kill it. Goofy made a dash towards another one then jumped in the air, put the shield under his feet and landed one the creature turning it into black dust that spread in the wind. Donald managed to kill one with a fire spell and the other with blizzard but the damage wasn't enough to kill it and he got tackled to the ground, which let Goofy hit it in the head. The creature turned around an was about to cut Goofy with it's claws before it was hit by lightning and turned into dust.

"What was that?" Goofy said as he put the shield on his back.

"I don't know, but I'm pretty sure there's more of them" Donald said as he started walking while calling out Leon's name. They looked through the second district without finding Leon, so they decided to go the third district. Just as they were about to open the door, small creatures with antennas and glowing eyes appeared, there seemed to be about five of them and while they appeared to be weak Donald and Goofy were prepared for anything. Donald hit one with a fire spell that turned it into dust, goofy managed to kill two by throwing his shield but the third it was about to hit avoided it by sinking in to the ground and appeared behind him, Goofy avoided by jumping forward and caching his shield in the process as Donald hit the creature with fire, Goofy killed the last one by landing on it with his shield.

"Seemed as you were right about it being more of 'em"

"Aren't I'm always right?" Donald said with a smug tone.

``Well there was that one time-´´ Goofy didn't get further as Donald opened the door before walking into it.

The third district was definitely the smallest one with only a fountain in it and a door that had a sign that said `First District´ in big glowing letters. They walked over to the fountain but find no sign of Leon and was about to look through the other districts again when all of a sudden a bunch of those knight and small creatures appeared.

"Again?" Donald said with an irritated sigh as he took out his staff and Goofy his shield.

They attacked the best they could with whatever they knew but for every creature they defeated, two more seemed to take its place. Donald hit one last knight creature with a thunder spell turning it into dust before he had to use his staff to stand up while Goofy tried his best to protect his friend from any attacks but he was also on the brink of exhaustion.

"How many of these things are they?" Donald said as he tried to stand up only to fall back on his butt.

All of a sudden there was a flash of metal as someone swung a sword through the creature turning a bunch of the creatures into dust. The one that seemed to have killed the creatures seemed to be a man with brown hair that went to his shoulders and a scar that went diagonally from the top of his left eyebrow to just above his right cheekbone, a short sleeved jacket that reached just below his ribs, a white t-shirt, a silver necklace with a strange symbol on it and a pair of black pants with black shoes, but what caught Donald and Goofy's attention was his sword which looked like a strange cross between a revolver and a long sword.

"Follow me" He said in a flat voice before he started running towards the door to the second district with Donald and Goofy following with energy they thought they lost.

The man took them to a hotel room in the second district, the room was small with one bed, a table with two chairs, windows facing some kind of tunnel and doors leading to the other rooms. The man walked over to the windows and closed the curtains before facing Donald and Goofy.

"Thank ya" Goofy said with a polite bow while Donald eyed him suspiciously.

"Who are you" He said before sitting down on the bed before the sound of knocking came through the door before a girl with short black hair, a yellow scarf, blue tanktop, brown gloves, hotpants and long white socks with brown shoes opened without waiting for a reply.

"What'd you drag in this time Squall?" The girl said as she looked at Goofy and Donald while the man sent her an irritated glare.

"It's Leon"

"LEON" Donald and Goofy shouted in sync as they looked at the man.

"We've been lookin' everywhere for ya" Goofy said before Leon looked at him.

"Yeah, Osama sent a letter that said that you would come here" Leon said as he sat down on a chair.

"So tell me, what do you want to know about?"

"How abut those things that attacked us" Donald said as Goofy took a seat next to him.

"Those are called Heartless, monsters created from the darkness in people's hearts"

"Gawrsh, that sounds bad"

"It is, since no heart is without darkness, the Heartless can expand in number quite rapidly"

"But why did they attack us?"

"Because the Heartless are always looking for more hearts so they can expand their own number" Leon said before a girl with brown hair tied in a ribbon with her bangs framing her face dressed in a pink dress and brown shoes walked in.

"Then what about this `key´ thingy" Goofy asked as the girl who just walked in raised her head in interest.

"You mean the keyblade?"

"Keyblade?" Donald said in confusion as Leon continued.

"Yes, the Keyblade is the only thing that can truly defeat the Heartless and free the worlds"

"You know about other worlds?" Donald said in shock since that was a very big secret.

"Yes, no one knew before the Heartless came and the worlds became connected"

"That's why you're able to travel with your gummi ship" The black haired girl said in a cheerful voice.

"How do we find this keyblade?" Donald asked hoping that Leon knew.

"I don't know"

"How come?" Donald asked since they seemed to know so much else.

"The keyblade chooses it's master, and we don't know who that is"

"So we just hafta look?" Goofy said before Leon nodded and he and Donald hung their heads in disappointment.

`This is gonna take a long time´ They both thought at the same time.

"How do you know so much?" Donald asked.

"Our leader, Ansem, used to study this all the time before our world… anyway, he wrote down everything in a very detailed report" The brown haired girl said.

"Gawrsh, may we see it?" Goofy asked as Donald nodded.

"We don't have it"

"Then who does?" Donald asked as all the occupants in the room except for him and Goofy suddenly had a dark look in their eyes.

"Maleficent" He said before walking over to the door and opened it.

"I think you should go" Leon said before Goofy and Donald thanked everyone before they left.

"Gawrsh Donald, you think we said something wrong?" Goofy asked as they walked towards their gummi ship.

"Maybe, but we don't have time to think about it now, we have to find the bearer of the keyblade" Donald replied as they entered the gummi ship and left Traverse town.

Paradise Island

(Around the same time that Donald and Goofy landed in Traverse town).

Hawaii? Sora never heard about a place called Hawaii, than maybe this was it. Yes, he was certain, this is another world. He started walking along the beach just to see how it looked like, but before he could get especially far the girl started to talk to him.

"You're not from here are you?"

"How could you tell?" Did she know he was from another world? No, he didn't think so anyway. Well, the blue thing might know judging by the odd stare it gave him.

"You have that same look all tourists have when they come here, like it's another world" If only she knew.

"Yeah, well its so… beautiful" It really was beautiful here, looked almost exactly like… his island.

"Come on, let me show you around" The girl said as she grabbed his hand and started dragging him away from the beach.

"I'm Lilo by the way, and this is Stitch" She said as she pointed at herself and the blue thing.

"I'm Sora"

Lilo seemed very eager about showing Sora the different things that existed within the town she lived in. The island was very much like the main island of Sora's home with buildings, shops and other things you expect to find in a town. What Sora didn't have on his island were the strange creatures that were spread around the island, there was one at an ice cream cart apparently duplicating ice cream from what he could tell, one seemed to be making shaved ice with his breath and another one was using his hammer shaped head to help a few workers build a house, those weren't the only pack of strange creatures he saw but he figured that this was another world so maybe those creatures were common here, but in that case, how come he only saw one of each then.

"So, what do you think?" Lilo asked as she sat down on a rock in the forest that she'd taken Sora to.

"It's really beautiful, but what were those strange creatures in the town?" He asked as he looked over at Stitch who entertained himself by chasing a butterfly.

"And is he one of them?" He had a feeling that Stitch wasn't just a rare kind of dog as Lilo said he was, that he had greeted every weird creature with a wave of his… hand he guessed he could call it, and a weird greeting in a seemingly alien language helped too.

Lilo was just about to answer his question with her basic cover up story when a dark flash suddenly appeared in front of them, as the flash appeared Stitch was in front of her in a crouched position and with an animalistic growl escaping his mouth.

"It's those things again" Lilo said before five creatures in knight helmets appeared replacing the dark flash.

"You met these thing before?"

"Yeah, they've been terrorizing the towns people and tourists and even if we take out one group of them, they always seem to come back" Lilo explained as Stitch took out the knight things, but he failed to notice the small creature rising from the ground preparing to cut Lilo with it's claws, fortunately Sora did.

"LOOK OUT" He called out, and as he did he swung his hand in a motion as if he swung a sword out of pure reflex. What he didn't count on was the creature being turned into dust by the weapon that suddenly appeared in his hand.

`This is that key from before´ Sora thought as he looked at the oversized key in his hand that seemed to have cached everybody's attention, including the creature's.

"Cool" Lilo said as she looked up at the key before the creatures started to run towards Sora. He wasted no time as he took a sword stance he'd seen in a book, the stance was very basic with his feet spread apart, his right foot pointing forward and his left foot pointing left and the weapon, or in this case key, at his left side held by both his hands. As one knight creature was about to tackle him he made a downward slash with his key killing the creature. Another one made an attempt to attack him from behind but was turned into dust by Stitch, Sora then made a mad dash towards another creature before swinging his key horizontally sending it skidding a few feet. He then fell forward as another tackled him from behind before trying to scratch Sora's face which he blocked with his right arm sending jolts of pain through him. Sora gritted his teeth against the pain as he stabbed the creature with the key. Stitch helped him up on his feet as the little blue creature sent another knight creature flying into a tree. Sora then found himself facing two of the creatures, out of breath and with a wounded right arm.

`Damn it, I'm exhausted, there's gotta be a way I can defeat them´ Then Sora remembered the power that he felt when he had taken the key, the one he used to get here.

`Maybe I can use it for fighting´ He began searching his body for that power, as he felt it deep within him, he tried to move it up his arm. The power felt slightly different yet he could tell it was the same, he opened his hand with the palm facing the creatures as a black and red flame appeared in his palm. He tried to make it shoot forwards like a cannonball and kill the creatures, he succeeded with that, but as the flame it the ground it caused an explosion to occur that sent him, Stitch and Lilo into a tree but undamaged from the explosion.

`I need more practice´ Sora thought as he was panting and wheezing for air from that fight.

"THAT WAS SO COOL" Lilo shouted in excitement and awe before doing a bad imitation of the fight, while Stitch laughed a little at her.

"I… think… it… was… simply… exhausting" Sora managed to squeeze through between pants of exhaustion, he then managed to stand up using his giant key as support with his right arm hanging limply against his body.

"Oh no, your arm" Lilo said before she grabbed said arm with her own earning a grunt of pain from Sora.

"I'm pretty sure Jumba can fix you up" She said as she dragged him towards, to what Sora could assume, Jumba. What Lilo took him to was a medium sized house that you had to take a stair to and there seemed to be something that looked like a flying saucer on the roof, all in all it looked like a comfortable house to live in, just a little bit far away from people for Sora's taste.

"We're here" Lilo said as she let go of Sora's hand before Stitch picked him up and carried him over his head.

"No need to worry, I'm strong" Stitch said in a voice that mad it seem as if it was uncomfortable for him to talk.

`Okay, now I'm certain he's not just any dog´ Sora thought as Stitch carried him up the stairs at a rather impressive speed considering he had such short legs.

Lilo opened the door and held it open for Stitch so he could walk in without letting go of Sora, the room they entered was a rather simple living room with one red couch decorated with a pair of pillows, a rather small bookcase that was rather empty on books and a small and old television by the window, it somewhat reminded Sora of his own living room.

`I wonder what happened to everyone´ Sora thought as he began thinking about his own island and what might have happened to them.

`What if they're not even alive? No, I can't think like that, I will find them` Sora thought before he was dropped rather roughly on the couch by Stitch.

"Stitch, be a little more careful" Lilo then shouted some name towards the stair to the upper floor, and from what he could hear, she shouted after Jumba.

"What is it little girl? I'm kinda busy here"

"There's a patient in the living room for you" The next thing Sora knew, the house was shaking slightly as someone, or something, made it's way down the stairs, and through the rumbling of the house, Sora could hear mumbles of `I'm no doctor, I'm an evil genius´ and the next thing he knew, there was a giant man-thing in the living room.

The man-thing was as wide as he was tall, and this thing was huge, with four yellow eyes, a potato nose, skin that was mostly purple with pink on his belly, face and underside of his arms. He was dressed in a far too small Hawaiian shirt together with some equally small shorts.

"So, where's the patient? I don't have all day?" He spoke with a Russian accent as Lilo pointed towards Sora, who was slightly scared at the moment. As he laid eyes on Sora, he seemed bored and it looked like he was about to prepare the `Put a bandage on it´ speech before it laid eyes on Sora's keyblade.

"L-Little girl, why don't you and 626 go and get my first aid kit up in my room"

"Why us?"

"Because I need to check patient, and I think I left some candy next to the kit" They were gone by the time he said candy.

He looked at Sora with a thoughtful look on his face as he picked a white machine out of his pocket that was about the size of a mobile phone.

"So it's gotten this far, ey?" He seemed to ask himself as he pressed a button on the tiny machine which made the top of it glow in a calming blue light.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked as the man-thing, that he assumed was Jumba, put the glowing part of the machine against his wound which healed immediately upon contact, Sora couldn't help but be amazed by the speed the tiny thing healed his wound.

"You're lucky, it looks worse than it is"

"Feels worse too" Sora said as Jumba removed the machine from his wound and as Sora inspected it, he noticed that there wasn't even a trace left of the wound.

"So you're the keyblade's chosen one? Would have expected someone…" He seemed to inspect Sora for a few seconds before he put the machine back in his pocket and said with a blunt voice.

"Less of a kid"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Sora yelled at the top of his lungs as he hated being called a kid.

"I'm fourteen you know"

"Well you're still a kid in the aspects of fighting"

"Jumba, we can't find any first aid kit"

"Keep looking, there's some extra candy in it for you" What followed was the sound of the room being turned upside down.

"What do you mean by that? I can fight" Sora said as Jumba sat down on a chair that seemed to be on the line of breaking just to carry his weight.

"Play fights I assume, which mean fake fights, this is real fight, and you seem exhausted just from fighting a pair of soldiers"

"What were those things anyway?" Jumba seemed hesitant to tell it, but then his eyes fell on the keyblade and he take a look around the room, as if to check if they were really alone.

"Heartless, those born out of darkness, they multiply by taking people's hearts and make new Heartless out of the darkness in those hearts, and even if it's just a glimmer of darkness, they can use it" He walked over to the keyblade and picked it up before it disappeared in a flash of darkness and reappeared in Sora's hand.

"That weapon, the keyblade, is the only thing that can truly defeat the Heartless, an save the worlds from destruction"

"Wait, what do you mean by saving the `Worlds´, there's more out there?"

"You should know that by now, I mean, you're not from this world are you?" Jumba said with a chuckle on the end.

"How could you tell?"

"Jumba, I still can't find it" Lilo's voice said from the stairs.

"Maybe it's in your sister's room, tear it apart"

"Will do" That was followed by the sounds of a room being massacred.

"I couldn't, but now I know" He chuckled at Sora trying to make an angry stare.

"Yes there are more worlds out there, as many as there are stars on the night sky (Sora's jaw hits the floor), quite a number, ey? The only way to save these worlds are by finding the Keyhole of that world, and lock it, in order to prevent the Heartless from getting to the world's heart"

This was certainly a lot to take in for Sora, of course finding out that you're some chosen warrior who's duty is to save all the worlds from destruction would be a lot to take in for anybody.

"Why me?" Sora asked himself as he slumped down into a heap on the couch.

"Nobody chooses their destiny kid, you just have to accept it and hope for a normal life afterwards" As Jumba stood up again, Lilo and Stitch came back covered in feathers that probably used to be in a pillow.

"We didn't find it, but we still get candy right" It was quite obvious she wasn't asking for candy, as she and Stitch put out their hands in the universal `Gimme´ gesture.

"Well, that is partly my fault, I forgot I had kit in my pocket. I think big girl has some candy in kitchen locker out of little girl's reach" As he finished talking, Lilo and Stitch seemed to have an `Everything allowed´ race towards the kitchen with the contestants pushing, climbing and jumping in order to get there first.

"You see why you have to save the worlds, would you be able to live with the thought of little girl loosing her home world?"

"No, I wouldn't, 'cause I know how it feels to loose your home world"

Gantu's spaceship

If anyone would take their time to go for a long walk out in the woods they would stumble upon a waterfall, and when they find the waterfall, they would have to be blind to not notice the black and yellow space ship that slightly resembled a fish that seemed to have landed in front of the waterfall and stayed there for quite some time, and the residents of the ship are as of this moment

"625!!!" Quite angry based of the sounds echoing through the ship.

"What?" A pudgy yellow little creature with short legs and arms and three strands of hair standing up on the top of his head asks as he swallows the last of his sandwich before taking another from the pile that he'd made.

"Why is there pickles and cheese in the ship's engine?" A huge creature that looked like a cross between a whale and a man said as I stepped out of the elevator, the creature had a head that resembled a whale with blue eyes, a fin on his head and two horns that curved themselves in a way so it looked like they rested on his shoulders, he was dressed in a one piece suit that was black with a belt on his hips that had a gun holster on it, his feet resembled those of a rhino.

"I ran out of places to keep them" 625 said before he was lifted up in the air and shaken by Gantu.

"You idiot sloth of a glutton, you just messed up the engine even more" a few moments later Gantu let go of 625 and sat down on the chair in front of the tele-screen.

"You know, his lowness haven't called in awhile" 625 said, referring to their boss.

"Maybe he's busy" Gantu said, although his actions spoke against his words as he dialed the number to the prison cell.

"Whit what? Chewing on carrot's and running around in wheels" He was about to laugh before Gantu shot him with his plasma gun.

"That hurt"

"Good" Gantu said before he managed to get visuals of the prison cell, only to find it completely empty and filled with scratch marks and other signs of struggle.

"Whoa, what happened there?" 625 said as he moved closer to the screen.

"There must have been a riot"

"Well, it seems you have some level of perception Gantu" A squeaky voice said from the opening of the ship, the voice came from a small white creature with rabbit like ears, red eyes, a pink nose, a red cape with a golden H on the front, short arms and legs and a long tail.

"Hämsterviel" Gantu said in shock, as his boss, who was supposed to be imprisoned, stood right by the opening of his ship.

"Hey, it's Hamsterwheel" 625 said in a happy tone.

"It's Hämsterviel you buffoon"

"How did you escape?" Gantu asked as he turned off the screen, as he asked the question, Hämsterviel gained a dark and evil look in his eyes.

"Oh, I had some help" He said as he snapped his fingers and a large number of creatures hidden by the shadows with only their glowing eyes visible, appeared out of thin air.

"Throw them out of here, then do as you please" He said as the creatures crawled towards the residents of the ship, and out there in the middle of nowhere, nobody was near to hear their cries of horror.

AN: Cliffhanger, I'm so evil aren't I?

Jumba: Not anywhere near my level.

AN: Yeah Yeah. Anyway, I managed to finish this chapter quickly since I've been sick for the past three days and had nothing else to do, so don't expect the next chapter to be coming soon.

Jumba: Aren't you forgetting something?

An: Huh? Oh yeah, I don't own Kingdom hearts or Lilo & Stitch.

Jumba: I meant giving me control of galaxy, but this works as well.