*I don't own any of the KH characters, I only own Katie
*Render belongs to tsukuneXmoka
Katie followed the crowd of both locals and tourists down the sidewalks of Savannah. She stopped when she felt something buzz in her pocket. Katie bit her lip and snuck into a nearby ally, after she made sure no one was watching, she pulled out a copper case, a portable Heartless Scanner and communicator. She opened it and her eyes widened, according to the black and green grid and it's blinking heartless symbol, the Heartless was extremely close by. Katie tapped the symbol and a picture of woods appeared. She ran out of the ally and scanned the crowd of locals and tourists. Katie tapped a man on the shoulder that was looking at his phone. "Excuse me, sir..."
The man looked over his shoulder and somewhat smiled. "Yeah?"
"Are you local?"
"Another lost tourist, huh?" The man shut his phone and turned to face Katie. "Where do you need to go?"
"Well, I was wondering if you know how to get to this place." She showed him the projection on her communicator.
The man whistled at the sight of the communicator. "Wow, a Farnsworth! I see you're a fan of Warehouse 13, too! Where, no, how did get this? And for it to work!" The man cleared his throat and added, "Sorry about that...well, it looks like the woods near here...where that family got–" He stopped and shook his head and pointed north. "Just go that way. Go down two blocks then turn right at the intersection. Keep going till you see a foreclosed rundown house. Then you'll see the woods...why are you heading over there anyways?"
"I am...meeting a friend! Yeah, that's it."
"What's your name?"
"Selphy."
The man raised an eyebrow then shrugged. "Okay, have a nice day Selphy."
"You too!" Katie dashed away from the stranger, not wanting to face further questions. She glanced over her shoulder and let out a sigh of relief, the stranger no longer in sight. 'Two blocks, turn right...seems easy enough.' She followed the flow of the crowd, not noticing that someone was watching her in an ally.
Katie stopped in front of a house that seemed old and rickety. Faded yellow police tape crossed over the front door, half way loose from its hinges. 'Looks like it's been abandoned for a few years...' Katie mentally blocked her mind from making any scenario of what could have possibly have happened here. She walked around the house and saw the woods. Just then, a small scream was heard. Katie's heart skipped a beat when it registered as the scream of a child. She wielded her Keyblades, Chaos Ripper and Darkness' Master. "I'm coming!" Katie yelled. She dashed into the woods, Keyblades ready for whatever was ahead.
Katie ran halfway through the woods, jumping over boulders and sliding under toppled trees. She suddenly heard frantic footsteps come towards her, making her stop and squint into the horizon. Just then she felt something cling onto her leg, she looked down to see a boy, no older than six or seven with brownish-blonde hair. Katie dismissed her Keyblades and knelt down to the boy's eye level, looking into his ice-blue eyes. "Hey...you okay?" The boy just burst into tears and clung back onto Katie. "O-okay...um...what happened?"
"M-monster...!" The boy cried. "I-it tried to-to-to g-get me...!"
"What did it look like, what's your name?"
"M-my name's L-Len...it was b-big and black! Empty in th-the center..." Len's grip grew tighter when a tree twig snapped behind them. "No! No! No more monsters!"
Katie got up from her kneeling position as quick as lightning and shoved Len behind her as she wielded Darkness' Master with her other hand. But it wasn't a Heartless like she expected.
Instead it was a teenaged male, around Katie's age. He had spiky blue hair and ruby red eyes that the pupils were somewhat slit. He was wearing leather fingerless gloves, a simple black t-shirt under a red-and-black checkered jacket, and black skinny jeans. His black combat boots were tipped with steel. "What's going on—?!" He stopped and his eyes widened at the sight of Katie's Keyblade.
Katie brought Len to the front of her and took him to the teen. "Get this kid somewhere safe. It's dangerous here."
The teen slightly opened his mouth to respond but Len took him by the hand and tugged him forward. "Come on, mister! Hafta to do what Ms. Wielder says!" The teen was taken by surprise when the little boy tugged him hard, making him trip on the woodland's floor. The teen slightly looked over his shoulder to Katie then nodded. He picked up the little boy and said to Katie, "I'm Render. Render Tyler"
"Nice to meet you, Render…now get!" Katie flicked her free hand in a shooing motion. "This place is too dangerous for civilians! Now go!" She dashed away before Render could say anything else.
Katie dug into her pocket for her Farnsworth and opened it, she bit her lip. The usually black and green gridded screen was replaced by the Heartless symbol. She stopped when she heard something snap. Before she could see what it was, something smacked her from behind. Katie was sent flying by the force and hit a tree, head first. Her body thudded onto the ground and she slowly lifted her head with great effort. Her ears were ringing and her vision was somewhat distorted by the hit, not to mention the blistering headache that was quickly growing. From what she could make out of the blurs and quadruples of everything in sight, a Dark Side was right in front of her. Katie tried to get up but she couldn't, it only made her head hurt more. Her dilated eyes wavered as they struggled to widen in shock. The Dark Sider was created a dark energy ball in his hands, and threw it at Katie as soon as it got fully charged. Right before the dark energy ball hit her, she felt her body picked up suddenly. Her body jerked forward and slammed back into whoever saved her when they skidded to a stop. She left the person put her back down onto her feet, their grip returned when she staggered backwards. Katie looked over to her savior and her eyes slightly narrowed. "Render?! What are you doing here?! Get somewhere safe!"
Render shook his head. "No. I'm helping you…and from the looks of you, it's dangerous for you, too."
"I was not paying attention, I was I little too busy to figure out where the heck that Dark—I mean—"
"I know what it is."
Katie gawked at him. "R-Really?" She shook her head and wielded her other Keyblade, Chaos Ripper. "You're not leaving, are you?" She groaned when Render shook his head. "Ugh. Fine. Here, take this." She tossed him a Firaga Materia. "Just give it back to me when we're done here."
Render eyes studied the lime-green orb and shoved it in his arm. His arm turned lime green and he got into a fighting stance. "I'm ready."
"Okay. Be careful, alright?" Render nodded. Katie smirked, "Good." She pointed Chaos Ripper at the Dark Side. "Fire!" A large dark fireball exploded from Chaos Rippers tip.
Katie and Render landed on the woodland floor as the Dark Side toppled to the floor and a heart floated up to the sky. It disappeared with Darkness. Katie and Render looked at each other, both breathing hard, they grinned at each other. "Well. That was fun." Render said.
Katie smirked and shook her head. "Sounds like something I would have said two years ago when I started at the beginning of my journey."
"Your journey?" Render repeated.
Katie nodded. "Yeah…I'm Katie Heart, by the way."
"Nice to meet you." Render pulled out the Materia out of his wrist and tossed it to Katie. "Hey, um, Katie?"
Katie hummed.
"Can I join you?"
Katie stopped and stared at Render, her eyes slowly narrowed and she dismissed her Keyblades. "…No."
"Why not?!"
Katie slightly jumped at Render's sudden aggression. "W-well…I don't want you to abandon your family and friends."
Render looked at the ground and mumbled, "I have neither of those…"
Katie slightly gasped. 'No friends? No family? He sounds a lot like me two years ago…' "What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it…" Render growled.
"O-okay…" Katie shifted at the uncomfortable silence. "So…why would you want to come with me?"
"To become stronger."
Katie slightly nodded at his simple answer and wanted to ask him why he wanted to be stronger, but decided not to, he was already a bit on edge. "I suppose I could give you a lift, I guess…"
Render's eyes lighted up. "Really?" Katie nodded. "Oh, thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Katie playfully rolled her eyes and summoned her ship. The ship's tractor beam took them away from their homeland.
I'm sorry that I cut out the fight scene! DX I was running out of time and I couldn't think of anything to write for it so I just skipped it! TESTING STARTS TODAY! DX (5/22/13) And it'll SUUUUUCK...! Algebra is my first test...(makes a air plane descending noise and an explosion)
Bless your face. And if you sneezed while reading this KH fanfic then bless you. Peace off. BOOP! (Ba-da doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo do review! X3)
