A New Blade To The Struggle
A New Wielder
Sora stopped what he was doing, he felt something that he didn't feel before. His silver and gold key blade appeared in his hand. Something was going on, but what he didn't know. The next thing he knew was Riku was walking over to him.
"Do you feel that?" Riku asked.
"Yeah. What is it?" Sora asked in return.
"I don't know. I think it has something to do with the keybaldes, why else would they come to our hands?" Riku asked. Sora shurgged. Whatever it was, he wanted to find out fast, this pulling feeling was getting stronger by the second.
"Too bad King Mickey isn't here. We could as him, he might know." Sora said. Riku nodded, Goofy, Donald, and Mickey had all gone back to Disney Castle and were now setting things right.
Sora was sure that Goofy was slacking off some where, that Donald was ordering someone to do something when they didn't do it right, and Mickey was being the fair and kind leader, the one that was telling everyone what to do, but not like Donald, he did it nicely, with a smile on his face.
Both the keyblades started to quiver in the boys hands. They looked down at them and wondered what was going on. Neither knew because it had never happened before. Both keyblades were being pulled to the south end of the island, to prevent being pulled with the keyblades, both boys let go and the blades shot forward, until they were met with resistance.
Sora and Riku looked at each other. Both had looks of confusion in their eyes.
"Something tells me that we're not the only people with keyblades." Riku said, Sora nodded.
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Mickey's keyblade appeared in his hand, it suddenly being there, without being summoned was surprising to Mickey. He looked at his keyblade, it was quivering in his hand. He didn't let go when it started pulling him to the west side of the room.
Before his arm was yanked out of socket Mickey let go and the blade flew to the windows, they would have shattered if it hadn't been for the fact that the windows were higher up than the blade hit.
"Mickey, what's wrong?" Minnie asked as she walked into the room her husband was in.
"Something is going on with the Keyblade, but I don't know what." Mickey answered. "It just suddenly appeared in my hand and I didn't summon it, after that it started to quiver and in order not to be pulled along with it to the windows I had to let go." Mickey continued.
"Maybe it's telling you that you need to go that way?" Minnie asked.
"I don't know. I think I'll go talk to Sora and Riku." Mickey said. Minnine nodded and Mickey set off for the docking area. Minnie sighed to herself, she hated it when Mickey was away, but she understood that he had to do what he thought was right. He would come back, she knew he would.
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Sora and Riku watched their keyblades while Kairi sat with them on the beach. She had also weilded a keyblade, but she wasn't someone that the blade had actually chosen.
"So, why are you two looking at your keyblades to intently? Do you think they're going to vanish or something?" Kairi asked.
"No. Watch." Riku said, he let go of his keyblade and it zipped past them, and into the first thing that was in its way. "We don't know why they're doing that, but if we let go, that's what happens." Riku answered as he got up and walked to get his keyblade.
"Weird." Kairi commented. Sora and Riku nodded, then there was a flash of light. Mickey appeared and Riku, Sora, and Kairi were all looking at him.
"Sora, Riku, are your keyblades acting weird?" Mickey asked.
"Yeah, we thought that you might know about it." Sora answered. Sadly Mickey shook his head and looked at them.
"Then I guess the only thing that we can do it follow the keyblades to where they're trying to go." Riku said. Mickey smiled at them.
"Are you guys up for another adventure so soon?" he asked.
"Always!" Sora answered as he stood up. Riku just nodded his head in answer.
"No." Kairi said.
"What?" Sora asked as he looked down at his friend.
"I'm not going to let you go, you two just got back." Kairi answered.
"We'll be back." Sora said as he put his hand on his friends shoulder. "We will always come back." Sora added as he looked at Kairi. "That's a promise." Sora added. Kairi looked into Sora's deep blue eyes and nodded. In truth she didn't want her friends to go, she didn't want them to get hurt, she also knew that it was their duty though.
Sora, Mickey, and Riku all boarded onto the ship and then took off for the world where this new person would be. Kairi watched them so, she was sad that her friends had to leave already, but she understood that it was part of their duty, as keyblade weilders.
"Any idea where we're going?" Riku asked, Mickey shook his head.
"No, I don't. They only thing that we can do it follow our keyblades, and even they we might miss the world a few times." Mickey answered.
"Do you think that it was okay to leave?" Sora asked, he was looking out the window to look back at Destiny Islands, their home.
Riku walked over and put a hand on Sora's shoulder. Sora looked at his silver haired friend, his eyes were full of understanding.
"Sora, we have to do this, if we don't, who knows what could happen, the darkness could find this keyblade, and then what would happen? Kairi will understand." Riku added.
"You're right." Sora said.
"Okay, someone let go of their keyblade." Mickey said. Sora's hand let go of his keyblade, and it rammed into the left window in the cock pit of the gummy ship. Mickey turned the ship and nodded at Sora to get his keyblade. Sora grabbed it, then walked back behind the chair that Mickey was sitting, he wasn't sure if he wanted to do this, but he knew he had to.
After a while it was Riku's turn to let go of his keyblade, it ran into the front windows of the cock pit, then a world started to come into veiw.
This world was a medium sized world, there were plenty of trees, and water. In a few places there were clear patches, it looked like that was where the towns and citys were built.
"Are we sure that it's this place?" Mickey asked. Riku and Sora let go of their keyblades, they rammed into the front window, the window that was looking at the world. "Okay, I'll take that as a yes." Mickey said.
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Riku and Sora looked around, they didn't know where to begin looking. Mickey was with them, but off in the trees, making sure the heartless didn't know that they were there, it would be bad if they did, they just got there. If the heartless was there already, then some how they were keeping tabs on them.
"Who're you?" A feminine voice asked she came out of the woods from the other side than Mickey went in. Riku and Sora imediatly were ready with their keyblades. She didn't say anything about the blades, she glanced at them, but that was it, it was like she didn't care that blades had been drawn on her.
"I'm Sora. This is Riku." Sora answered her question. She looked at them both, taking their features in. Sora and Riku were doing the same to her.
This girl had mid-back length gold hair, big blue eyes, and was just an inch shorter than Riku. She wore a black T-Shirt, and black pants, they made her hair stand out more.
"I'm-" she began, but was cut off, the Heartless had appeared. Luckily it was just the small shadows. Without a work Sora and Riku set to work, they didn't notice what the girl was doing. The next time they looked over she had a keyblade in her hand. "Hotaru." she finished.
"You have a keyblade?!" Sora asked.
"If you mean this, then I suppose I do." she answered. Her keyblade was all blue, it had a few stripes of gold and silver on it, but it was basiclly the same as Sora and Riku's. Mickey walked out of the woods and looked at Hotaru.
"I see you found her." Mickey said.
"Actually, she found us." Riku corrected, Mickey gave him a look that said 'you know what I mean!'.
"I'm King Mickey of the Disney Castle." Mickey said with a bow.
"Hotaru, resident of this world." Hotaru said, she nodded her head, she wasn't the kind to go all formal like everyone else.
"How long have these Heartless been showing up here?" Riku asked.
"Since I got this, when they come after me I destroy them, but they just keep coming, mostly everyone in my town has been turned in Heartless." Hotaru answered.
"It seems we came a bit too late." Mickey said with a sigh, it was obvious that he hadn't expected her world to have Heartless here already. She had only had her keyblade for a short time.
"There are still other places that are untouched, it seems they're after me more than anything." Hotaru said, she wasn't sure what exactly was going on, but she knew that it was bigger than just her world, that was obvious because these people weren't from her world.
"Hey Riku, why do you think the Heartless are back?" Sora asked.
"Who knows, maybe someone got it in their head that they would be able to control the Heartless so that they could take over a world?" Riku asked.
"At this point it's to early to tell." Mickey said. Mickey turned to Hotaru who was still on the other side of the clearing. She was looking into the woods. "What's wrong?" Mickey asked.
"I think something's coming." Hotaru answered. "Don't you feel it?"
Mickey, Sora, and Riku all nodded, they felt it. What they didn't know was what it was. They were looking into the woods, just like Hotaru.
"I don't like this..." Hotaru uttered under he breath. No on heard her. A big figure started to rise out of the ground in the middle of the forest, in the direction of where she had come from. "What is that?!" Hotaru asked with rising alarm.
"Darkside." Riku and Sora answered.
"Who!? What?!"
"It's a Heartless that kills the world by turning the world itself into a Heartless." Mickey explained. "There's nothing we can do." he added.
"You mean it's going to take the heart of my world, and plunge it into darkness?!" Hotaru asked, her eyes were scared and alarmed all at the same time.
"Yes." Riku answered.
"That's what happened to our world." Sora added, talking about Riku and himself.
"What's going to happen to everyone else?" Hotaru asked hesitantly, almost as if she already knew but wanted someone to explain it to her.
"They will turn into Heartless." Mickey answered.
"Everyone?"
"Yes."
"I'm not going to let that happen!" Hotaru said, her keyblade appeared in her hands and she ran into the woods.
"Hotaru!" Sora yelled. She didn't even stop to look at them, all that was going through her mind was the fact that her world was going to be in darkness, even if she failed she was at least going to do with them into darkness. Sora started to run after her, but someone grabbed his arm, it was a firm grip. Sora looked at who was holding him back. It was Riku. "Let me go!" Sora yelled at him.
"You can't. If you do, darkness will consume you, that's what happened with me. The only thing that we can do now is hope that it doesn't happen to her." Riku explained.
"Riku's right. If Hotaru is lucky then darkness wont consume her, she'll just be on some distant world, where she will be safe for the time being." Mickey agreed. "Now let's get going before we're consumed." Mickey added.
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Hotaru opened her eyes, she had no clue where she was. There were buildings surrounding her. Her head was pounding.
"Where...am I?" she asked.
"She's awake!" she heard footsteps running towards her. "Welcome back to the land of the awake. We were getting worried for a minute." Hotaru's eye focused. There was a skeleton in her face, and a girl that looked like a poorly sown rag doll. The one that was talking was the rag doll.
"You're in Halloween Town." the skeleton said. Hotaru put her hand to her head.
"I must be dreaming, there's a rag doll and a skeleton talking to me..." Hotaru muttered. She pinched herself. "Ow!" she yelped. When she looked around she noticed that the skeleton was still there, and the rag doll was too. "Maybe not..."
"I'm Sally." the rag doll said.
"Jack Skellington."
"Hotaru."
"Welcome to Halloween Town, Hotaru. You look terrible horrifying." Jack added as he helped Hotaru up. After she was steadied herself she looked down at her clothes, they were all grey and a light, dusty brown. She was dressed like a vampire, of sorts. Her pants were covering her feet, and her sleeves were hanging down and dragging on the ground.
"When did my clothes change?!" Hotaru yelped.
"They do that when you go to a new world." Sally explained. "It's so that you can blend in."
"Oh."
"Where did you come from?" Jack asked. Hotaru's face suddenly went blank.
"It doesn't matter, my home is gone now." Hotaru said, her eyes were looking down at the ground and were full of a sadness that neither Jack or Sally knew.
"I'm sorry, you're welcome to stay here." Jack added.
"Thanks. I think I'll like it here, Halloween was always one of my favorite Holidays." Hotaru added with a smile that lit up her eyes and features.
Jack smiled at Hotaru, she seemed like a nice girl. Sally was also smiling.
"Oh, do you happen to know Sora?" Sally asked, she had recalled that when Hotaru first appeared she had a weapon similar to Sora's.
"I met him before my world was destroyed. He came here too?" Hotaru asked.
"Yes. He closed the key hole to this world. It was a while back though." Jack explained.
"So that's what the keyblades are for. It seems like I'm wrapped up in a bigger mess than when I was grounded for a whole year." Hotaru said.
"Come on Hotaru, I'm sure you're tired." Sally said, she walked with Hotaru into the town. Despite Hotaru's good attitude she was still upset, and she was angry at the Heartless, she hated them and just wanted them to disappear, forever.
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Aki- Okay, well, there's the second chapter. I hope you liked it!
Disclaimer- I don't own Kingdom Hearts, I can wish, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to get my wish.