Kingdom Hack
Chapter 1
"Damn it Chelsie, I thought you said the weather was going to be nice," yelled a pissed off Ellouise, who was being her usual bitchy self. Ellouise's long blonde hair clumped together in wet sheets as it stuck to her drenched body. Her tanned skin brought out her bright green eyes leered as Chelsie who rolled over to stare at the sky. Both of them were wearing bell bottom jeans which were soaked and clinging uncomfortably heavy from the water while Ellouise kept the lifejacket on to cover her now transparent white tank top. Chelsie pulled off her jacket, which was nothing more than a soaked black rag, while her purple shirt was drenched, but not transparent. Chelsie glanced over at Ellouise, she didn't care how mad Ellouise was, it wasn't her fault a storm had randomly hit during their travels.
"What? You didn't have to come," Chelsie said getting up off the wet sand and brushing it off, "Besides you where the only one who had a life jacket on."
Chelsie was right, since Ellouise was the only one among them who could barely keep afloat on the water, she was given the only life jacket when the journey.
Chelsie looked up and down the beach. The skies were blue as if no storm had hit them at all, while the beach was barren of the little canoe that they traveled in, but the other three passengers were staggering to their feet.
"Hey guys, you alright?!" Chelsie yelled. They seemed to be okay, nothing broken anyway. Chelsie and Ellouise ran over to their fallen friends.
"Are you guys ok?" Ellousie said kneeling beside them.
"I'm a little wet, but fine Elli." Valerie said looking about the other people and brushing sand off of herself.
Trish and Maranda got up slowly and nodded in reply, they were both alright too, although Trish was more or less embarrassed because her skirt that she decided to wear on a ship journey was not only sticking to her legs, but had flipped up when she washed ashore, displaying her printed pink underwear for the whole beach to see.
Maranda rung out her flowing black hair, she seemed angry about what had happened, but she was thinking logically. She was the one that was most prepared, but her backpack full of food had been lost along with the boat. Valerie brushed off the sand from her red t-shirt along with her brown hair. She also helped Trish up, who was still fussing with her navy blue skirt.
Trish looked around at everyone, "What do we do now?"
"Look for the boat I suppose," Maranda started off, "Or at least look for some shelter or people, if this island is populated."
Although the latter was highly unlikely; the entire island was covered with nothing but trees and other plant life. Tall palm trees towered into the sky closer to the shore while the bigger fruit bearing trees were closely clumped together near where the soil began.
They all started to walk about the beach surveying the area before it got to dark to see. It seemed so barren, as if it was a natural island that no one had lived on. In short, it seemed as if they were going to be stuck there.
"I'm still blaming you Chelsie," Ellouise said as she scurried to keep up with everyone on the beach.
"Why?" Chelsie uttered while rolling her eyes, "It wasn't my fault the storm and the canoe crashed."
"Yes, but it was your idea in the first place to go out on the boat today." Ellouise retorted; her voice escalating with every word. Both Valerie and Trish were now being irritated with their bickering.
"Look damn it," Valerie said trying to not to strangle them by their necks. "We're here now. Nothing's going to change that fact. So quit the complaining and let's figure out a way to look to the positive side of the matter."
They continued walking in silence. The only noise was of the sand crunching beneath their shoes as they pressed on. The sun was starting to set over the ocean as they headed south. The sky slowly started to turn a yellow-orange as it steadily started to try and touch the sea.
They continued on for about an hour, the sun now even more close to the horizon, when they came upon the sight of wooden huts near the beach.
"Oh good," Valerie said in relief, "At least there's people here." As they drew closer and closer, however, there was no sign of life anywhere. There was a small dock with three wooden boats near another little wooden stage. There was a small waterfall falling into a little man made lagoon. Next to it was another hut and then a bridge leading to a little island with two palm trees on it. When they neared the island that was connected by the bridge, Maranda finally said what they were all thinking.
"Hey," Maranda said as she looked around the area, "Doesn't this look like the Destiny Islands, from Kingdom Hearts?"
Everyone looked around, it did and there was no doubt about it, but the difference was only here was completely abandoned.
"Maybe it's a role playing area." Trish said, trying to come to a logical explanation, without sounding crazy.
"Let's split up," Ellouise said, trying to relax about the matter, "Someone's got to be here."
"Yeah, let's all meet back here in about an hour." Valerie said being optimistic now.
They all split up, each going in an opposite direction going into the huts, looking around the areas where people were "in the game," but no one found anyone. They meet back at the bridge; no one had found anyone anywhere. They did notice Chelsie, however, who was in a state of shock.
"Hey, Chelsie, what's wrong?" Maranda said, cautiously walking toward her.
Maranda pulled Chelsie around to see her stunned expression while clutching a yellow star in her hand. Everyone looked down to see that it was a yellow star shaped fruit; a paopu fruit.
"Wow, that's a pretty good paper mache mold." Trish laughed, trying to remain in her fantasy; that they were still within their world.
As soon a Trish said this, Chelsie snapped the paopu in half. The juice dripped down her fingers and the pieces fell to the ground among another paopu fruit that laid there. There was stunned silence, and Chelsie moved over to pick up a green glass bottle from the floor.
"There's no way this could be true, just no way." Maranda muttered lowly while glancing at the bottle.
"Well if it is true," Valerie said, trying to remain sane, "there's still one place we haven't checked."
Valerie pointed to the waterfall, but that's not really what she meant.
"Oh no, are you nuts?" Trish said taking a step back, disapproving the idea.
"Oh come on Trish there's nothing to be afraid of and there's no harm in looking." Valerie said putting an arm on Trish's shoulder, trying to egg her into going.
"But… bad things always happen… oh never mind." Trish sighed in defeat and nodded to proceed.
"Alright," Ellouise said, becoming somewhat happy, "to the cave."
They walked slowly over to the secret cave and proceeded in one by one. Valerie went in first since it was her idea in the first place, followed by Ellouise and Chelsie, and lastly Trish whom was being pushed in by Maranda. They walked the long cavern entrance, then finally coming to the main cave. They looked at all the drawings which where all over.
There was, of course, the small one of Kairi and Sora, handing paopus to each other, but the others were a bit more interesting. Some were childish doodles while others seemed to tell stories, stories that they had never even dreamed of seeing.
"What the hell?" Maranda said talking a step back.
"What is it?" Trish said moving over to where Maranda was standing. It was her name within a hand outline.
"What do you think it means?" Ellouise said looking at it closely.
"Hey," Chelsie said being somewhat surprised, "there's more over here."
There was one for each of them. They stood in front of the one that bared their names. Suddenly they had a weird desire, a weird sensation in each of their heads; a desire to place their hand on the rock in front of each. The words kept repeating in their heads. Finally everyone succumbed to the desire and touched the stone all at the same time.
Each of the markings exploded with light, causing each of them to stumble backwards.
"What the hell just happened?" Ellouise said being quite dazed.
"I don't know, but can we leave now?" Trish said also rubbing her head.
"What the fuck is this?" Chelsie yelled rolling up her sleeve to reveal a gold bracelet.
Each of them had one, all on the right arm.
"What do you think it means?" Valerie said holding her wrist above her head to get a better look at it.
Each of the bracelets had a huge stone in the middle. Chelsie's was white, Valerie and Ellouise's were red, and Maranda and Trish's were green. They seemed to glow for a brief moment, but the light within them subsided
"I don't know what it means, but it isn't coming off!" Chelsie yelled in panic as she tugged her bracelet in frustration.
Everyone giggled at the sight of Chelsie being her usual self. Sure it was somewhat freaky that the bracelets wouldn't come off, but the fact that Chelsie was making it humorous. Not being too concerned about where the bracelets came from, or what they meant, they got out of the cave and started at the matter of how the hell they were going to get home.
When they exited the cave the sun was slowly disappeared over the crystal blue sea.
"Oh great, now it's going to be dark soon." Ellouise said most likely about to bring back the argument of why they were here in the first place.
"What, you afraid of the dark?" Maranda said giggling behind her.
"No," Ellouise said, "I just don't like the idea that we are in an unfamiliar place and we have to spend the night." The expression on her face was turning quite fretful.
"Oh come on," Chelsie said trying to be optimistic on the matter, "Think of it as an adventure, besides, we're together."
"Yeah," Valerie chimed in, "as long as we're together and we support each other, nothing can stop us."
"Okay, but where are we going to stay?" Ellouise said in a frustrated tone.
"Well duh," Valerie said, "Probably in there."
Valerie meant the little hut in between the waterfall and the island separated by the bridge. Ellouise glared at Valerie in disbelief of the comment that she had just said.
"Watch it Valerie, let's just cool it for now." Trish said trying to plan ahead and didn't want to have to play doctor to one of the two.
It wasn't roomy, but at least it there was some blankets and food within a cupboard. The food was predictable; since they were on a secluded island they knew that there would be no sodas and chips. But there was rice and some flour. There was homemade bread, some cheese, and some dried foods. Everyone whipped up something and ate their fill. Outside on the beach, the made a small fire and they huddled around it, munching on their meal.
"I wonder why it won't come off." Valerie said now tugging at her bracelet really hard.
"Does it really matter?" Trish said as she looked at her bracelet, "Besides it looks pretty neat, and stylish."
They sat there and chatted for a bit. They decided to go to sleep early and then get up early to build a raft to get back to civilization. They retreated back into the shed, Trish and Ellouise went upstairs while Valerie, Chelsie, and Maranda were downstairs. Everyone had fallen asleep except Valerie and Chelsie. Chelsie was shaking where she sat on the floor.
"Chelsie are you alright?" Valerie whispered, trying not to wake up Maranda. Chelsie sat up slowly to look at Valerie in the eyes.
"Nothing, why?"
Valerie looked at Chelsie awkwardly, she knew that Chelsie did not hear a word that she had said.
"Not most people shake when they are trying to sleep." Chelsie sighed then looked at Valerie seriously.
"I don't know I can't explain it," Chelsie said staring into space, "It's like I can feel something outside it feels like wind."
Suddenly there was a loud bang outside on the beach. Both Valerie and Chelsie got up and went to the nearest window.
"Um…what the hell was that?" Ellouise said bolting down the stairs with Trish closely behind, while Maranda started to get up.
"Let's go check it out." Maranda said through a yawn.
"Alright I'm coming too." Chelsie said skipping after her.
"Are you two fucking nuts?" Valerie yelled at them with a startled look. Both Chelsie and Maranda looked at each other then at Valerie.
"What?"
Valerie grunted in disgust and followed. They ran out to the beach, Chelsie and Maranda, being the first ones out the door, were in front of everyone else. Suddenly Maranda stopped dead in her tracks.
"What's the matter Maranda?" Ellouise said, "Why did you stop?"
Maranda raised her hand and pointed to the sky.
There in the sky was a giant sphere floating in the sky. It was black with splashes of red and purple swirling through it like there was a current.
"That can't be good." Trish said from behind.
Then the earth shook causing all of them to fall.
"Okay this is getting weird," Valerie said as she tried to get up. "It's starting to be like the game."
Then streams of dark light shot out from the ground. From those streams emerged little black figures, that looked heartless, but the insignia different. The insignia on these where an upside down pentagram inside a circle, inside a diamond. They were surrounded, what were they to do?
"Told you it couldn't be good." Trish said as she took a step backward away from the things.
They stood back to back.
"Any bright ideas?" Maranda whispered to everyone.
Suddenly one of the things charged Ellouise. It jumped up in the air and went for her head, but when it came near her it disappeared. In Ellouise's left hand she held a sword; it looked like a keyblade.
"Are you alright Ellouise?" Trish said walking over to where Ellouise was to help her up.
"Yes I'm fine, but what the hell?" Ellouise said as she looked at the sword in her hand.
"Hey Ellouise how did you do that?" Valerie said still looking at the things.
"I just called out in my mind for help." Ellouise said trying to recall what exactly happened.
Chelsie and Valerie took a step toward the things. There was a shimmer from their bracelets and then a keyblade formed in each of their hands.
"Okay Chelsie let's teach them a lesson." Valerie said reading her sword.
They swung their swords with accuracy and quickly. They defeated enemies with ease, and without any effort they easily taken out at least half of the enemies in a minute. Then the rest disappeared.
"Where did you guys learn to do that?" Trish said helping Ellouise up.
"Video games and anime watching." Maranda said who was also helping Ellouise up.
"Well you know me.. I play to many video games," Chelsie said as she walked over to them.
Everyone got up and Ellouise was all right. Suddenly there was another crash.
"Come on guys, this way." Valerie said pointing to the cave.
Everyone ran to the cave not arguing about it one bit. They ran down the long narrow cave and back to where the bracelet incident happened.
"Hey look, it's the door." Maranda said pointing.
It was the door; the door that was connected to other worlds. With no real time to think it through they placed their hands upon the handles and pulled. Light shone from it as it opened and then when it opened all the way they were sucked in. They were being transported into another world.
-\I/-Meanwhile somewhere else-\I/-
"Kite, quit being lazy and come on!" Damion yelled at Kite to finally get him up.
Kite the twin blade master was a knight of King Horlick's order arose from where he was sitting and followed his fellow knight Damion. They had been knights in the order for some time, and it was Damion's duty to continue training Kite in his skills. Kite just stood there stretching, his bright orange pants and vest contrasting greatly compared to his sea green hair.
"Kite where you listening to me? Are you coming or not?" Damion said again being more urgent this time.
Kite followed Damion quite tiredly. His aqua green hair was neatly kept under his bright orange hat as he brushed his bangs aside so that he could see clearly where he was going. His blades he carried on his back ready for any unexpected surprises, but he didn't really expect any at this moment in time.
"Why are we going to the throne room at this hour?" Kite said, ending his sentence with a yawn.
It was still quite early, for the sun had just barely risen over the beautiful mountains that lie on the east cavern.
"We have been called to order by the Queen." Damion said turning to glare at Kite.
Damion was an inch or two taller than Kite's 5'3". His sleek black hair was tied back in a short ponytail. His eyes were a golden brown which were usually hidden behind his black sunglasses, but he wasn't wearing them at the moment. He wore a cloak of black with baggy black trousers, and a dark blue shirt. Damion and Kite were two of the King's best and most loyal knights. Damion kept his sword in the sheath on his back.
They hurried to the throne room. As they hurried some of the guards saluted or bowed as they passed. When they entered the throne room the Queen was already in there waiting for them. She seemed as if she was sobbing for some time now, but the reason was unknown.
"What's wrong my lady?" Kite said as both he and Damion bowed. The Queen looked at them and then handed them a note.
"You have to do this," the Queen said through her sobbing, "for me and the King."
They both read the note, and then exchanged looks.
"Don't worry my lady we will fulfill the wishes of the King." Damion said bowing a second time. The Queen smiled.
"Thank you."
They bowed their goodbyes and Kite and Damion left.
"What the heck is a keyblade?" Kite asked Damion as they walked off to the departure room.
Kite was still reading the note, it was his first mission outside of the rule of the castle.
"It's a blade that unlocks different things." Damion said grabbing his sunglasses from his cloak and put them on.
"So where you guys going?" said a puzzled Sora who was perching upon a ceiling beam high up in the corridor.
Sora was wearing his usual black clothing with his headband in his green hair. He was a mischief maker, and he was known for this ruthless fighting style. He was a twin blade like Kite, but his weapons were spring loaded from the top of his gloves.
"Shove off Sora, why don't you go spar with Krim?" Kite said giving Sora a slight look. Sora jumped down from the ceiling beam letting his long green bangs run in his face as he hit the ground.
"Oh come on, he isn't any fun anymore." Sora said being a little cocky, "Besides I'd rather spar with one of the King's better knights."
Kite was about to tail him off with his blades, but Damion held him back.
"Sora, were on departure in an hour by order of the King." Damion said peering at him over his sunglasses.
"Oh, hello Princess." Kite said beginning to bow.
It was Princess Aura. She usually roamed the castle grounds early in the morning before she has to attend to her royal duties. Her hair she usually wore down and it was beautiful silver. Her pale blue eyes were staring at the three knights. She continued walking till she passed Kite and Damion.
"Please, save my father." she said and continued walking. After she turned the corner they continued talking.
"Excuse us, we have to leave. Go play hero with the princess." Damion directed to Sora as he urged Kite and himself to walk.
Sora stared at Damion irritably, then walked away, most likely to bug another guard.
They went from that corridor to the ship dock. They had a somewhat big enough ship to hold at least twelve people besides them. They loaded their equipment in and started to close down the hatches and prepared for lift off.
"So where are we headed?" Kite said as he sat in the copilot seat.
Damion was checking all the gear and was making sure that everything was operational.
"We're headed for Chagate Town." Damion said glancing at Kite.
Damion was being his normal, serious self. Damion had always had his mind on the mission instead of joking how Kite usually did.
"Damion you need to lighten up, especially if one of the keyblade master's a really cute girl." Kite said putting his arms behind his head.
"Yeah, right." Damion said sarcastically as they departed.
Damion wasn't really paying any attention to Kite, he didn't care if the keyblade master was male or female; all he cared about was the mission at hand.
-\I/-
Disclaimer: I do not own in any way any aspect of Kingdom Hearts of .hack and I do not own Kite (or any of the other .hack game characters), destiny islands, or keyblades. However, I do own Damion, Chelsie, Valerie, Maranda, Ellouise, Trish, and the enemies (which will be named later, they are not heartless) so please do not take them or this story and use them without my permission. Thank you for reading and new chapters coming soon.