Sora groaned, rolling over onto his back. Something like straw poked into his back, though… fur? Instantly jumping to life, he looked around, seeing a thin, black, cat-like tail with a yellow four-star shape on the tip. It twitched around, and it took him a couple moments to realize that the tail was his. Gasping, he jumped to his feet, sending light blue sparks of electricity jumping across the floor. Looking down at his hands, or now paws, he noted bright sky-blue fur with a single yellow band on both of his wrists.
"Don't move another muscle!" Screeched a hostile voice, "Or I'll skin you and feed your meat to those black things ripping apart the door!"
Stunned by the suddenly loud voice that bounced off the stone walls, and the threat that followed, he froze solid. The clicking of something that sounded like tap dancing shoes soon followed the just fading echoes of the voice approached.
"Sit." The voice ordered. Relived, Sora sat down in his straw bed. Then he noticed something, his usually brunette hair had turned a dark cyan blue. Blinking and looking for the voice, he finally found who was yelling at him.
It was a kind of feminine looking, dark orange creature with an animalistic qualities; specifically cat-like legs with feet tipped with sharp claws, a short muzzle, and a long lizard like tail that was tipped with a flickering flame. There was also a long, pale scar stretched down from its left shoulder to the right hip. The face had duel colored eyes, one a deep cerulean and the other a bloody red. However, the blue eye was covered with a red tuft of hair. It resembled hair, anyway.
"W-who are you?" Sora asked curiously, sticking his nose out to examine the creature more carefully. He stopped leaning shortly before he fell, but quickly lost his balance.
The creature jumped back, "Me? Name's Spyra. You're quite odd for a shinx. It's almost like you've never stood on four legs before." The voice turned less ferocious, and confirming a female gender. Spyra looked down on the face-planted Sora, folding her arms.
Grunting unhappily, he pushed himself to his feet, standing just about eye level with her, "I seldom do." Sora replied in a sarcastic tone, referring to the time he had turned into a lion cub in the Pridelands, "By the way, I'm Sora."
"Well, kid, welcome to Ghian. 'Cause you're obviously not from around here." She said, turning to a pile of cloth in the far corner of the room. It was Sora's human clothes. Spyra kicked them distastefully, "They smell almost like human clothes. You don't happen to have a trainer, do you?" Asked the creature, "I used to have a trainer, by the name or Erin. She was good to me." Pausing, she laughed, "Well, as good as those Arceus-forsaken things could be."
Sora blinked, confused, "Trainer?" He asked, tilting his head.
"A human. One that uses fake apricorns to store pokémon and carry them around in. Then, when the time comes, to call the pokémon out of the apricorns and order them around in battle." She explained, grunting with slight hostility, "We have finally managed to rid this place of most of the humans, but it took quite some time."
"That's horrible!" Sora gasped, before stopping, "What's an apricorn? And you're killing all of the humans on the face of this planet!" He cried, suddenly afraid for Riku and Kairi if they didn't turn into a so called pokémon form.
"Killing?" Spyra asked, tilting her head. She laughed, "Killing a human is too easy. No, we're chasing them from Ghian. They're fleeing to places like Unova or Kanto. The physics are working together to put up a permanent force field around the island so that we don't have to worry about humans." She explained, before leaning against the stone wall, "Wow kid, did you just get hit over the head by one of those black things? It's almost like you've never seen a charmander- or any pokémon for that matter- before."
Sora stood up, "Stop calling me kid!" He growled, sparks flying from his tail. He blinked, looking at his tail, and the sparks ceased. Sora attempted to summon the sparks again, but nothing happened. He paused, trying to cast one of his spells, nothing. He tried another spell. Nothing. Then, he tried to summon his Keyblade. Instead of the usually gold and silver blade, he received long, saber-tooth fangs and metal claws. "Whaah!" He cried, quickly dismissing his new Keyblade.
"Idiot." Spyra scoffed. She turned to exit the room, before flicking her tail, "Follow, kid."
"Stop calling me kid!" Sora screeched again, quickly bounding after her. He would gladly hit her over the head with the Keyblade if he could. He paused, looking up. Glass barred the top of the home from the rest of the world, letting light in and making it evident that the house was underground. A shadow fell over the window. Looking up, he saw a Neoshadow. The Heartless clawed at the glass savagely. Sora stood there for a couple moments, before continuing, looking for Spyra.
He stepped in a puddle of sticky liquid. Looking down, he saw a trail of blood, leading to the far corner of the room. There lay a limp purplish-black birdlike creature, with a white chest, and feathers that seemed to form a type of hat. It also had bushy red tail feathers. There was another and a smaller one with a similar hat, fully black body. The smallest one also had a simply black tail. He shivered, and glared at the orange lizard-girl who was raiding the food stores, stuffing the food into a leather backpack. "What happened?" He asked, trying to shake the blood off of his paw.
"Those things happened." Spyra gestured to the window with a flick of her tail, "Come on, we're leaving." She said, seemingly paying no attention to the dead birds.
"Hey! What about them?" Sora cried, pointing to the family of birds with his paw. He looked at them, feeling sadness bubble in his throat.
"They're dead. Let them rot." She said coldly, leaving for the wooden door.
Hesitating, he ran after the charmander. He only managed to leave the underground home before the wooden door was slammed shut. Spyra was already at arms with the Heartless, fighting them with savage feral attacks. She occasionally released a thick column of flames, or blasted them with black fireballs. She also summoned claws from the Heartless' fading darkness, using them to rip apart many of the Heartless in secession.
Now to try my new Keyblade. Sora thought, summoning the claws and teeth. As he ran to battle, he quickly realized that he had a blade-like tail tip to adorn the yellow star shape. He grunted, jumping into battle. To his own surprise, he found that his new 'shinx' form was much like his human Valor Form or Final Form, being able to use his sets of claws in the same fashion he dual wields two Keyblades.
Slashing relentlessly, he found he was able to dance about on his hind legs. A Shadow lunged at him unexpectedly. Gasping, he fell onto his back. The Heartless seemed to have a maniacal grin, looking at him with hate in its eyes. The Heartless quickly evaporated in another ball of black fire.
"Get up!" She screeched, pulling on his paw. "Kid! Get fucking up and haul your fucking ass!" Stopping abruptly and looking away, she dashed out of his vision to fight unseen Heartless.
Head spinning, Sora finally managed to push himself to his paws. Seeing that the last of the Heartless had been obliterated, he grunted, "They're stronger here. What the hell?" He pondered aloud. Long tail twitching, he pawed a crystal that was left behind.
"Hey!" Screeched the tiny charmander, jumping to take the crystal from the ground. Inspecting the item with narrowed eyes, and an expert tapping of the crystal with unsheathed claws, the black stone shattered. Eyes glimmering with a new found hatred, she grunted, "Why would anything carry a crystal so worthless?" The voice was faked, for something else bubbled behind the voice.
Turning to the forest and the abandoned pack, she picked it up. Running into the forest, she paused, turning to look over her shoulder at the zoned out Sora. Tilting her head for a moment, she hesitated, "Hurry up kid! I will deep fry you if I have to!" She snarled.
Jumping out of his trance, he ran after her, stumbling a couple times. Every now and then, his steps would send more sparks flying from his paws. Pausing not too far from Spyra, he said, "Is there any particular reason you keep calling me a kid?"
Eyes glittering with a little bit of mischief, she grinned haphazardly, "You're acting like one. I'll call you by your real name when you get some balls." Spyra turned and retreated into the woods, before again pausing and turning to look at Sora, "Hurry up!"
Ahha! A real chapter now~ Next up, Riku!
This is my first story, and I hope I get received and welcomed into the community with this. ^^ Please note that any flames will be put out, and good, thoughtful, reviews that would help me improve my writing would be greatly appreciated.