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Chapter 2 – Unexpected Power

~Hana's POV~

"What the hell do you mean we're on Destiny Islands?" Chizu yelled.

Machi wasn't saying anything. She just looked shocked.

"I could see Tidus and Wakka playing down on the beach," I explained. "Selphie was watching them."

Chizu ran her hand through her hair. She walked away from Machi and I muttering to herself.

"Destiny Islands…we were at Disneyland…now we're in Kingdom freaking Hearts."

She turned towards the sea and screamed. No words, just a long loud scream.

Machi and I looked at each other, both of us with worried looks in our eyes. Chizu normally didn't freak out over anything.

She took some deep breaths before turning back to face us.

"I'm alright," she reassured us, seeing the worry on our faces.

I gave her a look and she nodded again, smiling weakly.

"Okay…" I said slowly. "Well, we know people are down on the beach. Namely Tidus, Selphie and Wakka. Machi still needs something done about that cut on her cheek, and we need to figure out how the hell we got here."

"How are Tidus, Selphie and Wakka gonna know that?" Chizu asked, exasperated. "Do they even know about Sora and the others wielding keyblades?"

"Okay, what the heck are you two talking about?" Machi asked.

I grimaced. I'd completely forgotten that Machi knew absolutely nothing about Kingdom Hearts.

"You remember me telling you about Sora? The main character of the game?" I asked.

Machi nodded. "Yeah. Brown spikey hair, uses that keyblade thing, you have a bit of a character crush on his silver haired friend, right?"

I blushed slightly at her last comment, but nodded. I heard Chizu start to giggle behind me but she shut up when I glared at her.

"Well, this is Sora's home world. And the home world of the silver haired guy," I continued.

"Riku," Chizu butted in, grinning slightly.

I glared at her again. "Yes, Riku. Thank you Chizu."

Machi was also grinning at this point but I just rolled my eyes and carried on.

"Tidus, Selphie and Wakka are three other kids who live in this world. But Chizu is right. We don't know if they know about the keyblade. If they don't then we can't blab to them. If they do then they'll wonder how we know."

"Can't we just tell them how we know?" Machi asked.

"Machi, how would you react if someone told you your life was a video game?" Chizu asked. "You'd think they were mad."

Machi grimaced. "Good point."

"Look, let's get down there first and see what happens," I suggested. "Nothing's going to change if we just sit up here."

Machi and Chizu both nodded. Chizu and I helped Machi to her feet and we walked back down the path we had come from, presuming it would take us back down to the beach. We were right, and we soon arrived down on the beach. Selphie spotted us almost immediately and her face fell before she nudged Wakka and Tidus and pointed at us. Tidus immediately pushed Selphie behind him and pointed his sword at us. If I hadn't been freaking out a little over the fact that a video game character was threating us with a wooden sword I would have squealed at him being protective over Selphie.

Selphie looked similar to how she did in Kingdom Hearts 2, right down the fact she was wearing her school uniform. Tidus looked around the same age as her, and Wakka looked slightly older. The boys were wearing blue tartan pants and white shirts, with blue tartan ties the same as the one Selphie was wearing. Clearly they all went to the school on the main island.

"Who are you?" Wakka called out to us when we were still about fifty metres away from them.

"We need help!" I called back. "My friend Machi cut her cheek really badly in the forest."

I saw Selphie frown before she muttered something to Wakka. He nodded, his face softening.

"We have a first aid kit in the hut. Come on," he said, gesturing to the door I knew would lead us up to the platform next to which the paopu tree grew.

Whenever I had played Kingdom Hearts the hut had always been pitch black, but now Tidus held the door open for us and the room was flooded with light. There were various shelves around the small room holding empty water bottles and packets of food, as well as a ladder at the side of the room which led up to the platform. Wakka grabbed a small white box from one of the shelves and ushered us back out. He sat down on the sand and handed the box to Selphie. She opened it and pulled out a wipe before motioning for Machi to stand next to her.

"Hold still," she said somewhat shyly, beginning to gently wipe the blood from her cheek. Machi stood quietly, smiling in thanks.

Tidus sat down next to Wakka, still looking at us with suspicion. "So, who are you?" he asked. "You never said."

"I'm Hana," I introduced myself as we stood next to Selphie and Machi. "This is Chizu and Machi. We're…not from around here."

Wakka frowned. "You from another world, yah?"

I hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Yeah. Something like that."

"So you guys do know about other worlds?" Chizu asked.

Wakka nodded, looking slightly confused. "Yah. Not in detail but we've been told about them from our friends. Why do you ask?"

"We need to figure out how to get back home to our world," I said honestly.

"You'll want to talk to Riku then," Selphie said as she rummaged through the white box before fishing out a Band-Aid. "He's been to other worlds."

"So have Sora and Kairi," Tidus pointed out.

"Yeah, but Riku just came to get Kairi the other day, so she must be busy with something. And Sora hasn't been back since he went to sit that test thing last week," Selphie replied as she stuck the Band-Aid on Machi's cheek. "There you go," she smiled. "I think the bleeding has stopped now."

"Thank you," Machi smiled back.

I frowned as I tried to figure it out. "So, Sora and Riku left for their test last week? And Riku came back to get Kairi a few days ago?"

Wakka nodded. "Yeah, that's right? What, you know Sora and the others?"

Chizu and I smiled at each other a bit. "I guess you could say that," Chizu said.

Tidus looked over behind us. "Well, here comes Riku now, if that's relevant."

As my head snapped round I heard Machi and Chizu giggle. "Very relevant," Machi murmured but I ignored her.

Tidus was right: Riku was walking towards us with no sign of a boat. Master Yen Sid must have sent him back from his tower. And oh my freaking glob he was gorgeous. He was even more muscular and handsome in real life than he was in HD.

His hair was cut short, so we must have arrived in the Kingdom Hearts universe shortly after Dream Drop Distance in terms of the game timeline, which would make sense considering Selphie had said Riku and Sora had been sitting a test – that would be the Mark of Mastery exam.

His blue-green eyes widened slightly when he saw the three of us with Tidus, Selphie and Wakka.

"Who are you?" he asked, sounded slightly different than he does in the game. His voice was a bit deeper.

As slightly star-struck as I was I somehow held back my inner fangirl and answered fairly calmly.

"My name is Hana. These are my friends Chizu and Machi. We're from another world and we don't know how to get back home."

Riku raised one silver eyebrow. "Another world?"

I nodded. "You've not been there though. Neither's Sora."

Riku now frowned. "How do you know about Sora?"

Before I could answer, Machi screamed.

"What the hell is that?!" she shrieked.

I turned round to see a shadow heartless crouched in front of Machi, about to leap up at her.

Quick as a flash Riku was suddenly in front of Machi, his Soul Eater keyblade held out in front of him as the heartless vanished. As it did so however a dozen more appeared out of the ground, some shadows and some soldiers.

"Damn it," Riku muttered through gritted teeth before turning to us. "Wakka! Get everyone somewhere safe!"

"Got it!" Wakka nodded before grabbing Chizu's arm and starting to run. Selphie tugged on Machi's sleeve and she quickly ran after her. Tidus jumped forwards and grabbed my hand.

"Come on!" he said, pulling me in the direction the others were running in.

"But!" I started to protest, watching the heartless circle Riku as more and more appeared.

"Riku'll be fine," Tidus insisted. "He knows his way with that keyblade of his. Now come on!"

I reluctantly let Tidus pull me away and began running after the others.

Suddenly I heard Chizu screech and watched as she tripped over something – probably her own feet knowing her. Wakka, Selphie and Machi were already past her as they turned back, and Tidus and I were running towards her.

Just then a shadow heartless appeared out of the ground right next to where Chizu was now lying flat on her face. She turned her head and saw the huge yellow eyes staring at her. She screamed in terror as it crouched to lunge at her. She held her arm over her face, her palm facing the heartless.

"Chizu!" I screamed, fear gripping my heart that my best friend was about to die.

Then there was a bright flash of white light, so bright that I had to cover my eyes. When the light faded and I opened my eyes again, my jaw dropped open.

The heartless was gone.

And a shimmering Kingdom Key was in Chizu's hand.

She gawked at it before she came to her senses and jumped to her feet as even more heartless appeared around her.

"Hana?" she called, a slight quiver in her voice. "What do I do?"

"How am I supposed to know!?" I exclaimed, coming to a stop beside her.

She shrugged. "You're the expert here! You've played Kingdom Hearts way more than I have!"

"That doesn't mean I know how an actual keyblade works!"

"Guys! Look out!" Machi yelled.

I turned to see a heartless leaping at me. I instinctively held my hand out and squeezed my eyes shut. I felt a surge of power flow through me and heard a gasp from Chizu next to me. I opened my eyes and gasped myself. I too was now holding a Kingdom Key.

I glanced at Chizu and she nodded silently, looking shocked. We've known each other for long enough that we knew what each other was thinking without even saying anything.

Somehow when we'd taken hold of those fake keyblades, whatever power brought us here also gave us the ability to wield keyblades.

Which must mean…

Before either of us could say it we both spun round to see Machi with her eyes squeezed shut, holding her very own Kingdom Key out in front of her, both hands wrapped tightly around the handle.

She opened her eyes and gazed at her new weapon in wonder. She may not know much about Kingdom Hearts but she knew enough to know she could fight the heartless with the giant key she now held.

She ran over to us and the three of us stood back to back, all of us pointing our keyblades out at the ever increasing swarm of heartless. Wakka, Selphie and Tidus had also now drawn weapons, although I would bet quite a lot of money that a ball, skipping ropes and a wooden sword weren't going to be as effective against the heartless as three keyblades.

There was a flurry of movement next to us and then Riku was there, pointing his keyblade at the heartless just like me and the girls. He glanced down at me, smiling ever so slightly.

"You didn't tell me you were a keyblade wielder," he said.

I grinned back. "I didn't know I was until thirty seconds ago."

His smile widened slightly before all three of us simultaneously jumped into the swarm of black and yellow, Tidus, Wakka and Selphie fighting from the side-lines.

Riku was clearly better than any of us; that was a given since he was a Keyblade Master by this point. But I was surprisingly not bad either! Not Master material, obviously, but better than I would have expected. Chizu wasn't too bad either, but Machi was struggling. I guessed that our amount of experience of fighting with a keyblade in the video games must influence how well we were fighting with them now.

Luckily for Machi, shadows weren't very strong so with Riku fighting with us we finished them all off in a few minutes. Even with that the three of us were breathing hard when our keyblades vanished, clearly not used to this. Riku was grinning now.

"Well, it seems pretty obvious you're not trained fighters," he chuckled.

I glared at him, but I was smiling. "We don't have reason to fight. The heartless don't exist in our world."

Riku raised an eyebrow again, still smiling. "Sounds like a nice world."

Chizu snorted. "You have no idea dude."

"To be fair, it has its plus points," Machi smiled.

All four of us were grinning now.

"Well, I guess you could say that about any world," Riku said.

I chuckled. "You weren't saying that about this place before you left though, were you?"

Riku's smile immediately disappeared. "How do you know about that?"

I mentally slapped myself for talking without thinking again.

"Who are you?" he asked again, looking hard at all three of us.

I looked at Machi and Chizu. They both looked worried, so I took a deep breath and turned back to face Riku.

"I honestly don't know how much I can tell you," I said. "I know that you're a Keyblade Master, that you and Sora sat your Mark of Mastery exam not too long ago, about the keyblade and about the other worlds. I know a lot more other than that but I don't know how much you can know."

Riku was frowning, but he didn't look confused as such. "If you can't tell me then how can I help you?" he asked.

"We need to speak to Master Yen Sid," I said without even thinking. He seemed to know about most things that went on. If anyone knew how we got here and why we now had keyblades, it would be him.

Riku nodded. "I think that's a good idea."

"Um…" Chizu butted in. "Quick question. Will Donald and Goofy be there?"

Riku nodded again slowly. "Probably. Why?"

Chizu just grinned a little and looked over at Machi. She blinked once before realisation dawned in her eyes.

"Donald and Goofy? As in Donald Duck?" she exclaimed.

Chizu and I both started to laugh, while Riku just looked confused.

I smiled at him. "Sorry. Another thing I don't know if I can tell you."

He sighed slightly. "There's going to be a lot of that, isn't there?"

I grinned sheepishly. "Probably, yeah. Sorry…"

He shook his head. "It's fine. Now I know how Sora feels most of the time! Not having a clue what's going on."

I laughed while Chizu scowled. "Hey, be nice about Sora!"

Riku chuckled and held his hands up. "Sorry."

He smiled at all of us again. "I know you apparently already know who I am but I'll introduce myself anyway. I'm Riku."

"I'm Hana," I smiled, brushing some of my long, sandy brown hair out of my eyes.

"Chizu," Chizu grinned.

"And I'm Machi," Machi said a little more shyly, playing nervously with the hem of her skirt.

Riku nodded. "Well, now that the introductions are all over, let's go."

He held out his hand and a corridor of darkness appeared. I stepped back slightly in surprise. Riku notices and smiled slightly.

"The darkness still comes in handy from time to time," he admitted.

"Can we…you know, pass through safe enough?" I asked.

"Or are we gonna need the big black coats?" Chizu added.

Riku shook his head. "It's a short corridor. The darkness won't harm you."

We all nodded, albeit slightly shakily before we followed him into the dark portal.


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