"Master Yen Sid." Sora bowed at the old wizard's feet. Yen Sid had called the young boy for an emergency meeting, along with Kairi. Riku and King Mickey were already there, as they were Keyblade masters.
"Please, sit. I have disturbing news." Yen Sid said. Sora and Kairi sat down in a love seat, eagerly waiting for what information Yen Sid had for them.
"Is it Xehanort?" Kairi asked. Mickey nodded.
"He's teamed up with Maleficent. We've heard he's creating an army of some sort." Mickey said. Sora sighed.
"When is that witch going to give up? She should know by now that she's never going to win." He said. Kairi nodded in agreement.
"Do you know what kind of army they're trying to build?" Riku asked. Yen Sid shook his head.
"Our best men have been trying to figure that out, but even their powers are not strong enough. Unfortunately, even the power of the force is not enough…." Yen Sid said.
"Hold on, what's the force?" Riku asked. Yen Sid waved his hand to dismiss the matter.
"I doesn't matter. We've located the worlds in which they plan to attack. Your mission is to travel to those worlds and destroy whatever Xehanort has planned." Riku said.
"Will Donald and Goofy be there?" Sora asked. Mickey shook his head sadly. He sighed.
"Sora, I know that Donald and Goofy are very good friends of yours, but this mission is a chance for you and Kairi to prove yourselves worthy of being Keyblade masters. You two need to do this by yourselves. We'll give you the coordinates to the worlds, but that's it."
Sora and Kairi gasped. Sora opened his mouth as if to argue, but Kairi put her hand on his leg, telling him to let her handle this.
"Your Majesty, Riku completed his mark of mastery exam even though he had help, didn't he? His dream eaters were there by his side the whole time. They were like his own Donald and Goofy." Kairi said. Mickey thought about this for a second. Riku spoke up.
"My dream eaters were not human beings. They were spirits that I created through his own abilities. They don't count." He said. Kairi growled and crossed her arms. Sora patted her back, silently telling her she did her best. Sora thought it was cute how Kairi made her adorable little pouty face whenever she got upset.
"At dawn tomorrow, I will provide you with the coordinate to your first destination, along with your own Gummi ship. And that is all the help you will get from us. Is that understood?" Yen Sid said. Sora held out his hand, and in a flash of white light, his Kingdom Key Keyblade appeared in his hand.
"I know the Keyblade didn't choose me. It's only because of Ven's heart that I'm able to weild it." Sora said. Another flash of light and it was gone. "This is my chance to prove that I'm worthy to have the Keyblade. If it means not having Donald and Goofy there with me… then I'll just have to deal with it."
Kairi held out her hand as her Destiny's Embrace Keyblade appeared. "I'm with Sora. I wasn't ready to take the mark of mastery exam last time… but now I'm ready." She said. Yen Sid smiled.
"Very Good. I shall see you two tomorrow at dawn." He said. Sora raised his hand. Yen Sid gestured for him to go on.
"Umm… can we make it noon instead of dawn? Because you know, I kinda have this sleeping schedule…" Sora said. Kairi punched him in the arm, "Oww." He complained. Yen Sid sighed and shook his head.
"7:30." Yen Sid said.
"8:00." Sora counter proposed.
"Do you want to make it 6:30?!" Yen Sid yelled. Sora recoiled and then bowed.
"N… no, Master Yen Sid."
THE NEXT DAY AT 7:29 AM
Sora walked out onto the beach, looking like a zombie, and feeling like one at that. He wiped some drool of his face as he met Kairi at the shore. As always, she looked gorgeous, with her red hair reflecting in the sunlight. She didn't look at all like a zombie. Kairi looked over to him and waved. "Hey, Sora." She said.
Sora suddenly snapped back into reality as he heard Kairi talking to him. Sora immediately stood up straight, wiped the drool off of his face, brushed his clothes off, and put on his most charming smile. (Well it was charming to him, anyway.)
He leaned against a tree. "Hey Kairi." He said. Two seconds later, Sora fell face first into the sand. He got up quickly and his Keyblade appeared in his hand. "Damn tree!" he yelled as he struck the tree with the Keyblade as hard as he could, only having it bounce off, doing no damage except for a coconut falling from one of the branches.
"Okay Keyblade, you can kill thousands of shadow demons and Disney villains, but you can't cut down a stupid tree?" Sora said. He sighed and then realized that Kairi had just watched the whole thing and was trying very hard not to laugh. Sora blushed and put his Keyblade away.
"Looks like someone's a little grumpy he has to wake up at 7:30." Kairi giggled. Sora chuckled and smiled. Sora had a HUGE crush on Kairi, in case that wasn't clear. He had ever since he was a little kid. He knew that Kairi didn't like him back, so he always had tried to avoid making moves on her as much as possible.
What Sora didn't know was that Kairi liked him too. He had a little crush on him until they were fourteen, when Sora had sacrificed his own heart in order to set her free. (Author's note: If you don't know what I'm talking about here, you don't know enough about Kingdom Hearts to be reading this fanfic, as it was in the very first game.) After that, Kairi immediately fell in love with him after witnessing his compassion and bravery. She knew completely well that Sora liked her, she was just waiting for him to make the first move. They problem was, now they were 16, and Sora still hadn't asked her out. It was becoming tedious.
Sora looked into Kairi's beautiful sky-blue eyes and immediately felt nervous. Sora decided that he had waited too long. He decided to make a move and ask Kairi on a date. Sure, with a girl like her his chances were about a jillion to one, but two years of the friend zone was definitely enough.
"Hey, Kairi?" Sora said nervously.
"Yes?" said Kairi, hopefully. Hearing Kairi's voice made Sora even more nervous, making him bite his lip. He took a deep breath. It was time. He opened his mouth, but at that extremely inconvenient moment, Yen Sid's Gummi ship had arrived.
"Crap." Sora said to himself under his breath as Kairi gasped and climbed into the ship.
Perfect.
Juuuuust perfect.
