I do not own Kingdom Hearts. I just try to make witty banter between characters and I ^_^;

Hollow Bastion: First Visit

The gummi ship landed on a familiar world. In fact, Donald, Sora, and Goofy were all smiling at me mischievously.
"What?" I asked blushing.
"You know what." Sora giggled.
"No, I seriously don't know, what-,"
"Look!" Sora pointed.
There was a very tall building in the distance, and lots of mechanical arms holding ruined buildings. I gasped and put a hand over my mouth happily.
"It's Hollow Bastion!" I exclaimed.
"Gawrsh, looks kind of different now." Goofy said.
"Of course, they are rebuilding the city! That's wonderful!"
I giggled and looked around me happily. The last time I was here, was my first time ever entering their world. The first time I met Riku, Kairi, and Sora. Not to mention Donald and Goofy, and Beast! The memories swelled up in my heart, and I couldn't help but cry happily. Sora gave me a hug, and we turned to Donald.
"I hope Leon and the gang are doing okay." He said.
Goofy then pointed above to one of the rooftops close to where we were standing. Two heartless stared at us, then quickly vanished into their dark portals. "Uh oh. Looks like we have some fighting to do."
We all nodded in agreement, then started down the stairway. After walking under a concrete archway, we stood around looking. It was so quiet. Then a mechanical ball floated in front of us, two more appeared at our sides, and all vanished within the next moment. Actually a couple more popped up, making cylinder like tubes, all different lengths, and vanished within minutes.
"What's going on?" Donald complained.
"That's the towns defense mechanism." A voice answered.
Sora looked up at one of the concrete balconies and pointed. "Yuffie!" He called.
She smiled and gave us a wave, and then gasped. "Look out!"
A dusk appeared next to Sora and slithered by him to behind Goofy. Then four more appeared after that. With a little difficulty, we took out the dusks. I had to use at least two potions though. I noticed that the defense mechanism didn't help us any. Yuffie smiled again and flipped down from the balcony to greet us properly.
"I see you're still in top form." She winked.
"What'd you expect?" Sora pounded his chest proudly. "Oh, you've never met, but this is Lara."
I held out my hand to Yuffie. We had met, except I wasn't in this world, I was watching it. "Hi Yuffie!"
"Nice to meet you!"
Sora responded, "Looks like you're doing okay."
"Well what did you expect." She asked, giggling.
"How are the others?" Donald asked.
And Yuffie responded happily. "They're great!"
"Hey Yuffie," Sora started, "Have you seen the King and Riku?"
She started to walk off, which made me a little mad. "Nope." And then my mood soured more. She skipped off, then turned around. "But, I had a feeling I'd see you guys again."
I went to grumble and complain but Sora held up his hand in a mimicking way. "We may never meet again, but we'll never forget each other."
"Is that supposed to be Leon?" She asked, holding back a laugh.
Donald, Goofy and I started laughing as Sora rubbed his upper lip.
"Everybody's working on stuff at over at Merlin's house. Come on!" She ran off again, and it took me a while to catch up. She was too hyper. I guess I never realized that.
Upon entering Merlin's house, three other people looked up. Leon, Cid, and Aerith.
"Meet the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee!" Yuffie held out a hand in announcement.
"We missed you!" Aerith clapped her hands together.
Cid rubbed his nose. "Well, if you ain't in top shape."
"I knew it."
"Knew what?" Sora asked Leon.
"A while back, everyone started to remember you guys, all at the same time." He then looked at me. "All except for you." He pointed to me.
I blushed. "Sorry."
"Lara entered this world back when Hollow Bastion wasn't a city." Sora said, putting an arm around me.
"Is that so? What's the story?"
I placed my hands together as I took a deep breath in. "I'm not sure I understand myself." I rubbed the back of my head. "Kairi's heart was needed to unlock Kingdom Hearts. When Sora released his heart so that Kairi could have hers back, my heart was connected in a different way and I found myself transporting into this world. As it turns out, I am a key blade wielder meant to lock and close doors. And my heart has also bonded with Riku's." I started blushing. "Kingdom Hearts may be light, but light comes from a passion, a desire. That desire to glow brighter is Love." I started giggling shyly, "Or so that's what I've come up with."
"No matter where we are, our hearts will bring us together again." Aerith said, and I nodded smiling.
"So where have you guys been all this time?" Yuffie asked, placing his hands on her hips.
"We were sleeping." Goofy smiled.
"Where? In cold storage?" Cid asked sarcastically.
"You could say that!" I giggled.
"It doesn't matter. Everyone's together again." Aerith said happily.
"So uhm," Sora spoke up, "We're trying to find Riku and the King. Have you seen them?" They shook their heads solemnly. Sora sighed. "Right."
"Sorry, but let us know if there's anything we can do to help, okay?" Aerith said, speaking softly.
"Thank you." I said, and Cid scared me.
"Don't go thanking us just yet!"
"Hollow Bastion's got a problem. A big problem." Leon said, which is the first time I've heard him exaggerate on any word.
"You mean like nobodies and heartless?" Sora asked, confidently.
"That's right!"
"Sounds like you could use our help." I chuckled.
"Then let's cut to the chase." Leon stepped closer. "We were hoping the four of you could give us a hand around here."
"Like we're going to say no?" Sora replied, pounding his fist to his chest.
Leon gave a short laugh. "I forgot who I'm dealing with."
"Hey, what do you mean by that?" Donald gave Leon a crusty.
"Just think of it as a sort of 'Leon compliment'." Aerith giggled.
Leon stepped from the conversation circle and went to the door, opening it wide. "Follow me to the bailey, there's something you need to see."
Just as I stepped forward, a cloud of magic appeared, and when it vanished, there stood Merlin.
"Oh, I thought it was you. Right on time."
"It's Merlin!" Donald said happily.
We went to him and shared happy greetings around.
"Sora and the gang said they'd help out." Yuffie stated proudly.
"Splendid! We'll count on you."
"Right." We all nodded our heads.
Merlin continued, "Ah, yes, did you give them your cards, dear?"
Aerith put a hand to her mouth gently. "Oh!" She pulled out four purple cards from her pocket. "Here, these are presents for you. Leon thought you might like to have them."
I held mine's up in the dim light.

Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee
Honorary Member
Lara

"Membership cards!"
"Wait, how come I have one? I thought you guys didn't know who I was?"
Aerith nodded. "We didn't, but when we printed out the cards, this one came with Sora's. When we didn't have a clue who you were, we figured you must have been connected with Sora somehow seeing as how your card came out right after his."
"Huh," I said, smiling at the card. "I'm very thankful the machine knew who I was."
"Thanks Leon-?" Sora turned around.
I gasped. "Oh yeah! We're supposed to meet him at the bailey!"

We left the house, only to fight more heartless on our way to the bailey. This time the defense mechanism actually helped out. It must not be programmed to fight nobodies. We had to also climb a bunch of stairs to get to the bailey. I felt like it took us a while to get here because of our fighting heartless, but it was just a block away from Merlin's house. There standing in the second terrace was Leon. Was it just me, or was the light hitting him just right that made him look ungodly sexy? I swallowed and told myself to get a grip. Leon was out of my league, and I had Riku anyhow.
"Look at that." Was all he said, and he pointed out amongst the land.
There was Maleficent's Castle, surrounded by hoards of heartless. My heart sank, knowing I couldn't defeat all of them. Even Sora gave a defeated gasp.
Leon explained, "We want to restore Hollow Bastion to what it used to be. Who knows, maybe even something better. There's still a lot to do, but I'm sure we can handle everything. Except for that-," He paused and pointed out towards two moving dots. "And that."
The dots, when you looked carefully, were two dusks slithering their way towards her castle.
"Oh!" All four of us gasped.
"We can handle them!" Sora said, tapping his chest proudly.
"So you know what's going on then?"
Sora held out his hands to explain. "There's this guy, Pete, who's been going around plotting with the heartless. But he's not even smart enough to tie his own shoes." I smirked at the insult of Pete. "The ones we need to worry about are the nobodies."
"And those Organization Thirteen guys in charge, too." Goofy finished.
"You called?" A deep voice rang out.
We all looked around wildly, then Sora dashed from the bailey and into another open part of Hollow Bastion. I ran after him, Donald and Goofy taking up the rear. We stopped running when we heard another voice call out.
"You're doing well."
Sora took out his keyblade angrily. "Who's that?"
I, too, grabbed my keyblade and held it firmly, looking around. My heart pendant glowed furiously.
"This calls for a celebration." The voice from before said.
Just then, down the stairs to our right, two dusks appeared. Donald and Goofy took off after them. Just as I went to help, two other dusks appeared between Sora and Leon. Leon ran to the gates at the entrance of the bailey, shutting them fast and tight.
"Don't let them get to the others in town!" He growled, and Sora and I nodded, turning around to find many more dusks appear before us.
Not wanting to let Sora down, I put in more strength than I thought I had. But I was running out of potions. It felt like the dusks were never going to stop trying to get past the gates. I was to my limit with these guys.
"Limit," I repeated out loud.
With as much magic as I had, I gathered it up inside me and flashed from dusk to dusk, slashing them apart with my keyblade. I went so fast, I could barely keep up with myself. I landed to the ground with a thud and shook my head softly.
"Don't fight past your limits, Lara." Leon said, holding me in his arms.
I held my head roughly. "Should of warned me," I grunted, "Earlier."
Sora gave me a potion, and I drank it carefully, feeling my body recharge. Leon looked at me questioningly, and I nodded my head, letting him know I was okay. He put me down on my two feet, and I swayed but stood up tall.
"Remind me never to use a limit break again." I chuckled uneasily.
"The keyblade is a truly marvelous weapon," The voice came back, this time outside the bailey where we left Donald and Goofy. We all three ran towards it, looking around again to spot man behind the voice. "Were it only in more capable hands."
I heard laughter coming from other voices, and Sora called out angrily. "Show yourselves!"
On top of the wall adjacent from us, a black portal appeared to let out a person cloaked in a black hood. I heard Donald and Goofy approach us from the side, and we all watched as the man in black lifted his arms. To our surprise, five other members appeared around the first.
"Organization Thirteen!"
"I wonder where the other seven are." I growled.
We all looked at each other and grabbed out weapons tighter.
"Good, now we can settle this!" Sora yelled.
The first member that appeared moved, "What a shame. And here I thought we could be friends."
I scoffed as they laughed and retreated within their portals.
"Stop!" Donald demanded, and ran towards the set of stairs. He was stopped by another member popping out of nowhere.
"What's the big idea?" I shouted.
"Oopsy daisy." The member replied.
"Move!" Sora demanded. I had never seen him this angry before.
"Now do you think that's polite, shutting me down like that?" The member said, his voice full of cockiness.
"I said get out of the way!"
The member scoffed. "As if! You can talk all you want, but that won't change a thing."
"Then we're gonna make you move!" Donald said, and we all tightened the grips on our weapons.
"See, that would work – if I were any old dude. Except I'm not! I'm with the Organization. Nothing 'any old' about me."
"Says the wimp who let his nobody flunkies do all the fighting." Sora retaliated back.
He crossed his arms. "Oh dear. I think you got the wrong impression."
"Aww, you gonna cry?" I asked, speaking baby talk in a sarcastic tone.
"As if! Why don't I remind you how tough the crowd you're dealing with really is?"
Sora stood up, dazed. "Remind me?" Then Sora suddenly gave him an ugly look.
The member laughed and pointed. "That's right! He used to give me that same exact look!"
"He who?" I yelled back.
Sora shook his head, "I guess you think you can psych me out by saying really random stuff!"
"Gee, I just don't know." The member said, getting into a fighting stance.
After a few awkward seconds of waiting for his weapon to appear, the member suddenly stood up, and backed into a portal. "Be a good boy now!"
"Wait!" Donald jumped towards him. He landed harshly to the ground, the member disappearing altogether. "Nuts, he got away."
I ran to Donald's side, helping him up. "C'mon gang."
"That was weird." Sora said, looking at us. "'Who' gave him that same look?"
I shook my head, trying to piece it together in my head. "I have absolutely no idea what that member is talking about. He confused me and he was talking to you."
"You know, I think he was just trying to confuse you, Sora." Goofy comforted.
"Yeah, you're right. Only one me!" Sora pointed to his chest proudly.
He took out his card and admired it, repeating the words on the back. Suddenly, it started to glow and take flight into the air. We all gasped, even Leon looked stunned, as our keyblades started to glow.
"What's this?" Leon asked.
"I think," Goofy paused, and they all backed away to give Sora and I room.
It was a good thing the did, because when we stood facing each other, a giant kingdom crown glowed underneath us, and a strange magical wind took place of the area. Light and magic swirled around our bodies, and the key blade felt heavier than usual, so I grasped it with both hands. The card flew between us, and with a bright light, a key hole projected into the sky. With a swing of my key blade, now feeling lighter, a circle of magic appeared around it and light beamed towards the key hole in the sky. I mimicking Sora's moves, watched as the key hole glowed brighter. When it finally dimmed, everything turned back to normal. Donald, Goofy, and Leon came back closer to us.
"Oh, now I get it!" Sora exclaimed.
I nodded my head in agreement. "That must have been the gate Yen Sid was talking about."
"Oh boy!" Donald said, finding the gummi ship landing near us.
"Sorry to run, Leon!" Sora said, "But other worlds are calling."
Leon nodded his head at us. "Organization Thirteen. They look tough. Be careful out there."
We nodded back in respect. "See you soon." Sora said.
I gave a little wave goodbye. "Nice to meet you, Leon! I'll visit and stay longer, promise!"
He just gave me a gentle wave of his hand.
We all headed back towards the gummi ship with new found vigor.

R&R 3