Chapter 3
Colors of the Sky
An sundown Red, with pitch Black night to follow
The rising Sun awaits, with pure White clouds of tomorrow
Sora was walking impassively through the hallways.
Dispatching the very few heartless that he met on his trek through the castle did little to distract the boy from his rampaging thoughts. Not too long ago, Sora had landed the Highwind in a clearing of the forest just outside of this manor. Moreover, no, sooner than when he did that did he hear the impending sounds of a battle in the distance. The roars of a vicious monster, the rattling crash of an explosion…
The scream of a young woman.
Sora had immediately run towards the direction of the sounds, hoping in his heart that whatever was happening, he wasn't too late to stop. In a few short minutes, he had come across the decrepit old mansion just as another loud roar boomed in the atmosphere. He wasted no time in jumping atop the roof to investigate. He came across a small hole in the roof just big enough for a person to fit through. He looked through it and saw a monster, looking strangely like an evolved version of Dark Thorn Heartless, in a ballroom. It's claw transformed into some sort of sword of dark energy, preparing to plunge its sickly sharp blade into a blonde teen girl.
What happened next was obvious.
So now here Sora was, perusing the hallways. Why? After he eliminated the Dark Thorn, he noticed the girls that lied unconscious throughout the room had serious injuries. He immediately got to work on patching them up with his healing magic, unfortunately Sora as proficient in healing as people like Aerith so he could only do so much. He had at least stopped their bleeding and closed up the major injuries, but they were still unconscious. Knowing he needed to get them somewhere secure, he used his Mini magic to shrink them down and carry them in his hands.
He had come across a room on the first floor that he assume was a sort of living quarters for groups of people such as soldiers or scientists. The room was fairly medium-sized with about a dozen beds inside, six lined up against each side of the walls. Accompanying the beds was old and brown dressers, some with missing drawers or were simply knocked over. The room wasn't in its best condition, random items such as lamps, clothes or bathroom utensils lay scattered on the floor.
Luckily, most of the beds weren't so filthy.
He laid the girls in beds of their own and returned them to their original sizes. He remembered feeling relieved that he arrived in time to help, no doubt that Dark Thorn would have made heartless out of them. He checked their injuries just in case and made sure they were still breathing before he left the room to keep watch for any more heartless.
Now Sora was simply waiting for the girls to wake up…or well, he was waiting for Ruby to wake up. It couldn't be some random occurrence for the Keyblade wielder to have arrived to this new world and encountered the girl in his dream mere minutes afterward. He had several questions for her, questions like…
Who are you?
Why are you appearing in my dreams?
Why did you call out for me?
Sora sighed. He didn't know what to think. He just knew he got a strange feeling when he looked at the brown-haired, silver-eyed girl who now lay quietly on a mattress. Was it something more than just a dream? That couldn't be right. Master Yen Sid had explained the dream; the dream was because Ruby needed his help to get rid of the heartless. He's a Keyblade wielder after all; it was his job.
That what was that feeling?
Frustrated, Sora decided to turn his thoughts to another topic. That topic came in the form of Xehanort, someone Sora hated to think about more than anything. Sora still couldn't get over his miserable defeat and manipulation by the evil Keyblade Master. How could he have been so foolish? To so easily have fallen right into Xehanort's trap and aiding him all along. It made Sora angry to no end.
If only he were stronger then, if only he were smarter, then he would've noticed it. He would've been able to defeat Xehanort and wouldn't have put King Mickey, Riku and Lea in danger. That's why Sora had left; he needed to get stronger to fight Xehanort. He absolutely had to be stronger, no matter what! Power…yes…if only he had more power…
Sora was rattled from his thoughts when he saw a Soldier heartless running through the upstairs hallway…
In the direction of the room where Ruby was.
Sora immediately ran after it.
Opening her eyes, the ever cheery and persistent Ruby Rose sat up from her calm sleep on the nice and soft duvet.
She slowly sat up, groaning with tiredness as she took a look at her surroundings. She was in a room that looked much a living quarter for a group of people. Seeing that the room was trashed with various appliances and items littering the floor, Ruby deduced she was still in the mansion. She looked to her right to see her teammates all lying in beds of their own, resting peacefully.
Weiss was lying on her left side facing Ruby and it seemed like she had an irritable expression on her face. Then there was Blake who lied on her back, still and mellow as her chest heaved up and down. Her bow twitched very now and again. Finally, there was Yang at the end lying in a unique position of her own. She took up more space than usual, her legs sprawled about and a pillow under on arm, clenching it as if doing a one-armed chokehold. Her other hand absent-mindedly scratched her breast and drool trickled of her bottom lip accompanied by a wide smile.
Ruby face-palmed at her sister's unconscious lack of humility, although it wasn't that much different from how she normally acted. Nevertheless, she was glad to see that her friends and sister were okay, especially after that long and gruesome battle. Remembering it made her shiver a little, what kind of Heartless was that? She'd heard of Heartless change forms before but this was much different…it was almost like the Heartless…evolved.
Shaking her head free of terrifying thoughts Ruby remembered something else. The boy. The one who saved her. She remembered him so clearly, not just because he saved her, but because he was the very same boy she saw in her dreams. Ruby thought at first it was impossible, what are the odd anyway? She tried to think of a different explanation for the situation, maybe she was just seeing things, perhaps the chandelier simply fell and crushed the Heartless and she made up everything else.
But some part of her told her that she was wrong.
Ruby picked up the pillow from her bed and threw it with surprising accuracy to hit Yang right in the face. The blonde girl woke up spastically, jumping off the bed and changing her Ember Celica into gauntlet mode. "COME ON! I'LL TAKE ALL YOU FREAKS ON RIGHT NOW!"
Yang then noticed that there were no monsters attacking her; instead she looked at Ruby, who simply smiled at her. Yang chuckled with irritation. "I bet you think that was funny."
"You'd be right on the mark." Ruby replied.
Yang's outburst had also woken up Weiss and Blake, as they were now rising from their siestas. "Where are we?" Weiss questioned as she stood up, straightening out her skirt.
"I think we're still in the mansion." Blake answered, rubbing her shoulder. "Although probably on the upper floor now. I'm wondering how in the world we got here…"
"Yeah, I mean wasn't Weiss like…getting her rather small ass handed to her by that heartless?" Yang asked with a playful smile.
"Small!?" Weiss shrieked with a reddening face.
"Yes, small." Yang said again.
"It is not!"
"It so is!"
"I'm gonna have to agree with Yang Weiss." Ruby chimed in.
"Banzai." Blake said, lazily throwing her fist in the air with agreement.
Weiss turned away from all of them, her face still red.
"Back on the serious matter at hand, we we're all beaten by that Dark Thorn." Yang continued. "Anyone wanna tell me how we ended up here all safe and snuggly?"
Blake shrugged; Weiss ignored her and Ruby…
"Someone saved us." The young huntress said.
Her friends looked at her with confusion. "Who?" Blake asked.
Ruby's gaze lowered. "You guys wouldn't believe me…"
"Come on little sister! Of course we'd believe you!" Yang said with a genuine smile, slapping her sister on the back. "You're our leader aren't you?"
Ruby smiled back, thankful for her sister's rather unique way of cheering her up. "It was…a boy. The boy that I've been having dreams about."
Silence.
Ruby sighed sadly. "See, I told you that you wouldn't believe me." The girl began walking away.
"Come on Ruby we didn't say that!" Yang tried to stop her.
"But we were thinking it." Weiss pointed out.
"Not helping Weiss!"
Ruby angrily opened up the door to leave the room, gasping as she saw a Solider Heartless dashing toward her at top speed. It leaped at her and Ruby had no time to draw her Crescent Rose. "RUBY!" Yang shrieked, readying her gauntlets.
However, before she could do anything, a boy appeared from out of nowhere and slammed his sword down on the heartless, destroying it immediately. The four girl's jaws dropped with surprise, but it was Ruby who bore the majority of the shock. For standing in front of her was the boy, the very boy who saved them from the Dark Thorn, the boy who appeared in her dreams…
The boy with the key.
He looked at the girls as he stood up. 'You okay?" he asked. Ruby nodded.
He smiled as he entered the room; Ruby went over to stand with her teammates while Sora closed the door. He turned to them again. "Sorry if I scared you, but I had to make sure heartless wouldn't attack you while you slept. But you're all awake now so—
"Who are you!?" Weiss snapped at the boy. He flinched at her tone, a standard reaction from someone who didn't know Weiss's attitude.
"Um, I'm Sora."
"Are you the one that saved us from that heartless?" Blake asked.
"Um yeah." Sora nodded, "I saw that it was attacking so I took care of it. But you were all injured so I found this room for you to rest while I healed your wounds."
Blake nodded. "Well that explains how we got here. But…tell me…are you a Keyblade Wielder?"
Sora looked slightly surprised, while the others looked at Blake. "W-how did you know I'm a Keyblade Wielder?"
"When you took out that Heartless, it was fast so I almost thought I didn't see it but now I'm sure, the weapon you used was definitely a Keyblade."
"What's a Keyblade?" Yang asked.
Weiss answered this. "Extremely powerful and legendary swords in the shape of keys. They were used to fight creatures of darkness like the Heartless. In addition, they even played a role in the War against the Grimm. My grandfather used to tell me about them." Then Weiss turned skeptic. "However…Keyblade Wielders are a non-existent race now, they all died in some catastrophic war so there shouldn't be any left."
Sora scratched his head nervously. "Well you're right about the war thing. That was eons before my time, but some Keyblade wielders did survive and passed their powers on. We're extremely small in number so there are only three active ones, including me."
"Answer me this, what is a Keyblade Wielder doing here?" Weiss asked with a stern look.
Sora's look turned serious, a serious look that surprised even Weiss. Sora turned to face Ruby, who blushed under his gaze. "I came here look for someone. You, Ruby."
Ruby's jaw opened in surprise, staring wide-eyed that the Keyblade Wielder. "Me? W-what for?"
Sora walked up to her, his seriousness never wilted. "Because you're…the girl of my dreams."
Silence.
A silence so potent you could hear a cricket cry.
"Hey it wasn't nice of you to make Weiss say mean stuff like that to me!" a random cricket said to the writer.
"Sorry…" said the writer.
Back to the story…
Ruby was blushing madly, steam seemed to radiate off her head as her face turned the utmost scarlet. "Uh…urmhI-I'm…eehhhh…w-wha…?
"She's what!?" Weiss barked with a madly red face as well.
"OH MY GOD!" Yang shrieked with joy in her voice. "I can't believe this Ruby! And you told me you could never get a boyfriend!"
"Boyfriend!?" Sora gasped in surprise.
"Well, you just said that she's the girl of your dreams." Blake interjected.
"That's not—
"AW RUBY! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOUUU!" Yang pulled her little sister in a tight hug. "I can already tell, you guys are gonna be the fish's feet when everyone else hears about this!"
"Everyone else!?" Ruby shrieked.
"Fish's feet?" Weiss wondered aloud.
Sora interjected. "That's not what I meant! Really!"
"Oh don't be so modest!" Yang waved her hand airily, carting her younger sister over her shoulder. "You said it yourself! She's the girl of your dreams! I mean she have some pretty small assets if you know what I mean, but she makes up for that with eagerness!"
"YANG!" Ruby screamed, now even more embarrassed.
Sora pace-palmed. "It's a good thing Riku's not here…"
"Riku? Who's Riku? You're friend!? Is he hot!?" Yang peered closer to Sora.
"Uh I-I don't know!" Sora waved his hands about.
"Come on; just give me your perspective as a guy!"
"A guy can't give a perspective on another guy's attractiveness!"
"So you're saying he is hot!"
"GAAAAHHH!"
Weiss and Blake continued to watch the scene unfold, Blake watched with mellowness and slight interest while Weiss was growing more irritated by the second. Blake was trailing her thoughts.
It's unlikely that he came here simply because Ruby is the 'girl of his dreams'. It sounds more like Ruby's perspective, that he's been having dreams about her and vice-versa even though they don't know each other. That would explain it…but what could that even mean? Surely two people having dreams about each other and then meeting up out of nowhere isn't an accident…
At this point, Yang had Sora and Ruby by their collars and was carrying them to the door and although they protested, her grip was far too strong. "I see you lovebirds need some time alone! Take all the time you need! We'll wait right here!"
She tossed the two into the hallway roughly, smiling widely as though she accomplished a great feat. "By the way Sora, my sis has never kissed a boy before, take it slow alright?"
"YANG!" Ruby and Sora squealed.
Yang closed the door, leaving the two extremely embarrassed teenagers to stare at each other. There was silence between them, Ruby had shuffled back against the opposite wall and was looking away from Sora. While Sora leaned against the opposite wall and was simply looking at Ruby. He sighed. "Look, I didn't mean it like that…I should've worded myself better…"
"Well…what did you mean?" Ruby asked quietly.
Sora shuffled his feet. "Well I um, I've been having these dreams recently. Dreams about darkness and Heartless in it. Then I'd see you in my dream, I wouldn't know who you were, all I knew was your name…"
"You've been dreaming…about me?"
"Yeah." Sora nodded. "In the dreams you would stand before me and then turn around. Then when I'd try to talk to you, you'd turn into a Heartless and attack me. It's strange; I've never had such a dream before."
Ruby's head lowered. "The thing is…I've been having dreams about you too…"
It was Sora's turn to be surprised, but he listened intently while Ruby continued. "I'd see a lot of the same things you said, and a similar thing about the Heartless too. I'd see you, being swallowed up by a mass of darkness and when it vanished, you were a Heartless."
Sora tried to process all of this. Master Yen Sid was obviously right, this was truly no coincidence.
"Do you have any idea why I'd be dreaming about you?" Ruby asked, finally looking at Sora.
"My master told me that your world could possibly be being plagued by the Heartless, and that perhaps your heart called out to me, a Keyblade Wielder for help."
"My…heart?" Ruby questioned, feeling a bit more embarrassed.
"It's kind of hard to explain. Even I don't completely know how a heart works. All I know is that your world needs help and I'm a Keyblade Wielder so it's my job to protect the worlds and people. The dreams between us were probably just messages or something to get me here."
Ruby nodded slowly, feeling a bit more comfortable in Sora's presence. "Thank you for saving my team, we'd have been goners if you hadn't appeared."
"No biggie really."
Ruby smiled. "Come on, let's go meet up with the others."
"What do you think they're doing?" Blake asked.
The three remaining girls of team RWBY were waiting patiently as Sora and Ruby talked outside the closed-door, they couldn't hear anything so eavesdropping was out. They had no choice but to speculate and theorize about what could be occurring outside the door.
"I betcha they're saying how much in love they are with each other!" Yang squealed happily, clenching a pillow. "And then they're making out! Kissy-kissy!" Yang began making out with the pillow in her arms.
"Doubtful." Weiss spoke. "It doesn't make sense that a boy would travel so far just for a girl."
"Isn't that what love is?" Blake said drolly.
"More like a waste of energy."
"Come on Weiss don't be so grumpy! I'm so happy for Ruby! I can just see it now. They start dating and become a major symbol of the perfect relationship! They grow older and Sora proposes to her under a shining full moon during winter! Then they get married and have seven kids! And then, they live happily EVER AFTER!"
Weiss just shook her head at Yang's giddiness, while Blake simply chuckled as Yang continued making out with the pillow.
"Remember what Ruby said?" Blake spoke to the two. "About how he defeated the Dark Thorn?"
"Yeah, she said he totally wiped the floor with it." Yang nodded, taking a break from her pillow smooching.
"I find that hard to believe. That Sora guy is no older than us." Weiss stated. "And the four of us hardly managed to damage it. How could he have beaten it?"
"Well aren't Keyblade wielders supposed to be like, super powerful? Maybe their type of training is different from ours. I mean, they save entire worlds for crying out loud." Added Yang.
Blake nodded. "That's true. Besides, I sensed a lot of power inside him. He is certainly not a pushover, I can tell you that."
The door opened and in walked Sora and Ruby, Yang was about to say something but Blake covered her mouth. "So, any idea of what we should do now Leader?" she suggested.
Ruby smiled widely. "I think…we should return to Beacon. Sora in tow."
Haha! Yes! The cats of RWBY and main character of KH, Sora have officially met. Now off to Beacon, where the missions to save the world of Remnant will begin. Just a quick note, the characters of RWBY will know other worlds exist and about Keyblade Wielders, they just don't have the technology, aka Gummi Ships to visit them. I made it this way so I won't have to explain so much, besides warriors should know all about other warriors out there, whether they are allies or enemies. Moreover, being an enemy of a Keyblade Wielder…
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
The title of this chapter was a unique one. If you didn't get it, it's basically a small poem about the similarities of Sora and Team RWBY.
Sora=Sky
Team RWBY=Colors
Kuroyami Fukaikuro: Thank you so much for your feedback! It's greatly appreciated! Please continue to help me out! I've read some of your stories and may I say you are a great writer! Please continue to update as well!
To answer the question about drive forms, yes drive forms will be in this story. After all, what's a Kingdom Hearts fanfic without them right? Also I didn't know RWBY was Roosterteeth's number one show. That's actually pretty cool.
I plan to put something I haven't seen before in a Kingdom Hearts fanfic as well. What are they? D-links. How will I implement them? Haha! You shall see soon enough!
Later taters!