Chapter 7: Restrictions & Services

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Sora no Kiseki. They belong to their rightful owners. I only own any OC's and part of this plot.

A.N.: For all you viewers, who think my writing needs spicing up, tell me. Don't be afraid. My descriptive abilities need to be better, so I'll attempt in this chapter. Also, we'll be jumping perspective (POV) a lot. Between Sora, Roxas, and Kevin (since these are the main characters in this fanfic) but overall, it will be in third person POV. I don't want to say who else because they haven't been introduced yet. Enjoy!


Kevin quickly pulls out his orbment to find that the Quartz inside of it to be cracking and breaking apart. Ries pulls out hers and finds a similar phenomenon. Sora feels in his pocket to find a strange medallion object in his pocket. The medallion had six slots arranged in a sort of line with two braches poking through the middle. Sora removed the top to find the inside to be strange, complicated clockwork. He closed the top on it and looked at the back of it. It was decorated with bronze and grey on the back. He wasn't entirely sure what it was but it looked similar to the ones Kevin and Ries had, with the exception of a different pattern on it.

"This isn't right" Kevin stated "All of the Quartz we had, even back up ones, all reduced back to simple sepith."

"It must be the cube" Ries suggested "It might have taken our Quartz as collateral damage. I now suggest we throw it away before something else happens."

"But without it, we would have no ideas on what to do" Kevin pointed out "The sound must've done something with all the areas. So we might as well take another look around right?"

"I guess you're right" Sora said "We should start with this monument though." Sora and Ries walk up to the monument and take a closer look at it. They checked almost every angle of the monument and found nothing out of the ordinary.

"It is not a relic but it gives off a sort of magical presence" Ries pointed out "even if it is just hewn from stone."

"I agree" Kevin replied "It must be a mechanism beyond our understanding."

"…It in…"

That voice seemed to pop up out of thin air. "What was that? Who's there?"

"Place the Arca within" It pleaded.

"Arca?" Sora repeated "What do they mean?"

"I think they might mean the cube, Sora" Kevin answered.

"You sure?" Kevin nodded in response. Sora and Ries just stood back as Kevin placed the stone onto the blue monument.

'Oh visitors' a different voice said 'obeying mine master's wish, I grant thee power. Oh remember the price, granting thee power in accordance to your logic and order.'

Kevin and Sora were completely lost at this point, what exactly did that voice mean? Neither of them knew.

"I get it" Ries spoke up "The 'price' must be Mira. Currency in accordance to logic, for items and other things."

'The key is to, in accordance to your accustomed logic, grant thee

Power for equivalent exchange. Free my brethren, and I may grant thee even

More power.' Was all the voice said.

The trio once again is confused, but sort of understands. This monument works like a store, to put it in layman's terms. This can also convert simple sepith into Quartz. Kevin and Ries decide to pick up the broken shards of Quartz and sepith to use them from scratch. "Hey Kevin?" Sora asked.

"What is it?"

"What's this exactly?" Sora showed his little medallion to Kevin. Kevin looks at it in bewilderment, wondering how Sora managed to get something that the boy didn't even know existed until a few moments ago.

"It's a battle orbment" Kevin went on as he picked up the last salvageable remains from his Quartz "It looks like you don't have restrictions onto what you can put into your slots. The downside is that you won't be able to get into a lot of really advanced arts or magic in this case. Fair trade off I say."

"Ok, I think I get what it's for. So, I just need to put in some Quartz and I can do new magic." Kevin nodded to his response. This boy was just very joyous and excited almost all the time. He had sort of fun presence to him wherever he was. It can be a bit unsettling at times. But also comforting to have someone being positive a lot right?

Kevin and Ries picked up what remained of their Quartz. They went up to the statue and placed some sepith and Mira and waited. Moments later it started to glow and transformed into some very low-level Quartz.

"How is this right?" Kevin asked "The sepith we gave should have given us an equivalent to the Quartz. So how come it gave us such weak ones."

"Maybe" Sora responded "It took the equivalent Quartz and downgraded it as part of collateral damage."

"I agree" Ries commented "Otherwise we would have gotten our original Quartz."

Kevin went into deep thought. 'Why is all of this happening?' he pondered. He couldn't wrap his head around any of this. He sighed and rubbed the back of his head in defeat. "Okay, how about we make as many Quartz as we can, use the ones that will be of most assistance." There was something about Kevin that Sora didn't notice until now; he can take charge quickly. He must've deserved his ranking in the Dominion for such leader skills; no wonder Ries must respect him. But the only thing bugging him about Kevin. Why did Ries say his apologies are so unworthy? 'She must've had her reasons' was all Sora could think up. From where they were standing, they could see the entire 'Garden'. But Sora noticed something very unusual happening around the area: the lake and tree were glowing a similar color to the statue.

"Hey, what's going on?" Sora asked confused. Kevin and Ries both stop making Quartz to look around and see that the areas they just searched glowing. "It kinda feels as though the 'Garden' came to life."

"It actually does" Kevin pointed out as a matter-o-factly "My suggestion is that we look around again. And Sora, here, I think you'll need this." Kevin handed Sora his orbment to have 4 of the six slots filled. The Quartz he had was all different colors; one was blue, another was red and the remaining two were gold and black.

"So how do I work this thing exactly?" he asked.

"Simply trace a pattern on it and the magic works." Sora nodded his head in response, hopefully knowing what to do. He sighed softly. The trio makes their way back to the mysterious tree to find it actually glowing and now pink, soft petals fall from the top of it; giving the tree a sort of ancient appearance.

'Welcome Guests' another mysterious voice says, Kevin wondering if it's the tree this time 'obeying mine master's

will, I grant unto thee the fruits of the land. To completely unleash mine

powers, must equal value be exchanged. Until mine master's powers be

restored, mine gifts unto you become ever more bountiful, granting thee the

blessings of the earth.'

Kevin starts to laugh at this point, once again leaving Ries confused. "It's a talking tree that sells us ingredients for cooking." Kevin stated.

"Oh thank thee Goddess" Ries mumbled "For not abandoning us without food in this time of confusion." Sora and Kevin sigh at this. Ries is the one who will be faithful to her religion and higher ups, but when it comes to food, she's a big goof you could say. Almost willing to kill anything that stands between her and her meal. Ries then realized she was heard, "B-because food is the basis of everything after all. Oh, Kevin, here." She said handing Kevin a from before cookbook "You're faith is not strong enough so I suggest you reaffirm your faith through cooking."

"R-reaffirm my faith?" Kevin asked bewildered "Ries why can't you do the cooking?"

"For one, the whole reaffirm your faith. Two, you have always been such a better cook than me."

"Ugh, fine. But you have to help me, got it?"

"Affirmative."

"Okay, can we look at the other areas of this place now?" Sora asked. Kevin nodded in consent and started to proceed ahead. They find their way back to the pond/lake area and here another mysterious voice. 'Must be the lake.' Kevin thought.

'Welcome long awaited

visitors, allow me to sate your thirst and whet thy throats. By the will of

our master, I grant thee Vitality.'

"I get it" Sora said "This must be like a restoring place, giving us strength when we need it most." The three take a drink from the pool, leaving them refreshed and energized. The pool then loses a bit of its glow and says

'Once my light recovers, I shall once again be able to

grant thee vitality. Please visit after a few battles.'

"So, the water loses its power when we drink from it and we have to fight a few monsters until it is restored" Kevin responds "But there are no monsters here, unless there's more to this place."

"Uh… Kevin" Sora stated "Can we just finish looking around here before we make assumptions, please?"

"Okay Sora. Let's head back to the monument to figure out what our next plan of action is." The three make it back to the monument in the center of the 'Garden' where the stone monument rests. Kevin then notices a strange light coming from the empty space where you could see out into the strange starry space.