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Spoilers: KHII - 3rd visit to Hollow Bastion.
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 026 - Teammates


Jubilee

There are far more heartless than they were expecting, and the kid needs help. "Sora!" he shouts as he jumps down onto the Ravine Path. He sets to work, swings his sword and cleaves the darkness into pieces.

The King's men are with him too, as always. The inseparable three. It always felt strange to say one name without the other two rolling off your tongue. Sora Donald Goofy. And though the trio usually run together in their bright colours, it is the magician that speaks to him through battle that day.

The green sprouts of a Cura glow over his head, and somewhere at the back of his mind, there is the memory of grass-stain days with Leon (then Squall) and... and Zack.

Then not two seconds later, the duck is floating around Sora, and he uses fireworks to burn back the darkness. The smell of the cotton candy blue smoke flakes back more years and he is taken back to Radiant Garden, sitting on roof tiles with all the other neighbourhood kids. The Apprentices never disappoint at the festivals.

The fireworks stop. That night is over and he is back in the present.

Radiant Garden. That was what he was fighting for.

And ironically, it was Donald Duck who had reminded him.