Lost Kingdoms, Lost Hearts, Chapter 9: A New Look
Hellooooo again guys, only a short chapter for the moment but I hope you enjoy this :)
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Sora heard the mumbleing of several voices above him, and his eyes slowly opened were he saw the oulines of five people standing over him.
"Look he's wakin' up yo" Sora heard as his eyes turned to see the tanned face of Wakka looking down at him.
"Hey Sora, are ya feelin' okay?" the high pitched voice of King Mickey asked and Sora turned his head to see the big round ears and large eyes of the King also looking down at him.
Sora sat up and rubbed his head and he saw that Riku, Aerith and Leon were sat around him as well.
"Uhh.. what happened?" Sora asked as he began to recall the events of his mission.
"You kicked ass is what happened" Riku grinned, earning a slight laugh from Aerith and Leon.
"You unlocked your Valor form, I think is what happened" King Mickey informed.
"After using it you passed out and the other's bought you home" Leon said whilst standing up and looking out of a window, it was now Sora realised he was in his bedroom.
"You were bought to your room by Vanille and Gibbs, and Aerith was here healing you" Riku informed.
"Are the other's okay?" Sora asked immediatley afterwards.
"Yeah they're fine brudda, Vanille bought you here and got fixed up and all Gibbs needed was a drink. The worst hit were Selphie and Peter but they're in the hospital wing, and Elizabeth refuses to leave them alone" Wakka said patting Sora gently on the shoulder, who in turn let out a sigh of releif.
"Thank God for that, I was just worrying about getting out alive from that" Sora said as he stretched his arms.
"Well we had no idea how difficult that mission would be, Darkside's hardly ever appear in Traverse Town let alone in groups of three" King Mickey said hoping down from his seat and stood in the doorway.
"I've got stuff to do but I'll see ya later Sora, Until then just relax and have something to eat okay?" He said before he turned around and left.
For a while there was a silence after the King left, and Sora just sat fiddling with his crown necklace as he remembered what he was sure it had done the night before and helped him defeat the giant Heartless.
The silence was broken by Wakka who cleared his throat.
"Ahem, Right then I think its time Sora had something to eat, ya?"
"I agree, Sora go and get some food and have a shower, Me and Leon have work to do anyway" Aerith said calmly as she followed Leon, who gave a nod to Sora, out of the door.
Sora took Aeriths advice and got changed into some casual cloths, Riku and Wakka waited for him outside whilst he did and went with him down to the kitchen.
Whilst walking down they reminised about old times on Destiny Islands, about there sparring matches and pranks they'd pull on each other, the laughter warmed them and by the time they reached the kitchen they were all smiles.
As they entered they were met by Kairi, Rinoa and Mulan who were having coffee and giggling happily. Meanwhile on the far side of the kitchen sat Vaan, Terra and Esmerelda.
The moment the three boys enetered they were greeted with smiles from all three girls. Kairi immediatly ran up and embraced the three teens before guiding them to sit down.
No sooner had Sora sat down had Rinoa placed a plate of toast and beans in front of him and rubbed him on the back.
"We've heard all about you, Sora and what you did yesterday" She beamed as she returned to her seat.
"Speaking of which when did you guys get back?" Riku directed towards Kairi and Rinoa.
"'Couple of hours ago, I think, why when did you get back?" Kairi asked him back.
"Some time early in the morning, ya?" Wakka said whilst looking at Riku for reassurance, who nodded in return.
"By the way Kairi, Master Yen Sid and the King says he wants you and me to start training him in drive forms, today" Riku said to Kairi who was nibbling on a bagel.
Sora's eyebrow cocked up as he heard the question and leaned across the table to ask a question that was plauging his mind.
"Would someone tell me what drive forms are exactly?" Sora asked seeing as how he'd heard the term used many times now. He looked to Kairi and Riku for an answer and was suprised when it was Mulan who answered.
"Its a transformation were your abilities are increased, normally in a specific area, and you are able to dual weild Keyblades" She informed as she took a bite out of a slice of toast.
"Like the one you transformed into last night, that was Valor Form, which increses your Keyblade combat abilities to its peak, increasing you power about tenfold" Kairi added and Sora's mouth dropped in shock at the thought of such power.
"But, its interesting that it randomly activated with you, as me and Kairi had to awaken it inside oursleves through practice and training" Riku informed.
"Is that a bad thing?" Sora quizzed panicking slightly.
"No, but you need special cloths to help you change into drive forms, and to maintain it and harness it. It seems your necklace had some sort of influence in your power emerging last night" Riku answered.
"Yeah from what Master Yen Sid said its because you didn't have the necessary clothing to control it that you passed out so quick and it only lasted all of ten minutes" Rinoa said with a raised eyebrow and picked a chunk of muffin into her mouth.
Sora took a big bite of toast before asking his next question.
"So what other drive forms are there?"
"Well there's Wisdom form which increases your magic powers beyond beleif..." Kairi began and Sora's mind flashed back to the Gummi ship and Riku's powerful Thundara spell,"... however its not very close-combat suitable. And then there's Limit form which increases your physical capabilites to superhuman levels, like your strength and speed, you can fly and jump incredible heights too" Kairi finnished and Sora was fascinated by the topic.
"And then there's Master form, which amplifies both of your magic and Keyblade skills, thought neither as powerful individualy in Valor or Wisdom forms..." Riku began.
"And then, Master Yen Sid theorises there's one more form, one that combines the powers of the other four with even greater power" Kairi finished and Sora could tell from her eyes that she was just as fascinated by it as he was.
"Who else can access these drive forms besides us three?" Sora quizzed again.
"Well the King can, we beleive he's very close to acheiving the last form, and has mastery over all the others, ummm... Donald and Goofy can, but they prefer to stick to their specialties, so Donald prefers Wisdom form to Valor and vise versa with Goofy" Kairi said before sipping her coffee.
Sora smiled warmly at how powerful Donald and Goofy had become and felt more determined than ever to reach new levels of strength and reach their level.
He slammed his hands on to the table and stood up with a huge smile on his face.
"Then lets get going, I want to start my training as soon as possible!"
Riku and Kairi looked at each other and smiled, whilst Rinoa, Mulan and Wakka giggled at him, he drew the attention of Vaan, Terra and Esmerelda who smiled at him before returning to their conversation.
"Easy Sora. First eat and then you can start your training" Riku said gesturing him down.
Sora did as he was told and speedily ate his food and drank his milk and was about to get up to leave until Kairi spoke up.
"Wait a minute Sora, first you need to get the right cloths before your training can begin" Kairi said and as Sora was about to ask how, she predicted this and answered for him.
"Go to the third floor and see Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, their in charge of our combat costumes, they create spare paires and fix the ones that get roughed up, with their magic they'll be able to make it in minutes" She informed and the moment she finnished Sora ran out the door excitment in his steps.
He ran down the hall until he came across an elevator and made his way up to the third floor. He ran down the halls and asked a rather flustered and suprised Daisy were he could find the three fairies, she directed him and told him room number F and he thanked her before running onwards.
He skidded to a halt when he finally found the room he was looking for.
He gently knocked the door and awaited a reply. It was only a moment before he heard a rather kindly old voice ask him to enter.
He opened and peered round the door to see three fairies of all shapes and sizes look at him from their tea table.
"Oh please do come in dear" the tallest and skinniest of them said. Sora timidly entered and spoke.
"Hello I'm Sora and I was hoping I could..."
"Oh my! So your Sora? Master Yen Sid speaks very highly of you" A kindly fairy dressed in red said as she hovered over to him.
She was followed by the thinner fairy who was dressed in green and a shorter more portly fairy dressed entirly in blue.
The three of them circled around him for a moment before introducing themselves.
"Oh how rude of us allow us to intriduce ourselves, Im Flora." The fairy in red announced.
"Im Fauna" The fairy in green said with a soft smile.
"And Im Merryweather" the fairy in blue greeted before they floated away from him and lined themselves in a row.
"Your here for your drive form cloths, right?" The Merryweather asked and Sora nodded in responce.
"Well then if you'll just stand over there by that mirror and we'll take your measurements dear"
Sora did as he was told and stood over by a large oval mirror. With a whip of their wands the fairy's had bought several tape measures to life.
Whilst he was being measured and the fairies took notes down Sora observed the room around him. It was a perfectly circular room that reflected the Fairies tastes and influence, It had a brick red ceiling, pale green walls and a dark blue carpet, with random bits of furniture having red, green or blue decorations.
In one part of the room Sora could see a series of cupboards and wardrobes with various bits of material hanging out of the draws whilst in the centre was the hovering circular table the fairies had been sat around before.
He was snapped back to reality when he felt something constrict around his waist and run down his back, it was the tape measures moving independantly whilst Flora took down notes, Sora looked and saw that Fauna was gathering a variety of materials most likely to be used to create his cloths, whilst Merryweather had, much to Sora's suprise, his old cloths that he'd worn in his previous adventures but were much to small for him now.
"Right then that should be all I need" Flora hummed as she checked her notes one last time and whipped out her wand.
"Sora dear, if you wouldn't mind facing the mirror?" Fauna asked kindly whilst she levitated a variety of fabrics over.
"Oh! yeah, sure" Sora complied a little unsure as of what was going to happen. He turned around and saw in the mirror the three fairies busy at work behind him.
"There that'll do it" Merryweather beamed as she magically moved Sora's old cloths onto him and much to Sora's suprise they were a perfect fit on him.
"Right then now for the extra materials necessary" Flora said as she and the other two fairies whipped over several peices of materials.
With a wave of their wands the materials shrunk and turned into little balls of red, green and blue light and with another flick of the wands darted towards Sora and crashed into him in an explosion of light and glitter.
When Sora opened his eyes and looked in the mirror he saw that his clothing was very different, He had several belts across his body, two on his shoulders and two more around his waist that criss crossed over and connected to two large pouches on either side of his waist. His hoodie and pants had changed too, his pants now came past his knees and his hoodie stopped just short of his waist.
He noticed he had armour on his shoulders too with more armour on the knuckles of his gloves, which had also changed so that there were straps cris-crossing over them. He soon noticed that his jumpsuit was no longer a jumpsuit anymore and had in fact been divided into seperate pants and a shirt.
His shoes were larger as well, with the noticeable difference of them having a large zipper going right down the middle and had larger toplines coming up to his shins and thick soles. His crown chain that had once rested on his waist was now embedded into the belt around his waist and his crown necklace rested in its usual place on Sora's chest, next to his heart.
He looked at it in amazement, that they had managed to transform his cloths this much in such a short time.
"That looks wonderful Sora" Fauna chirped as she admired her and her friends handiwork.
"Oh it most certainly does, Now then to decide on colours" Flora said looking at him in thought.
"Make it blue" Merryweather chanted and with a flick of her wand a ray of blue energy struck Sora transforming every aspect of his clothing into varying shades of blue. Flora pouted and glared at Marryweather.
"Make it red" she said and a ray of red energy flew over this time making Sora's clothing varying shades of red. Merryweather reacted much the same way Flora had before and huffed and puffed before firing another ray of blue magic turning Sora's clothes blue again.
The red and blue fairies continued this for several minutes whilst Fauna shook her head in dismay.
"Oh dear not this again" She mummbled as she held her head in her hand.
"Look can you please just decide, I'd really like to get going" Sora snapped becoming impatient himself.
The two arguing fairies halted their arguing with Fauna's intervention.
"All right girls on three" Flora began as she, Fauna and Merryweather faced Sora, wands held high and aimed at him, "One.. Two.. Three" and with that several rays of light simoultaniously shot from the ends of the fairies wands and struck Sora.
After a light of every colour of the spectrum faded Sora looked in the mirror and was pleased with what he saw.
His hoodie, gloves and pants had become jet black with white lining, his shoes had swapped their colour scheme being mostly black with yellow tops. The belts on his shoulders and waist were yellow as were some of the straps on his gloves, the others being white. His shirt was a navy blue as was the decoration on his pants with red fabric making the shirts pockets, as were the pouches on his waist which had black straps criss-crossing over them.
The armour on his shoulders and gloves were a dark silver whilst his crown necklace still maintained its light silver colour.
"Wow!" Sora gasped as he turned to look at himself in the mirror, ecstatic about his new outfit.
"Oh my! It looks wonderful" Fauna sighed.
"Marvelous" Merryweather beamed.
"Yes Sora you do look very handsome and brave" Flora complimented before hovering over.
"Now Sora we need to explain to you the abilities of your new cloths" Flora began. Sora nodded and listened intently.
"With these new cloths you'll be able to enter drive forms, forms which accentuate your powers to amazing levels, this is because of a magical metal lined into the fabric, and the same metal on your shoulders and gloves" Merryweather began.
"But it doesn't feel heavy" Sora said feeling his new cloths.
"That's because its a wonderous magic metal, its light as a feather and as tough as armour, so your cloths have less chance of being damaged in battle" Fauna said still admiring her work.
"Indeed Sora, the metal in your cloths is a unique metal that allows you to enter drive forms by helping you to control and harness the power you posses in your heart. This metal brings it out and causes it to transform you into a more powerful form" Flora said in amazement.
"Not only that but your necklace seems to be made of the same metal, hence why you able to transform into your Valor form without these cloths, without this metal its impossible to acheive drive forms" Merryweather continued.
"Finally Sora, a nice added feature is that the pouches on either side of your pants have the same spell on them as Merlins bag" Fauna tweeted and Sora's mind flashed back to the first time he met Merlin who pulled out an entire house worth of furniture from one little bag.
"This will allow you to carry dozens of object with you out on the feild and not hinder you with the need to carry several bags or pockets, every other member of the resistence carries a bag with the same spell on it" Flora said as she pulled several objects out of a tiny red purse to prove her point.
"Well I think thats it Sora, I hope these cloths will be helpful to you" Merryweather said summoning a plate of biscuits to eat.
Sora beamed brightly at them and pulled the three fairies into a tight hug, they seemed scared at first but soon hugged back.
"Thank you ladies, so much" He said before releasing them and waving good bye and headed for the door, his mind spinning with excitment at the thought of showing everyone his new cloths and trying them out for the first time.
The fairies smiled and waved back until Sora was out the door.
"Such a sweet boy" Fauna said happily.
"He's going to put up a great fight against ol' Maleficent" Merryweather smirked.
"Yes he is isn't he? In fact now that I think about it he reminds me a lot of him" Flora said absent mindedly as what Fauna and Meryweather had said took her mind back to over a decade earlier.
Well I can't beleive it took nine chapters but it finally happened, Sora got his KH2 attire yaaay! I hope you guys dont mind my explanation of how Drive forms work, I had to tweak it abit to make it easier to explain and write about but yeah I'm hopin' this is okay for you.
Not a very exciting chapter I know but Iv'e already begun work on the next one and I gotta tell ya, it looking to me mighty long and action packed so keep a keen eye open.
Puh-Leeeaaase R&R, I dont care if its good, bad or only five words, just so long as i know what you all think :) Peace out, until next time, TheMightyMarvelite Phoenix.
Next time: Sora begins his Drive training with Riku and Kairi.