Kingdom Hearts: Hearts of Hope and Dreams: Part 1: Shattered Hopes
By: Cauryn Val
Chapter Twenty one: Departure; Bad news.
I do not own any Disney or Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts characters.
Part 1: After a year or so of peaceful bliss, our trio's world is shattered once again when two strangers land on Destiny Islands. Sora is worried that Ansem has returned, and fears for Kairi's safety above all things, while Riku is plagued with the self-doubt of being able to fight the darkness that still resides deep in his heart. Can he fight it? And can Sora save the worlds again?
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Well, i'd like to thank smiley smackdown of fanfiction for their reveiw of chapt. 20. yes, new people will get added, and wait till you see Shinya fight!! if i can even write fight scenes properly, i never seem to be happy with them... oh well.
also thanks to animangafan11 of fanlib for our continued conversations and her review!! hope you all like this chapter!
Killer looked at his waist at the shiny butchers knife attatched to his belt. Soon enough it would bear the blood of many, 13 to be exact. With Shinya here, it seemed the fun would finally begin. He chuckled in his exitment. No one noticed the sly smirk that curved Shinya's lips upward.
Sirens echoed throughout Traverse Town, scaring Yuffie out of her sleep. She leapt to her feet like any ninja should, seeing Leon pulling his boots on, his jacket hanging off of one shoulder.
"Squall! whats up?" She asked as she dressed faster than she ever had. her fingers flashed as she tied her many strings.
"An Invasion."
"Heartless?"
"No."
"Then what? Sora said the Organization was back, is it them?"
"I don't know Yuffie!!" Jeon snapped. Yuffie looked into his eyes and was surprised to see fear there.
"Come on." The ninja leapt out the window, and Leon followed, the Gunblade in his hand.
Yuffie cleared the building bloking her view of the town square, and she froze in a crouch as she landed on the top of the roof, her mouth hanging open in awe, her pupils shrinking in fear.
The square was covered in a black mass of cratures along the lines of heartless, but from the two different marks showed that they were nothing like eachother or the Heartless. People were sprinting away from them, going for the doors to the SBW, guided by Cid's cannons. The doors to the second district were wide open and covered in blood. Some of the residents of Traverse Town were chasing after the crowd running, their eyes ere a bloodthirsty red, and a mark, one or the other, on their heads. As Yuffie and Leon watched, a man was attacked and after he was run over by an armored worm creature, a fuzzy image took hold of his body, the wavy heart appeared on his head, his eyes turned red, and he turned on his wife.
Instead of throwing up like she wanted, Yuffie launched off the roof and landed between teh two, slicing at the dead/possesed man, then taking the woman under the arms to the worlds entrance. Leon had joined the fray, his Blade's end exploding every now and then. The three figting were soon joined by Merlin, and together they were able to get the surviving town residents and them selves onto gummies and out of the world.
Looking back, Yuffie's eyes filled with tears as the world was over come by darkness, and in a flash, it vanished.
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"SORA!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sora woke with a jolt and fell out of bed with a startled yell.
"Sora where are you??!!"
"Leon?" Sora hurried out to the cock pit, still in his flanel PJ's. "What is it? Dude, looks like you've been to hell and back!! what happened?"
"We have been to hell." Leon said, he was holding an ice pack to a swollen eye. "Traverse Town was overun with these things, and it was compleatly destroyed. We got the survivors onto ships, but it wasn't easy, we lost a lot of the residents. Cid, Yuffie, Merlin and I are okay, but as for the rest, they were either eaten alive or their corpsess possesed."
"Sora? who is it?" Riku asked as the res tof the crew filed into the room. Dylan took one look at Leon and started growling. Iakkah's wings started fluttering as her healing instnict took over, and she turned around, looking for her flute. The rest of the crew brought their hands to their mouths a the sight in the background. Namine held onto Roxas's hand, who was looking ticked off.
"Where should we meet you guys?" Roxas asked.
"Twilight Town, i'm sure you'll be glad to be back." Leon struggled to smile. Roxas nodded. Doland and Goofy exchanged looks and nodded.
"Sora, we should go home, the King may need us." Donald said. Sora gasped and looked at his freinds.
"But it wont be the same without you guys!"
"We're sorry Sora... but King Mickey may need us." Goofy said. "We'll send Sid along if he comes, but he may not be moving much now."
"No, he will be. He is a mail man after all." Kairi said. "You know that weird little saying they have?" The group nodded. They bade goodbye to Leon, assuring him that they would meet at Yen Sid's place.
Several hours later, Donald and Goofy were ready to go, and the whole ship stood before the only emergency pod's door. Sora was looking a little pensive, but it was only to hide his sadness. These two had been the first he'd encountered after the islands had been destroied so long ago, and had been by his side through so many adventures, hardships and happy times. Goofy gave the young man a hug goodbye.
"I'll be seein' ya, Sora." He said. Sora laughed and smiled.
"Yeah, it just wont be the same."
"Don't worry!" Donald said, smiling back. "You'll be fine!"
"So will you two." Sora smiled sadly again. Riku and Kairi gave their hugs.
"Be careful, and give the king my greetings." Riku said, giving out a small smile. Kairi nodded.
"Me too, okay? I'll miss you!" Roxas and Namine said goody bye, as their bonds weren't quite so strong. Before long, Goofy and Donald were on their way, a little streak of red firing at the enemy ships as they went. Sora was in a gloom for the next couple of hours as they changed their course for Twilight Town.
As the little rag-tag group came closer to their goal, Roxas and Namine got more and more exited, even though they were sad for Sora. Their mood soon effected Sora who remembered his promise to Hayner and the gang, about returning to visit.
"There it is you dorks!" Riku called as the world came into view. He was soon surounded by a group of hyper young adults, making him laugh. Iakkah had yet again claimed a spot beside him, her wings repeatedly whaping him in the upper back and Dylan in the head, though the werewolf didn't seem to mind.
"Approaching Twilght Town, preparing to dock." Said the automated voice of the ship. The group watched at the world came closer in ever shortening spirals. They landed just as the sun began to decend, and they disembarked once the ship had landed. Roxas, namine, Riku, Iakkah, Dylan and Kairi all looke dup at the tower in awe. Riku smiled, he liked the feeling coming from the tower, it was p[owerful, yet soothing. it eased the pain in his heart, adn seemed to lock the darkness anew.
"C'mon, better not keep the great Yen-Sid or the others waiting. Roxas looked at the odd train longingly, wanting to go home, but followed with a sigh.
The group climbed the many stairs and through the sun and moon rooms, finally ariving at the main chanmber, that supplied a wonderful view of the SBW. Yen-sid himself was sitting at his desk, going over a huge manual. Leon, Yuffie, Cid, and others including Cloud, Tiffa, Areth, Vincent Valentine, and a large black man with a cat and large fire-furred dog.
Yen-Sid looked up as The Keyblade Troupe walked in. H elooked confused for a moment at the two missing members.
"Donald and Goofy were concerned about Disney Castle." Sora said. "They went back." The aged Wizard nodded and indicated they sit in the seven seat that appeared from nowhere. Riku chose to stand behind Sora, and wasn't surprised that Iakkah latched onto his arm.
The silence grew thick as Yen-Sid closed his eyes and slowly conected his finger tips. He opened his eyes and looked at them all in turn, then straigh ahead.
"Grave news this is, the attack on Traverse Town." He said, his voice low and rolling, but not quite as low and Jhamogeaon's. His soft tone demened respect, yet also sought to comfort those there. "I ahve no news on who controls these, as it is someone behind Zheonhart that seems to be pulling the strings.
"There are two new types of 'heartless' as I am sure you know." Leon and the other resident's of Radient Garden nodded. "They are called 'Flesh Eaters' and 'Soul eaters.' Soul Eaters are hollow shells who go about, stealing a person's soul in an attempt to regain it's own. A Flesh eater will then, normally, posses the body of the body left behind. A Soul Eater will sometimes jpin with a Flesh Eater to create a hybrid between the two, and become a stronger form, bearing both symbols. I have very little information on these creatures, as they vanish soon after, and I cannot follow their movements.
"NOw, I am sure you have raised the alarm, Sora, and i too, have seen these two rouge Organization 13 members wandering about, but there are no sign of the Nobodies they control."
"Is it possible that they control these new creatures?" Leon asked. Yen-Sid shook his head.
"No. They do not posses the power to control them." The room let out a collective sigh. The meeting went on, well into the night.
The moon was high when the large group exited the tower, and made their way to the train. They borded in silence, and took their seats. Iakkah ended up with her head on Riku's shloulder, and Dylan lay across them both. Riku smiled as he looked from these two to Sora and Kairi. Sora had origonaly been sitting as Kairi slept in his lap, but he had slumped over to where he was resting his head on the small of her back. Riku looked outside and smiled softly. He was glad he was out on this adventure, even if it meant going through the heartache of a life time.