Chapter 2: Traverse Town
Kairi feels something wet on her cheek, but too drowsy to care. Suddenly, she feels someone just licks her. When she opens her eyes, Kairi sees a dog right in front of her. She realizes that she is sitting on the ground in the middle of an alley.
The dog was kind enough to back off so that she could get up. After dusting off her clothes, Kairi notices the dog has a collar and decides to look at it. "Pluto? What a strange name, but you look like a very sweet dog," said Kairi.
But before she could examine her surroundings anymore, Pluto rushes off towards the end of the alley. Kairi decides to follow the dog. At the end of the alley, Kairi found a small, but quaint plaza. Brick buildings and antique lamp posts lie all around her.
Kairi could instantly tell that she is in a whole different world. Although she overjoys being in a new world, she could not forget what happened to her home. Just then, she feels something in her pocket. Kairi pulls it out and sees that it is her shell charm. Kairi clutches it in her hands and prays that everyone is safe.
Suddenly, Kairi hears a clunking sound. She looks up to see... a monster soaring right at her. She quickly dodges it and puts her charm in her pocket to get ready for a fight. The monster looks like the ones she fought on the island, but this one has armor on.
Just like on cue, dozens of monsters just like from the island appear. Outnumbered, Kairi decided to run away and notice an open shop. She rushes inside and closes the door behind her. Weary, Kairi collapses on the floor of the shop. "Are you going to buy something, kid?"
Kairi looks around the room and sees a gruff man with blonde hair standing behind a counter. "If you are not going to buy something, leave," said the clerk. Panicking, Kairi tries to explain about the monsters outside. Suddenly, something starts to heavily bang on the door.
"Them again," said the clerk. He pulls something like an old camera out and heads towards the door. Kairi tries to warn him, but the clerk ignores her and opens the door. Then, he destroys all the monsters instantly with his camera. "With those nuisances gone, buy something or leave," said the clerk.
After her shock wears off, Kairi decides to ask the clerk for info. "What's the name of this place? I know this is another world," said Kairi. The clerk looks confused for a second, but then replies, "You just arrived here didn't you, kid? This place is called Traverse Town, a place for those who lost their homes."
"I am looking for my two friends. Their names are Sora and Riku," Kairi asks the clerk. "I haven't seen them," replies the clerk. Upon hearing this, Kairi fears the worst for her friends. The clerk sees her face and says, "Well, you just got here. They may be just wandering somewhere else."
Kairi decides to leave the shop and search for Sora and Riku. Before she left, the clerk called out to her "You're welcome to come back when you're ready to shop. Also, the name is Cid, kid." "Thank you," replied Kairi.
After she leaves the shop, she hears someone. "They will continue to chase you at long as you wield the Keyblade." Kairi turns to the source of the voice and sees a handsome man. He has brown hair and a small jacket. "I'm sorry, but I need you to take a nap," said the man. Suddenly, he whips out a weird half-sword/half-gun weapon. Before she could do something, the man swiftly knocked out Kairi. As she collapses, Kairi's vision fades away into darkness.
Kairi starts to open her eyes, but she feels too dizzy to tell where she is. "Are you ok?" A figure stood over. A figure who looks just like Sora. "Sora," cried Kairi. "Sora? Who is that? My name is Yuffie," reply Sora. Upon hearing this, Kairi refocuses her eyes and realizes that the person she was talking to was not Sora.
The person Kairi thought was Sora is a girl. Yuffie looks older than Kairi by a few years and wears a ninja outfit. "I think you overdid it, Squall," Yuffie said. "It's Leon," replies the man across the room who was also the one who knocked Kairi out.
Kairi looks around the room. She sees that she is in a small room. There is a bed which she is lying on, a small table, and a couple of pictures on the walls. Kairi could infer that she is not in prison or a cell. Kairi decided that Leon and Yuffie are not bad people.
Leon walked up to Kairi and said, "The Heartless are looking for the Keyblade you wield. I hid your heart so that they wouldn't find you." "What do you mean," Kairi asks. But before Leon could explain, all three of them heard a loud noise. "They found us," said Leon. "Leon," cry Yuffie. "Yuffie, go," said Leon.
After Yuffie left, Leon went through a different door that leads to a balcony. Leon looks below and observe a big group of monsters Kairi has seen before. She overhears Leon saying, "So many of them. There must be a boss somewhere." Leon turns and heads to the exit. "Follow me. Don't bother with the small fries," said Leon.
Kairi tries to keep up with Leon, but the monsters keep blocking Kairi's way. By the time, Kairi reaches a different place than the one before, Leon is gone. As she catches her breath, Kairi hears a cry for help above her. But before she sees who is in danger, something or more precisely someone falls on her.
As Kairi tries to recover, she hears the two on her cry out, "The key!" "Can you please get off of me," Kairi asks them. "Oops. Sorry, little lady," said one of them. After they move off her, Kairi turns to see a giant duck and dog standing on two legs and wearing clothes.
Before Kairi decides that she became crazy, parts of the ground rise and become walls that block the plaza's exits. Suddenly, giant pieces of armor fall from the sky and combine into a giant monster. Before the shock wears off Kairi, the monster throws a punch at her.
But the dog person blocks the punch with his shield. "We'll back you up," said the duck. "So, let's fight together," said the dog. So, with her new allies, Kairi starts attacking the armored monster with the dog protecting and the duck using magic to attack and heal. After a series of attacking, dodging, and close calls, the three of them manage to defeat the giant monster.
After the fight, Leon and Yuffie manage to meet up with Kairi and the five of them start talking. "You were looking for me," asks Kairi. "They, too, have been looking for the wielder of the Keyblade," said Leon. "Hey, why not come with us! We have a ship that allows us to travel to other worlds," said the dog.
As he said that, Kairi wonders about her missing friends. "Riku and Sora," asks Kairi. "We'll find them," said the duck. But right he said that the dog and duck did a little team huddle away from her to discuss something. "Go with them. Essentially if you want to find your friends," said Leon.
Although Kairi might find her friends, she is worried about the journey ahead of her. The duck walks up and waves his finger at her. "You can't come looking like that. No frowning! Smile! Our ship runs on happy faces," said the duck. Kairi immediately thinks of Sora and his wonderful smile.
Digging deep, Kairi tries to do her best impression of Sora. As she did it, everyone starts to laugh. "All right, I'll go. What are your names," asks Kairi after everyone finishes laughing. "Donald Duck," said the duck. "Name's Goofy," said the dog. "I'm Kairi!" The three of them did a group hand huddle. "All for one and one for all," they shout.
"So, where's the ship," asks Kairi. "Shh! Before we leave, you should know that we cannot tell others that we came from other worlds," said Donald. "Why?" "To protect the world order," said Goofy. "World order," shouts Donald.
"The Heartless have been disturbing the world order," said Leon. "What are the Heartless," asks Kairi. "Ones without hearts. They have been attacking worlds without mercy searching for what they are missing," said Leon. "There was a researcher named Ansem who studied them, but his research was scattered everywhere," said Yuffie.
"Everywhere," asks Kairi. "Other worlds," replies Leon. "If you find anything like this, can you give it to us," asks Yuffie as she hands Kairi an old piece of paper. The paper is covered with scribbles and drawings that Kairi could not understand. "Okay," said Kairi. Kairi thinks that if she finds them, Kairi could prevent what happens to her world from happening to other worlds.
Then, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy decide to depart and start their journey.
K Report 2: Meeting
As the girl watches the three new friends set off, she feels that there is something familiar about the mysterious two characters. Suddenly, images pop into her head.
A strange, yet familiar castle. Trying to catch someone before they dissolve into light. Hugging a Heartless.
The girl could not make sense of this new information. As she tries to understand it, her mind starts to wander over to the dog that woke the island girl. Like the other two, the girl feels that she has met the dog somewhere before. New memories fill in the girl's head.
Staring longingly at sea from a beach. A man with bright red hair and a black coat. "The name's _. Got it memorized."
Before the girl could think over who this person could be, she notices the three friends arriving somewhere new.