Kingdom Hearts

Ch. 7

Traverse Town

The Adventure Begins

In the morning, everyone staying into the blue room each arose determined to begin their day. They all got ready heading off together leaving the blue room behind. The gang went out towards the First District meeting Leon and the others. Sora followed Donald and Goofy while Jiminy sat in Sora's hood. Leon and company all were seated in the café to the left of Cid's shop waving to Sora. Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith were calm and clean except Cid. The old crude man was covered with oil and sweat after a long day at work. Sora, Donald, and Goofy all walked over and sat down across from their gracious hosts. They each stared at Sora with a small grin.

Aerith first speaks in a kind and caring voice. "I hope you four are ready to go."

Jiminy heard the remark and popped out of Sora's hood to join the conversation. He lifted his hat in thanks, "We're all prepared thanks to you, and we wouldn't know what have done without you."

Leon folded his arms and spoke in a stern and serious voice "Make sure you're ready for the journey ahead of you. We don't know how far the Heartless have spread. You'll never know what you'll find or who'll you'll meet."

Sora grinned as he stood up with certainty "Don't worry as long as I have the "key" the heartless don't stand a chance." He summoned his Keyblade displaying it to everyone proudly. Leon looks away a bit frustrated.

Cid laughed at the statement lighting his cigarette, "If you keep talking like that. We really have no chance." The gang looked over to him while Sora gave him a hard glare.

Aerith spoke again "This is from all of us." She had a small sack with a red circle on it in here hands. It was hand woven by thread. She handed it too Sora who grabbed it and looked inside. Donald and Goofy leans in to get a closer look. The sack held in 500 munny inside, "This is the currency we use on our world. But it's useless in most other places. When you come back, you can use it to buy anything from the shops around town.

"But how can we come back; it takes 3 days to travel between each world. Does seem very time consuming" said Goofy. Sora looked over to his friend as he was never told of this fact.

Cid looked up at the three as he put out his cigarette out. "Don't worry I took care of that for yah. What do you think me, and the bird were doing last night?"

Donald who knew how to work the ship explained the new feature Cid was talking about. "Goofy, Cid managed to install a vortex system to the ship. It's a device that can allow us to create wormholes in space which we can use to return to worlds which we already visited."

Sora, Jiminy, and Goofy were impressed with Cid's handiwork. "Wow, you must be an expert on gummi ship engineering" said Jiminy.

He responded humbly "I know a few things."

Aerith brought the conversation back to its roots. "We hope to see you again soon. Spend the money as you see fit."

Yuffie gave here goodbyes "Good luck and if you find any more refugees who need a home feel free to bring them here."

Leon looks away "Look out for each other. Keep your spirits up."

"Don't be strangers" said Cid as he took out another cigarette.

"Well it's time to go, the ships all packed and ready for takeoff. It's parked outside the front gate" said Donald as he pointed towards it.

"Well, I see big adventures coming our way! Looks like it's up to me to keep track of it all in my journal" said Jiminy as he jumps on Sora's shoulder. Everyone waves goodbye to their new friends as they went their separate ways. Aerith holds Leon's hand as they wave. The three friends march towards the main gate of Traverse Town. Donald and Goofy pushed the gate open revealing their rocket on the other side.

Sora came upon the simple looking ship excepting more he kept his mouth shut so he wouldn't offend his friends. The ship was plain with regular blocks making up the exterior. The rocket was built like a giant children's toy. The body was bright red and the tip of the craft was yellow. The wings were small and white and had a glass dome on top of the ship.

"Wait to you see the inside" said Goofy as the shuttles door lowers down. Sora marched up the ramp entering into the plain looking ship.

Upon entering the rocket Sora witnessed something he didn't see coming. The interior of the ship looked larger than the ship itself. Almost three times the room of one would expect. It had everything a control room, kitchen, bathroom, living room, training room, study, and bedroom. Sora walked around taking a glance at everything the ship carried. He leaped on the living room couch feeling the warm soft cushions caress his back. In front of the couch was a giant television with tons of videogames and movies to enjoy.

Goofy called out to Sora "Come on we got to show you to your room." He jumped of the couch and followed Goofy to the bedroom. It was an averagely big room with no beds. Sora looked puzzled at Goofy and asked where the beds are?

"What are beds? In our world we sleep on the ground" said Goofy? Sora looked at Goofy with a blank and emotionless face for a few seconds. "Hu-hhhhh-huuu" laughed Goofy at Sora's face. "I'm just joking." He pushed a button on the wall making several doors open on the wall. Inside each was normal sized bed mounted in each of them. "Come on, Donald is in the control room we need to show you something." Goofy brought Sora to a ladder leading up to a cockpit. Goofy grasped the ladder climbing up quickly. Sora followed cocking his head through a manhole only to find himself in a white room with blue streams of light running down the walls.

He looked up to see a glass dome around the control room. He looked out the window to see Traverse Town still alive with lights a brewing. "It's time to go. Ready to blast off."

Jiminy walked over on the control panel and jumped on a big red button. When he did the engines began to start making the ship slightly move.

"Hold on" said Donald sitting in the big chair stationed in the middle of the room. On the dome a 3 appeared in a bright red font then a 2 then a 1 and finally "Blast off."

As Sora continued to look out the window the ship began to move away from Traverse Town. Sora didn't even feel the thrusters as if the ship wasn't moving at all. Still peering out the window Traverse Town seemed to get smaller and smaller until it was out of site disappearing in the endless abyss of space. Sora looked over at the big screen that that pervaded the dome. On it a small counter appeared in the left hand corner counting down. "2 Days, 23 Hrs, 57 Min, 30 Sec"

"We'll be at the next world in 3 days so make yourself comfortable, hu-huk lunch will be in an hour" said Goofy. He climbed down the ladder with Donald in tow.

"Donald what are you going to do you going to do?" asked Sora.

"I'm going to rest a bit." Donald plopped off the captains chair striding towards the manhole behind him.

Sora understood turning to Jiminy asking the same question. "Me, well I'm heading to the study to start the journal, Sora I'd appreciate it if you'd help me."

Sora agreed and took Jiminy to the study that was right next to the bedroom. A smaller room with multiple shelves containing a large number of books on them. He found a very large table with several chairs around it. On the edge of the desk was a miniature one just the size for Jiminy. He jumped over and sat down as he took out the journal. "In this document, I will chronical everything that happens. Everyone we meet and fight, but in order to begin I need to have a good starting point. Sora, I hope you could tell me what happened to you and how you got the Keyblade. When and how it happened and what did you do when your world fell to darkness" said Jiminy as he took out a pencil before beginning to write. Sora looked down not knowing where to start "Well I don't how I got it, it just appeared in my hand before my world fell to darkness. I was trying to h-help my friend … Riku…. Kairi.

Sora getting caught in his memories of his friends began to ignore Jiminy. Sora lifted his hood over his head depressed. After Jiminy got his attention Sora looked up and apologized. "Sora, I know it's hard to fathom what happened to your home, but right now you're here and I need to know everything about what happened" said Jiminy with a soft and understanding voice.

Sora scratched his head as he remembered a dream he had. "Well before the Keyblade I remember that I'd often had a recurring dream that I couldn't explain."

"Great, start by describing the dream in detail. Then after that start by telling me what you did let's say three days before your home was lost." Sora agreed and began to describe the events prior to arriving on Traverse Town.

After time went by, the sound of a bell was heard from the kitchen. "Lunch is ready" cried Goofy. Sora after not eating anything all day jumped out of his seat running directly to the kitchen.

Donald and Jiminy arrived at the dinner table after Sora. Donald yawned still drowsy from the night before. Jiminy jumped on the table seeing another smaller table was placed there just his size. The three sat down and awaited their meals. Goofy balanced three plates covered in food on one hand. Before making it to the table he tripped and fell over, the three plates flew high in the air each landed in front of the corresponding crew mate. Sora impressed and shocked at Goofy's clumsiness gave a little smile of amusement. Goofy stood and put his hands behind his back. "I prepared French toast; I hope you like it." He sat down and began to eat with the rest of the others.

Sora ate the entire morsel in seconds. He licked the syrup of the plate while the others finished minutes after him. "Wow, that was really good, I didn't know you were such a good cook" said Sora complementing Goofy's cooking.

"Aw…Shucks, it's nothing," said Goofy waving his hand like it was unneeded. The three finished and put their dishes away.

"Sora" said Donald before they all left. "Clean the kitchen" he demanded. Donald pointed to the mess Goofy made while cooking.

"What, why do have too?" said Sora demanding an explanation. Donald laughed as he responded, "I'm the pilot for the ship and Goofy's the cook, so that means you're in charge of all the cleaning."

"What…do I have too?" said Sora moaning. Not knowing a way to make argument lowered his head and arms in defeat.

Sora excepting his fate agreed walking over and began cleaning the dishes. Jiminy was the last to leave remarking "Its times like these I'm glad to be a bug."

Sora sat back and stared at the celling imagining the new world that they were going to see in three days.

By night, the 4 retired to the bedroom. Donald hit the button and the beds all popped out. Goofy brought over Jiminy's bed and set on the ground near the other side of the room. Goofy crawled into the bottom bed, while Donald climbed into the top bed. Sora took the middle bed for himself. Soon most of them were sleeping. Sora was still thinking about the new world they were heading too. But he soon began to think of Kairi and Riku and the fate that befell them.

He turned to his side to see something he could not believe. At the other end of the room for a split second, he thought he saw Kairi staring directly at him smiling.