Now that the introductions are done. We can get to the big ones, the world of Traverse Town and how the characters interact with the world and the Ducktales crew will soon arrive.
And yes, this is being updated a lot recently. This story has been on my mind since KH3 been out and comments about Kairi being a damsel in distress all the time somehow appeared to this story. Lately there have been some female protagonist in newer stories and that's kind of what I'm going for now.
Also updates on chapters for Traveler's Journey if anyone is reading that. I have been feeling a writer's block as of late. That and this story has been in my mind for some time. Sorry in advance but will get it done.
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Ch. 3 - Traverse Town - Space and Awakening
Outerspace - I.H.F. Gummi Ship
After they manage to travel the space. Everyone looked out in wonder and awe as they couldn't help feeling amazed by everything even Lena whose troubles maybe from within is washed away from this wonderful sight. Some like Scrooge McDuck looked out in space sadden as he's reminded about the Spear of Selene. Ms. Beakley saw this and can see what he's thinking about. While others like Goofy is sitting at the couch comfortability, Donald and Launchpad are driving the ship out in space. But the new addition is the two chipmunks' chip and dale along with two mice Gadget Hackwrench, Monterey Jack and Zipper the fly. As all of them are together for this trip.
"So, you guys built this ship by yourselves? How did you do that considering your size?" Dewey asked the people who made the ship.
"Well Dewey, it was mostly the larger mechanical arms and other tools we used to help out. But our Gummi ship engineer is the real brains behind this beauty." Gadget said to them.
"Yep, Gadgets the one who really help build this one. It's a combine gummi parts with the types of Gummi ship we have been building over the years." Chip informed as he gave the credit to Gadget who is the real genius among the group.
"So, then how are gummi ships made exactly?" Huey asked wanting to write some notes since this is one discovery that can't be ignored so easily.
"Well lad, I must say this is something I never thought you would be doing in all my years knowing you." Scrooge said as he never would have pictured Donald being someone like this in all his years.
"Aw, I just wished this didn't happened in the first place." Donald said as the kids would then start exploring the ship with their tour guide the Gummi experts of this ship along.
"I can understand that, but something like this... it was bound to be found out. You know how kids are curious all the time." Ms. Beakley said giving her pointers as being parent to Webby all her years.
"That's why I made sure to tell Queen Minnie to not visit me only in case of emergency. I just didn't imagine it be this bad she come over herself." Donald admits as he wished it didn't happen in the first place.
"Relax Donald as long as we're together, there's nothing we can't overcome working together. And being a family is a bonus when doing adventures like this all the time." Launchpad said with surprisingly words of wisdom.
"That's... helpful advised." Ms. Beakley said surprise by what Launchpad said only to see him back to his normal ways messing with some of the controls as Donald help straighten things out.
"Anyways lad, this must be some extremely dangerous mission if the Queen wanted you back into action." Scrooge pointed out seeing the hints and details about these missions from his surroundings and how they interact.
"It is, you see the worlds are being consumed by darkness far greater that the King had to get involved in the matter. Normally there are those who can handle the situation but are being spread thin that they can't do anything about what's causing this darkness." Donald informed the adults who are here as Goofy sleeps.
"You mean other wizards like you are all over the place." Launchpad asked.
"Keyblade Wielders. You see Mickey isn't the only keyblade wielder out there. There is his master Yen Sid who taught the King about the keyblade, but is overseer of the worlds to keep watch of darkness and other forces at work. And Master Eraqus who teaches new keyblade wielders for future generations. From what I hear he has about two new masters name Aqua and Ephemer, along with many others like Terra, Ventus, Elrena, Lauriam, Brain, Skuld, Strelitzia and Sora who is the newest member of the group. But from what I hear most of them aren't ready to face the challenges or even more threats like the source of this rising darkness. Which is why The King wanted us to seek out Leon and found out about the key." Donald explained what is happening and what they will be doing in this trip.
"So, we're basically looking about information that will help us in this quest? Sounds easy enough." Scrooge said with confidences as he usually does.
"I wouldn't say easy, from the sounds of things it must be desperate times if the King couldn't ask Master Eraqus about sending one of his students or himself to handle the problem." Ms. Beakley said looking at all angles.
"It's actually more than that. When I said about World Order, you can say that Master Eraqus is very strict then I am about holding up these rules." Donald said telling the others about Eraqus.
"Ah, a stickler for rules, isn't he?" Donald nodded to Scrooge's assumption.
"That's not a bad thing Mr. McDuck. After all, if these rules didn't exist, I can only imagine the chaos we would have lived in our society today." Ms. Beakley said in Master Eraqus defense approving of his strict ways to uphold the world order.
"Well, its best you don't meet up with him. He would not approve of us traveling the worlds regardless of if the King told us. But if there was choice between him and The King, Eraqus wouldn't be my first choice." Donald said if there ever came a time to choose sides.
"Atta Boy Donald, that's one thing you haven't changed. Still, you think we be there by now?" Scrooge said looking around in space.
"Ah, that's just the sci-fi details they don't tell you about. I may not be smart enough to understand science, but if my sci-fi stuff is anything related, we'll probably be there in more time that takes us around the world. Mostly means we'll be in space maybe for years." Launchpad said not helping when giving this information.
"Normally that would be the case, but this ship runs on two powers. One is to have happy face and not sad faces, the other is the usual rocket fuel we use on our world." Donald told them.
"I hope you don't mean literal smile faces?" Ms. Beakley hope it wasn't the case.
"Yea, that's actually true. But don't ask about how that is cause I have no idea how they built ships like that." Donald admits even this sounded weird to him. Ms. Beakley and Scrooge can only sigh as this seems very new to them and understandably confusing.
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Molly - District 4
Stirred from her sleep, Molly slowly stood up and open her eyes tired and exhausted. Unknowing as she's in the middle of some crowd she doesn't realize is in the middle of the crowd and colosseum.
Molly Yawned as she slowly got up, "Whoa that was some dream, for a second I thought-" she then realizes what Molly experience wasn't a dream but what truly happen is real.
"Oh, sweet corn!" Molly muttered,
Molly took a look around to find she isn't anywhere familiar. In fact, you can say what she is looking at is completely unfamiliar to her. But then an important detail surfaced on her mind.
"Mom, Dad, Darryl, Scratch, ANYBODY!" Molly shouted as everyone just minded their own business, they knew what was happening and couldn't give comfort or help as they had their own experience when arriving. Molly ran around seeing many things but is focus on finding her family and friends if they are alive. She called out some names but is died down as reality finally kick in. Molly didn't know how to react as this felt like something beyond her understanding ready to tear her apart from the inside out.
"Would you be quiet for a moment, no need to shout." Someone said Molly turned to see it was two people walking towards her. One appeared like some chill out cool guy who wore purple and black color shirt and shoes along with white pants, but what stuck out the most is his headphones on the ears.
"Come on Neku, can't you see she's lost and scared. It was the same for us when we first arrived." The girl said to her friend known as Neku, she wore what appear to be red shirt underneath a yellow striped vest with green miniskirt and some knee-high boots. What stood out the most from her is what she is holding, appearing to be some stuff black cat.
"I can see that, but it doesn't mean she has to yell all the time." Neku said to his friend.
"Um, excuse me." Molly gained their attention as she put on her positive energy at work, yet it was feeling more forced as what she experiences is traumatic for anyone.
"So, I know I'm new around here, names Molly. I don't mean to sound like I'm interrupting your business, but could you tell me what's going on like, where am I, what was that dark cloud, why did monsters destroy my town and what-" Molly is stop from playing 20 questions on them as it was obvious that Molly is freaking out at the moment.
"Whoa hold on Molly. It's okay, just take deep breaths. You're obviously experiencing some bad memories from your world destroyed." The girl said, but that seems to freeze Molly in her spot when the words destroy and world together.
"Destroyed?" Molly whispered unable to comprehend what that means.
"Yeah, now she's broken Shiki." Neku said to his friend named Shiki.
"Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said that to someone who just arrived." Shiki admits that's poor choices of words even for her.
"Listen, your new around here and you're not alone from your world. So maybe there is some survivors that came from your world." Neku said hoping to snap Molly out of her daze. Hearing there is other survivors shaken her out thoughts.
This led to grabbing Neku as she shaked him for answers, "You mean others could be alive! Maybe my family friends from brighten!" Molly demanded wanting to grasp at straws at the moment.
"Well, that depends on what you mean by Brighten? See most people here are survivors on their world. Things like town names, cities and so on tend to be lost since everyone can be similar to your town, cities of both worlds. So, if someone were to say they are from Brighten that depend on if they are from your world or another." Shiki explained which made things confusing for Molly.
"The point being, if you want to find your friends and family. We can help you with that. But know we don't have much as living arrangements or stuff in general." Neku said to Molly.
"Oh, okay. I guess that makes us friends." Molly said trying to find the positive in all this but hearing some goods did bring her spirits up. Molly step back and reintroduce herself, "Sorry about earlier. Names Molly Mcgee I'm from Brighten as you already know and like to help people while bringing a smile to their faces."
Molly's introduction brought some odd looks from the crowd, especially since everyone is figuring that somehow Molly ended up broken. While Neku and Shiki couldn't help feeling this drawn in too much attention.
"O-kay, name Sakuraba Neku or Neku for short." Neku said.
"Misaki Shiki and yes we're from Japan, just not yours if we were to guess." Shiki said.
"Oh my gosh, you're from Japan. Wait if your last name is your first and first name is last then... oh sweet corn, I introduce myself by last name instead of first?!" Molly panics a bit as she realizes her mistake.
"Your full of energy for someone who lost the world?" Neku comment, but that led to Molly silences and remembering what she experiences.
"Nice Neku." Shiki said looking at her friend smirking.
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Luz - District 3/Mystical House
Laying on her back, Luz rolled around in her bed as she had some nightmares before arriving to this world. When Luz awakens, she had this fearful dream of Eda, King and Hooty being taken by the darkness. She took deep breaths as this was one experience she didn't need to go through again.
"Are you alright my dear?" Someone said, now taking in her surroundings. Luz can tell this was something out of her story books, but with her experience in boiling isles that changed the way she looked at things. Getting defensive Luz got out from bed and saw the wizard person sitting on the table.
"Ah, I see you have encountered someone that pretended to be some wizard, an awful one at that. But don't be afraid I'm not one of those creatures that tricks others into believing they are the chosen ones only to scam them. That's not how Wizards operate." He said, but Luz remains unconvinced since she's in a strange knew world.
"O-kay. But say I don't believe you and I wanted to escape." Luz then used her glyphs on the ground, only for nothing to happen as they exploded like firecrackers in her hand. Luz is shaken by this and startled by the effects of her Glyphs not working.
"The Glyphs from Boiling Isles won't work here I'm afraid but knowing you and what you have experience I can't begin to imagine what you're feeling." He said to Luz, after a while Luz started to realize that the old man wasn't going to harm her but is trying to help. Realizing this she lowered her defenses as she couldn't help allowing what she feeling to finally let loose.
"Sorry... it's just... I lost my friends, lost my teacher, I don't know what else to say except I lost everything. I don't even know if I could come back home anymore. And now I can't even use magic that I been starting to learn. I have my life, but what goods a life when you lost everything." Luz said as small tears started to form in her eyes unable to bear what's happening. The Wizard stood up and walk over to hug Luz knowing she's in great pain after losing the world and those she cares the most.
"I'm sorry you had to experience this terrible tragedy. But rest assured that something will get better you just need to hold on even when things aren't going well. Unfortunately, I can't provide any more words of comfort then some advice. Even the people here have no words of encouragement or joy with what's happening." The Wizard said as he did his best to uplift Luz in her state of sadness. After a while Luz rubbed off the tears and stood up to look at Merlin. Now knowing this wizard wasn't some monsters in disguise nor a scammer by some trade, she can guess that because this wasn't the boiling Isles that this time things are different.
"Thanks, so can you tell me where I am or is this another magical realm with, I assume stuff I see on media?" Luz asked unsure if this will be a new experience where her expectations are thrown out from what she knows or is similar to what she has seen on tv and books.
"Well, I cannot say. But I can say this world is one that harbors survivors from worlds destroyed by the darkness." The Wizard explained making Luz blink her eyes at what he said.
"Wait, what? You mean, I'm on another world?! An actual alien planet!?" Luz couldn't believe what she's hearing, but the Wizard calm her down.
"Now, now, dear. That's not what I... oh goodness me. I didn't even bother to ask your name, where are my manners." He said mostly to himself as he couldn't believe his behavior towards Luz.
"Nononono, it's okay. I just didn't trust you is all. But since your nice well let's start over. Names Luz Noceda, I'm a witch in training. Or was since the world is in darkness?" Luz wasn't sure if that's the correct term the wizard is using.
"That's about right. Now my name is Merlin, and I happen to be the world's most powerful wizard. Or at least on my world since this world harbors people from other worlds." Merlin said.
"Merlin? Say, you wouldn't happen to be Merlin from Authur legends, are you?" Luz questioned as this sounded similar to what she has heard in her world.
"Ah I guess some worlds do have that. Shouldn't be too surprising but I can see how you would think this and compare to what you see." Merlin answered, which only made Luz confused as she looked up and down at Merlin.
"You're not exactly what I expect to see." Luz admits.
"Yes, well not all worlds have the same history or the myths and legends. Anyways I do believe you want some answers to what's going on, correct?" Merlin asked.
"That and so much more." Luz told Merlin as some questions already pop up in her mind.
"Well, let's start with the ones you want to know first." Merlin said as the two would start to talk about what's happening and the worlds.
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Anne - Fountain Plaza
As everyone is walking about unaffected by anyone sleeping near the Fountain, Anne is resting for a time being undisturbed by anyone as she seems peaceful at the moment. But by chance she moved around and fell into the fountain and is rudely awaken. Standing up she spit the water out as she regains conscious to her surroundings.
"What the? Where am?" Anne looked around some more to find that somehow in some weird way she's now in another world.
"Oh Crud." Anne muttered as the reality started to sink in of her current situation. But even more out of desperate plea she shouted in hopes of finding her Frog Family and Sasha after not knowing they are there for so long.
"SASHA! HOP POP! POLLY! SPIRG!" Anne cried out in desperation as she started to see the world around her. After calming down she had to rationalize her situation since being thrown to another world a second time does make you rethink of how you could have done things the first time around.
"Okay Anne, calm down. You're on another world, again. But this time you can at least deal with being in civilized world." Anne said to herself, taking another look around and to her relief can confirm that this time she's not just drop off into some jungle setting to survive.
"Yeah, this should be lot easier this time. But the problem is... where is here?" Anne said finally able to process what is happening and wondering how she should proceed this time.
"You're at Traverse Town." Someone said behind Anne, turning around and looked down to see what's the most shocking thing yet.
"A wooden puppet?" Anne said.
"Yep, names Pinocchio. What's yours?" Pinocchio asked.
"Uh~" Anne continue to say unable to speak as this was one mind blown moment for her.
"Is something wrong?" Pinocchio asked noticed her expression and wondered if she's frozen solid.
"Um sorry, I'm just trying to process how your alive and talking?" Anne finally answered.
"Oh, I guess that makes sense. See I was a wooden puppet like many others, but my father wanted to have a boy of his own. Then a blue fairy came and gave me life, she said that if I do good one day, I'll be a real boy." Pinocchio said without lying, if he did his nose would stretch and as of late that hasn't happened, or at least now.
"Huh, you know before I wouldn't have believed that sort of thing because of my growing out of my childhood stage, but since arriving in Amphibia anything's possible." Anne comment as she could only look back couple of months before getting depressed since this is a huge change to her surroundings, again.
"So, Pinocchio. Can you tell me where I'm at?" Anne asked on eye level to look at him.
"Hmm, you're in water land." Suddenly Pinocchio's nose grows a bit which surprised Anne and Pinocchio for different reasons.
"Woah, does that happen often?" Anne asked.
"Only every season." Pinocchio's nose started to grow again because he lied.
"Uh-huh. I'm going off a hunch that you're lying to me other than about yourself since your nose is growing." Anne assumed since this sort of thing appears to be something Pinocchio would be experiencing.
"Well... maybe a little." Nothing happens this time when Pinocchio admits.
"Huh, so your nose is some lie detector. Good to know, but seriously Pinocchio you can't just say what you feel like it. That's what people call lying, if you want to be a real boy you can't just tell tall tales whenever you like. If someone wants, you to be honest just tell the truth okay." Anne gently said to Pinocchio hoping some advice would help him.
"I'm sorry for lying, I just don't know as much as you. When I arrived in this place, I was alone without anyone to help. I miss my father and Jimmy since coming here and hope to see them again." After Pinocchio spoke the honest truth, his nose went back to normal this time.
"See, being honest is good. Now come on, maybe you can I can find someone to help us." Anne offered to Pinocchio, seeing him lost and alone reminds her of when she arrived in Amphibia, the kindness she is given by her adopted Frog Family is something she could never say how grateful she's been. Pinocchio is the same and Anne wanted to offer help this time.
"Hey, wait I know some people who can help." Pinocchio said, seeing his nose is still normal she can tell he's telling the truth.
"That's great, do you know where they live or at least street name?" Anne asked.
"Hmm, I don't know the name. But I know where to look. Come on." Pinocchio said taking the lead, but Anne stops him by holding his hand.
"Not too far, from the way this place looks both of us can get lost. So why don't we go together." Anne offered, taking her hand Pinocchio walk ahead in arms reach as the two headed towards the other districts.
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Lower Decks of I.H.F. Gummi Ship - Grand Tour/Louie, Lena, Chip and Dale
In space you usually don't encounter many things. Which is why through this break time everyone on the ship is exploring the ship. When they started to explore the ship some of them went off to their own ways after wanting to explore the I.H.F. Ship. Huey went with Gadget as she's on his shoulder for the tour, while Dewey and Webby are with Monterey Jack and Zipper exploring other places with finally Louie, Lena, Chip and Dale exploring another part of the ship.
"And this is where you can have wreckreation to yourselves." Chip stated as they entered one of the rooms for relaxation. When Louie heard of this room, he's the first to arrive before anyone else as he saw what his lazy duck dream is for him.
"I'll say, you must pull all the stops." Louie said looking at some of the stuff that is similar to his world but isn't at the same time.
"How did you guys even build all this stuff?" Lena asked amazed by everything.
"Well, it wasn't exactly easy." Chip said, knowing this stuff may appear average or weird to the normal person, Gummi blocks or any other pieces used for ship material aren't something you can just dig for and used on the fly.
"We're more the assistance if you will. Gadget is the brains of our group and has the best inventions." Dale said showing his admiration for Gadget.
"Huh, you guys must have been together for long time?" Lena asked.
"We have, and to be freak we actually came from your world." Chip said surprising the two ducks.
"Really? Then how come your-" Louie wasn't sure what the word was, but Chip and Dale knew what he means.
"Small? Well believe it or not, some of the critters you see every day, act like normal animals but are in fact as smart as you guys. For some reason some animals our size just happens to be intelligent. Don't asked how, cause that's one part none of us have any answer too." Chip explained as this was something not common for those larger than them.
"Huh, guess that makes sense. Huey would have some weird theories to why you guys are intelligent. But I'm willing to accept it as magic stuff." Louie said playing some of the games. As Lena watched on, she glanced around to see if anyone is coming their way as she needed some personal space.
"So, do you guys have bathrooms or something?" Lena asked sounding forced, but no one took noticed.
"Sure, there is the girls and boy's bathroom towards the stairway." Chip instructed.
"You can't miss it!" Dale exclaimed. Lena took her leave as she needed to have a private chat with her aunt.
Dewey, Webby, Monterey Jack and Zipper
"The Rescue Rangers?" Dewey and Webby asked. Monterey Jack has been telling some of the adventures they have done over the years. Most of which were unseen as everyone wouldn't notice a small band of critters.
"Yep, that's what we called ourselves. Doing things that are mostly unseen to giants like you, guys. But every now and then some people bigger than us gets involve knowing our existence. Yep, we have had many adventures for some time." Monterey Jack proudly said, even if he enjoys the life, he lived those times were still good.
"You know, I'm curious how Uncle Scrooge doesn't know about you guys? I mean he has explored the world himself and has encounter many strange things before." Dewey asked wondering if Scrooge did meet many wonderous people and places.
"Hehe, we're not exactly well know from those bigger than us. That and Scrooge adventures always involves money in some way or discoveries to enjoy adventure." Monterey Jack said.
"That's... very accurate. But what about the King you guys respect so much?" Webby asked.
"Well, that was an interesting day. You see during one of our adventures the dreaded heartless appeared. Now they outnumbered us and we're too small to fight back, it was around this time one of those Gummi Blocks fell from the sky and crash landed towards Scottland." Monterey Jack was about to explain more when Webby interrupted.
"Wait a minute, wasn't that a comet in blue, orange and green color fell from the sky about 6 years ago." Webby asked.
"You know about this comet?" Dewey asked.
"Know it, it was during that time Scrooge and Donald work together only once. They never spoke about it since they wanted to live their separate lives. Scrooge came but even furious afterwards because something bad happen during the time." Webby explained.
"Huh, that explains why Donald wasn't there for weeks." Dewey muttered.
"Ah that... there was more to the story since it wasn't a normal trip." Monterey Jack said, Zipper buzzed towards Jack trying to tell him not to say anything.
"Well, they are part of our crew, so they have the right to know." Monterey Jack reasoned, seeing no convincing Zipper let him go as he explained.
"You see, during that time Donald had already been with Mickey since during his younger days. When that comet came crashing, it was a rare gummi block if used incorrectly could cause many problems for those that harness the gummi block's ability. For it had the ability to know all locations to every world, it was powerful that those heartless were attracted to its power. When your Uncle Scrooge and Donald came to investigate, Donald used his magic to knock out Scrooge before he realizes what happen. Afterwards Donald left placing Scrooge somewhere he wouldn't be harmed and went with Mickey to take care of business. It was during that time we were there, and gadget wanted to know more about it. And that's how we came to live in this world of Disney Castle." Monterey Jack explained. When he was done Dewey and Webby couldn't help feeling there was more to the story than what Jack is telling.
"You know, that explains why Scrooge was upset that day. But I didn't think Donald was involved." Webby comment.
"Here's something I don't get, why did Donald do that to Scrooge? Like that doesn't sound like Donald from me, Louie and Huey know of." Dewey said.
"Somethings are best left unsaid, in this case it was better for Donald to make sure Scrooge didn't know than know about other worlds. There are reasons why not everyone is allowed to know such knowledge." Monterey Jack stated.
Huey and Gadget
"So, what exactly are gummi parts and how you use them to construct this ship?" Huey asked.
"They are remnants of the world's barrier that prevent others from exploring their worlds. Since most of the time when worlds have society or culture that haven't known what other worlds are like and are similar to one another the barriers protect the residents from that knowledge. And how we build them is by great engineering skills and studying the parts. But in all seriousness, there is lots to know and too much time to understand them." Gadget explain to Huey that is excited about the scientific understanding.
"Hmm, sorry if I don't believe the whole world barriers and such. It just sounds scientifically impossible." Huey admits not able to wrap around the idea of magic and other supernatural ways without explanation.
"I understand, but once you start exploring the worlds more it becomes less about science and more about acceptance of what you don't understand. But don't let that bother you, sometimes there will be times where that big brain does help you out." Gadget encourage Huey.
"Now that I can get behind." Huey said. While not accepting everything as magic can still see something that is science and thus some ideas as to worlds and why things are the way they are now.
"Say Huey, if it's not any trouble, would you like to examine the Gummi blocks with me. We got some spare parts, and it would be nice to have someone that takes some interest." Gadget said, while liking the boys they aren't always the smartest bunch.
"Sure, I do want to see how you used them for this ship." Huey excitedly said as the two walk through the hallways to the cargo hold.
Lena and Magica - Girl's bathroom
While everyone is busy exploring the ship, Lena took a side detour to have a private chat with her aunt in the girl's bathroom.
"Aunt Magica this is dangerous, we shouldn't have come here." Lena pleaded with Magica for her own reasons.
"Of course, it's dangerous. While I wouldn't indulge myself in these things, but it's necessary if we are to get what we wanted." Magic told Lena as they are talking while inside the women's bathroom.
"But how are you going to do that? We're in space for crying out loud and traveling worlds. I don't think you and your power would be enough to deal with them." Lena pointed out the flaws of this planned now that they made it this far.
"You're only saying that because of your friends here. Besides this is an experience of a lifetime. Not to mention hearing of the darkness... truly something for one myself that uses shadows should have for themselves. I need to know how this darkness works so that when I do return, instead of ruling a world, why not rule all worlds." Magic monologue as ideas started to form with more knowledge of these worlds are seen and heard.
"Can you keep that to yourself until we're off this ship. I don't want the others to hear us." Lena pleaded not wanting her friends to know or be blamed as someone evil unlike her aunt.
"Humph, one day you'll find that friends like them only give one chance when you do something wrong. Another reason why we must be here isn't just ambition, but Scrooge's number one dime. When leaving the world my plan needs that dime to work. Leaving the world puts a blunder to that plan and I don't even know when the eclipse happens, he'll be there for my plans come to fruition. Which is why not only will we get inside knowledge of the world, but if by chance any world has that similar eclipse, I will enact my plans as before. But this time he won't have the home field advantage, well both of us won't but I can handle him easily. " Magica said to Lena.
"That dime must be important if you're willing to change your plans that easily." Lena stated since this shows that Magica's objective wouldn't work if she doesn't have the dime in hand.
"Unfortunately, yes. It's the very reason I'm stuck here with you. So, for now you explore the worlds with your friends, and I will see if there are ways to control the darkness. Those heartless can be my ever-expanding army over the shadows. But in order to get anything I want, and you get what you want, we need to help one another. I admit when taking over your body, I only did that because it has been so long since I had one. But once we get that dime, you can do whatever you want and we won't have to see each other ever again." Magica swore, but truth be told her promises as much worth as one holding snakes behind your back. Suddenly from nowhere the ship started to shake as rumbling sounds are heard around the ship.
Kids you better get up here. We're under attack by the heartless gummi ships.
Donald announced. The conversation ended with Lena prepared to defend herself along with the others while Magica smirk knowing she will do anything at this point, all that matters now is obtaining information about the worlds and how she can use the heartless for her own needs.
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Star - Back Street
Star is currently sleeping but is slowly waking up to her new surroundings. Apparently, she is placed on the side as someone had the decency to make sure she didn't get stepped on or at least tripped over by accident. When she slowly awakens, Star shot up and shouted, "MARCO!"
Looking everywhere in desperation Star tried to see if Marco is at least close by somewhere. But slow realization started to hit her as she looked around to find that she's no longer on the world she used to live as this was something... different.
"Whaaaaaaaat?!" Star said taking another look at everything she is seeing. Star started to walk around to find humans and other creatures like floating white marshmallow like creatures with some large red ball hanging over the head and small purple wings.
"What is this place? I don't think I have ever heard of it before." Star talked to herself. Shaking her head, she needed to refocus as she just lost Marco and his family to the darkness.
"Okay Star, ya need to FOCUS! Marco is lost somewhere, and he needs you." As Star pulled out her wand... if she had it in hand.
"What the?" Star took another looked and noticed the wand is nowhere in her pockets or anywhere she had walked from.
"No... nononononono! NO! I LOST THE WAND!" Star cried out, everyone around her looked in annoyance but accepted this was normal for someone who arrives on Traverse Town.
"Nononono, even the Dimensional Scissors are gone." Star sadly said, she started to tear up as she couldn't believe what happen and how she just lost everything from that storm.
"Are you alright deary?" Someone asked, Star turned and found it was some elder lady in some blue dress. Star wasn't too sure, but she felt this person can be trusted.
"Oh Yeah, I'm fine, I'm good. It's just... I lost my world, lost my wand, and lost my best friend who I care about. I mean it's not like I could have done something to stop this storm and darkness but yeah, I-" The Elder Lady walk over and gave Star a hug understanding how she feels. When you're on a world filled with people who lost their home worlds you see this expression or emotion of despair and hopelessness. Allowing Star to express herself even if not much was the best, she can do for the time being.
"It's alright deary, let it all out." She softly spoke, Star did that as she continued to cry and hug the nice lady giving comfort to Star as she stayed there even if looking awkward in public, it didn't matter. After a while Star rubbed off the tears and stood up trying to be strong in the situation.
"There, all better?" She asked Star.
"Yeah, yeah I'm good. Thank your nice old lady." Unbothered by Star's manners. The elder Lady smiled as she than asked, "If it's not too much, but did you say of having a wand?"
"Yeah, I did. See I'm a magical princess of Mewni, but I traveled to Earth because of... well, let's say something my parents didn't approve of me. Anyway, on Earth I met Marco and started to hang out. Being a normal teenage girl instead of a princess that is expected of me. I had a magical wand passed on from one queen to another, and Dimensional scissor that helps explore other dimensions. But since that night... I lost both of them. I could have done something or should have done something. But now... I don't know what to do?" Star explained her situation, but this time wanting to be strong as she needed to get herself together in this strange new world.
"I see, then you must be the magical presence I sense on this world." She said, confusing Star when she said this.
"Magical presence? Wait, your also magic too!" Star exclaimed.
"Indeed, my name is Fairly Godmother. And while admittedly my world isn't destroyed, I was called here to help an old friend that resides on this world. I do live with him for the time being, but we're here on instruction to see about another magical presence that will arrive. I thought for a moment it was you but seeing as your in need I offer you a home and place to stay if you like deary. All who lost everything must stick together is what people say around here." Fairly Godmother said.
"Whoa, that's amazing! So, if your here to help than that means you know something about those dark creatures!" Star Exclaimed, feeling of hope rising as this could be what she needs to defeat these shadowy creatures.
"Indeed, they are called heartless. But best we talk in private, not many here like to talk of other worlds and heartless that destroy them." Fairly Godmother warned, Star looked around and saw it was true.
"Oh, right. Yeah, that would be insensitive if you lost everything and don't want to hear about it. Okay Fairly Godmother, lead the way." Star Exclaimed, the two would walk towards District 3 as the duo will have more to discuss once they arrive.
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Wendy - District 2/Alleyway
Stirred from her sleep, Wendy is slowly getting up as she felt something wasn't right, remembering what happen she suddenly rose up only to be more lost and confused by her surroundings. From what she can see it's some street that not many people are around. Only a couple if one were to look around. When she started to get up, all she could think about is her home and how everything went bad to worse.
"Where am I?" Is all Wendy could think about. Before she could wander around, she looked down to see a dalmatian sitting before her.
"Oh hello, I guess you can't tell me what's happening right?" Wendy asked. The dalmatian in questioned looked at Wendy in concern as he walked up and allowed itself to be petted by Wendy, she smiled and started to pet the dalmatian as she felt relax and happy to have company.
"Thanks, ah..." Wendy took a look on his collar as the name is shown Dylan.
"Dylan, so I guess you have an owner?" Wendy asked. Dylan took a moment to look at Wendy and shook his head no.
"Oh, but thanks for being here. After what happen... I don't know what I should..." Wendy didn't know what to say except be sadden by what may have happen to the world. Sensing this Dylan gave some comfort as Wendy started to pet Dylan once more. She than heard barking as another dalmatian with a blue collar instead of red like Dylan appeared, growling and ready to attack.
"Relax, Dolly. She's not going to harm your brother." Someone said. When he appeared the boy had what appears to be light gray shirt and dark gray pants along with white shoes and blonde hair. The other dalmatian named Dolly bark back and the boy in turn replied.
"She's barely going to do anything. More than likely, she's arrived in this world like many others that appear every day." He said as he faces Wendy as she looked at the boy confused by his behavior.
"Um, who are you?" Wendy asked.
"Names Joshua. And I supposed you had that vortex like darkness appear on your world and those dark creatures all over the place?" Joshua asked already knowing the answer.
"Wait, you know about those monsters?" Wendy asked.
"I do, in fact the world your own is actually one that gathers those that have their worlds consumed by darkness and taken here for shelter. It's honestly a rarity itself since worlds or planets some call wouldn't be capable of such feats." Joshua said, which only confused Wendy even more.
"I'm sorry, but what the heck are you talking about Dude?" Wendy asked now confused even more.
"I guess I should allow someone else to explain the situation. If you want answers, there is a place you can live and some of my friends can help. That and Dylan has been helpful in making sure others like you are okay and safe." Once Joshua said this, he would start to leave. Seeing she has no choice Wendy started to follow the strange boy and will hopefully get answers to what's going on.
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Candace - District 5
Unconscious and alone in another place, Candace is ignored by the people around her because they knew what happened to her and had no spirit or willingness to help someone who lost their world as they are heartbroken as well. Candace jumps up awake from what she experienced, when looking around the world she could see that this wasn't her own world or town. Suddenly all the memories returned answering any questions she had and started to shake and shed some tears when she finished remembering what happened.
Candace could only be stood on her knees as she places her hands on her face as tears dropped down from what she experienced.
"Hello, are you okay?" someone asked, Candace turned to see someone standing over her. Carrying flowers from the store she came from.
"Okay? OKAY!" Candace stood up now angry that someone asked a dumb question.
"Listen Lady, I just lost my home, my friends and family, but you have the nerve to asked I'M OKAY!" Candace shouted angry that someone even asked that of her.
"I only asked because I saw you on the floor crying." She politely said truly concern for Candace wellbeing.
"Well don't! For once in my life, I would like a normal life where my brothers weren't some mad scientists that can build roller-coaster, giant robots, or some weird stuff. And every day somehow my mom doesn't see what they did, and they get away with it. Oh, and that's not even the weirdness thing to happened. Our pet Perry the Platypus is somehow a kung-fu fighter who just knows how to fight and pretends to be our pet platypus. Which now that I think of it why do we have a platypus instead of some dog or cat. And now, the only time I would have liked Phineas and Ferb to invent something, our planet gets destroyed! So, don't ask me how I'm doing, I'm just... I'm just..." Candace couldn't handle it as she got on her knees again, but this time the nice lady got down and hugged Candace to give some comfort to her.
It was some time as the two stayed unmoving. Candace expressing her pain and sorrow for what she went through while the lady in turn stayed with her allowing Candace to cry all she needs for this time. After minutes have passed Candace finally calmed down, at the moment she would have been embarrassed to do this in front of people as they did receive stares and looks of annoyance. But she couldn't care less nor did the lady as she only focuses on Candace wellbeing. Both of them separated and looked at one another as Candace finally calmed down.
"You good?" She asked.
"Y-Yeah. Sorry about-" Candace would have apologize, but the nice lady stopped her.
"Don't... you been through a rough experience. But thankfully your alive and doing okay." She said, then standing up as she offered her hand, "Would like to come with me? I can help give you a room and food for the night." Candace sat for a moment and quickly got up to take the offer.
"Thank you." Candace said.
"Wonderful, my name is Aerith. What's yours" Aerith asked.
"Candace." She answered, not in any mood to talk at the moment. Understanding both of them started to walk off where Aerith would offer her money or this case munny for food and shelter.
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Main deck/Under attack - Donald, Scrooge, Ms. Beakley, Launchpad and Goofy
Everyone from the main deck looked around to see some gummi ships flying around. They looked similar to what they are using to fly in space.
"So, these are the heartless I heard about?" Scrooge rhetorically asked seeing those heartless also knowing how to fly in space.
"Yeah, they had taken some of the gummi ships and made them of their own." Donald said steering the gummi ship alongside Launchpad who is surprisingly enjoying this for the time.
"So, this is like being in those old video games." Launchpad said amazed by everything happening.
"Now's not the time for that Launchpad, we need to defend ourselves if we're to reach Traverse Town in peace." Ms. Beakley told Launchpad reminding him to be focus at the task in hand.
Well don't worry too much, all of us down below deck are getting ready to use your defense turrets. I did design this with space battle in mind. Goofy we need you down here as well, I have six turrets down here and one is open for you.
Gadget said to them.
"Alright Gadget, be down in a jiffy." Goofy said rushing down and tripping his way as he fell through the stairs.
Donald, I also install the main guns for your pilot ships, one of you can pilot the I.H.F. while the other fires at the targets.
"Don't worry Gadget, I got this." Launchpad took control of the ship as Donald is surprised by this and wanted to burst out in anger, only to quiet himself and said, "Ah Phooey." Now taking control of the guns as Donald started to fire back with all they have against the heartless.
as everyone from lower deck is preparing themselves for counterattack. Huey, Dewey and Louie took control of the left side of the ship all the while Donald, Lena and Goofy took control of the right side. Once everything is set everyone opened fire as they shot anything that shoot back at them. The heartless in question are using the gummi parts to form their own ships and used them to fire at them. So far, the battle is going well as they are able to fight off against the heartless pretty easy so far.
"Can't you go faster than this Launchpad!" Scrooge demanded.
"I can't Mr. McDuck. This as fast as it can go." Launchpad reported.
"He's not wrong." Gadget said appearing on deck, "This ship is built mostly for combat, I used every Gummi tech that enhances armor, shield, weapons and more for this sort of thing. While we may be overwhelmed if we can take them out before this ship is badly damage, we should be fine by the time we reach our destination." Gadget explained.
"And how long before our ship is compromised?" Scrooge asked.
"Ms. Beakley, that seat over there is our scanner for enemy ships, surroundings area for map and internal scans. That will tell you what's our status for the time being." Gadget instructed. Ms. Beakley rushed over and took a looked following Gadget's instructions.
"Huh? The shields are holding 98 percent, everything else is okay." Ms. Beakley reported.
"Wait, really?" Scrooge couldn't believe what he's hearing.
"It's true. Even now the attacks from these heartless ships aren't putting a dent on our shields." Ms. Beakley said.
"My bless me bagpipes. You really outdone really went all out, nice job Gadget. So, Ms. Beakley how long would you say until we reach the world?" Scrooge asked now calmed and relax.
"Hmm, says here we will be there is about 2 to 3 days. And the number of enemies that have appeared seems to be about hundred at least." Ms. Bealey reported.
"Not to worry, but I wouldn't get too comfortable. While the I.H.F. can handle much damage including armor protection. Stronger enemies will no doubt make short work of us if we're not careful. So, keep your eyes peeled for unexpected surprises, there may be more threats than heartless to worry about." Gadget warned.
"Noted, continue your course Launchpad. While this may be boring, I must admit this will be nice time to catch some Zs for the time." Using the couch, Scrooge took a rest as the troubles around them seem to faze in and out. Soon the fighting will be over as the heartless barely put any dent on the ship as Gadget would explain she install some gummi tech that help give self-repair to the entire ship.
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Abandon House - Anne, Molly, Wendy and Pinocchio
In one of the many houses that are either empty or abandon like this one here where sometimes people who have no homes or people to care for them. Yet this house actually belongs to five kids that took residents. They are Neku, Shiki, Rhyme, Beat, and Joshua along with some others that do join them. This is because being homeless is sadly common on this world. The only thing that's worth anything is munny which is practically hard as one needs to fight heartless to gain it. All the while some animals like the two dalmatians took resident in this house. But are sadden as the people around them are unable to cheer them up without wondering why they are sad.
As for the newer residents named Molly, Anne and Wendy along with Pinocchio who is with them are sitting around absorbing the information given to them. Truth be told they have mixed feelings from dark creatures being heartless, born of darkness that devour other hearts and create more heartless including worlds. And it turns out the world has a heart so anything with hearts is fair game. Along with Keyblades as the only weapon to stop them and how this world takes in survivors from destroyed worlds. When Molly and Wendy said about earth being destroyed in the explanation Anne freaked out. But the others explained that there is more than one earth since all worlds were once one world, but now are separate and have different history and more.
Atter many moments of silence and left alone to absorb the information. Molly is the first to speak, "So, I guess we can start living here now." Trying to find the positive here.
"Look just... don't. It's already bad enough we lost our homes and people are care about. But knowing you're the only survivor... I just don't know." Anne said.
"Yeah, that's true dude. But I don't think sitting around and moping isn't going to help either. I don't like this either but honestly there's nothing we can do about it, so instead of being said maybe we should make the best out of it." Wendy places her opinion on the matter, feeling that yes this is sad times, but they can't control it and need to look for the bright side of things.
"How can you just pretend like all of this isn't happening?" Anne would have gone further but Wendy cut in to stop her from saying more.
"I don't, but seriously what could you have done? You were outnumbered, a dark vortex was swallowing up your world and worse you had no way of fighting back. I know this hurts but that doesn't mean you can't just give up and pretend nothing happen. Sometimes you have to accept things out of your control and just have to move on. It's hard, but that's all we can do." Wendy said unknowingly gave some wise advised. But that seems to not convince Anne as she looked down still sadden by what she's told.
"I know how you feel Anne." Pinocchio said gaining the girls attention, but still aren't used to living puppet at the time being.
"On my world, I had people I cared about. But before the world was destroyed, I made some bad choices. The only thing keeping me on track was my conscious, his name is Jimmy Cricket. He always guided me to what was right and wrong." Pinocchio paused for a moment remembering some of those times and spoke once more, "But I didn't listen to his advises, instead I listen to Honest John going to a puppet show to become a star and another for pleasure island. When we returned home, I was going to see my father and apologize. But then we a letter saying my father was trapped inside a whale named Monstro. Jimmy and I went to search for my father. But when we did our world was destroyed. Since than I been living with these guys helping others out, and I never saw my father or Jimmy again."
After Pinocchio finished, Anne noticed his nose wasn't growing. In fact, that's probably the honest truth she's heard from him, not only that some of the things Pinocchio did really make her wonder what kind of world he lived in. While listening to his tale, Anne realizes that there are others who have suffered the same fate. In fact, they have been told how Traverse Town is the place where everyone that's lost the world comes here. Seeing this Anne couldn't stay mad and accepted that maybe she couldn't be able to do anything. Just like how she landed on Amphibia when they didn't realize it was going to happen.
"Sorry to hear that Pinocchio, guess I was frustrated by the situation. Thanks." Anne said.
"You're welcome." Pinocchio said.
"Sounds like something exciting." Molly said excited by Pinocchio's tale.
"It's uh, interesting." Wendy said unconvinced by the tale.
"Don't worry, he's telling the truth. You know when he's lying." Anne vouches for Pinocchio since that tale can be easily seen as some lie.
"And how you know this?" Wendy asked still unsure.
It didn't take long for Anne to figure out how to prove that Pinocchio wasn't lying so she asked, "Say Pinocchio, how did you and I meet?"
"Oh, I saw you fell into a fountain, you were drowning so I came to save you." As Pinocchio finished, his nose grew which shocked the girls by this development.
"Wow, your nose grows when you lie. So, all that stuff was you telling the truth?!" Molly exclaimed.
"Yep, but I guess I lied about how Anne and I met." Pinocchio's nose shrank after telling the truth.
"Huh, I'll be darn. If only I had that with my brothers." Wendy joked finding the idea her brothers would have to tell the truth if they were to be trusted.
"Say, about that Honest John. If you knew he was leading you to something bad the first time, why did you listen to him second time?" Molly asked.
"Well, he's Honest John. He always tells the truth, I guess. Sure, he led me to some bad places, but he didn't mean any harm. He just wanted to show me some nice things." Pinocchio said, unknowingly of Honest John's schemes and intentions for Pinocchio as of now.
"And what does he look like exactly since he's supposed to be Honest John?" Wendy curiously asked.
"Oh, he's a fox in some suit along with his cat friend that I don't remember his name." Pinocchio said,
Anne could only give a deadpan stare at Pinocchio when he said about Honest John, "Besides the stereotypes, you shouldn't trust someone that says they are honest. That's as bad as someone saying 'hey everyone I'm a big fat liar' to the world. Actually, I think everyone would believe that over being honest."
"Besides that, I'm curious how you got all the way here little dude? I mean you were taken by the whale, so how did you end up here?" Wendy asked Pinocchio.
"I don't know, I just know this is where I landed. Jimmy should have been with me, but I couldn't find him anywhere." Pinocchio answered, suddenly become sad as he missed Jimmy even if he knew him very little.
"Well, you do have us, and everyone that's in this town. So at least your safe away from most danger." Molly said. Happy to hear that Pinocchio felt a bit cheerful with what he has now. Eventually everyone in the abandon house started to get used to the new norm. Anne is now accepting of the situation and made new friends along the way, Molly is extra cheerful as she's enjoying the company of people. Wendy seems cool with everyone but is still sadden by what happen yet wants to remain strong as being with others helps as well. All in all, things are okay for the time being.
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Mystical House - Merlin and Luz
Merlin explained everything that is going on and how the worlds are being destroyed by the creatures known as the heartless. Normally such knowledge is forbidden to people like her to know, but because of what's happening and everyone that has survive is from destroyed worlds it's not much a secret, instead is common knowledge. After some time explaining the situation to Luz, all is left is for her to process and understand what is happening and if she would accept the reality of the situation.
"So, let me get this straight. Heartless are creatures born of darkness from the realm of darkness that feeds off people's hearts that in turn has darkness in every heart. And there are two types of heartless, one is pureblood from the realm of darkness, the other is emblems that are born from people's heart's stolen from darkness which can be seen by the heartless emblem. And the worlds, they are separated where they shouldn't know each other's existence because of world order and other magical reasons is what I'm understanding, but the worlds can be destroyed by these...keyholes that keep the heart of worlds from being consumed from darkness. Because anything that has hearts can be taken by the darkness and turned into heartless themselves. So, the only thing that could stop them is some keyblade that is shaped like a key and functions like a sword, destroys darkness and also both close & open stuff. Is that correct?" Luz summarized what Merlin explained.
"That's correct, I must say your handling this much better than I would have anticipated." Merlin said.
"Yeah, the whole magic thing I been living with a witch named Eda has gotten familiar for me. But I'm surprised that you knew this since you somehow knew my past." Luz said.
"Well, not everything. I just happen to have the ability to see the future and past to some degree. But admittedly, you're not what I expected. If anything, this remains me of Wart or Authur when he and I first met." Merlin said having fond memories of his past.
"Wart?" Luz confusedly asked.
"Yes well, during his youth everyone called him wart even though he had a named already." Merlin explained.
"Oh, must have felt sorry when he was king huh." Luz smiled having some idea what happen but can see that Merlin maybe from another world from her own.
"Indeed. Now, I do believe we will be receiving company from a friend of mine I called upon for this task." Merlin said.
"And who is that?" Just as Luz asked, they heard some noise outside as Star and Fairy Godmother arrived at the house.
"That would be them, and about some minutes behind schedule." Merlin said looking at his watch.
"You have an obsession with time, don't you?" Luz stated as fact. Eventually Star arrived with Fairy Godmother appear at the doorway using magic.
"Woah! Nice house. So, you share this house with Merlin?" Star asked, despite her cheery mood she's mostly just trying to find the positive in this present. With everything happening it was something to keep her mind off of bad things for the time.
"Yes Star, I must say despite your mood before you seemed much happier than before." Fairy Godmother said with some concerns. This change Star's mood at the moment as she need to change the subject or confess why.
"Oh that, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean if I'm going to stay here, I might as well see the good things in life." Star then noticed she's not alone looking towards Merlin and Luz.
"Oh hello, I guess your that old man is Merlin and his apprentice, right?" Star assumed.
"Old man!? Young lady you do not speak to your elders like that." Merlin scolded Star.
"Eh, I get scolded all the time." Star shrugs off Merlin's scolding.
"That's not something to be proud of." Luz mutters since she knows getting in trouble isn't something to be proud of.
"Star, you shouldn't speak to others like that. At least ask for their names instead of being rude." Fairy Godmother told Star.
"Also, I'm not his apprentice. I'm actually a would-be witch apprentice to Eda the Owl Lady. The name is Luz Noceda." Luz corrected and introduced herself.
"Oh, sorry I assumed since your clothes are similar to the ol-I mean Merlin's outfit. Names Star Butterfly, I'm a magical princess from another Dimension." Star apologized and introduced herself as well. But the way she did seem like she was imaging holding onto something or wand to be precise.
"Uh, why did you-" Luz was about to ask when Star caught on what she meant.
"Oh, yeah. Normally I would have my wand with me, but after losing my world its~" Star wanted to say more but started to get depressed, "Okay now I'm depressed."
"Wait, you lost your world too?" Luz asked understanding how that feels, technically it's the Boiling Isles but she still had earth.
"Well, technically it's not my home. You see I was sent to Earth because I didn't behave like a quote unquote good princess. So, they sent me to Earth for another chance to behave. But that earth is gone now. So, at least Mewni, where I live is still safe, at least." Star wasn't able to convince herself as she felt even than wouldn't brighten her spirits. However, someone else in the room isn't happy about it either as Luz's eyes slowly widen and her expression nearly frozen.
"What." Luz muttered. Before anything could be said Luz rushed over and grabbed Star's shoulder to demand some answers.
"Did you say EARTH is gone?!" Luz demanded some answers, before Star could say anything or Luz could try get some answers. Merlin and Fairy Godmother intervene to separate the two.
"Hold on Luz, let's not jump to any conclusions." Merlin said to Luz.
"Why! Earth is destroyed. That means not only my friends are gone from the Boiling Isles, but so is my home and Mami." Luz started to speak Hispanic as she continued to panic.
"Now, now, you need to calm down Luz Noceda. Just because Earth is destroyed doesn't mean it's your earth." Merlin said which calm down Luz and gained Star's attention.
"Wait, there's more than one earth? I thought the dimension I lived at is earth?" Star asked, if there was more than one earth, she would at least know about it.
"Ah, but the question you should be asking yourself is there more than one secret of magic you're not told or unaware about." Merlin asked his own question to Star.
"World Order." Luz whispered, but then said something in Hispanic likely saying "I got it", There is more than one world filled with humans." Luz said snapping her fingers.
"Precisely Luz." Merlin said happily as Luz is indeed someone who's curious and understanding of magic.
"More than one earth? Like another dimension or something?" Star questioned now confused by the idea.
"It's more so, all worlds were once one world. But one day all were scattered from each other, this resulted in many worlds some filled with human culture while others with different realities that are still from earth. You see Star, all of these worlds are one earth. But have been divided for some time, so when Merlin is saying it maybe not her earth, he literally means there are multiple worlds that can be earth but pieces that makeup many worlds." Fairy Godmother explained.
"Oh! Like there is more than one dimensions, that makes sense." Star said now getting what she means.
"So, then. My earth could still be okay." Luz said happily, yet realize how insensitive she sounded, "Oh sorry, I didn't mean it like that."
"Nah, it's okay. That's still good news if your earth is still okay. But the question is... can my earth be restored or fixed somehow by some magical spell or something?" Star asked, Merlin and Fairy Godmother remained silent as they too asked themselves these questions.
"Truth be told Star, I don't know. But what I do know is the world attacked by these heartless are being controlled by someone by the name of Maleficent." Merlin answered finally, Luz and Star had raised eyebrows since they never heard of this "Maleficent" before.
"Malefawho?" Star asked.
"Maleficent Star. A Powerful Witch that has plagued the worlds. She is responsible for the worlds destroyed today, controlling the heartless that do her bidding by using the powers of darkness in her grasp." Fairy Godmother answered.
"So, a typical witch being the bad guy trope. Huh, that's new." Luz comments as she thought about everything she learned on the boiling isles where the common tropes are different from normal.
"I can assume that the Boiling Isles went against what the stories your told about." Merlin asked knowingly.
"Yeah, but I can guess she's from another earth." Luz assumed.
"Correct. Even more she considered herself as self-proclaimed Mistress of all Evil. And with her newfound powers, she can rightfully say is true. Somewhere among the many worlds is once her own home. It was from that world she became the powerful witch and proclaimed Mistress of all Evil. Where that world is we don't know, but what we do know is she has been destroying thousands, if not millions of worlds at this point. And the keyblade wielders that defend the worlds and world order are spread thin. The only way we can stop them is through getting to the source, but through a keyblade wielder that may arrive on this world. When this will happen, I don't know." Merlin explained.
"Hold on, how do you know they will arrive on this world if there are already wielders on other worlds?" Star asked.
"Because he can see it happen." Luz answered and explained, "Merlin here can see into the future, so you know or at least ideas of that person arriving on this world and help defeat this threat."
"Very spot on my dear, and I must say your fast learner than expected." Merlin compliment Luz.
"I like magical stuff and love to learn how." Luz answered.
"Yes, but before getting off topic. The plan is for this wielder to arrive on this world and hopefully with some help travel the worlds to find the source of this growing darkness. Since many keyblade Wielders are busy keeping the worlds in order, we need at least someone to go on this quest and defeat Maleficent who is most likely controlling the heartless." Merlin explained the plan.
"But you don't know where to look. And that's why you're hoping for at least one keyblade wielder to land on the world and stop the spreading darkness. Going on some quest to look for the source of darkness and defeat them somehow." Luz concluded.
"Exactly! But as you can see, we can't do anything until a keyblade wielder arrives on this world. Some allies of ours have tried to contact them through other means unfortunately, we can't get a hold of one of them. Even through the King they seemed to be spread thin through the worlds. Which is why despite seeing that persons arrive it will be sometime or soon before we can assume the chosen wielder is here." Merlin said.
"Okay seriously are you sure you're not his apprentice? Cause it seems you know what Merlin is saying." Star stated seeing the two seem to think alike.
"Well having a powerful witch as your teacher does help understand like how Merlin thinks." Luz said.
"For now, I believe it's time we get ourselves acquainted. Don't mind the mess, it's just how it is for me." Merlin said, everyone would than relax for the time being as Luz started to get familiar with what's going on.
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Hotel Room - Green Room
When Candace finally settled down and had some food along with some place to call home for the time being. Candace is given the information of what's happening, but truth be told... she wasn't sure how to feel or if her entire being is somehow shattered by this revelation. When explaining about the worlds, heartless, keyblade and such she wanted to just scream, laugh, angry burst and other emotions mixed inside. Candace had been silent when the truth finally sinks in and to be frank, she wasn't dealing with it so well.
Others have been told the same who demanded to know what the heck is going on and where they are located. Many of them suddenly broken from the realization that everything that has happen is now gone and their world is dead. Candace is facing the same dilemma as she now realizes that all those times, she has pestered the boys because of some petty things started to sink in. Now she can only lament and wonder if she could have done anything different with her life and time. Now knowing that the world is destroyed and possibly gone forever really soured her day and really brings tears to what has become of her world.
The only good that's happening is Aerith helping out someone in need. Which is saying something as some people comment on her and others helping out, not allowing the bad times break them. Candace couldn't help agreeing as this was something she couldn't help feeling how grateful what Aerith is doing.
At the moment she's living in the green room of the hotel and is staying for the time being. Aerith went out to check on things while Candace stayed for the time being until she came back. When Aerith did come back, she brought some stuff, mostly supplies for her stay.
"You okay Candace?" Aerith asked, after a moment Candace respond.
"Oh, yea sure... doing great heh. Not like I just lost my home and life because of some mumbo jumbo magic with darkness devouring my home world and just..." Candace took deep breaths stopping herself as she needed to be strong yet failing all the same, "Sorry... just lots to take in."
"Well, you wanted to know and its common knowledge on this world." Aerith said.
"But that's the thing. If it's common knowledge why does the world order exist?" Candace asked.
"Only because our worlds remained separated. But when the heartless came they started attacking worlds, linking them through darkness. Because of this many worlds were taken, those that survived ended up here on this world. Traverse Town is a world that accepts others that have lost worlds from the darkness. Although... with everything that's happening not everyone feels they should have survived and instead felt they should have died on the world." Aerith said bittersweet as that's the feeling you get from Traverse Town.
"Guess that's why everyone is depressed. Still, what do I do now?" Candace asked.
"Well, I can help you get started on living arrangements on this world. Even help you get a job, what you do next is up to you? I know this is hard, but you can't give up. So long as your alive the only direction is forward. That may sound corny and cheap, believe me many have said this before. But you can't give in to your situation and bad times you're experiencing. So, if you're willing, I can help you get started on how what you can do next." Aerith offered, even if this offer is some invisible hand. Candace and say that's probably the best she will have in a long time. But she needed to be sure first.
"What if there was no way forward and that the place, I'm going to is bleak and dark? What happens then?" Candace asked.
"Well, you at least went on instead of doing nothing. That's all anyone can do in these times." Aerith answered. While not the greatest answer, Candace and tell it was sincere. Accepting this Candace stood up and said, "Okay, so what's my next step?"
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Outside of Traverse Town - I.H.F. gummi ship/Couple of days later
After the battle in space, all the kids enjoyed themselves. Except for Donald as he grumbled to himself for his own reasons, but relaxed as they finally arrived. The days that came were mostly normal space adventure as the travel wasn't exactly easy to get from point A to point B, that and jump speed or whatever technology is used wouldn't be wise unless you know where you're going. Eventually they arrived and saw the town from outside. Before anyone could venture off Donald wanted to at least make some ground rules for the kids to follow.
"Okay kids. Listen up, before you go off exploring the town. I like for you kids to at least follow some rules." Donald said to the kids.
"Really? Like there is no catch Uncle Donald?" Louie asked suspicious about what Donald is doing.
"No, mostly because I know you kids have been on some adventures with Uncle Scrooge. So, I trust you to behave yourselves. The person I need to meet is Leon and I figured you kids would be bored if we tried to make you wait." Donald said expectingly.
"Really? That's great!" Dewey exclaimed cheerfully.
"But! There are rules I do expect you to follow. Your no longer on your world where it's fun and games, lives are in danger and death is going to happen if you cause any problems that can be harmful. If you don't follow them, I will send you back and make you wait on the world, am I clear." Donald warned, all of them shook their heads up and down for yes.
"Good, one I want you to stay with Launchpad and Ms. Beakley while we are visiting. There are places you can explore that is safe but is large enough world for many people to arrive on this world. Two, when heartless appear don't fight them, they aren't people but beings of darkness. Their only instincts are to steal hearts and make more heartless. So, don't fight them and run for it okay." Donald paused wanting them to at least answer. All of them said yes after some seconds of thoughts.
"And three, no mischief! It's bad enough you cause some trouble on our world, I don't want you to cause any more trouble for these people. I'm looking at you boys on that, are we clear!" Donald asked them.
"Yes Donald/Uncle Donald." The Kids answers. But some of them have their fingers crossed which means something is bound to happen.
McDuck Clan - First District
"Good, now you can go." Donald said, soon everyone is leaving the ship with only Rescue Rangers staying behind to check the ship. The only one that will be seeing Leon is him, Goofy and Scrooge McDuck.
"So, we're going to see Leon about what's going on?" Scrooge asked.
"Yep, he knows who we're facing and what is to be expected from this quest. Then all that's needed is to find a key, The King would have joined us, but he has his own mission. So, it's up to us to stop the darkness if possible." Donald summed up the plan.
"But uh, how do we know that the keyblade will arrive here of all places?" Goofy asked.
"I don't... but getting information would be a start before anything else." Donald replied.
"You know Donald, when it's all said and done. You and I are going to talk about this stuff, and you start telling me everything about what you do and the worlds." Scrooge said to Donald.
But as they are walking, Kairi sitting at the wall asleep next to one of the shops is licked by Pluto who found her.
"What a dream." Kairi said, but is pounded as reality started to sink in.
"THIS ISN'T A DREAM!"
And done, alright now that everything is starting to set up. There will be character profile for mostly the main cast, world/series visited will have profiles if reviewed.
So, that being said, if these characters feel different sorry in advance. But I do believe in change characters when thrown in new situations and story plot. Because for one, you can't just assume they stay the same after experiencing beyond canon story. And two, situations do change people.
That said, you can already guess the history of Kingdom Hearts is different and will be explained just not now. Cause I do want this to be simple and straight forward. The aim is to make simplistic story with both many and small number of chapters.
