Digimon Hearts: The Epic Adventure

Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.

Author's Note: More hints of a Daikku romance and a new couple (I can't
give it away just yet!) Also, the Princesses of Heart are very vital
to all the worlds' survival. Here's the reason why:

Seven pure hearts were formed to seal a door that contained a
certain very powerful and evil Heartless 02 Digimon, but with the
help of the Digidestined, the seven pure hearts were able to seal
the door, but after doing so, they went inside several girls, thus
making them the Princesses of Heart, but the weaker Heartless are
searching for them in order to open the door containing the ultimate
Heartless Digimon.

To Rikku's dismay, she happens to be the only teen girl who can
prevent the destruction of the worlds, but she is not alone in this
world. She has three guardians (Davis, Ken, and Kiayone) who are also
pure hearted. But as we might know, there is a Princess of Heart in
the following chapter that will join the four teens in their mission to
save the worlds.

Chapter 5: The Princess of Heart, Kairi Kuehnemund

Kiayone led the three teens to the Gummi Garage, where her
Gummi Ship was at. Davis and Ken just stared at the little spaceship
when Rikku was glad to actually board for the first time since she was
eight years old.

" What is this rocket?" the boys asked.

" This is my Gummi Ship, the Starlight Gummi. Since I built it
myself, I was able to fly it. Rikku's been in it once, but she got
scared, so we had to ride in another. That was Dana's. She drives her
Heartlight Gummi very recklessly, so we're afraid to go in hers."

" That reckless, huh? Lucky you have your own, right?" Davis
laughed.

Kiayone nodded. " And that's also why she's staying behind. I
don't want her to wreck my Gummi."

Rikku shuddered. " Don't remind me!"

Once everyone was inside the Starlight Gummi, everybody buckled
up. " Safety first!" Rikku chirped.

" We know, we know!" everyone replied.

Kiayone sat at the control panel, pushed a few buttons to
start the rockets, and said, " Everybody, hang on!"

Everyone braced themselves for the coming blast into innerspace
from the rockets. Within a few seconds, the rockets blasted the Gummi
into innerspace. Rikku was a little scared, but she managed to regain
her bearings. The blast calmed into a glide, assuring the riders that
it was safe.

" Rikku, you okay, girl?" Kiayone asked.

" Yup, it isn't bad as I thought! And I thought something bad
was going to happen to the ship!" she said happily.

At that moment, a blast from behind shook the ship. Rikku then
looked at the radar. " Is those red dots us or...?"

Kiayone looked also. " We got Heartless ships after us!"

Rikku then said, " I spoke too soon!"

Davis also looked through the shield. " Hate to say this, but
I think we have a whole Heartless fleet."

" Kiayone, step on it!" Rikku cried.

" Already doing so!"

Ken looked at the control panel. " What does this do?"

" Controls the Warp Gummi. Why?" Kiayone asked.

" Try pressing it so we can get out of this mess faster."

" Okay."

With that said, Kiayone pressed the button and sure enough, it
got them out of there faster than you can say, " Gummi Ship."

*~*~*~

" Cassidy, those kids used their Warp Gummi to get out of their
chasers' way." Krystalia answered to her mistress.

" Krystalia, do me a favor." Cassidy said coldly.

" Anything."

" I want you to go to the Giga House and bring me the Princess
of Heart. She's the last one I need to open the door."

" Right, and what about the teens?"

" Just like I said, capture Rikku and her friends except the
goggle boy and bring me the Keyblade. He'll do anything to keep his
friends alive, especially Rikku."

" Yes, mistress."

With that said, Krystalia made her way to the Giga House.

*~*~*~

At the Giga House, the four teens regained their bearings.

" That was too close. I thought we would never get away." Rikku
said seriously. She was, however, right.

" If it wasn't for me and finding the Warp Gummi button, we
would have been shot down or worse." Ken said matter-of-factly.

" That Gummi is going to be necessary for us to escape."

" Right!" Rikku yelped, actually scared of the fact that they
were being chased down by Cassidy's force.

" Besides, are we trying to seal this Keyhole and find this
Princess of Heart? Anywho, who is this Princess of Heart?" Davis asked,
actually curious, a little too curious for his own good. " Besides,
we actually

" The Princesses of Heart are seven girls we need to find.
According to Cassidy, however, there's only one left to find. The rest
are the ones we need to rescue. But, first, we find this Princess of
Heart, seal the Keyhole, and head back to Crystal Valley City. That's
if things go well." Kiayone explained.

" Well, let's get searching!"

" Hold it, see the size of that house? We're tiny!" Rikku said,
comparing the group of tiny teens and the huge house before them. " I
say we split and look somewhere else!"

" Rikku, we're not going, we're staying and sealing this world
from the Heartless and finding that Princess of Heart." Kiayone said,
grabbing the fourteen year old girl by the arm and dragging her along.
The two boys just sighed and followed the two girls inside through the
crack on the bottom of the door.

*~*~*~*~*~

Meanwhile, inside the Giga House...

" Won't anyone help me?" a girl's voice whimpered. She was
indeed in trouble, caught on the edge of a huge dresser with Shadow
Heartless surrounding her. One of the Shadow Heartless disappeared,
along with the rest of the horde.

" Why did they leave? They had me where they wanted me..."
the girl asked, perplexed. She took an few steps and then she fell
into a well hidden trap. The Shadow Heartless laughed and sneered when
the Shadow Heartless leader noticing the four teens coming in. Saying
something in Heartless language, they hid the trap where the girl fell
in and took off, as if they were planning to capture someone.

*~*~*~*~*~

The four teens just stared at the huge interior. Rikku was
still being a fraidy cat, so Kiayone had her by the arm still.

" How about we split up to cover more ground?" Kiayone asked.
The other three were skeptical.

" No way, we get lost faster than you can say, 'Heartless
forever be gone'!" Rikku yelled.

" Rikku's right, even though I don't know her as well." Ken
spoke up.

" I also agree." Davis agreed with his two best friends.

" ......... fine, I'll go your way- look out, Rikku!" Kiayone
yelled at her friend. Rikku avoided the attack by the Shadow Heartless.

" I say we split up!" Rikku suddenly said, running for her
life. Kiayone followed her, leaving two certain boys by themselves
and a horde of Shadow Heartless.

" What should we do now?" both boys asked each other, looking
at the girls, then back at the Shadow Heartless horde.

" I say run to the huge dresser and fight them there!" Davis
said, actually calculating his area.

With that said, both boys took off, climbed the big chair next
to it, and climbed to a certain part of the dresser. The horde of the
Shadow Heartless followed them slowly, then stopped.

" Hey, you scared or what?" Davis taunted.

Slowly, the two boys walked up to the group, not knowing about
the trap. Within a few seconds, the trap activated and both boys fell
into the hole, disappearing from the room. Again, the Heartless laughed
and sneered, and covered the hole again.

*~*~*~*~*~

Meanwhile, the young girl was hitting the metal door with her
steel rod.

" Let me out! Let me out!!"

At that moment, Davis and Ken came crashing into her cell.

" *gasp* Who are you?" The girl asked. " Are you more of those
Shadow Heartless that have been chasing me?"

" No, we're mere humans who stumbled into one of the Heartless'
traps. Who are you?" Davis asked.

" Oh, my name is Kairi Kuehnemund. The reason those Heartless
are after me is that I'm some sort of princess or something..."

" Did you say 'Princess'?" Ken asked, remembering Kiayone's
explaination on the Princesses of Heart. He was certain that Kairi was
the one the group was looking for.

" Yeah, I think a Princess of Heart they called me. How they
know was a mystery, since I never gave my identity outside this world."

That confirmed it. But before anyone could react, Davis got
to the door and yelled, " Freeze!", shooting a ice storm at the door,
which broke the door.

" Oh, goodie! Let's get out of here!" Kairi yelled, running out
the door. Both boys followed her, hoping to make it out alive.

*~*~*~*~

Meanwhile, Rikku and Kiayone were busy looking for the two guys
missing.

" Where can those two be?" Kiayone asked herself, growing ever
so impatient.

" We gotta find them, Kiayone, I made a promise to them!" said
Rikku, who was worried.

" *sigh* Alright, alright, we'll continue to look, but if we
can't find them, let them find us!"

" Thanks, Kiayone."

*~*~*~*~*~

Meanwhile, back to the two boys and the Princess of Heart, a
battle would take place every now and then with the boys destroying the
Shadow Heartless groups one by one.

" Are we almost there? It's getting darker and colder by the
minute, and that means only one thing: big trouble." Kairi said.

" Nah, Kairi, that means we're almost there!" Davis said,
trying to lighten her mood. It didn't work.

" Maybe she's right," Ken said to the goggle boy. " Kairi's a
Princess of Heart. She can sense this kind of trouble."

At that moment, they reached a room with a big pool of black
darkness.

" What in the world?" all three teens asked themselves. Then
that pool of darkness started to rise and start to form into something
that all three were actually afraid, especially Kairi. The three looked
in awe as the black darkness formed into a Darkside Heartless.

" It's one of those Heartless beings!" Kairi yelped, getting
behind the boys, getting her steel rod out. " Attack!"

" With what? We don't got the Keyblade with us, we only got
magic to help us." Davis asked. Then he remembered. He was Rikku's
bond of love and friendship, so he was able to retrive the Keyblade
from her anytime he needed, and now was a time he needed it. He focused
on the Keyblade and within a few seconds, a stream of light came and
formed the Keyblade in his hand.

" You're a Keyblade master?" Kairi asked.

" Yup, I'm the Keyblade master, but there's a girl who helps
me, she's the Keyblade mistress. Okay, let's get ready to rumble!"

With that said, all three teens ran into the battle. Kairi was
the first one to do something. " Stop!"

The Darkside Heartless stopped moving. Davis and Ken stared
at Kairi. " Where did you learn that?"

" I was born with this power. I know Stop, Aero, and Gravity
as well as Cure and some nul-spells." Kairi explained.

" Well, let's get the advantage!"

With a whole lot of swipes from the Keyblade, Stop and Gravity
spells, and healing magic to heal the ailing, the Darkside Heartless
was destroyed. While dying, The Darkside Heartless opened a path to
the outside world, where the three could escape the drawer. After that,
the Darkside Heartless was gone.

" A way out! Look!" Kairi cheered, running to the opening to
the outside world. The boys followed her and peeked outside to find
Rikku and Kiayone.

" There you are! Get down here!" Rikku sighed a sigh of relief.

" Be down in a minute!" Davis yelled to his friend.

" I got a idea! Grab onto my hands and I'll use my rocket shoes
to get us down faster!" Kairi said. The two boys grabbed on and Kairi
clicked on her rockets. " Here we go!"

The trio started to fly up, but then Kairi noticed the Keyhole
behind them and said, " You better lock the Keyhole before we have more
trouble!"

With that said, Davis used the Keyblade, faced it towards the
Keyhole, then a blue beam of light came out of the Keyblade and into
the Keyhole, locking the world forever from the Heartless.

" Okay, let's go down to our friends!"

The three reached the two girls within 12 seconds. Kairi put
down the boys and then landed herself.

" Who is this?" Rikku asked.

" This is Kairi, and she's a Princess of Heart!" Davis said.

" Her? Wow, well, then, how about joining us, Kairi, that way,
you won't deal with the Heartless anymore." Kiayone asked.

" Sure thing! Besides, I want to stick with the boys, they
were helpful dispatching that Darkside Heartless." Kairi smiled.

" Okay, then, we're off!" Rikku yelled, heading for the huge
door. Everyone followed her and boarded the Gummi Ship.

*~*~*~*~*~

Next Time in Digimon Hearts...

Kairi is now with Rikku and her friends, but will that signal
trouble for the group since the Heartless is after her and the Keyblade
as well? Also, what new adventure awaits the group. Find out next time!