DISCLAIMER: *Ahem* Through out this fanfic there will be many characters and items that are in video games, I do not own any one of them, the only thing I can ever take credit for is my original characters and other ideas put into this fanfic. All characters from games probably are owned and liscensed by Squaresoft or their own respective companies.

I do not get paid for the creation of this fanfic (wish I did though).

But:

I write this fanfic to amuse readers.

I write this fanfic to show the world how bad my spelling is.

I write this fanfic because it was the only other thing to do at 11:30 at night.

I write this fanfic becasue I have no other way to express my gratitude to all of the writers/animators of great games and animes.

Content Warning: (If any) In this 'fic there is mild use of foul language and some humor that would be considered innapropriate for younger children also, there might be so romance (still in progress with the deatails) but nothing is for certain...

~Have fun and don't sue!

Otherworld: The Begining Chapter 2

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Dark clouds hung low in the sky bringing bad omens to those below. Feirce winds blew dying leaves off rotting trees early this year. But something was different about the formation of the sky...the clouds were forming a spiral.

Lia walked home in silence; this wasn't making any sense. 'What could that dream have ment?' , that same question repeated itself through out her mind all day.

"Gosh! This is really starting to piss me OFF!" Lia kicked a lone pinecone out of her path and jammed her hands in her jean pockets. Today wasn't going her way at all.

First, her alarm clock didn't ring and she almost missed her bus. Then her locker jammed and she missed half of first period trying to pry it open to get her books, which landed her with detention for a week. She slipped in P.E. drenching her uniform, and to top it all off, she stained her clothes when Cirus tried to hit her with a fully loaded hot dog.

"Today just couldn't get any worse!" she fumed. Large drops of water fell from the sky drenching Lia to the bone. "CRAPOLA!" she yelled as she struggled to keep everything balanced as she ran home.

~*~

Lia slammed the front door shut and dropped her sopping wet backpack near the door. Lia stiffled a sneeze and made her way into the kitchen. She was about to climb up the stairs to her room when she noticed a blinking light on the answering machine next to the phone. Lia pushed the button with a click.

'Honey, I'm going to be getting home late tonight...Later than usual, I need to get caught up at work and this unexpected storm isn't helping at all. You can heat up somehting in the freezer, I think there are some frozen pizzas in there...Well I need to get back to work snuggle bunny, see you soon!" rang her mothers voice from the machine

Lia cringed at the mention her mothers juvinile names for her and sighed, today just got worse.

~*~

Frozen pizzas weren't as bad as Lia thought they would be and she went up to her room with a content smile.

As she waited for her mother to arrive Lia entertained herfelf in her room by playing some of her video games. In the time of two hours she had played various parts from Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts. Lia put a hand beside her and noticed her bed felt a bit wet and she realized the whole time she was still wearing her wet clothes. Lia gave an exasperated sigh and went to take a shower.

~*~

Lia got dressed into a white tank top and short blue jean shorts, combed her hair thoroughly and lay on her bed and thought more upon her dream.

"What does it all mean?!" she yelled into oblivion.

'Nothing' whispered an almost inaudible voice.

"What?" asked Lia, franticly looking about her room.

'Nothing' whispered the voice again.

Lia head swam and her vision came out of focus. She stumbled lamely around her room, quickly dropping to her knees.

'Existence, the world around you means nothing.' the whisper spoke.

High pitched screeching filled the room even drowning out Lia's scream. A large black puddle appeared around Lia's body that lay sprawled on the floor of her room. Black tendrils snaked out of the dark hole as it widened, the tentacles wove themselves around Lia's body a slowly dragged her downward into darkness...

~*~

Floating. That was all Lia could feel. She floated upside-down or something... She really couldn't tell which direction she was looking. All she could tell was that she was in somekind of blueish purple water. Wait...water?!

Lia thrashed about for a moment. This has to be a dream, there is no way in hell she could be in water and not drowning.

'At least I'm breathing.' she thought.

Suddenly her bare feet were on solid ground. Lia leaned forward a bit to catch her balance and looked around. Again there was black, but she was standing on some kind of platform that seemed to keep her from falling. The ground below her seemed to stir and hundreds of bird looking creatures kifted off of the floor revealing something below them. The whole platform made a picture from one Disney movie she had seen. 'Looks like Snow White...' she thought, and she was right. The scene was of Snow White holding a bitten apple, circular frmaes around her held the faces of the seven dwarfs, near the outsude were similar frames that had pictures of various woodland creatures all of which gave off a green glow.

"Man, is this weird or what?" she said to the darkness.

Lia walked over to the edge of the platform and looked downward, it looked as if she was on a pillar that extended into blackness, in various places there were more circlular frames with stained glass pictures of what looked like flowers. There was a loud thud and she turned around quickly, fists balled to protect herself.

Three stone bases had appeared with the same strange insignia upon the faces, each with a weapon upon it that seemed to float in thin air that seemed to be illuminated by a spotlight that came from the darkness itself. Lia walked cautiously to one with a sword upon it, she went to touch the sword and as forefinger touched the light surrounding it a voice appeared in her mind.

'Power sleeps within you. If you give it form...It will give you strength.'

Lia withdrew her hand, gave a questioning look and shoved her hand back in a took the sword. She pulled it out of the light which dimmed noticeably and held it, one hand on the hilt and the other of the flat of the blade. The hilt was beautiful, braided blue cloth made the grip and it had gold metal at the bottom and connecting the sword. The blade though was something different all together, it gave off an ethereal glow. She looked beyond the blade and noticed a blue scabbard with silver vines twining around it that wasn't there before. She picked it up her right hand, the sword still in the left and slid the sword into the scabbard

She kept the blade by her side and walked over to the base that held a staff or wand. She too pulled this one out of its light, and held it. The top of the wand was in the form of an clear white orb, it was atop a holder the was brown that curved around the orb making it look like a cresent moon, the shaft of the wand was a dull blue with gold bands near the base of the holder and the bottom. Suddenly it glowed and extended into a staff, which startled Lia enough to drop it. It stopped glowing and she picked up the staff which looked almost exactly as it did as when it was a wand only longer.

Lia walked over to the last base now lugging a staff and sword that were both quite heavy. Lia layed down the sword and staff, and pulled out the sheild that turned as it floated. The sheild had to be twice as heavy as the staff and sword combined, but Lia still held it tightly by its sides without drooping. She turned it around are fully so she could look at it in full. The face of the sheild which was blue lined with silver. In the blue center were green leaves with silver veins and branches that curved into a 'U' shape that spiraled at the ends. In between the u was a disfigured heart that was seperated in five paces with black outlining.

She turned it to the back and grabbed the two brown leather bands and slipped them over her shoulders like a backpack. Lia wavered a bit at the new weight on her back but kept her balance, and picked up the rest of her equipment in her right hand.

"Just like school without the books.' she laughed.

Lia slid her sword in its scabbard behind her back to hang in the leather bands, and switched her staff into her left hand. The base in which she was infront of shuddered and sunk into the platform, even when they had dissapeared the platform still shook violently. Lia tried to steady herself on the platform but to no avail and she crashed backwards onto her rump. The platform suddenly gaveway and shattered into peices and Lia went back tothe increasingly familiar feeling of falling.

~*~

A picture, similar to the last platform Lia was on spiraled into focus as she floated upside-down. As she drew nearer she righted herself somehow and touched down her bare feet onto the new platform. Amazingly enough her new 'friends' stayed with her but became no more lighter than before.

This new platform still seemed a pillar like before, but this time had a picture of Cinderella. Around the picture of Cinderella are five clearly visible circular pictures of white seemed like a castle colored white with a blue background. One picture was behind Cinderella but Lia couldn't quite make out what it was. Around the near the outside of the platform were smaller circles with pictures of a man kneeling before a woman whose leg was lifted slightly.

"It's funny, this sorta reminds me of..."

Lia couldn't finish her sentence when the same voice appeared in her head.

'You've gained the power to fight. Now draw your sword for you now can protect yourself and others.'

Lia pulled her sword from the scabbard and replaced it with her staff and swung her sword experimently.

'There will be times you have to fight...Keep your light strong.'

The voiced stopped. 'Keep my light strong? What is that supposed to mean?' thought Lia with an aggrivated snort. The picture seemed to stir and Lia pulled herself from her thoughts, black splotches took shape on the face of the platform and moved. Suddenly they pulled themselves from the picture and opened glowing yellow eyes. The creatures had an animal like stance and had antennas which swayed as they danced and made bizarre squeks as if yelling at Lia. Lia crouched into a fighting position and looked around nervously at the rapidly appearing creatures. One of the black creatures lunged for Lia who quickly dodged it and swung her sword atomatically cutting in two, spilling green orbs everywhere.

The rest of the creatures retreated back into the picture and disappeared. Lia looked around once again and went to pick up the green orbs. As soon as she touched one, it disappeared but made Lia feel stronger and healthier. Lia gave a victorious yell and bounced happily despite the sheild and staff on her back. Unbeknownst to Lia, another creature formed from a black splotch crawled mischievously around her. More started to appear and gave loud yelps as they were dragged into dark portals much like Lia was. Lia swung around, sword still at hand, more balck holes appeared and closed her in. The stretch farther, covering the whole platform. Lia started to sink into the hole and clawed at the air to get out as one would do if they were caught in quicksand. She felt like she was drowning. Her head was finally pulled under and Lia struggled in the darkness.

~*~

Lia felt something press hard against her back. Lia opened her eyes and looked around, yet another platform. Only this one didn't look at all like the last ones. This one had various shapes, some of moons and stars, hearts and butterflies. It was so bright it hurt Lia's eyes which had become so accustomed to the darkness. Bright yellows and reds, light blue and turquoise white and black.

"Wow, makes you wish you had sunglasses..." said Lia as she tried to shield her eyes.

She walked tothe edge of the platform and looked down, again the same thing greeted her eyes. Lia turned around and saw a transparent brown door. As she walked closer she notcied the intricate pattern on the top of the double doors that came to a point that looked like a crown. Gold twined itself in various patched, blue and red jewels appear ever so often.

Lia lifted her hand to the door and it pressed her hand to it, it became solid. 'Whoa! That was cool.' she thought. She put her hand on the knob of the door and turned, but it wouldn't budge. She turned it again and it opened slightly, Lia stepped one foot inside and fell.

~*~

Sora looked up at the sky from atop a house in Traverse Town. The neverending black sky still loomed overhead. 'Will it ever be day?' he thought with a sigh.

"Hey Sora!" yelled Leon " You'd better get down here quick, it's almost time to eat!"

"Alright! Be right there!" yelled Sora back with a grin.

Leon flipped his brown hair out of his face and walked back into the shadows. Sora took one last look at the sky and hopped down with a thud and ran after the retreating form of Leon.

~*~

Riku gave a disgusted snort, he would teach that stupid Sora. His face wrinkled into an aggrivated frown and he turned to stalk off into the depths of Hallow Bastion.

As he trugged down one of the winding corridors, Maleficent appeared beside him, dwarfing him as usual. Riku payed no attention to her appearance which further angered him.

"I feel a disturbance in the worlds, something is coming Riku." she said followed by a wry smile

"And." was Riku's offhanded reply.

"Whatever it is, good or bad, I want it nomatter what." she replied giving him a knowing eye.

"And what would this have to do with me?" he asked, even though he already knew the answer.

"I want you to go and get whatever it is, it will appear in Traverse Town, if Sora gets in your way, dispose of him quickly." ordered Maleficent.

Riku gave an annoyed growl and walked faster down the corridor, he had to get away from Maleficent before he hit her, which would grant unwanted consiquences. What did this do for Kairi? He didn't suppose it would help her at all and was still considering whether or not to actually do it. Well, who knows there may be something up Maleficents sleeve, even still there could be another troop to the already growing dark army.

Riku gave one of his trademark smirks and continued his was to Traverse Town.





A/N: Right then. Thanks to a certain reviewer, I finally got off my lazy arse and did some work on the second chapter to Otherworld. GO ME! I added some characters so far, but be ready for heart pounding action....Sooner or later. Thank you to all my reviewers and flamers out there! *echo* Uh again, please review. Flamers are still welcome but again, be creative.

Got anyone with good ideas out there? Please tell me, I'd be glad to add something of everyones in to my fic, and yes you will get credit. IDEAS PLEASE!

(P.S.: Sorry for any typing errors or bad use of puntuation...I'll continue to try harder!)

~Mandala (CaitSith11093@aol.com)

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