Chapter 2: The 4th Keyblade Master

"Kairi! C'mon, wake up!" came a shout from below.

"Huh?" said Kairi. The princess found herself back in her bed, at her home atop a small bluff on Destiny Island. "How did I get back here?" said Kairi.

"What are you talking about, Kairi? You've been asleep this whole time! I've been standing outside your window for 45 minutes trying to wake you up!" said a female voice. Kairi hopped out of bed and looked out the window to see her friend Selphie, whose patience was quickly thinning.

"What?! But, there was this Darkside heartless, and I had a magic rod, and I killed it, but then Ansem showed up, and he sent me falling into darkness, and there was this weird voice, and it was so real…" said Kairi.

"WHAT!" said Selphie," Man, Kairi, that must have been one crazy dream. Come on! Get dressed! We're trying to look for gummies to finish our ship today, remember?"

Kairi sighed. How could she forget? She was the one who found that cockpit gummi with a fully operational computer. Building a gummi ship to find Sora and Riku had been her idea in the first place. She grabbed her street clothes from her dresser and went into the bathroom. 10 minutes later, she came back out, washed up and fully dressed. She grabbed the wooden sword she had taken from Sora's now deserted house and walked out her front door to join her friend.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the Seashore~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Okay, guys. We're almost finished with this ship. Wakka, you're in charge of finding more armor. Selphie, you look for wings. We need at least two. I'll look for an engine. Kairi, you need to find a weapon. Just one will work, but the more, the better," ordered Tidus, "Okay, everyone. Let's get busy!" Everyone left to find his or her assigned parts. Kairi climbed to the top of the large plateau in the center of the island.

"Whoa! I really hit the jackpot! I knew there had to be something good up here, but this is almost too good!" Kairi went and grabbed the gummies she found and started climbing down.

Kairi obtained Thunder-G (x2) and Thundara-G (x2).

"Hey, Kairi, I found the 2 wings, and I just gave them to Tidus. Got time for a quick match?" asked Selphie.

"Sure. I'll take you on," Kairi replied.

Third Seed: Selphie 38HP

"Don't hold back!" said Selphie, and she went to attack Kairi swinging her nun-chuck. Kairi waited patiently for the right moment, then attacked, deflecting the nun-chucks back at their wielder. "OW!" said Selphie as her own weapon bashed her in the head. Kairi followed up with a combination attack with the sword. The fight went on like this until Selphie was defeated.

Winner: Kairi

"I can't believe I lost! You've gotten good, Kairi!" said Selphie.

Kairi giggled and replied," I'm still nothing compared to Sora and Riku. They've both gained many special abilities. Like magic. In my dream, I could do magic. I just-pointed that rod-thing forward and concentrated, like this." Kairi pointed her sword forward as though to cast a water spell. Much to her and Selphie's surprise, the stream of bubbles shot out from the wooden sword.

"Oh my god…" said Selphie "you couldn't do that before, could you?"

"No…" responded Kairi," Now, I'm really starting to wonder…was it real, or not?"

"Hey, I just thought of something," started Selphie," Maybe, you can do the other spells and techniques you got, too!"

"You think so?" asked Kairi.

"Well, it's worth a shot. Do a sword technique this time!" suggested Selphie.

"Alright. Here goes," said Kairi, and she concentrated on a nearby tree. She was about to try out her Blade Delusion when Wakka came by.

"Hey, what's happening?" greeted Wakka. Both girls glared at him. "Sheesh. Why you guys actin' so tense?" he asked.

"Oh. No reason," replied Kairi. She smiled and said," Wanna duel?"

"Now ya talkin'! Show me yo' stuff!" accepted Wakka.

"Kairi, why-" Selphie started, but Kairi silenced her with a mischievous grin that revealed she was going to try her newfound skills on Wakka.

Second Seed: Wakka 54HP

Kairi started off easy enough. She used her sidestep ability to dodge Wakka's blitzballs, get in close and let him have it!

"Man, Kairi, when did you learn the fancy footwork?" asked a confused Wakka.

"I'm not sure," answered Kairi," But that's not all I got. Dodge this!" said Kairi, and used her Blade Delusion technique. She shot forward, leaving behind 2 mirages of herself in mid-attack. She chained combos to the initial delusion, and shot across the seaside arena no less than 6 times. One more normal combo and it was all over.

Winner: Kairi

"DANG! Dat really hurts!" said Wakka, "I don't think even Tidus could hold a candle to you now!"

"Let's find out. I was on my way to give him the 4 weapon gummies I found anyways," said Kairi.

"Wow! You found all these weapon gummies?! That's great! Now, we'll be able to defend ourselves!" said Tidus. He went and attached the final pieces to their little ship. "Since everyone got what we needed, are you guys ready to call it a day?" asked Tidus.

"Almost," said Kairi. She went to the nearby save point to replenish her magic. She approached Tidus again and asked," Actually, you up for a match?"

"Is that a challenge?" asked Tidus.

Kairi giggled and replied," Dang right it is!"

"Okay, then! This is for the championship! You're going down!" Tidus taunted.

Number One Seed: Tidus 46 HP

"Here it comes!" cried Tidus and attacked Kairi with his pole combo attacks. Kairi sidestepped each and every one. Then, she launched a counterattack from behind, with each swing of the wooden sword connecting, the last dealing a mighty critical blow. Tidus was sent flying by the last hit, and landed in a heap some 10 feet away. Kairi capitalized on this by letting out a blast of gale to knock Tidus farther back.

"Not bad for a girl, huh, Tidus?" teased Kairi.

"ERGH!" cried Tidus and charged at her.

"You just never learn, do you? Dodge THIS!" said Kairi, then swept across the beach with her Blade Delusion attack. That move was enough to finish off the reigning champ.

Winner: Kairi

"Yeah! I'm the champ!" Kairi celebrated.

"Man, I'm really off today…" moaned the former champ.

"Okay, let's call it a day you guys," said Selphie.

"Ya, man. I'm bushed!" complained Wakka.

"All right. We'll meet here and leave first thing in the morning," said Tidus.

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Kairi lay in bed, trying to get some sleep for the big day.

"Sora…" thought Kairi to herself," I can't wait until we get going. I'll find you, Sora. Then we'll be together again, and I can finally tell you how I feel…" A loud thunderclap interrupted Kairi's thoughts, and she looked outside her window. "What? A storm? Now? I have a bad feeling about this," she thought to herself. The last time a big storm came through, she got stuck in Sora's body, Riku turned evil, the island was destroyed by the heartless and everyone just…disappeared. Kairi, still dressed, grabbed the wooden sword and decided to check on their gummi ship. Outside, she was ambushed by a small party of shadow heartless. Instinctively, she whipped out her wooden sword and bashed them square across the head- and nothing happened. Kairi looked at her weapon, then remembered her and Sora's experience in Hollow Bastion, when Riku took the Keyblade and left Sora with a wooden sword to fight the heartless. They soon found out it couldn't even give the heartless a paper cut. Kairi sighed and ran to the gummi ship, managing to avoid combat. It seemed as though everyone had the same idea as her. Selphie, Wakka and Tidus were all clinging to the gummi ship like the lightest breeze would blow it away. Kairi ran up to them and said," What are you guys all doing here? Did you come to check on the ship too?"

"Yes," they all responded. Suddenly, a portal of darkness appeared below them.

"Kairi! Take my hand!" cried Selphie. Kairi reached out for her but couldn't reach. They all sank through the portal, except Kairi, who still had her hand above the darkness. Suddenly, there was a burst of light and Kairi found herself back on the storm-swept Destiny Island, though instead of a wooden sword in her grip, she was stunned to find she held a jade Keyblade with a dark Lakers-purple handle.

"Keyblade…Keyblade," the voice from her dream whispered.

"What…? So, I am a Keyblade Master. Ansem wasn't just spouting off a load of BS," whispered Kairi to herself. She heard a heartless shuffling behind her, so she whirled around, bringing the Keyblade right through it, then whacking it before impaling it. Kairi made her way to the secret spot near the waterfall. A mysterious door had appeared in front of it. Kairi just opened it and barged right in. She ran through the narrow passage before arriving in a small cavern. To her shock, there was the King of the heartless, Ansem himself, standing in front of the weird door with no handle or lock.

"So, we meet again, Princess. Or should I say Keyblade master?" said Ansem menacingly.

"What are you doing here? What do you want?" asked Kairi in a hostile tone.

"To return this world to its original state. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Every world, every heart is born from darkness. And every world, every heart shall return to darkness! You're too late to save your little island paradise! This world has been reduced to little more than a speck! It shall make its return to glorious darkness! While you may not be destroyed with your world, I can at least leave you a parting gift to see to it you are! HahahahahahahahahahahaHA!" cackled Ansem. Kairi was sucked out of the cave by a fierce wind. Back on the surface, she found Ansem to be truthful yet again. Her world was now little more than a speck in a huge void. She also found Ansem's 'parting gift' waiting for her. Darkside was back, and he was looking for some retribution.

Boss Battle: Darkside II 450 HP

Kairi brought her Keyblade into attack position. Darkside pounded the platform, causing it to shake wildly like in Kairi's dream. However, this time, powerful shockwaves emanated from the creature's attack. This caught Kairi off guard. She got hit by the shockwave and almost fell into oblivion. She managed to grab hold of the platform, and climbed back on. Darkside had planted his fist in the dirt again, and summoned shadow heartless to aid him. Kairi saw her opening, and shot across the platform repeatedly with Blade Delusion. She stopped at Darkside's hand and ran up his arm just before he brought his hand back into the air. Again, Kairi just balanced herself on the stupid demon's shoulder and beat the stuffing out of him. Finally, the giant monstrosity found a way to knock Kairi off, but not before she brought his HP bar extremely close to zero.

"Alright Darkside, its over!" yelled Kairi, "Now, DIE!" Kairi swept her Keyblade back and threw it underhand, so it spun rapidly towards Darkside with the bolts moving upward. Kairi's Hell Scissor hit Darkside right in the face. The spinning weapon struck seven times before it materialized back in Kairi's hand. Darkside keeled over and fell to the ground, then disappeared, dead.

Darkside defeated

Attained the power of the cosmos. Learned *Meteor

Unfortunately for Kairi, the one prediction Ansem made that had not yet come true finally came to pass, and the tiny stub of land Kairi stood on disappeared right from under her. Kairi fell into the void for several seconds until a portal opened up to fling her into some unknown world, and the 4th Keyblade master lost consciousness.

Progress Report:

Sora No Change

Goofy No Change

Donald No Change

Kairi LV.25 44HP 6MP ;Kingdom Key *Meteor

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