Disclaimer - None of these characters belong to me, they belong to,
well, thats not important, the only important thing is that they are
not mine, don't sue me, you'd waste your time and get nothing for it.

*Note - I know that Link is not a Disney character, but I think he is
really cool and I thought it would be cool and original to pair Kingdom
Hearts and Zelda. The story takes place a couple years after Kingdom
Hearts; Sora and Kairi are 18 and Riku and Link are 19.

This is my first fan fic., hope you enjoy, read and review please!

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Chapter 2: The Mysterious Warrior

Sora stood up and gazed at his surroundings. Ahead of him, towards the
horizon, was an immense castle that towered into the sky. Looking to his
right-

"Kairi!" Sora exclaimed. In his excitement of landing in what he assumed
was a new world, he had forgotten about her. "I need to find Kairi,"
Sora said to himself as he frantically paced about.

As Sora turned to ask Link where precisely he was, he saw a giant
heartless warrior materialized from the ground behind Link.

"Look out!" Sora shouted as he drew his keyblade and charged at the
heartless warrior. Link dove and rolled to his left just in time for the
warrior's sword to slice the air where his neck was. Link rolled, made a
sharp u-turn, and drew his sword just in time to block the heartless
warrior's sword as it came crashing down from above. As Link parried the
blow with the Master Sword Sora came at the warrior from the left,
attacking the warrior at his right side.

As Sora came charging at the warrior, the warrior kicked Link, sending
him flying, and whirled on Sora. Sora lifted his keyblade just in time
to block the blow, but he was still sent sprawling into the grass some
twenty feet away. Both Link and Sora got to their feet quickly and stood
at ready. The warrior looked at the two and laughed.

"Do you really think you can defeat me? You're pathetic! Do you know who
I am?" the warrior inquired.

"I don't care who you are," said Sora. "Tell me where Kairi is?"

"Oh yes, her."

"Where is she!?"

"You need not concern yourself with her whereabouts, for she is safe
with me," the warrior said with a dark laugh.

With that, Sora cried out in rage and charged at the warrior.

"Sora, don't!" yelled Link. "He's too strong."

The warrior held his hand, palm lifted to the sky, out towards Sora,
muttered some words of magic, and Sora was suddenly lifted in the air
and was suspended there. The warrior turned towards Link, and with a
quick flick of his hand Link dropped the Master Sword, spun upside-
down, and was hanging in the air right next to Sora.

"What chance do you two think you have against the greatest warrior to
ever exist."

"Who are you?" Sora asked as he tried to recognize the warrior. He was
completely black, Sora couldn't tell who he was, only that he had the
most horribly brilliant yellow eyes.

"Now you ask, ha, its too late for you now."

Sora, hoping that this mysterious warrior would reveal some information,
provoked him. "You're nobody. You're just Maleficent's pawn."

But the warrior was not thrown into a rage; instead he just stated,
"What are you playing at boy? Unlike four years ago Keyblade Master,
Maleficent has nothing to do with the opening of the barriers to the
other worlds."

"You can't win! King Mickey will stop you!" Sora yelled at him with
more conviction than he was really feeling at the moment.

"King Mickey?" the warrior said with a laugh. "Your weakness and your
faith in the weak disgust me. We will meet again. Know this, I could
destroy you with the snap of my fingers, but I choose to release you
for a more opportune time."

As the warrior said that he disappeared into the ground from whence
he came and Link and Sora fell to the ground with just enough time to
get their weapons at ready. As they fell, quite a few heartless
popped up from the ground.

Sora rushed at the heartless from one angle as Link charged from the
other. Together, the two destroyed the heartless in no time.

"Listen do you know who that warrior was? And what were those
creatures?" asked Link.

"I'm not sure who the warrior was, but those creatures are called
heartless," answered Sora.

"They have just started to appear today. I saw them in the Kokiri
forest and the Lost Woods and was going to warn our princess, Princess
Zelda."

"I don't know where those places are, but you're right to warn your
leaders. You need to inform them that your world is in danger."

"Sora, come with me, please, to warn the princess," Link asked Sora.

"I can't Link, I've come to this world by mistake. I've got to find
the keyhole so I can seal this world and then hopefully find Kairi.
Then I have to figure out how to leave this world."

"Please, Sora, like you said, our world may be in danger, and you seem
to know something about these creatures," Link begged.

Sora turned and looked toward the castle. He had to find Kairi, that
was of the upmost importance, but he also had to seal up the worlds and
figure out what was going on. He had to warn these people about the
danger they were in. If Maleficent wasn't behind this, then who was?
The warrior? And why had the warrior scoffed at the mention of King
Mickey?

"All right, I'll go with you," Sora said, and with that, the two headed
off towards the castle.