Part 02
A few weeks later I awoke in a cold sweat. I shuddered as chills ran up and down my spine. Looking around the room I saw shadows bouncing around. My eyes got wide as one of the shadows took a 3d form and ran over to the edge of my bed and then ran at the door and disappeared. I jumped up and ran to the door, flinging it open. I stuck my head out and then ran down the hall into the living room. The shadow stood right in front of where I kept the keys. "No!" I yelled. It twirled around and saw me standing there. My eyes fell upon its little hands around the ring of keys. "Give them back!" I screamed diving at the shadow. It disappeared into the ground and appeared where I was standing before. I growled and dived at it again, but to no avail.
Later, after about ten minutes, I stood there staring at the shadow. "Those keys, I have to get them back, they not only belong to me, but to Koji, Neisha, Ayame, and Suekko....." The shadow studied me, as I did it. Finally I got tired of the cat and mouse game, "I said give the keys back to me now!" The shadow shook his head. "You can't take those keys! They are the only thing I have left that all five of us possess! Those keys are mine and my brother's and sister's keys! Two keys each, one for our rooms, and one for our home!" I exclaimed, "Our home is where our hearts are combined into one!" The keys within the shadow's small hands began to glow brightly. He dropped them and vanished as the keys began to disappear, each pair going at the same time. After a few seconds, the last pair departed.
Right then there was a loud booming from outside. I ran out of the house and looked up to see a huge black orb in the sky. "What in the hell is that......?" I turned to return to the house only to see my shadow transform into a large creature. My eyes widened as I peered at this huge shadow. It brought its fists down and from them came dozens of the small shadows. They all looked at me and ran towards me. Right before the shadows reached me, my pair of keys appeared in front of me. I watched as one changed into a keychain and latched onto the other key, then they began to grow. For a moment I had to hide my eyes because the light it was projecting got too bright. When I uncovered my eyes, there before me floated a large key like sword. I placed my hand over the hilt and wrapped my hand around it as my whole body began to glow lightly.
*The Past*
There was a flash and I was standing before a young boy. "Keyblade....Keyblade......" a mysterious voice said.
"Keyblade? That's what this is called?" I said to myself. There was another flash of light and we were standing before the huge shadow.
"Darkside..." the voice said again as everything went black. I appeared in a room and there was the boy unconscious on a bed with a young girl bent over him.
"Come on, lazy bum. Wake up," she said. He sat up and his eyes fluttered open. "You okay?"
He nodded, "I guess..."
"Those creatures that attacked you are after the Keyblade. But it's your heart they really want, because you wield the Keyblade."
"I'm so glad that you're okay, Kairi."
"Kairi? Who are you talking about? I'm the great ninja Yuffie," she said to him.
"Huh?" the boy questioned.
"I think you might've overdone it, Squall."
"That's Leon," said a guy that was leaning against the wall as he stood up straight.
"The Keyblade..." the boy said, changing the subject.
Yuffie walked over towards Leon, "Yeah, we had to get it away from you to shake off those creatures. It turns out that's how they were tracking you."
"It was the only way to conceal your heart from them. But it won't work for long. Still hard to believe that you of all people are the chosen one," Leon said picking up the Keyblade. I watched as the Keyblade disappeared in his hand and reappeared in the boy's possession. Leon walked close to Sora, "Well, I suppose beggars can't be choosers."
"Why don't you start making sense! What's going on here?" the boy yelled.
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There was another flash and I was in front of a young girl sitting on a bed while a duck and a dog, both of who were dressed in clothes, stood before her. "Okay, you know there are many other worlds out there besides your castle and this town, right?" the girl asked them.
The duck nodded, "Yeah."
The dog covered his mouth and spoke, "But they're supposed to be a secret."
"They've been secret because they've never been connected. Until now. When the Heartless came, everything changed," the girl sighed.
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Right then I was back in front of the other group. "The Heartless?" the boy asked.
"The ones who attacked you, you remember?" Yuffie, who was now sitting next to the boy, asked.
"Those without hearts," Leon stated.
"The darkness in people's hearts--that's what attracts them," Yuffie added.
"And there is darkness within every heart," Leon said grimly.
Yuffie turned to Sora, "Hey, have you heard of someone named Ansem?"
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Finally the walls to the room disappeared and I could see both this group, and that of the girl, duck, and dog. Neither group knew of the others existence, just like they didn't know of mine. "Ansem?" the dog asked.
"He was studying the Heartless. He recorded all of his findings in a very detailed report," the girl explained.
The dog leaned towards her, "Gawrsh, uh, can we see it?"
The girl shook her head, "Its pages are scattered everywhere."
"Scattered?" questioned the duck.
"To many worlds," the girl said.
The dog hit his fist into his hand, "Oh, then maybe the king went to find 'em."
The duck nodded as the girl spoke, "Yes, those were my thoughts exactly."
"We've gotta find him quick!" the dog exclaimed.
The duck turned away from the girl, "Wait! First, we need that "key"!"
The girl heard him, "That's right. The Keyblade."
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"So...this is the key?" the boy asked.
Yuffie nodded, "Exactly!"
Leon walked away from the boy and Yuffie, "The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade. That's why they'll keep coming after you no matter what."
"Well, I didn't ask for this," the boy stated.
Yuffie turned to the boy, "The Keyblade chooses its master. And it chose you."
"So tough luck," Leon said leaning back against the wall.
"How did all this happen? I remember being in my room..." the boy started and then he stood up quickly, "Wait a minute! What happened to my home? My island? Riku! Kairi!"
Leon stood with his eyes closed, "You know what? I really don't know."
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After that the boy walked over to Leon, "The Keyblade can supposedly unlock almost anything. You're bound to run across treasure chests and other locks. Try it out." The boy then walked over to the table where there was a chest and opened it with the Keyblade he possessed.
He then walked over to Yuffie, "Hey, cheer up!" The boy then walked back over to Leon and spoke to him again.
"Sooner or later, the Heartless will find you. You'd best prepare yourself," Leon said.
"Prepare myself?" the boy asked him.
"To fight for your life. Are you ready?" Leon asked.
The boy nodded, "I'm ready!"
Leon stood up and turned to Yuffie, "Yuffie, let's go join Aerith. She should be there by now with the other visitors.
"Leon!" Yuffie yelled pointing across the room as a Heartless Soldier.
"Yuffie, go!" Leon yelled to her.
I watched as she ran towards the door and as the duck walked up to the other side of it. When Yuffie threw open the door she flattened the duck between the door and the wall.
"Yuffie?" the girl, who I guessed to be Aerith, said as Yuffie ran past her. She turned and followed Yuffie while Leon readied his Gunblade and the young boy readied his Keyblade.
Leon swung his Gunblade, "Sora, let's go!"
I viewed from afar as the Heartless Soldier was hit out the window by Leon and as Leon and the young boy, or Sora, jumped through it.
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With another flash I was in another unfamiliar place, but I saw Sora and I saw the duck and dog. Two Heartless Soldiers appeared on either side of the dog and duck. "Are these the Heartless guys?" the dog asked holding up a shield.
The duck stepped in front of him, holding a staff, "Let's go get 'em Goofy!" Just then they were thrown from the balcony they were on by the Heartless. I watched as they both landed on top of Sora, knocking him to the ground.
Then, both at the same time, they noticed the Keyblade in Sora's hand, "The key!"
Right at that moment the ground began to rumble as large stone pillars began to shoot up from the ground and Heartless Soldiers filled the district. I continued to watch as the three of them went all out on the Soldiers. It was then that pieces of armor fell from the sky and landed in front of the group. My jaw dropped as the armor began to piece itself together, but then I noticed the Heartless symbol upon its chest plate. When the head piece fell from the sky and completed the Heartless, the three had no choice but to fight the armor until the end. And luckily, they prevailed.
It was then time for the introductions....after a little explaining. "So, you were looking for me?" Sora asked Goofy and the duck.
They both nodded, "Uh-huh."
"They, too, have been seeking the wielder of the Keyblade," Leon said from behind him as Yuffie nodded.
"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel," Goofy suggested.
Sora looked at the ground, "I wonder if I could find Riku and Kairi..."
"Of course," the duck agreed as Sora's face lit up.
Goofy bent down towards the duck, "Are you sure?"
He shook his head, "Who knows? But we need him to come with us to help us find the king."
Leon stepped forward, "Sora, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends."
Sora, looking back down at the ground, sighed, "Yeah, I guess."
"But you can't come along looking like that. Understand?" the duck said to him, "No frowning. No sad face. Okay?"
"Yeah, ya gotta look funny, like us!" Goofy laughed as the duck shoved his face away.
"This boat runs on happy faces," the duck smiled.
"Happy?" Sora said glumly. Everyone waited quietly for him to speak again. He leaned down and then came back up with the cheesiest grin on his face I'd ever seen, "Cheeeese!"
That did it, the duck and Goofy began laughing hysterically. "That's one funny face," Goofy laughed again.
Sora stood up straight and nodded, "Okay, why not? I'll go with you guys."
The duck stuck his hand out, "Donald Duck." Finally I knew what his damn name was.
Goofy walked closer, "Name's Goofy." And then stuck his hand atop of Donald's.
"I'm Sora," Sora said to them.
"All for one, one for all," Goofy said as Sora placed his hand on Goofy's.
*The Present*
A final flash of light brought me back to my own world and time. I shuttered, remembering what I had come back to, "The Heartless, those without hearts......" I stared up at the creature, "Darkside....." And with that I attacked the Shadows that were lurking around me. When they were defeated I set my eyes on Darkside. I waited until he lowered his fist again and I jumped onto his wrist and ran up his arm to his shoulder. I began to slash at his head while dodging the energy blasts he was sending at me. Soon enough he began to fall so I jumped off his shoulder to the roof of my house. Right before he landed on the ground, the huge black orb turned into a giant vacuum and sucked him up into it. I held on to my chimney as long as possible but was finally tugged free. The last thing I remember was everything going black.
