The Crystalline Key

Summary: A girl from our world (in other words, Earth) has wanted to get the Kingdom Hearts game since it came out. which hasn't been very long. only a week. When her friends' mom gives her a special copy, she gets something better than the game. What might that be? An adventure she'll never forget and love. Sora/OC (OC = Original Character for you dense peeps)

Disclaimer: "I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Though, I wish I did." Sighs. "Sadly, my mind wasn't creative enough to think of it first." Glares at the people who own it.

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I ran into the Blockbuster building. My mom and dad had given me money before I had gone to school, and told me this morning that on my way home, I could get Kingdom Hearts. I quickly ran up to the counter that Ms. Feysa what working at. She stopped her quick typing to look down at me and smile.

"Well hello, Raine. What brings you here? Let me guess, you're gonna get Kingdom Hearts?" she asked though she knew the answer.

I nodded avidly. "Musta heard me talkin' about it with your daughters, huh?" Ms. Feysa chuckled and nodded.

"Who couldn't? You didn't talk about it, you screamed and shouted about it." We laughed and Ms Feysa continued, "But seriously, you wanna buy it? Do you want a discount since you're my daughters' friend?" I beamed.

"YES! YES YES YES YES YES!!!!" I screamed. Ms. Feysa laughed and led me into some kinda storage room. She opened a box and pulled out the game. I hugged it to my chest and then looked at it. 'Weird cover. I've never seen it on the Websites,' I thought as I looked at the cover picture. It had the blue heart with "Kingdom Hearts" written across it. The main character, Sora, as I remembered from the many sites I'd been to, had his face faded inside the heart. A picture of the Keyblade laid horizontally was below it. The background was silver and then faded into a very deep and metallic-looking blue. "Is this some kinda special copy?" I asked.

She shrugged. "Beats me. Lemme see if there's another kind like it." Ms. Feysa rummaged around in the box, looking for another game like the one I held in my hands. She turned to me and shook her head. "You must be lucky. Maybe the people who made the game put somethin' special in it." I grinned and we headed back to the counter. I paid her the amount she stated and ran out the door, racing towards home. I couldn't wait to play the game.

I waited for a red convertible to pass by and then ran across the street and up to my front door. I fumbled with the key and its lock and finally the door to my house unlocked. I flung it open, dashed inside, slammed the door, and hurried into my room. I opened up the box and looked at the disc and something else. A heart-shaped sapphire, much like the Kingdom Hearts heart, that was the same metallic-blue hue as the background color of the case on a silver chain was gathered in a small, transparent bag. I picked up the bag and laid the case for the game on the bed. It was the most beautiful necklace I'd ever laid my eyes on. I carefully put it around my neck, acting as thought it were the antique on my mom's dresser, the one she told me never to break or she'd kill me. It glowed a baby blue color for a moment and I felt a soft and warm feeling in me. I stood there for a while, looking in the mirror across the room, admiring how it looked.

I soon snapped out of my hypnotic trance and put the disc into the PS2. When I was bent over, the sapphire barely brushed against the top of the PS2. A baby blue light emitted from the sapphire and a darker hue of blue sprang up from my PS2. "What the-" I started as the two lights spiraled around me. "Aaack!!!" I screamed as I felt my body melt into a puddle inside the lights and sink into the PS2. Soon the lights faded and all went black.

*On*Destiny*Island*

~Sora's POV (POV = Point Of View for all you slow peoplz)~

Kairi, Riku, and I were sitting near the paopu tree after a hard day of working on the raft, Highwind. I pouted slightly as the race between Riku and me played in my mind. "I can't believe I lost," I mumbled. Kairi laughed.

"Sora, you're not still pouty about not getting to name the raft Excalibur, are you?"

I grinned and replied, "Maybe." We laughed but Riku was silent, looking like he'd zoned out. I waved a hand in front of his face. "Helloooooooo? Whatcha lookin' at?" Riku just looked at me and stood up. He walked off without answering. Kairi and I watched him walk onto the beach and kneel next to something on the shore.

"Hey guys, comere!" he shouted. Kairi and I looked at each other and quickly ran down to him. On the beach, laid a girl about our age. Her curly golden-brown hair was sprawled on the sand and shone an orange-gold color in the setting sun's light. Seaweed draped over her tanned legs and shoulders as well as her navy blue long-sleeved T-shirt and khaki shorts. One black sandal was worn loosely on her foot and another was a few feet away. A very expensive-looking necklace hung around her neck. I stared at her, wishing her eyes would open so I could see the color of this beauty's eyes. Almost as if she'd heard my desire, the girl's eyelashes fluttered open and she moaned. Her eyes were the color of the sea during a raging storm, a grayish blue color. She sat up and looked at us.

"Wh-where am I?" She tried to stand up but sat down after yelping in pain. She looked at the source of pain and softly gasped. Her right foot was covered in blood and her ankle had a large gash in it.

Kairi answered, "You're on Destiny Islands. Who are you?" Riku and I helped her up and she leaned on me for support.

"My name is Raine. Who are you?" she asked.

"I'm Kairi. The one with gravity defying hair is Sora," she paused to look at my pouty face and giggle. Then continued, "And the one with really cool silver hair is Riku."

"How come Riku gets a compliment to describe him and I don't?" I asked in a whiny tone. Kairi giggled.

"I'm just teasing, Sora."

Raine giggled a little and I grinned. "How'd you get here?" Riku asked.

Raine thought for a moment and answered, "I really don't know. I got this game called Kingdom Hearts, which I know almost everything abou-" she stopped and backed away from us. She pointed a finger at me and stuttered, "Y-y-you're, h-him." She fell to the ground.

"What does she mean? Who am I that's so special?" I asked to no one in particular.

"Maybe we can ask when she's awake." Riku said. "So, who's house is she gonna stay at?"

"She can't stay at mine, my parents really don't want people to sleep over, don't ask me why, I dunno." Kairi said.

"I don't think my parents would like it much if I walked in with a fainted girl in my arms asking, 'Hey mom, dad? Can this girl stay with us for a while?'. They'd probably get the wrong idea."

"Gee, Riku. That certainly puts a pretty picture in my head." Kairi said sarcastically.

"Yeah, it certainly does. Enter sarcasm." Raine muttered. She sat up. "So, I guess I'm staying at Sora's? Or that shack over there?" She pointed her thumb over her shoulder toward the shack that was near the Secret Place. I nodded.

"Yup. You're stayin' at my house. What did you mean? Y'know, about whatcha said before you fainted." I asked.

Her eyes widened. "I forgot about that for a minute there. I don't think you'd believe me, besides, I don't wanna spoil the plot."

"What plot?" Kairi asked. She looked at Kairi and shook her head.

"I feel sorry for you." She said. Then she looked at Riku and shuddered. "And you."

"Why?" the two asked simultaneously.

"Oh nothing, I don't wanna warn you, cuz I'd spoil the game." She slapped herself on the head. "Great, I just warned you when I said I wouldn't. I feel stupid." She sighed and looked up to the star-filled sky. "It's getting late, I think we should go home. Or, in my case, to my host's home." I helped her up and she limped with me to my house.

"Hey mom! Look what washed up on the shore!"

"How long is she staying?" I looked to Raine.

"Only a while, I don't wanna be a burden."

"I was just asking. You can stay as long as you like, dear."

"Thank you, erm, Ms. Sora's mom!" I chuckled a bit and she giggled as I led her into the guest bedroom. She sat on the bed and curled up on it, not bothering to put the blanket over her before she fell asleep. I smiled and stood there for a while, watching her. Then I left for my own room, plopped down on my bed, and soon drifted to sleep.

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I heard a crash and my eyes shot open. The crash wasn't really loud, so I figured it came from a different house. I was still a bit worried though. I knew what was supposed to happen in the game, I just didn't think it'd happen right when I got on this island. I got up and walked across the hall into Sora's room. I looked at his peacefully sleeping figure. 'Aw. He's so cute. I hate waking him up.' I sat next to him and gently shook him. "You have to get up, we have to leave." Sora moaned and sat up, rubbing his eyes.

"Why? It's still dark out." He mumbles groggily.

"It may be dark, but it's really the usual time you'd wake up. See the storm clouds outside your window? That's why. Now let's go." I took him by the hand, not noticing the color in his cheeks when I touched his hand, and ran out of the house. It was just as I had feared. Little shadows scurried across the ground. Every once in a while they'd rise up and watch us with horrible glowing eyes. Sora picked up a stick to attack them, but I led him to the plateau, knowing we couldn't harm them. When we got there, a black sphere was hovering in the sky.

"What's that?" Sora asked.

"Dunno."

"Wow, you're really helpful."

"This is no time to joke around, we have to find the others!"

More shadows appeared, but we dodged their attacks and made our way to where Riku was standing.

"Where's Kairi?" Sora asked. "We thought she was with you!" he added.

"The door has opened." Riku said in a very serious tone.

"Huh?" Sora said.

"The door has opened! Now we can go to the outside world!"

"What are you talkin' about?" Sora asked.

"He means the door, in the Secret Place." I said, remembering what I'd read on GameFAQs.

Sora looked at me in confusion. "How do you know about the secret place? I don't care about other worlds right now, we gotta find Kairi and get outta this storm!"

"Kairi's coming with us! So is Raine! Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!"

"Riku!"

The black shadowy circles engulfed us. Riku held his hands out to us, so we could hold on. I reached for his hand, but felt the weight of something in my hands. I watched in awe as a big key appeared in my hands. It was made of a type of crystal that was beautiful yet wouldn't break when hit against something hard with a sapphire-blue hilt. The symbol of Kingdom Hearts was encrusted in sapphires on the bottom of the hilt. Suddenly, the darkness faded and a light appeared. A giant key, which was similar to mine except the hilt was gold and it was made of metal, materialized in Sora's hands.

We ran to the Secret Place and ducked into it. Inside, the door was glowing and Kairi was standing there. Her face was ghostly pale and she looked slightly transparent. "Sora." She breathed. The door flew open and a cold, black wind came out. Kairi was blown toward Sora and he opened his arms to catch her, but Kairi disappeared through Sora, almost like a ghost or spirit would. I gulped, knowing what was coming since I read GameFAQs so much. We were blown away and ended up on the plateau again. The black sphere was now a vortex of darkness.

"What's that?" Sora said, looking at something dark coming from the vortex. Whatever it was, it was big. When the vortex disappeared, the clouds darkened, making everything impossible to see. My necklace glowed just enough to see a hand coming down towards us. Sora and I jumped in opposite directions and attacked the hand after it had come down. Another vortex of darkness appeared around the hand, and more shadows came crawling out of it.

"I'll take care of the shadows, you go for the big guy." Sora nodded and continued attacking the hand while I killed the shadows. The big thing didn't attack much. It just summoned shadows and sometimes sent energy blasts hurtling toward Sora and me. The hand had come down five times and then it came down for a sixth. Sora hit it repeatedly, and I went for the shadows as I had been doing. Sora slashes at the hand again and a light flashed, signaling the end of the fight. We looked up, as the vortex grew bigger.

"Hold onto me!" I yelled. Sora did so, wrapping his arms around my waist after I wrapped my arms around his shoulders. "Hold on tight, I don't want to get separated." The vortex sucked up everything and we shut our eyes. Everything was dark, and I felt a sharp pain in my side. My grip loosened and I was torn away from Sora. Soon, I passed out.

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What will happen now that Raine let go? Will she be in another world? OK people, I want YOU to vote in reviews. Here are your options:

Raine can end up in Traverse town and I can put in a lot of Sora/Raine 'get- to-know-each-other' and fluff. (Which is kinda a little too easy for me to do)

Raine can end up on a different world [please, only choose from the first 5 worlds which are: Traverse Town, Wonderland, Olympus (sp?), Jungle, and Agrabah.] and they can miss each other a lot and think about their feelings. And after a long time Sora will find her. [Which is a stupid choice since they barely know each other and would probably have very little feelings]

Raine can end up in Traverse Town, find Sora, they get to know each other, she gets lost and sent to another world, and he looks for her. THEN they miss each other a lot and thin about their feelings. [This would make a lot more sense.]

Anyways, Sora/Kairi [or if you're a sick-minded person, Sora/Riku] fans
DO NOT FLAME ME! Yeah, I know it was wrong of me to put a new charrie
that Sora likes just because I hate Kairi, but, I dun really care. And if
you don't like it, don't read it. Solves that problem. As for you
Sora/Riku fans, SORA IS STRAIGHT! SO IS RIKU! * Gags * Well, it's 3 AM.
Ja ne!

~Raine Minamino