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. I do own Raine. There. Short, sweet, and to the point."
Quick Author's Note: In one chapter (can't remember which and I'm too lazy to check) I said Raine couldn't remember anything about the game. Well, I wanna change that. She can't remember almost everything. She can remember:
Her name.
Music lyrics and some movies.
The fact that she lives in another dimension.
And stuff she learned in school.
I just wanted to tell you so you won't get confused when she says, "Aladdin. Sounds like a Disney movie."
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"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Maleficent roared. The black and purple smoke inside her crystal ball cleared and played Raine's escape. Maleficent sighed as the crystal ball fogged up. "No matter, she will be brought here. I shall send Heartless to that planet to make sure of it."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Barking awakened me. I sat up and looked around. "What am I doing here?" I whispered. My brain booted up and then I remembered. "I think I'll go find Raine. I remember she said something about a rooftop." I stood up and walked out the door. Heartless greeted me outside. I sighed. "Do I hafta deal with you right now?" The Heartless lunged at me and I slashed at it. It disappeared in a puff of darkness. "Now to find Raine."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Still Sora's POV. 3 hours later.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I ran through the doors of the Second District. This would be my fourth time entering the Second District. I saw Goofy and Donald walking out of the hotel and I ran up to them. "Have you guys seen Raine?" I asked quickly.
Goofy shook his head. "Nope. Haven't seen 'er since yesterday." I looked at Donald.
"Ditto." He said. I sank to the ground and massaged my temples. "She missin' or somethin'?" I nodded.
"I've searched every District at least four times. I have no idea where she's gone."
Donald shrugs. "Ah well, she would've just held us back anyway. We have to get going."
I stood up and glared at him. "No! We can't leave just yet! We hafta find Raine!" Donald shook his head and glared back.
"We also hafta find the King! Which is more important? Raine, or the King?" I crossed my arms.
"Raine, for me, at least." I said flatly. Donald grabbed my arm and dragged me away. I squirmed and twisted, but no avail.
"Goofy, help me." Goofy sighed and took my other arm. The two led me to a glowing green circle. We stepped on it and were transported to a big room with many gizmos and gadgets everywhere. (A/N: I've seen a drawing from the original creators of Kingdom Hearts of the Gummi Ship.. It looks weird.)
I sighed and sat down. 'Maybe we'll find her on another world.' I thought to myself as we took off into space.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Raine's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I rolled over on my back when sunlight poured onto my eyelids. The sun made the inside of my eyelids an annoying red and I could not escape the light, so I sat up and opened my eyes. I was lying on a blanket in an apartment type thing. The ripped curtains were open and hot sunshine shone in. The room had a few knick-knacks here and there. I stood up and nearly screamed when something jumped on my head. I whacked it off with my pillow and looked at what fell off. It was a small monkey wearing a vest and a little hat. "Aw. How cute. I'm sorry." I crawled over to it and cradled it in my arms.
"I see you've met Abu." I turned around and saw a boy at what I guessed was a door. He wore the same color vest as the monkey and had a hat atop his head that was similar to the monkey, Abu's, hat. His pants were white and patched like he'd been in many difficult situations. I nodded as the monkey scurried out of my arms and onto a pillow. "So, what's your name? I'm Aladdin." I blinked.
'Aladdin. Sounds like a Disney movie.' I thought. "I'm Raine. Nice to meet you, and, where am I?" I asked.
"Agrabah." He answered. I walked over to the window and looked down at the streets below. People bustled in the crowded streets. Booths were set up along the sides of the streets. Some sold food, others sold jewelry, clothes, or animals like camels. I looked out into the distance and saw a gigantic palace. The sun reflected a glare off of the gold. I stared at it in awe; I'd never seen anything so majestic in my life, which hasn't been very long since I'm only fourteen. "Isn't it great?" he asked as he walked up and sat on the windowsill next to me.
"Yes, it's absolutely breath-taking." My stomach growled and I sighed.
"You're hungry?" I nodded. "OK, let's go get breakfast." I followed him to the pole. He slid down the pole and looked up at me. "C'mon!"
"I have a bad past with these things." I said as I remembered the time a kid pushed me onto it and my head hit the pole. I had gone unconscious and fallen to the hard ground.
"I'll catch you if you fall." I gulped and held onto the pole. I slid down about two inches before I was startled when Abu jumped on my shoulder. I let go and started to fall. Like he'd said he would, Aladdin caught me and set me down. I was breathing rapidly and picked up Abu off my shoulders. I put him in front of me so he could see how scared I'd been.
"Please don't do that again, Abu." The little monkey nodded and jumped onto my shoulder. I looked up at Aladdin and smiled. "Thanks. Now what?" He grabbed my wrist and led me out into the market. I allowed him to pull me along while I looked around. Everything was so industrial and loud, kinda like the cafeteria at school. I felt myself being lifted and I looked at Aladdin. He was pulling me onto the roof (A/N: Or should I call it a sheet? I mean, the roofs of those booths are only pieces of cloth.) of a food booth.
Aladdin lowered Abu onto the counter of the booth. "Ok, when Abu distracts the shopkeeper, hang over the side and grab some food." He whispered.
"Why are we stealing this?" I asked.
"Oh, I forgot, I'm a 'street rat'. My mother died when I was young and my father disappeared."
"Oh. I'm sorry." I heard shouting and figured it was the shopkeeper. I hung over the side of the sheet and looked at the shopkeeper. His back was turned to me and he was yelling at Abu. I unzipped my backpack and stuffed food into it. I zipped it back up when it was bulging as if it was going to explode and grabbed two fruits and a loaf of bread in my hands. Unfortunately, when Aladdin, Abu, and I were making our escape, a group of men who looked like palace guards came walking down the street. They spotted Aladdin and drew their swords.
"Guards, seize them!" The leader commanded as he pointed his sword in our direction.
As we ran, Aladdin said, "You know where my home is, right?" I nodded and he continued, "On three, we split up, try to lose them, and quickly get into my house, got it?" I nodded again. "One, two, three!" Aladdin went to the left so I turned to the right. The guards stopped for a while to divide themselves into two groups and have one group run after me, the other after Aladdin.
"Come back here, girl!" They yelled while waving their swords at me. I could feel my legs start to grow tired, so I thought encouraging thoughts to myself.
'I have to make it, I have to stay alive. I have to! I'll never see Sora again if I don't.' An image of Sora appeared in my mind, telling me I could do it. I began to run faster than I'd ever run before. I jumped onto some crates and jumped over a row of barrels, then continued my escape to Aladdin's home. I looked back as I turned a corner to see the guards stop and begin slashing at the obstacles that blocked their path. I laughed a bit and jumped from a ledge into another street. I quickly ran to the opening with the pole that led up to Aladdin's home. I put the loaf of bread and a fruit under the straps of my backpack and held the other fruit in my teeth. After making sure the loaf and fruit wouldn't slip, I began the climb to the top.
Soon, I was at the top of the pole. I stuck my legs out behind me, looking for the floor. When my foot found it, I stepped down and pushed off the pole. I fell backwards on the floor of Aladdin's 'apartment'. I sighed and set the food I'd stolen on a clean blanket. Then I realized I didn't have my keyblade with me. I stood up and frantically looked around. Just when I thought I was in deep trouble, I grasped my necklace and it a beam shot out from it. My keyblade materialized in front of me. I held out my hands as it dropped and caught it. I exhaled a breath I'd been holding, feeling relieved that I'd found this special item of mine.
Seconds later, Aladdin appeared in the entryway and jumped into the house. "Sorry if I've kept you waiting. Those guards are sometimes smarter than they look." We divided the food between the three of us and began eating. After the meal, we had a few loaves of bread and fruits left over, since I'd stuffed so many in my backpack. I wrapped them in the blanket and laid back.
"I think I'll take a nap." I said as I yawned.
"Why?"
"You're not tired cuz you do this on a daily basis. This is the first time I've ever had to steal my breakfast and run from guards just cuz I'm trying not to die of starvation." I responded as I pulled out my CD player and turned it on. Even though the volume was turned to 'MAX', I still fell asleep listening to 'Simple and Clean'.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We were boarding the Gummi Ship again. Donald, Goofy, and I had just locked the keyhole in Wonderland. Raine wasn't there, no matter how many times I prayed she would be. I hung my head as we took off into space. I used a joystick to aim at the approaching ships, asteroids, and meteors and pushed the red button on the top to shoot. The first time this was a bit of a thrill and took my mind off of Raine and the others. But now, I just thought of how many worlds we'd have to explore until we finally found Raine, Riku, or Kairi. I watched as we almost passed the Jungle. (A/N: Yeah, I know. I'm skipping Olympus Coliseum, but that's cuz you can't go across to it, in the game you have to go in a circle.) Goofy spoke up when he saw the planet I'd been staring at.
"Hey, Donald, maybe King Mickey's down there." Donald looked down at the planet and shook his head.
"In a backwater place like that? No way! Let's move on." I looked up after I realized something.
"Hold on, Riku, Raine, or Kairi might be down there. Let's just check it out!" Donald shook his head again.
"Forget it! We're on an important mission!" I frowned.
"Just land!" Donald glared at me.
"No!"
"Come on!"
"Aw, phooey!"
"We're landing!" I let go of my joystick and took walked over to Donald. I looked at the controls and found something that said, 'disembark'. I pushed it.
"Don't touch that! Nooo!"
The Gummi Ship vibrated and stopped. We started falling toward the planet. On impact we got separated and everything went black. Soon, I woke up in a brittle tree house. "Oww. My head. Donald? Goofy?" Suddenly, a leopard lunged at me. I fought the leopard for while and was knocked to the ground when I made the mistake of letting my guard down. Just as the leopard was going to finish me, a man in a loincloth jumped in front of me and defended us with his spear. The leopard jumped out of the window. The man turned to me.
"Sabor, danger." I blinked.
"Um, thank you."
"Thank you." I blinked again in confusion.
"Huh? Uh, what is this place?"
"This place, this place." I gave him a funny look.
"O- kay. Where did the others go? Look, I got separated from my friends. Have you seen them?" I asked.
"Hmm?" I sighed.
"Friends." I repeated.
"Friends!" I nodded and smiled.
"Right, my friends! There's two of 'em. The loud one is Dona-" I stopped and thought for a minute.
"Huh?"
"You know what? Never mind. I'm looking for my friends, Raine, Riku and Kairi."
"Look for Raine, friends?" I nodded and looked behind him as an image of Raine appeared. I rubbed my eyes and blinked. She smiled at me and faded away.
After snapping out of my trance, I answered, "Uh, right."
"Riku, friends?"
"Right!"
"Kairi, friends?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Friends here."
"Really!?" He made some weird grunting noises and gestures.
"Friends here."
"Not sure I understand, but show me! Take me to Raine and Riku and Kairi!"
"Tarzan. Tarzan go." I was confused. What did he mean? I figured I might as well play along.
"And I'm, Sora. Tarzan go, Sora go go!"
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"Gawrsh, where are we? I sure hope Sora's okay." Donald stuck out his tongue.
"Aw, who needs him? We can find the king without him." A gorilla ran by. "Huh?" Donald and the gorilla freaked out when they saw each other. As the gorilla ran by, it dropped a Gummi piece on the ground.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tarzan led me to a campsite. I looked around as we made our way to a tent and entered it. There was a woman inside and as soon as Tarzan saw her, he ran up to her. "Jane!" he said. The woman turned to him.
"Tarzan! Oh, and who is this?" she asked as she pointed to me.
"Uh, hi there. I'm-" I began.
Jane interrupted, "Oh, you speak English! So, then, obviously, you're not related to Tarzan. Are you here to study the gorillas?" Another man entered the tent with Donald and Goofy behind him.
"Highly doubtful." The man said. Goofy looked around and spotted me.
"Sora!"
"Goofy! Donald!"
The man scoffed, "A circus of clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas."
Jane said, "Mr. Clayton, we're studying them, not hunting them. This is research." Clayton frowned and left. Jane shrugged.
"Well, the more the merrier. Do make yourselves at home."
"Well, anyway," I began.
"I'm staying." Donald and I said simultaneously. Goofy held out his hand. A gummi block rested in it.
"Sora, look what we found. Look at this" Goofy said. I looked at it.
"What's that?"
Goofy answered, "A gummi block. It's the same stuff used to build our ship."
"So that means," I said and trailed off as I thought about it.
"The king could be here. So, we've gotta work together to look for him. For now." Donald finished. I frowned.
"Fine. I'll let you tag along. For now." I said as we went back into the tent to talk to Jane.
"Apparently, Tarzan was raised in the jungle by the gorillas. Communicating with him still isn't easy, but he's learning."
"So he was speaking in 'gorilla' back there. He said Raine and Riku and Kairi are here. And one word I couldn't understand." I said while remembering what happened in the tree house.
"Why don't we try this? We'll show Tarzan some slides and see if any of them match that word. Oh, what happened to the slides?" Jane showed the only slides that were left. The first showed a castle. I stared at it. "What's wrong, Sora?"
"What? Um, Nothing." I replied. 'This place, it just looks so familiar. But how? I've never been off my island.' I thought. Jane showed us the other slides and turned to Tarzan.
"Well, Tarzan?" she asked.
"Where are my friends, Raine, Riku and Kairi?" I asked. Tarzan shook his head as if he were saying, "I don't know." I sighed. "Hey, I thought-" Clayton walked into the tent.
"That leaves just one place. Young man, we've been in this jungle for some time now. But we have yet to encounter these friends of yours. I'd wager they're with the gorillas. But Tarzan refuses to take us to them."
"Really, Mr. Clayton. Tarzan wouldn't hide-"
"Then take us there! Take us to the gorillas. Go-ril-las." Clayton spoke as if he were talking to a 3-year-old. Tarzan looked at me and nodded his head. Jane looked at Tarzan.
"Tarzan, are you sure?"
"Tarzan go see Kerchak." Tarzan said.
"Kerchak?"
"He must be the leader. Perfect. I'll go along as an escort. After all, the jungle is a dangerous place." Clayton said a little too nicely. I watched Clayton for a moment before we headed out of the tent. Along the way we had to battle that leopard, Sabor, again. We climbed and swung on vines and came to a place where many gorillas sat. Tarzan spoke in gorilla to a big gorilla, obviously Kerchak. Kerchak does not do anything.
Goofy leans down towards Donald and whispers, "Did you get that?"
Donald shook his head and responded, "No."
"Kerchak." Tarzan mumbles. Kerchak looks toward the sky. "Kerchak." he said again, louder this time. Kerchak and the other gorillas walked away and Tarzan looked down.
"He seemed sorta distracted by something." Goofy whispered.
Donald whispered back, "Was he looking toward the tree house?" We proceeded to the Tree House. Once we were inside, we saw a gorilla playing with a globe. I smiled as I thought of Raine and how she'd think the gorilla was just the cutest thing. My happy thoughts were interrupted when Clayton appeared, aiming his rifle at the unsuspecting gorilla. Donald scared him by screaming and the shot narrowly missed the gorilla. "What's the big idea!?" Donald yelled.
"Wait, Kerchak. Please!" Tarzan said as the gorillas left.
"You don't understand. I was only trying to, Ah. A snake slithered by, you see. I saved that poor gorilla's life." Clayton said in his 'dripping-with-innocence-and-kindness' tone that I often used to get my mom to make me my favorite dinner or to get out of trouble. In other words, I didn't believe him. We walked to the Cliff. There, we fought Sabor for a third time, in which he ran away for a third time. We walked back to camp and entered the tent where we heard shouting.
"Mr. Clayton, how could you do such a thing?!" Jane yelled.
"Now, Miss Porter, as I told you, I was not aiming at the gorilla." Clayton said.
Jane frowned and ordered, "You are not to go near the gorillas again!"
"All because of one mishap? Come, now." We all upset with Clayton's behavior and did not believe his lies. Clayton frowns and walks out of the tent. "What am I doing with these imbeciles? Blasted gorillas! I'll hunt down every last one of them! I'll track them down somehow. I'll stake my life on it." He muttered. Before Clayton could light his pipe, he heard a noise. In the Tent, we heard a gunshot. We went outside and watched as Heartless appeared.
"Heartless!" I yelled as we began to fight the Heartless. We fought with the Heartless who were trying to attack a gorilla. We managed to defeat the many Heartless that had appeared.
After rescuing four more gorillas from the Heartless, we went back to the tent to rest and talk to Jane.
"I do hope Mr. Clayton is safe." She said.
I couldn't help but think, 'Why? He deserves to be injured or taken away or get lost. He's a jerk.' We outside and heard a gunshot from the Bamboo Thicket. Once there, I found Clayton's pipe. Once again, Sabor came to attack. We fought the leopard again and after defeating it, received the White Fang. Later, we went back to the Tent. I looked around and, seeing Jane was missing, asked, "Hey, where's Jane?" We looked at Tarzan, who had a worried look on his face.
Goofy asked, "What's wrong, Tarzan?"
"Something coming. Jane, danger. Jane near, near tree house." He muttered.
"Sounds like trouble. Let's go." We made through the jungle. In the jungle under the tree house, we found Jane and a gorilla.
"Tarzan! Clayton came to the tent, and, that's the last thing I remember." Jane said.
"Gorillas trapped. Terk ran." Tarzan murmured.
"We must help the gorillas!" Jane cried.
We ran to the cliff. The Heartless and Clayton surrounded the gorillas. Before Clayton could open fire, I yelled, "NO!" He looked up at me and glared as the gorillas ran away. "Clayton?" I asked.
"Not Clayton!" Tarzan warned. He said something in gorilla and continued, "Not Clayton!" We fought Clayton and the Heartless. After the Heartless were defeated, Clayton hovers in the air.
"What? How's he floating?" Goofy asked. An invisible force pushed us all against the cliff and then released us. That we couldn't see the beast, we fought Clayton and the invisible thing. Soon the Heartless was visible, which made it easier for us to defeat. The chameleon-like Heartless fell to the ground after a few more hits and Clayton slid off. We battle Clayton, who was not much easier since he kept using Potions whenever he could. After we defeated Clayton, the Heartless lands on Clayton and both are beaten as the beast's heart came out. Sora learns Cure. Then the gorillas appeared and Kerchak threw Donald, Goofy, and I up to a new area. Tarzan jumped up to that area himself.
Tarzan said, "Tarzan, home." We entered the waterfall cavern and trekked toward a cave that gave off a blue glow. Tarzan spoke in gorilla again.
"This is your home? But that means," My voice trailed off as I thought.
"Huh?" Goofy asked.
"The waterfalls. They're echoing all the way here." Jane stated.
Tarzan said the same gorilla word and said, "Friends there. See friends."
"Oh, now I've got it. * Gorilla sound * means heart. Friends in our hearts." Jane said. Tarzan nodded.
"Heart." Tarzan said as I sighed.
"Oh, so that's what it meant." I said glumly.
"Friends, same heart. Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends." I turned to Donald.
"Sorry about what I said." I said.
"I'm sorry too." Goofy walked over and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Yeah, All for one, huh?" I nodded and looked at the blue glow as a keyhole suddenly appeared. I used my Keyblade to emit a beam into the keyhole to seal Deep Jungle from the Heartless. An item dropped afterwards.
"A gummi!" Donald exclaimed.
"But it's sure not the king's." Goofy said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A few hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once again, we were in the Gummi Ship. We had taken the gummi piece to Cid and he told us a bit about it. He also put it on our ship. I sighed and watched Goofy shoot the asteroids and enemy ships. 'Don't worry, Raine. I'll find you. Riku and Kairi, too.'
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Well, this was a long chapter. Sorry. Yesterday I went to the movies and did some other stuff. I hope you like this chapter!
~Raine Minamino
Review Responses:
FlikFreak - You sound like my teacher! LOL. But seriously, I'll try. See, my brain is all tired and is lazy since I'm on summer vacation. I like your KH ficcies! They're cool!
Meheria - Well, let's hope that in the future our really good games won't get erased. I'm glad you like my story! And yes, I respond to reviews. It just seems like the right thing to do!
Water Dragon - OK, dun read this if you don't wanna see a spoiler. You see, Sora's gonna get to Agrabah and hear, "STOP THIEF!" and he's gonna run after the thief. He doesn't know it's Raine and when he follows her up to Aladdin's home they get all mushy and stuff. Oh, and he's also gonna ask her, "Why are you stealing things?" and give her a lecture. Kinda stupid, I know. But hey, better than nothing! I mean, most stories just put, "After exploring the city of Agrabah, Sora finds Raine wandering the streets and the two are reunited." Or something like that. At least my way is more interesting.. Anyways, just wanted to tell ya.
Kanojotatsu - Well, I don't think anybody really likes criticizing reviews. I don't think my story is the best, I just don't want really really hurtful reviews. That's all. You sound like my dad. He's always telling me to stop whining whenever I say I don't like food with nuts in it and I'm not even SUPPOSED to have nuts cuz I have braces. But, that's not the point. The point is, now I've got a headache and a bad feeling in the bottom of my stomach. Sorry to the other readers, I won't write a chapter for a few days. I tend to get this way when somebody tells me my story isn't perfect. Curse my perfectionism.
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. I do own Raine. There. Short, sweet, and to the point."
Quick Author's Note: In one chapter (can't remember which and I'm too lazy to check) I said Raine couldn't remember anything about the game. Well, I wanna change that. She can't remember almost everything. She can remember:
Her name.
Music lyrics and some movies.
The fact that she lives in another dimension.
And stuff she learned in school.
I just wanted to tell you so you won't get confused when she says, "Aladdin. Sounds like a Disney movie."
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"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Maleficent roared. The black and purple smoke inside her crystal ball cleared and played Raine's escape. Maleficent sighed as the crystal ball fogged up. "No matter, she will be brought here. I shall send Heartless to that planet to make sure of it."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Barking awakened me. I sat up and looked around. "What am I doing here?" I whispered. My brain booted up and then I remembered. "I think I'll go find Raine. I remember she said something about a rooftop." I stood up and walked out the door. Heartless greeted me outside. I sighed. "Do I hafta deal with you right now?" The Heartless lunged at me and I slashed at it. It disappeared in a puff of darkness. "Now to find Raine."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Still Sora's POV. 3 hours later.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I ran through the doors of the Second District. This would be my fourth time entering the Second District. I saw Goofy and Donald walking out of the hotel and I ran up to them. "Have you guys seen Raine?" I asked quickly.
Goofy shook his head. "Nope. Haven't seen 'er since yesterday." I looked at Donald.
"Ditto." He said. I sank to the ground and massaged my temples. "She missin' or somethin'?" I nodded.
"I've searched every District at least four times. I have no idea where she's gone."
Donald shrugs. "Ah well, she would've just held us back anyway. We have to get going."
I stood up and glared at him. "No! We can't leave just yet! We hafta find Raine!" Donald shook his head and glared back.
"We also hafta find the King! Which is more important? Raine, or the King?" I crossed my arms.
"Raine, for me, at least." I said flatly. Donald grabbed my arm and dragged me away. I squirmed and twisted, but no avail.
"Goofy, help me." Goofy sighed and took my other arm. The two led me to a glowing green circle. We stepped on it and were transported to a big room with many gizmos and gadgets everywhere. (A/N: I've seen a drawing from the original creators of Kingdom Hearts of the Gummi Ship.. It looks weird.)
I sighed and sat down. 'Maybe we'll find her on another world.' I thought to myself as we took off into space.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Raine's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I rolled over on my back when sunlight poured onto my eyelids. The sun made the inside of my eyelids an annoying red and I could not escape the light, so I sat up and opened my eyes. I was lying on a blanket in an apartment type thing. The ripped curtains were open and hot sunshine shone in. The room had a few knick-knacks here and there. I stood up and nearly screamed when something jumped on my head. I whacked it off with my pillow and looked at what fell off. It was a small monkey wearing a vest and a little hat. "Aw. How cute. I'm sorry." I crawled over to it and cradled it in my arms.
"I see you've met Abu." I turned around and saw a boy at what I guessed was a door. He wore the same color vest as the monkey and had a hat atop his head that was similar to the monkey, Abu's, hat. His pants were white and patched like he'd been in many difficult situations. I nodded as the monkey scurried out of my arms and onto a pillow. "So, what's your name? I'm Aladdin." I blinked.
'Aladdin. Sounds like a Disney movie.' I thought. "I'm Raine. Nice to meet you, and, where am I?" I asked.
"Agrabah." He answered. I walked over to the window and looked down at the streets below. People bustled in the crowded streets. Booths were set up along the sides of the streets. Some sold food, others sold jewelry, clothes, or animals like camels. I looked out into the distance and saw a gigantic palace. The sun reflected a glare off of the gold. I stared at it in awe; I'd never seen anything so majestic in my life, which hasn't been very long since I'm only fourteen. "Isn't it great?" he asked as he walked up and sat on the windowsill next to me.
"Yes, it's absolutely breath-taking." My stomach growled and I sighed.
"You're hungry?" I nodded. "OK, let's go get breakfast." I followed him to the pole. He slid down the pole and looked up at me. "C'mon!"
"I have a bad past with these things." I said as I remembered the time a kid pushed me onto it and my head hit the pole. I had gone unconscious and fallen to the hard ground.
"I'll catch you if you fall." I gulped and held onto the pole. I slid down about two inches before I was startled when Abu jumped on my shoulder. I let go and started to fall. Like he'd said he would, Aladdin caught me and set me down. I was breathing rapidly and picked up Abu off my shoulders. I put him in front of me so he could see how scared I'd been.
"Please don't do that again, Abu." The little monkey nodded and jumped onto my shoulder. I looked up at Aladdin and smiled. "Thanks. Now what?" He grabbed my wrist and led me out into the market. I allowed him to pull me along while I looked around. Everything was so industrial and loud, kinda like the cafeteria at school. I felt myself being lifted and I looked at Aladdin. He was pulling me onto the roof (A/N: Or should I call it a sheet? I mean, the roofs of those booths are only pieces of cloth.) of a food booth.
Aladdin lowered Abu onto the counter of the booth. "Ok, when Abu distracts the shopkeeper, hang over the side and grab some food." He whispered.
"Why are we stealing this?" I asked.
"Oh, I forgot, I'm a 'street rat'. My mother died when I was young and my father disappeared."
"Oh. I'm sorry." I heard shouting and figured it was the shopkeeper. I hung over the side of the sheet and looked at the shopkeeper. His back was turned to me and he was yelling at Abu. I unzipped my backpack and stuffed food into it. I zipped it back up when it was bulging as if it was going to explode and grabbed two fruits and a loaf of bread in my hands. Unfortunately, when Aladdin, Abu, and I were making our escape, a group of men who looked like palace guards came walking down the street. They spotted Aladdin and drew their swords.
"Guards, seize them!" The leader commanded as he pointed his sword in our direction.
As we ran, Aladdin said, "You know where my home is, right?" I nodded and he continued, "On three, we split up, try to lose them, and quickly get into my house, got it?" I nodded again. "One, two, three!" Aladdin went to the left so I turned to the right. The guards stopped for a while to divide themselves into two groups and have one group run after me, the other after Aladdin.
"Come back here, girl!" They yelled while waving their swords at me. I could feel my legs start to grow tired, so I thought encouraging thoughts to myself.
'I have to make it, I have to stay alive. I have to! I'll never see Sora again if I don't.' An image of Sora appeared in my mind, telling me I could do it. I began to run faster than I'd ever run before. I jumped onto some crates and jumped over a row of barrels, then continued my escape to Aladdin's home. I looked back as I turned a corner to see the guards stop and begin slashing at the obstacles that blocked their path. I laughed a bit and jumped from a ledge into another street. I quickly ran to the opening with the pole that led up to Aladdin's home. I put the loaf of bread and a fruit under the straps of my backpack and held the other fruit in my teeth. After making sure the loaf and fruit wouldn't slip, I began the climb to the top.
Soon, I was at the top of the pole. I stuck my legs out behind me, looking for the floor. When my foot found it, I stepped down and pushed off the pole. I fell backwards on the floor of Aladdin's 'apartment'. I sighed and set the food I'd stolen on a clean blanket. Then I realized I didn't have my keyblade with me. I stood up and frantically looked around. Just when I thought I was in deep trouble, I grasped my necklace and it a beam shot out from it. My keyblade materialized in front of me. I held out my hands as it dropped and caught it. I exhaled a breath I'd been holding, feeling relieved that I'd found this special item of mine.
Seconds later, Aladdin appeared in the entryway and jumped into the house. "Sorry if I've kept you waiting. Those guards are sometimes smarter than they look." We divided the food between the three of us and began eating. After the meal, we had a few loaves of bread and fruits left over, since I'd stuffed so many in my backpack. I wrapped them in the blanket and laid back.
"I think I'll take a nap." I said as I yawned.
"Why?"
"You're not tired cuz you do this on a daily basis. This is the first time I've ever had to steal my breakfast and run from guards just cuz I'm trying not to die of starvation." I responded as I pulled out my CD player and turned it on. Even though the volume was turned to 'MAX', I still fell asleep listening to 'Simple and Clean'.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We were boarding the Gummi Ship again. Donald, Goofy, and I had just locked the keyhole in Wonderland. Raine wasn't there, no matter how many times I prayed she would be. I hung my head as we took off into space. I used a joystick to aim at the approaching ships, asteroids, and meteors and pushed the red button on the top to shoot. The first time this was a bit of a thrill and took my mind off of Raine and the others. But now, I just thought of how many worlds we'd have to explore until we finally found Raine, Riku, or Kairi. I watched as we almost passed the Jungle. (A/N: Yeah, I know. I'm skipping Olympus Coliseum, but that's cuz you can't go across to it, in the game you have to go in a circle.) Goofy spoke up when he saw the planet I'd been staring at.
"Hey, Donald, maybe King Mickey's down there." Donald looked down at the planet and shook his head.
"In a backwater place like that? No way! Let's move on." I looked up after I realized something.
"Hold on, Riku, Raine, or Kairi might be down there. Let's just check it out!" Donald shook his head again.
"Forget it! We're on an important mission!" I frowned.
"Just land!" Donald glared at me.
"No!"
"Come on!"
"Aw, phooey!"
"We're landing!" I let go of my joystick and took walked over to Donald. I looked at the controls and found something that said, 'disembark'. I pushed it.
"Don't touch that! Nooo!"
The Gummi Ship vibrated and stopped. We started falling toward the planet. On impact we got separated and everything went black. Soon, I woke up in a brittle tree house. "Oww. My head. Donald? Goofy?" Suddenly, a leopard lunged at me. I fought the leopard for while and was knocked to the ground when I made the mistake of letting my guard down. Just as the leopard was going to finish me, a man in a loincloth jumped in front of me and defended us with his spear. The leopard jumped out of the window. The man turned to me.
"Sabor, danger." I blinked.
"Um, thank you."
"Thank you." I blinked again in confusion.
"Huh? Uh, what is this place?"
"This place, this place." I gave him a funny look.
"O- kay. Where did the others go? Look, I got separated from my friends. Have you seen them?" I asked.
"Hmm?" I sighed.
"Friends." I repeated.
"Friends!" I nodded and smiled.
"Right, my friends! There's two of 'em. The loud one is Dona-" I stopped and thought for a minute.
"Huh?"
"You know what? Never mind. I'm looking for my friends, Raine, Riku and Kairi."
"Look for Raine, friends?" I nodded and looked behind him as an image of Raine appeared. I rubbed my eyes and blinked. She smiled at me and faded away.
After snapping out of my trance, I answered, "Uh, right."
"Riku, friends?"
"Right!"
"Kairi, friends?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Friends here."
"Really!?" He made some weird grunting noises and gestures.
"Friends here."
"Not sure I understand, but show me! Take me to Raine and Riku and Kairi!"
"Tarzan. Tarzan go." I was confused. What did he mean? I figured I might as well play along.
"And I'm, Sora. Tarzan go, Sora go go!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Meanwhile,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Gawrsh, where are we? I sure hope Sora's okay." Donald stuck out his tongue.
"Aw, who needs him? We can find the king without him." A gorilla ran by. "Huh?" Donald and the gorilla freaked out when they saw each other. As the gorilla ran by, it dropped a Gummi piece on the ground.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sora's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tarzan led me to a campsite. I looked around as we made our way to a tent and entered it. There was a woman inside and as soon as Tarzan saw her, he ran up to her. "Jane!" he said. The woman turned to him.
"Tarzan! Oh, and who is this?" she asked as she pointed to me.
"Uh, hi there. I'm-" I began.
Jane interrupted, "Oh, you speak English! So, then, obviously, you're not related to Tarzan. Are you here to study the gorillas?" Another man entered the tent with Donald and Goofy behind him.
"Highly doubtful." The man said. Goofy looked around and spotted me.
"Sora!"
"Goofy! Donald!"
The man scoffed, "A circus of clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas."
Jane said, "Mr. Clayton, we're studying them, not hunting them. This is research." Clayton frowned and left. Jane shrugged.
"Well, the more the merrier. Do make yourselves at home."
"Well, anyway," I began.
"I'm staying." Donald and I said simultaneously. Goofy held out his hand. A gummi block rested in it.
"Sora, look what we found. Look at this" Goofy said. I looked at it.
"What's that?"
Goofy answered, "A gummi block. It's the same stuff used to build our ship."
"So that means," I said and trailed off as I thought about it.
"The king could be here. So, we've gotta work together to look for him. For now." Donald finished. I frowned.
"Fine. I'll let you tag along. For now." I said as we went back into the tent to talk to Jane.
"Apparently, Tarzan was raised in the jungle by the gorillas. Communicating with him still isn't easy, but he's learning."
"So he was speaking in 'gorilla' back there. He said Raine and Riku and Kairi are here. And one word I couldn't understand." I said while remembering what happened in the tree house.
"Why don't we try this? We'll show Tarzan some slides and see if any of them match that word. Oh, what happened to the slides?" Jane showed the only slides that were left. The first showed a castle. I stared at it. "What's wrong, Sora?"
"What? Um, Nothing." I replied. 'This place, it just looks so familiar. But how? I've never been off my island.' I thought. Jane showed us the other slides and turned to Tarzan.
"Well, Tarzan?" she asked.
"Where are my friends, Raine, Riku and Kairi?" I asked. Tarzan shook his head as if he were saying, "I don't know." I sighed. "Hey, I thought-" Clayton walked into the tent.
"That leaves just one place. Young man, we've been in this jungle for some time now. But we have yet to encounter these friends of yours. I'd wager they're with the gorillas. But Tarzan refuses to take us to them."
"Really, Mr. Clayton. Tarzan wouldn't hide-"
"Then take us there! Take us to the gorillas. Go-ril-las." Clayton spoke as if he were talking to a 3-year-old. Tarzan looked at me and nodded his head. Jane looked at Tarzan.
"Tarzan, are you sure?"
"Tarzan go see Kerchak." Tarzan said.
"Kerchak?"
"He must be the leader. Perfect. I'll go along as an escort. After all, the jungle is a dangerous place." Clayton said a little too nicely. I watched Clayton for a moment before we headed out of the tent. Along the way we had to battle that leopard, Sabor, again. We climbed and swung on vines and came to a place where many gorillas sat. Tarzan spoke in gorilla to a big gorilla, obviously Kerchak. Kerchak does not do anything.
Goofy leans down towards Donald and whispers, "Did you get that?"
Donald shook his head and responded, "No."
"Kerchak." Tarzan mumbles. Kerchak looks toward the sky. "Kerchak." he said again, louder this time. Kerchak and the other gorillas walked away and Tarzan looked down.
"He seemed sorta distracted by something." Goofy whispered.
Donald whispered back, "Was he looking toward the tree house?" We proceeded to the Tree House. Once we were inside, we saw a gorilla playing with a globe. I smiled as I thought of Raine and how she'd think the gorilla was just the cutest thing. My happy thoughts were interrupted when Clayton appeared, aiming his rifle at the unsuspecting gorilla. Donald scared him by screaming and the shot narrowly missed the gorilla. "What's the big idea!?" Donald yelled.
"Wait, Kerchak. Please!" Tarzan said as the gorillas left.
"You don't understand. I was only trying to, Ah. A snake slithered by, you see. I saved that poor gorilla's life." Clayton said in his 'dripping-with-innocence-and-kindness' tone that I often used to get my mom to make me my favorite dinner or to get out of trouble. In other words, I didn't believe him. We walked to the Cliff. There, we fought Sabor for a third time, in which he ran away for a third time. We walked back to camp and entered the tent where we heard shouting.
"Mr. Clayton, how could you do such a thing?!" Jane yelled.
"Now, Miss Porter, as I told you, I was not aiming at the gorilla." Clayton said.
Jane frowned and ordered, "You are not to go near the gorillas again!"
"All because of one mishap? Come, now." We all upset with Clayton's behavior and did not believe his lies. Clayton frowns and walks out of the tent. "What am I doing with these imbeciles? Blasted gorillas! I'll hunt down every last one of them! I'll track them down somehow. I'll stake my life on it." He muttered. Before Clayton could light his pipe, he heard a noise. In the Tent, we heard a gunshot. We went outside and watched as Heartless appeared.
"Heartless!" I yelled as we began to fight the Heartless. We fought with the Heartless who were trying to attack a gorilla. We managed to defeat the many Heartless that had appeared.
After rescuing four more gorillas from the Heartless, we went back to the tent to rest and talk to Jane.
"I do hope Mr. Clayton is safe." She said.
I couldn't help but think, 'Why? He deserves to be injured or taken away or get lost. He's a jerk.' We outside and heard a gunshot from the Bamboo Thicket. Once there, I found Clayton's pipe. Once again, Sabor came to attack. We fought the leopard again and after defeating it, received the White Fang. Later, we went back to the Tent. I looked around and, seeing Jane was missing, asked, "Hey, where's Jane?" We looked at Tarzan, who had a worried look on his face.
Goofy asked, "What's wrong, Tarzan?"
"Something coming. Jane, danger. Jane near, near tree house." He muttered.
"Sounds like trouble. Let's go." We made through the jungle. In the jungle under the tree house, we found Jane and a gorilla.
"Tarzan! Clayton came to the tent, and, that's the last thing I remember." Jane said.
"Gorillas trapped. Terk ran." Tarzan murmured.
"We must help the gorillas!" Jane cried.
We ran to the cliff. The Heartless and Clayton surrounded the gorillas. Before Clayton could open fire, I yelled, "NO!" He looked up at me and glared as the gorillas ran away. "Clayton?" I asked.
"Not Clayton!" Tarzan warned. He said something in gorilla and continued, "Not Clayton!" We fought Clayton and the Heartless. After the Heartless were defeated, Clayton hovers in the air.
"What? How's he floating?" Goofy asked. An invisible force pushed us all against the cliff and then released us. That we couldn't see the beast, we fought Clayton and the invisible thing. Soon the Heartless was visible, which made it easier for us to defeat. The chameleon-like Heartless fell to the ground after a few more hits and Clayton slid off. We battle Clayton, who was not much easier since he kept using Potions whenever he could. After we defeated Clayton, the Heartless lands on Clayton and both are beaten as the beast's heart came out. Sora learns Cure. Then the gorillas appeared and Kerchak threw Donald, Goofy, and I up to a new area. Tarzan jumped up to that area himself.
Tarzan said, "Tarzan, home." We entered the waterfall cavern and trekked toward a cave that gave off a blue glow. Tarzan spoke in gorilla again.
"This is your home? But that means," My voice trailed off as I thought.
"Huh?" Goofy asked.
"The waterfalls. They're echoing all the way here." Jane stated.
Tarzan said the same gorilla word and said, "Friends there. See friends."
"Oh, now I've got it. * Gorilla sound * means heart. Friends in our hearts." Jane said. Tarzan nodded.
"Heart." Tarzan said as I sighed.
"Oh, so that's what it meant." I said glumly.
"Friends, same heart. Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends." I turned to Donald.
"Sorry about what I said." I said.
"I'm sorry too." Goofy walked over and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Yeah, All for one, huh?" I nodded and looked at the blue glow as a keyhole suddenly appeared. I used my Keyblade to emit a beam into the keyhole to seal Deep Jungle from the Heartless. An item dropped afterwards.
"A gummi!" Donald exclaimed.
"But it's sure not the king's." Goofy said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A few hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once again, we were in the Gummi Ship. We had taken the gummi piece to Cid and he told us a bit about it. He also put it on our ship. I sighed and watched Goofy shoot the asteroids and enemy ships. 'Don't worry, Raine. I'll find you. Riku and Kairi, too.'
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Well, this was a long chapter. Sorry. Yesterday I went to the movies and did some other stuff. I hope you like this chapter!
~Raine Minamino
Review Responses:
FlikFreak - You sound like my teacher! LOL. But seriously, I'll try. See, my brain is all tired and is lazy since I'm on summer vacation. I like your KH ficcies! They're cool!
Meheria - Well, let's hope that in the future our really good games won't get erased. I'm glad you like my story! And yes, I respond to reviews. It just seems like the right thing to do!
Water Dragon - OK, dun read this if you don't wanna see a spoiler. You see, Sora's gonna get to Agrabah and hear, "STOP THIEF!" and he's gonna run after the thief. He doesn't know it's Raine and when he follows her up to Aladdin's home they get all mushy and stuff. Oh, and he's also gonna ask her, "Why are you stealing things?" and give her a lecture. Kinda stupid, I know. But hey, better than nothing! I mean, most stories just put, "After exploring the city of Agrabah, Sora finds Raine wandering the streets and the two are reunited." Or something like that. At least my way is more interesting.. Anyways, just wanted to tell ya.
Kanojotatsu - Well, I don't think anybody really likes criticizing reviews. I don't think my story is the best, I just don't want really really hurtful reviews. That's all. You sound like my dad. He's always telling me to stop whining whenever I say I don't like food with nuts in it and I'm not even SUPPOSED to have nuts cuz I have braces. But, that's not the point. The point is, now I've got a headache and a bad feeling in the bottom of my stomach. Sorry to the other readers, I won't write a chapter for a few days. I tend to get this way when somebody tells me my story isn't perfect. Curse my perfectionism.
