Worlds Apart
Chapter 3
A/N: Okay now, I guess I can't say much for this. Well except I don't own Kingdom Hearts so it wont help you to sue me.
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
~Dream or memory~
~*~Name of a place or persons PoV~*~
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~Destiny Island? How could this be? I saw this place disappear,
"Sora! Sora over here!" Kairi called.
I looked up from the dock. Kairi, Riku, and Yukara were all standing on the bridge near the shack.
"Huh?" I said.
"Come on you lazy bum get over here!" She called again.
I stood up and ran over to the shack and up to the bridge. Kairi was the only one who looked at me,
"Hey what's wrong with Riku and Yukara?" I asked.
Kairi looked over to them,
"They're just illusions, this is what you wanted, see if you ever stopped thinking about them they would just fade away until you wanted them back." Kairi explained.
"Then how come you can talk to me?" I asked.
I never thought I could ask so many questions in one day,
"I dunno, you just can I guess." Kairi answered.
I looked at her for a second then out of the corner of my eye I saw Yukara and Riku begin to fade,
"No wait!" I called out.
The illusion known as Riku turned to me, he moved his lips as if trying to speak but nothing came out. He moved towards and pushed at my chest....~
"Huh?" I said opening my eyes.
There was a skinny looking golden colored dog sitting in front of me.
"What a dream..." I said leaning my head back down.
The dog then jumped on my chest,
"Whoa! This isn't a dream!" I stood up and looked around.
"Where am I?" I asked.
I looked to my right and saw a building.
"Oh, boy..." I mumbled.
I looked back down at the dog sitting at my feet,
"Do you know where we are?" I asked him.
He perked his ear up and turn around and ran away.
"Hey..." I called after the dog.
I rolled my eyes and ran after the dog, I looked around at the new town I was in.
"Not even a week and I've been in two different worlds." I mumbled to myself.
~*~In a castle~*~
"Ugh my head....where am I?" Yukara asked.
She looked around the room, 'This place.....I've been here before.....' she thought to herself. Someone pulled the door open quickly and walked in, it was Riku,
"Oh good your awake, its been almost three days." Riku said cheerfully.
"I've been out of it for three whole bloody days?!" said Yukara.
He nodded and walked over and sat one the bed,
"Some sorceress found us just outside this castle, she seems nice and all but I'm not gonna get to cozy. We still have to find Sora and Kairi after all." He explained.
Yukara stared at Riku like he was an idiot,
"You mean to tell me that you let some weirdo take us in? And that you have no idea where Kairi and Sora are!"
"I'm sure there fine." Riku said calmly.
"Fine? Riku do you not remember seeing Kairi disappear, and that we have no idea what happened to Sora cause I let the darkness swallow us?" Yukara snapped as she jumped out of bed.
Riku looked up at her, she was grabbing some potions and other stuff.
"What are you doing Yuka?" Riku asked.
"I'm going to find our friends, you can come or sit here and be pampered by some old witch." she relied.
He smirked and stood up,
"And let you have all the fun of finding them no way!"
Yukara shrugged and grabbed her sword, Riku pulled his blade out and they walked out of the room. Yukara looked down the halls, once she was sure it was safe she turned to her right and sprinted down the hall. Riku followed her and looked around for anyone or anything trying to stop them. At the end of the hallway, Yukara stopped suddenly.
"Yukara what's wrong?" Riku asked.
She didn't answer, she just stared at the statue if front of them. Riku looked at it as well, there was a King and a Queen standing in the front, and in the back there was another man and woman. The woman in the back....it felt as if he knew her before. The woman if the front looked a lot like Yukara.
"Mom? Sapphire?" Yukara mumbled.
"Yukara its just a statue, come on lets go."
Riku said pulling her away from the statue.
"Going so soon? Where ever to my dears?" a calm yet cool voice asked.
Riku turned to see the sorceress that saved them. She took a few steps closer to them,
"Ah yes, your mother and her friend were both extraordinary people, to bad they are no longer with us." she said warmly.
"How do you know my mom?" asked Yukara.
"I don't know them, I have a good friend who does. Now where are you two going?" She asked again.
"We're going to search for our friends Maleficent." said Riku.
She nodded her head, and turned her back to them.
"I will help you, im sure if they went anywhere it would be Taverse Town."
She looked back at them and opened a black portal. She had Riku and Yukara step in first and then she followed. In a matter of minutes they arrived in a town. Heartless materialized but then disappeared at the sight of the sorceress.
"I'll be back for you shortly, just stay here." Maleficent said disappearing into the portal.
Yukara turned her head towards an alley, someone was back there laughing. She nudged Riku's shoulder and he went over to the alley with her.
"Riku!" Sora called out. "Riku your okay!"
"Of course, you wouldn't expect anything else would you?" Riku asked.
"And Yukara's safe too, have you guys found Kairi?" Sora asked worriedly.
"Afraid not Sora, we were lucky to find you so quick." Yukara replied.
Sora nodded sadly,
"Aw its ok Sora, we'll find her don't worry. Oh and by the way, who are they?" Yukara asked pointing to the two people behind him.
"Oh these are my friends, Donald and Goofy, they've been helping me search for you." Sora replied.
Yukara nodded and looked towards Riku, he did not look impressed at all by this.
"And we have this cool rocket we can take to other worlds, so you guys want to come with us to find Kairi?" Sora asked.
Before they even had a chance to answer Donald objected.
"They can't come!"
"Huh? Why not? These are my friends you know!" argued Sora.
"Uh Sora ya know...." said Goofy pointing behind him.
"Huh?"
Sora turned to see what Goofy was pointing at, Riku and Yukara were no where to be seen.
Sora sighed in disappointment and looked at the ground.
"Nice going...." he said sadly.
Sora walked over to the stairs the went to Leon's place, Donald and Goofy followed.
Up on a building edge Riku watched Sora and his 'new friends' enter the house. Yukara walked over to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. Riku continued to look at the house.
"Riku are you okay?" Yukara asked.
He didn't answer, he jumped down from the roof and landed on the pavement gracefully and Yukara followed. Just at the time maleficent showed up again. Riku paid no attention to her arrival, he glared at Donald and Goofy. 'They took my best friend away from me.....they'll pay.....' Riku thought to himself. Maleficent grinned, she could feel the pain and hate coming from Riku. She knew it wouldn't be long before she could bring him to total darkness. A thought came to her head, if she added to this he would come sooner.
"You see? It's just as I told you. While you toiled away trying to find your dear friend, he quite simply replaced you with some new companions. Evidently, now he values them for more than he does you. You're better off without that wretched boy. Now, think no more of him, and come with me. I'll help you find what you're searching for..." Maleficent said wickedly.
"Don't say that about Sora! He'd never do a thing like that!" Yukara snapped.
Both Riku and Maleficent turned to her, Riku had a shocked look and Maleficent looked disgusted.
"Fine then, if you believe so strongly in this then stay here with that little brat...." She relied calmly.
Yukara glared at her,
"I think I will stay, better then listening to some crazy old witch bad mouth our friends!" said Yukara.
She turned on her heel and walked to the door. Riku watched her, 'She wouldn't really go in there would she?' Riku asked himself. Yukara put her hand on the door handle and turned to Riku,
"Good-bye Riku, enjoy your new life."
And with that Yukara opened the door and walked in. Riku was confused, new life? Did Yukara see something he didn't?
"Come on Riku, we don't need that girl." Maleficent said pushing him to the portal.
Sora looked over to the door as it opened, Yukara walked in and the room went silent.
"Hey! Where's Riku?" Sora asked.
"He left, some old witch tricked him into thinking you replaced us."
Sora looked at her with wide eyes,
"I'd never do that, these guys needed my help and I needed there's....why would he ever think that?" Yukara shook her head and shrugged.
"Donald, I say we let her come with us." said Goofy.
Donald looked at him like he was crazy,
"Why? She'd probably just slow us down!"
Yukara pulled out her blade,
"You wanna say that again? I don't think your King would be to happy with you right now if he heard you acting like this."
Everyone looked at her,
"You know King Mickey?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah, my guardian stopped there one time for some help." she replied.
"Wait a minute, your Yukara aren't you?" asked Leon.
"Yup, the one and only."
Yuffie and Aerith gasped, and Sora was confused, and Donald and Goofy were shocked.
"Gawrsh Yukara you've grown a lot since the last time we all saw ya." said Goofy.
Yukara nodded and turned her attention to Leon,
"So, Where's Ansem?"
Leon closed his eyes and shook his head,
"He disappeared with our world, he's no longer with us."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that...."
Aireth walked up to Yukara,
"Where's Sapphire?"
Yukara looked away from everyone,
"She died in the last world we were in, the gummi ship exploded I guess."
Everyone but Sora was confused,
"You guess?" everyone said together.
"Sapphire told her to stay with my friends and me, we were at our camp when we saw the ship explode." Sora answered for her.
"Oh I see..." said Aireth sadly.
Donald walked up to Yukara,
"Aw, I'm sorry for what I said before your-" Donald was cut off by Yukara putting her hand to his beak.
She shook her head and pulled her hand away, he nodded,
"Anyway, would you come along with us Yukara?" asked Goofy.
"Of course, we still need to find Kairi and King Mickey." She replied.
Everyone nodded,
"Hey Cid, is our ship ready for take off yet?" Sora asked.
"Yep, sure is, it'll be waitin for ya at the entrance." replied Cid.
"Okay then, I guess we'll be going now, see ya later." said Sora walking out the door.
Goofy, Yukara, and Donald followed.
~*~On the gummi ship~*~
Yukara sat down in the back of the gummi ship, she watched the others get in their seats and start the ship.
"So where are we heading to?" Yukara asked.
Sora looked back at her and motioned her up there,
"See that star right there?" he asked.
"Yeah, that's Halloween town." she replied.
Sora nodded,
"Well that's where we're going then we'll go to either Atlantica or Never land." Sora explained.
Just as Yukara stood up to go back to her seat she looked out the window,
"Uhh Sora, not to burst yer bubble of anything, but the next time you plan to go somewhere make sure that there aren't any 10,000 pound whales around!"
Sora looked out the window, and sure enough there was a whale heading strait for them with his mouth open.
"Uhh guys you may want to hold onto something...." said Sora.
Everyone grabbed a hold of their seat and Monstro swallowed them up.
~ "It's true! I saw it with my own eyes!" said Sora excitedly.
" You sure you didn't just hear it this time?" Riku asked.
Sora shrugged,
"What difference does it make? There's a huge monster in there, I tell you!"
Riku smiled slightly,
"All right. Suppose there really is a monster... Think we can beat it by ourselves, Sora?" he asked.
Sora nodded his head,
"No problem. Let's do it! Listen! There! Can you hear it growling?"
Riku put a finger to his lips,
"Shh, quiet. We've gotta be careful." Riku whispered as they crept around the corner of the tunnel.
The two boys looked around in disappointment,
"See that? It was just the wind making that noise." said Riku looking around.
Sora looked at the ground in defeat,
"Aw, man. I wish it was a monster! Hold on! What's that over there?" asked Sora looking at a door.
"A window, or maybe a door? It won't open." Riku replied.~
Sora woke up to see his companions were laying only a few feet from him, "
Is everyone in one piece?" he asked.
Donald and Goofy looked at him and nodded there head, but there was no reply from Yukara.
"Uhh...Yuka?" Sora called out.
"Sora! She's over there on that boat!" Donald quacked.
Sora looked towards the beat up boat, and sure enough she was sitting there talking to someone. They swam over to the boat and climbed up,
"Hey Yuka, who ya talking to?" Goofy asked.
"That old man over there." She replied pointing in front of her.
"Oh hello everybody, im guess the whale swallowed you too?" the man asked.
Sora nodded and Jiminy jumped onto his shoulder.
"Geppetto! Nice to see you again!" he chirped.
"Ah Jiminy, long time no see." he replied.
He looked over to Sora and his group,
"My name is Geppetto. I'm Pinocchio's father. When we got separated, I traveled all over, looking for him. Thank goodness we're together again." he said politely.
Pinoocchio looks over the edge of the ship, he notices a silver haired boy walking into the chamber. He looked back at his father to the chamber door, Pinocchio smiled slightly and jumped over the edge unnoticed. Geppetto rambled on and on about his adventure and his son, Yukara raised an eyebrow and looked over to where Pinoccio was. To her shock he wasn't there, she tugged on Goofy's sleeve,
"What is it Yukara?" he asked.
"Pinocchio's gone!" she replied.
His eyes widened slightly, Geppetto was still talking
"....isn't that right Pinocchio? uh....Pinocchio?"
Geppetto looks around the ship,
"Sora lets go find Pinoccio before he gets in more trouble." said Yukara.
Sora nodded and they jumped over the edge and went into the chamber.
"Hey there he is!" said Yukara.
"Oh hey guys." Pinoccio said happily.
"What are you doing? Come on, let's go back to your boat." said Sora.
Goofy nodded, "You know, Geppetto's awfully worried about you."
Sora looked at his group and then back to puppet,
"Pinocchio, stop fooling around! This is no time for games!"
The puppet did nothing, a voice spoke out,
"But, Sora, I thought you liked games. Or are you too cool to play them now that you have the Keyblade?"
Sora and Yukara looked up, It was Riku.
"Riku! Wh-What are you doing here?" Sora asked.
He laughed slightly,
"Just playing with Pinocchio."
Yukara stepped forwards but Goofy stopped her,
"You know what I mean! What about Kairi? Did you find her? Is she okay?" he asked.
Riku raised an eyebrow,
"Maybe. Catch us and maybe I'll tell you what I know."
Yukara broke away from Goofy's grip,
"Why don't you tell us now?" she asked.
Riku just laughed and grabbed Pinocchio and ran,
"Get back here!" yelled Yukara running after him.
"Yukara wait!" Donald called after her.
To late she had already gone through the chamber door.
~*~Later in Chamber Six~*~
(A/N: Sora and co. aren't there yet so its just Yukara and Riku oh and also im not gonna put the first boss fight in here okay?)
"Maleficent!?" Yukara snapped as the witch walked through the portal.
"What the hell is wrong with you Riku?" Yukara asked.
"Nothings wrong with me, its Sora. He wasn't the one who was looking for Kairi, was he? No I think not." Riku replied.
"Riku he's been looking for you and Kairi, if you just stopped listening to that witch...." she trailed off.
"She's helping me find Kairi, once I find her I'll leave Maleficent."
Yukara sighed sadly and Sora, Donald, and Goofy entered the room.
"Riku! What's the matter with you? What are you thinking? Don't you realize what you're doing?" Sora asked.
Riku smirked,
"I was about to ask you the same thing, Sora. You only seem interested in running around and showing off that Keyblade these days. Do you even want to save Kairi?" he asked.
Sora was hurt by this,
"I do but I'll need all the help I can get."
Riku smirked and picked up the motionless puppet and jumped down into a pit, Sora and Yukara jumped in after him. The pit lead all the way back into the mouth, Riku stood up on a ledge looking down at Geppetto,
"Pinocchio! Pinocchio! Please! Give me back my son!" he cried.
Riku shook his head,
"Sorry, old man. I have some unfinished business with this puppet." Riku replied coldly.
"He's no puppet! Pinocchio is my little boy!"
"He is unusual, I'll give you that. Not many puppets have hearts. I'm not sure, but maybe he can help someone who's lost theirs." said Riku looking at the puppet.
Both Yukara and Sora stepped forward,
"You know where Kairi is?" Yukara asked.
"Where is she Riku? We want to see her!" said Sora.
"What do you care about her Sora?" Riku asked harshly.
With that Riku walked off into the chamber.
Sora glared in Riku's direction, he then jumped up to the boats deck,
"Here take this Sora, it'll help you jump higher and farther."
Geppetto handed him the stone,
"Please save my son..."
Sora nodded once and jumped across to the ledge where Riku once stood, Yukara and the others soon followed. He looked at all his friends and then turned to enter the chamber door.
"Riku!" Yukara called out.
He turned to face her and smiled slightly,
"Hey, let Pinocchio go, Riku." said Sora.
Riku's smile turned into a smirk,
"A puppet that's lost its heart to the Heartless... Maybe it holds the key to helping Kairi. How about it, Sora? Let's join forces to save her. We can do it, together." said Riku, he gave a hopeful look at Yukara.
Sora pulled out his Keyblade and got in a fighting position.
"What? You'd rather fight me? Over a puppet that has no heart?" Riku asked.
"Heart or no heart, at least he still has a conscience." Sora replied.
Yukara looked at both of her friends, they wouldn't really fight with each other would they? They were best friends no matter what, why the sudden change? Riku laughed slightly,
"It's a piece of wood Sora, how could it cave a conscience?" Sora looked at him,
"All things have a heart and a conscience." said Sora.
"You might not hear it, but right now it's loud and clear. And it's telling me you're on the wrong side!" Sora continued.
Riku pulled out his blade,
"Then you leave me no choice." Riku said coldly.
Just as Sora was about to strike, a huge heartless appeared behind Riku. A portal also appeared behind Riku, he looked at Yukara and waited. She slowly started to walk over to him and Riku stretched out his hand, Sora looked over to Yukara.
"Huh Yukara! What are you doing?! Wait!" Sora yelled.
It was to late, Riku had already pulled her into the portal and they were gone.
~*~On a ship~*~
Riku and Yukara walk out of the portal to see Kairi laying down in front of them, Yukara smiled slightly.
"Kairi!" she said happily.
Kairi still remained where she was, Yukara was slightly confused.
"Ah I see you came back Yukara, truly is a surprise." said Maleficent.
Yukara paid no attention to her, she was worried about her friend at the moment.
"So, Kairi's like a lifeless puppet now?" Riku asked.
"Precisely." Was all Maleficent said.
To Yukara she seamed rather happy about it too.
"And her heart was..."
"Taken by the Heartless, no doubt."
They stood in silence for a minute,
"Tell me! What can we do to get our friends heart back?" Riku asked.
Maleficent grinned wickedly, she could get this boy to do her dirty work and that boy, Sora, wouldn't be able to stop her. She could easily keep the boy busy while Riku took them to her. A few deaths here and there were no biggy to her, she would gather all the princesses and open the door. She laughed to herself, 'I already have four of the princesses, and I also have the girl Ansem wants. Everything is finally coming into place.' Maleficent thought to herself.
"There are seven maidens of the purest heart. We call them the princesses of heart. Gather them together, and a door will open to the heart of all worlds. Within lies untold wisdom. There you will surely find a way to recover Kairi's heart. Now, I'll grant you a marvelous gift. The power to control the Heartless." she explained.
Yukara stared at Riku in horror, 'How could he do this, doesn't he know the darkness will use and destroy him like some little rag doll?' Yukara thought to herself. He closed his eyes as the green energy covered his body, 'The darkness...I...I feel great power in it...' Riku opened his eyes and looked to Yukara to Kairi,
"Soon, we'll have Kairi back and we can go home." said Riku.
"But what about Sora? Isn't he coming home with us too?" Yukara asked.
"Who cares if he does or not, he's not helping us get Kairi's heart back is he?"
Yukara sighed and walked passed him,
"Riku the next princess we need you to get is at these three star locations, the princess you will be kidnaping are Aurora, Snow White, and Cinderella. They shouldn't be to hard for they trust anyone, so they would have a hard time not trusting a couple of innocent children." said Maleficent.
Riku waved his hand and opened a portal, him and Yukara walked through and arrived at the first star Maleficent showed them, there they were to find Princess Aurora. Only thing they didn't know was were to find her and how to capture her. They walked up the trail that lead to the castle in silence, every now and then Riku summoned some heartless to search the area. As they got closer to the gate, they noticed some guards up at the top,
"Riku, can't we use the heartless to get us in there?" Yukara asked.
Riku nodded and summoned a group of heartless, "Now we must run to the gate and act like their chasing us okay?" Riku asked.
"Uh huh, lets do it." Yukara answered.
Riku held up his hand and put up one finger, a few seconds later he put up a second finger, and then finally he but up a third finger and swung his hand in front of him. They both started running and a guard noticed them,
"We order you to stop!" the guard yelled.
"Sorry I prefer to live at least another year!" Yukara replied.
The guards were confused, they still did nothing though,
"Ugh fine I'll do it the easy way..." Yukara mumbled.
Riku looked at her, easy way? There was an easier way then letting the heartless chase them? She put her hands out in front of her,
"Sincende!" she yelled.
A black and blue energy beam shot from her hand at slammed into the castle door. The door exploded and they continued to run towards the gate,
"Stop them! We cant let them reach the Queen and her visitors!" A guard yelled.
Both Riku and Yukara smirked as they pulled out there blades, a group of guards charge at them. Riku jumped out of the way and Yukara took two of the guards in front of her down,
"Firega!" Riku called out, as he took down the guards behind Yukara,
"Thanks!" said Yukara.
"You owe me one Yukara!" he replied.
She nodded and they continued up to the castle, knocking out any guards that got in their way. They opened the double doors at the entrance and ran inside, Riku looked around for a moment then took off towards the stairs to his left. Yukara followed him,
"Riku are you sure that the Princess will be up here?" she asked while running.
Riku nodded,
"She'll be up here, im sure of it!" he answered.
They continued to run up the stairs until they reached a single door, Riku grabbed the handle and pulled. The door didn't move,
"Here let me try." said Yukara.
She grabbed the door and pulled it, it opened as if it had never been locked. Riku was confused, why hadn't the door opened for him, yet it opened for her? Yukara walked in first, she looked around and saw just a glimpse of a person running out to the balcony. She slowly made her way towards the arch that lead outside, Riku came in after her and followed beside her. They peered out the arch to see three women standing near the edge,
"Excuse me? Would your names happen to be Aurora, Snow White, or Cinderella?" Yukara asked.
The three nodded,
"Yes that is us, do you need something?" Aurora asked.
"Yes, your world is about to be consumed by the Heartless, we need you to come with us so we can keep you safe." Yukara replied.
Aurora nodded, as did the others,
"Okay we will come with you."
Riku nodded and turned away, Yukara and the other princess followed him. Once they reached the thrown room each princess gasped. Bodies of soldiers laid motionless on the ground,
"The Heartless have been here, they'll be after you next. We must hurry!" Riku ordered.
They ran out to the world gates, there was a gummi ship already waiting for them there. Yukara opened the hatch and everyone walked in, Riku and Yukara walk up to the cockpit,
"Do you wanna fly it Yuka?" Riku asked. "Are you crazy? I cant drive this thing!" she answered in a squeaky voice.
"Why not? You've lived on a gummi for most of your life." he asked.
"Sapphire might have been cool, but she wasn't insane! She wouldn't let me drive if her life depended on it."
Riku was still puzzled,
"Again, can I ask why?"
"Do you really think if I knew how to fly a ship, I wouldn't of come back to the island?"
He shook his head, she had a point. She probably would of come back to the island, well no time to think of this. Riku shrugged and sat down in the pilots seat, he started the ship and flipped a few switches. The ship hovered above the ground and then took off, Riku set the ship to auto-pilot and walked back to where Yukara was.
"You okay? You look a bit tired."
She shook her head and looked up to him,
"Nah I'm fine, don't worry about it." She answered.
"Oh okay, so what was that magic you used on those guards back there? I've never seen anything like it." said Riku changing the subject.
"Oh that, I dunno it just kinda happens you know? Like when im angry or scared most of the time."
Riku nodded and looked around the ship, it wasn't much. There was mainly just the room where the princesses were and the ships main control room, one would expect more from Maleficent but they could really care less.
"Riku...Why did you accept the power to control the heartless? You've seen what they can do..." Yukara asked out of the blue.
He looked at her in confusion and then shrugged,
"I guess it was to help get Kairi's heart back and to....." Riku went silent.
"To what Riku? Come on you can tell me." said Yukara.
Riku looked at the floor with great interest now,
"Prove myself."
Yukara looked away and made a weird face, 'Prove himself? Why would he need to, he's perfect the way he is...' She shrugged it off and looked back to him, Riku's head turned to the ships controls.
"Ah we're almost there, I suppose Sora and his other friends will be there soon..." Riku said, almost whispering.
"Hey, I've been wondering, where did you find Kairi? Did she still have her heart or was it already..." Yukara asked trailing off.
"Gone, her heart was gone. I found her in Hallow Bastion shortly after you left to join Sora."
She sighed and walked over to one of the seats, she couldn't understand why Riku held such a grudge against Donald and Goofy. If he would spend just a few minutes with them, she was sure he would come to trust and like them. Of course, she had known them for quite some time, she was at their Kings palace after her mother had died. That was where she met Sapphire and they spent a lot of time together before they started traveling. The thing was, whenever she asked about her mother everyone changed the subject or just said when your older.
~"Sapphire why did we leave? There weren't any bad people on Destiny Island, Riku and my other friends told me." said Yukara, praying that this would change her guardians mind and go back to the Island.
Her guardian shook her head and turned to her,
"Yukara we couldn't stay there, that world will soon be consumed by the darkness. And your friend, Riku, his very soul craves to serve that darkness. Yuka, there will come a time where you wont be able to trust Riku anymore, he wont even remember you or the rest of your friends and may try to kill you."
The young girl was confused at this point, how could anyone say something so harsh about her best friend. He wouldn't hurt her or his friends even if his life depended on it, that's just not Riku.
"What do you mean I wont be able to trust him?" she asked.
"Because Yukara, you....You're a princess, your mother and father ruled over a kingdom that was bathed in the light. Any type of evil or darkness was a mere myth, everyone refused to believe that there were such things. Then when you were born though, that all changed. You were very special, you were born with sacred powers, powers only the purest of hearts can hold," explained Sapphire.
"People soon became jealous, you had powers that even your father and mother knew nothing about. That's when darkness came to be, it swallowed your world and transformed in into the heart of all worlds....it became known as Kingdom Hearts, The Door of Light if you would."
She paused for a second and continued,
"This child, is why Riku might trying killing you and your friends, the darkness feeds on the light. If Riku or any person who served the darkness was to ever capture you and take your heart, they could rule the world and not have to gather the seven Princesses of Heart."
Yukara was strangely hurt by these words, she was a princess and her world was changed because of her and her powers. It wasn't fair, she didn't want to be a princess, she just wanted to be with her friends.....
"Its not fair....I wont accept this....No! I'm not a princess!" She yelled running out of the room.~
Yukara remembered that day clearly, that's when she slow began to change. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and months into years....until finally she became what she is today. She decided it was best not to tell her friends, they'd probably get real weird around her. So her life remained a secret and only a few selected people knew about her being a princess. Yukara jerked her head up to see Riku staring at her,
"Um are you okay? You started spacing out and wouldn't reply to anything." said Riku.
"Yes, yes im fine, I was just thinking that's all..." She answered.
"Oh ok, that's good, you were almost acting like Kairi there for a sec, but anyways, we're just about to land. Maleficent called and said she would take them to Hallow Bastion where they'll be safe." he explained.
Yukara nodded and stood up, she wondered if maleficent knew anything about her being a princess. She remembered her saying she knew someone who knew her mother, but she never said who...
The ship slowly landed on the old pirates ship and Riku and Yukara stepped out, Maleficent walked over to them.
"Thank you for gathering the princesses for me you two, we are no a step closer to reviving you friend."
The sorceress turned from them and stepped into the ship, the hatch closed and the ship began to rise from the ship and take off.
"You boy! There's another ship heading our way and it has that blasted keyblader on it, should I destroy it?" the captain yelled.
Yukara Turned to Riku, he wouldn't really hurt Sora would he?
"No let them come, I'll handle them..." he said walking away.
She followed her friend up the stairs and into the room where Kairi sat silently, Riku walked over to her and put her arm on his shoulder. Yukara also walked over and took Kairi's other arm,
"What are we doing?" she asked.
"We're going to let Sora see Kairi, just like he wanted to earlier."
To Yukara this seemed wrong and sick, using Kairi's lifeless body to hurt Sora. She sighed to herself and continued on to the deck. Once out on the deck they sat Kairi down and leaned against the railing. Riku looked up to see Sora's ship being pulled in. Captain Hook had his men pull the boy and his followers pulled from the ship, Sora was knocked out and Donald and Goofy struggled to get to Sora. Goofy caught a glimpse of Yukara above him, he turned and she froze,
"Yukara! Please you gotta help us!" Goofy called.
Yukara closed her eyes slowly and turned from him,
"Take them to the cell..." she said in a choked up voice.
In all truth she didn't want to do that, but she had to or else Riku would get mad. She could still hear Goofy and Donald calling for both Sora and her, Yukara looked to Riku and he had a smirk on his face. He looked down upon the now stirring Sora. The younger boy shook his head and looked up to Riku,
"Riku! Riku, what's going on here? And Where's Kairi." Sora asked.
Riku stepped over to Yukara reveling Kairi, Sora gasped slightly and started to walk to Kairi,
"Stop where you are Sora!" Riku snapped.
Sora stopped and looked to his friend, Yukara looked to Sora and nodded her head to Kairi. Sora's face turned into a puzzled look, she then mouthed, 'I'll get Kairi, you keep Riku busy...' Sora nodded slightly and started talking to Riku,
"Riku, come on I have a right to see my friend you know!" he protested.
"Well you were to busy showing off your keyblade to find her so no you don't." Sora glared at Riku and looked to Yukara, she had Kairi in her and was giving the okay to Sora,
"Riku, come on, why don't you come with me? We'll get Kairi's heart back and go back to our world!"
Riku laughed slightly,
"You had your chance, now I don't need your help. I have the Heartless...."
He raised his hand and Sora turned around, A black heartless had appeared that looked just like Sora. He backed up slightly and turned back around,
"What's wrong with you? The heartless will swallow your heart if you keep this up!"
Riku smirked and waved his hand in a care-free manner,
"That'll never happen, you can go so your 'friends' now...."
Sora looked up to Yukara, she backed up a bit and took a running jump towards Sora, a secret hatch open and Sora fell through. Yukara and Kairi soon followed.
Riku's eyes widened as Yukara jumped through with Sora, not to mention she took Kairi with her. He didn't understand, why did she take Kairi and go with Sora? Last time he checked she was best friends with him, not Sora.....'Oh well, its not like they'll get off this ship without me seeing them.' he thought to himself. Riku turned back around to Hook,
"Make sure they don't get off this ship, kill them if you have to but don't harm Kairi or Yukara." he ordered.
Hook glared at the boy then looked to his crew,
"Well you heard the boy, FIND THEM!"
His crew nodded and ran bellow the deck to search for the group.
Sora looked around the room, he saw his friends sitting against the wall with there heads hanging.
"Goofy, Donald!" the boy said cheerfully.
His two friends looked up and smiled,
"Sora!" they said together.
"Yukara you're here too? And you have Kairi!" said Donald.
She nodded and walked over to them,
"I'm sorry I had to send you down here....if I would of let you stay, Riku would of known I was helping you and Kairi would still be up there."
Everyone nodded and forgave her, she looked around to find Sora and saw him stand over Kairi.
"Sora...." said Yukara.
"She's lost her heart hasn't she?" he asked turning around to face his friend.
Yukara nodded and walked over to Kairi, she bent down and picked her up.
"Come on, we need to get to your ship and leave this place." said Yukara walking into the center of the room and stopping.
She sat Kairi down and held her hands out in front of her,
"Katara!"
A golden circle had formed around everyone and they started to disappear,
"Yukara what are you doing?" Sora called.
"I'm teleporting us to the top!" she answered.
With that they had fully disappeared and just as Yukara had said, they had arrived at the top of the ship.
"Come on lets go!" called Donald.
They all nodded and ran towards their ship.
"What's this? Going so soon Sora?" someone said.
The whole group turned to see Riku right behind them,
"I can't let you leave and take Kairi as well, so I'll give you two choices. One, you can stay on the ship and do as I say or two, you can give Kairi back to me and leave. Now which is gonna be?"
Everyone glared at him, even Goofy who was not one to dislike people.
"Neither, we're taking Kairi with us." said Sora.
Riku laughed slightly,
"Then you'll just have to pay for your mistake!" he said pulling out his sword.
"Sora take Kairi!" yelled Yukara laying her down.
Yukara stretched her arm out and a small ball of energy started to form. Sora came behind his friend and picked Kairi up into his arms, he quickly ran back to his other friends,
"Yuka! We'll wait for you on the ship!" he said running on the ship with Donald and Goofy.
Riku started walking towards the ship and Yukara,
"Riku stop where you are! I'm not afraid to hurt you if you don't!" Yukara yelled.
The boy acted as if he didn't hear her, she closed her eyes,
"I'm sorry Riku...."
She brought her hand out in front of her,
"Sincende!"
The ball of energy flew from her hand and slammed into Riku, sending him flying into the ships cabin. The dust had settled and Riku was slumped next to the wall holding his sides, he looked up to her with a look of sadness on his face. Yukara turned and ran into the ship, the door closed and the ship lift from the deck and took off. Riku stood up slowly and cast cure on himself, he watched the ship disappear and then opened a portal and stepped through.
Riku exited the portal and fell onto the floor, he was breathing hard as he stood up to walk to his room.
"Its not wise to travel so far without a ship, Where's Kairi and your other friend?" Maleficent asked.
"Yukara took her and left with Sora..."
Maleficent eyes widened,
"Do you mean to tell me that the other Princess of Heart is gone!?"
Riku turned to face her,
"Kairi is Princess?"
The witch nodded,
"Without her we cannot open the final door, you must get her back Riku!" Maleficent demanded.
Riku waved his hand and started to walk away,
"Wait just a second Riku, its time to summon forth your true powers." Maleficent called to him.
"My true powers?" he asked.
"Yes my dear your true powers..."
She held her hand out and Riku started to glow and a green flame surrounded him........
A/N: WOOT WOOT!!!!!! Yay im finally done, I thought I'd never finish it. Oh well, I hope this will all make you happier, I dunno when the next chapter will be up. Soon I hope, I'm trying to make them all the same length. I dunno about you, but that really can fry ones brain. And in this heat it doesn't really help :'( Well buh-bye for now.
-Kairi-
Chapter 3
A/N: Okay now, I guess I can't say much for this. Well except I don't own Kingdom Hearts so it wont help you to sue me.
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
~Dream or memory~
~*~Name of a place or persons PoV~*~
~*~
~Destiny Island? How could this be? I saw this place disappear,
"Sora! Sora over here!" Kairi called.
I looked up from the dock. Kairi, Riku, and Yukara were all standing on the bridge near the shack.
"Huh?" I said.
"Come on you lazy bum get over here!" She called again.
I stood up and ran over to the shack and up to the bridge. Kairi was the only one who looked at me,
"Hey what's wrong with Riku and Yukara?" I asked.
Kairi looked over to them,
"They're just illusions, this is what you wanted, see if you ever stopped thinking about them they would just fade away until you wanted them back." Kairi explained.
"Then how come you can talk to me?" I asked.
I never thought I could ask so many questions in one day,
"I dunno, you just can I guess." Kairi answered.
I looked at her for a second then out of the corner of my eye I saw Yukara and Riku begin to fade,
"No wait!" I called out.
The illusion known as Riku turned to me, he moved his lips as if trying to speak but nothing came out. He moved towards and pushed at my chest....~
"Huh?" I said opening my eyes.
There was a skinny looking golden colored dog sitting in front of me.
"What a dream..." I said leaning my head back down.
The dog then jumped on my chest,
"Whoa! This isn't a dream!" I stood up and looked around.
"Where am I?" I asked.
I looked to my right and saw a building.
"Oh, boy..." I mumbled.
I looked back down at the dog sitting at my feet,
"Do you know where we are?" I asked him.
He perked his ear up and turn around and ran away.
"Hey..." I called after the dog.
I rolled my eyes and ran after the dog, I looked around at the new town I was in.
"Not even a week and I've been in two different worlds." I mumbled to myself.
~*~In a castle~*~
"Ugh my head....where am I?" Yukara asked.
She looked around the room, 'This place.....I've been here before.....' she thought to herself. Someone pulled the door open quickly and walked in, it was Riku,
"Oh good your awake, its been almost three days." Riku said cheerfully.
"I've been out of it for three whole bloody days?!" said Yukara.
He nodded and walked over and sat one the bed,
"Some sorceress found us just outside this castle, she seems nice and all but I'm not gonna get to cozy. We still have to find Sora and Kairi after all." He explained.
Yukara stared at Riku like he was an idiot,
"You mean to tell me that you let some weirdo take us in? And that you have no idea where Kairi and Sora are!"
"I'm sure there fine." Riku said calmly.
"Fine? Riku do you not remember seeing Kairi disappear, and that we have no idea what happened to Sora cause I let the darkness swallow us?" Yukara snapped as she jumped out of bed.
Riku looked up at her, she was grabbing some potions and other stuff.
"What are you doing Yuka?" Riku asked.
"I'm going to find our friends, you can come or sit here and be pampered by some old witch." she relied.
He smirked and stood up,
"And let you have all the fun of finding them no way!"
Yukara shrugged and grabbed her sword, Riku pulled his blade out and they walked out of the room. Yukara looked down the halls, once she was sure it was safe she turned to her right and sprinted down the hall. Riku followed her and looked around for anyone or anything trying to stop them. At the end of the hallway, Yukara stopped suddenly.
"Yukara what's wrong?" Riku asked.
She didn't answer, she just stared at the statue if front of them. Riku looked at it as well, there was a King and a Queen standing in the front, and in the back there was another man and woman. The woman in the back....it felt as if he knew her before. The woman if the front looked a lot like Yukara.
"Mom? Sapphire?" Yukara mumbled.
"Yukara its just a statue, come on lets go."
Riku said pulling her away from the statue.
"Going so soon? Where ever to my dears?" a calm yet cool voice asked.
Riku turned to see the sorceress that saved them. She took a few steps closer to them,
"Ah yes, your mother and her friend were both extraordinary people, to bad they are no longer with us." she said warmly.
"How do you know my mom?" asked Yukara.
"I don't know them, I have a good friend who does. Now where are you two going?" She asked again.
"We're going to search for our friends Maleficent." said Riku.
She nodded her head, and turned her back to them.
"I will help you, im sure if they went anywhere it would be Taverse Town."
She looked back at them and opened a black portal. She had Riku and Yukara step in first and then she followed. In a matter of minutes they arrived in a town. Heartless materialized but then disappeared at the sight of the sorceress.
"I'll be back for you shortly, just stay here." Maleficent said disappearing into the portal.
Yukara turned her head towards an alley, someone was back there laughing. She nudged Riku's shoulder and he went over to the alley with her.
"Riku!" Sora called out. "Riku your okay!"
"Of course, you wouldn't expect anything else would you?" Riku asked.
"And Yukara's safe too, have you guys found Kairi?" Sora asked worriedly.
"Afraid not Sora, we were lucky to find you so quick." Yukara replied.
Sora nodded sadly,
"Aw its ok Sora, we'll find her don't worry. Oh and by the way, who are they?" Yukara asked pointing to the two people behind him.
"Oh these are my friends, Donald and Goofy, they've been helping me search for you." Sora replied.
Yukara nodded and looked towards Riku, he did not look impressed at all by this.
"And we have this cool rocket we can take to other worlds, so you guys want to come with us to find Kairi?" Sora asked.
Before they even had a chance to answer Donald objected.
"They can't come!"
"Huh? Why not? These are my friends you know!" argued Sora.
"Uh Sora ya know...." said Goofy pointing behind him.
"Huh?"
Sora turned to see what Goofy was pointing at, Riku and Yukara were no where to be seen.
Sora sighed in disappointment and looked at the ground.
"Nice going...." he said sadly.
Sora walked over to the stairs the went to Leon's place, Donald and Goofy followed.
Up on a building edge Riku watched Sora and his 'new friends' enter the house. Yukara walked over to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. Riku continued to look at the house.
"Riku are you okay?" Yukara asked.
He didn't answer, he jumped down from the roof and landed on the pavement gracefully and Yukara followed. Just at the time maleficent showed up again. Riku paid no attention to her arrival, he glared at Donald and Goofy. 'They took my best friend away from me.....they'll pay.....' Riku thought to himself. Maleficent grinned, she could feel the pain and hate coming from Riku. She knew it wouldn't be long before she could bring him to total darkness. A thought came to her head, if she added to this he would come sooner.
"You see? It's just as I told you. While you toiled away trying to find your dear friend, he quite simply replaced you with some new companions. Evidently, now he values them for more than he does you. You're better off without that wretched boy. Now, think no more of him, and come with me. I'll help you find what you're searching for..." Maleficent said wickedly.
"Don't say that about Sora! He'd never do a thing like that!" Yukara snapped.
Both Riku and Maleficent turned to her, Riku had a shocked look and Maleficent looked disgusted.
"Fine then, if you believe so strongly in this then stay here with that little brat...." She relied calmly.
Yukara glared at her,
"I think I will stay, better then listening to some crazy old witch bad mouth our friends!" said Yukara.
She turned on her heel and walked to the door. Riku watched her, 'She wouldn't really go in there would she?' Riku asked himself. Yukara put her hand on the door handle and turned to Riku,
"Good-bye Riku, enjoy your new life."
And with that Yukara opened the door and walked in. Riku was confused, new life? Did Yukara see something he didn't?
"Come on Riku, we don't need that girl." Maleficent said pushing him to the portal.
Sora looked over to the door as it opened, Yukara walked in and the room went silent.
"Hey! Where's Riku?" Sora asked.
"He left, some old witch tricked him into thinking you replaced us."
Sora looked at her with wide eyes,
"I'd never do that, these guys needed my help and I needed there's....why would he ever think that?" Yukara shook her head and shrugged.
"Donald, I say we let her come with us." said Goofy.
Donald looked at him like he was crazy,
"Why? She'd probably just slow us down!"
Yukara pulled out her blade,
"You wanna say that again? I don't think your King would be to happy with you right now if he heard you acting like this."
Everyone looked at her,
"You know King Mickey?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah, my guardian stopped there one time for some help." she replied.
"Wait a minute, your Yukara aren't you?" asked Leon.
"Yup, the one and only."
Yuffie and Aerith gasped, and Sora was confused, and Donald and Goofy were shocked.
"Gawrsh Yukara you've grown a lot since the last time we all saw ya." said Goofy.
Yukara nodded and turned her attention to Leon,
"So, Where's Ansem?"
Leon closed his eyes and shook his head,
"He disappeared with our world, he's no longer with us."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that...."
Aireth walked up to Yukara,
"Where's Sapphire?"
Yukara looked away from everyone,
"She died in the last world we were in, the gummi ship exploded I guess."
Everyone but Sora was confused,
"You guess?" everyone said together.
"Sapphire told her to stay with my friends and me, we were at our camp when we saw the ship explode." Sora answered for her.
"Oh I see..." said Aireth sadly.
Donald walked up to Yukara,
"Aw, I'm sorry for what I said before your-" Donald was cut off by Yukara putting her hand to his beak.
She shook her head and pulled her hand away, he nodded,
"Anyway, would you come along with us Yukara?" asked Goofy.
"Of course, we still need to find Kairi and King Mickey." She replied.
Everyone nodded,
"Hey Cid, is our ship ready for take off yet?" Sora asked.
"Yep, sure is, it'll be waitin for ya at the entrance." replied Cid.
"Okay then, I guess we'll be going now, see ya later." said Sora walking out the door.
Goofy, Yukara, and Donald followed.
~*~On the gummi ship~*~
Yukara sat down in the back of the gummi ship, she watched the others get in their seats and start the ship.
"So where are we heading to?" Yukara asked.
Sora looked back at her and motioned her up there,
"See that star right there?" he asked.
"Yeah, that's Halloween town." she replied.
Sora nodded,
"Well that's where we're going then we'll go to either Atlantica or Never land." Sora explained.
Just as Yukara stood up to go back to her seat she looked out the window,
"Uhh Sora, not to burst yer bubble of anything, but the next time you plan to go somewhere make sure that there aren't any 10,000 pound whales around!"
Sora looked out the window, and sure enough there was a whale heading strait for them with his mouth open.
"Uhh guys you may want to hold onto something...." said Sora.
Everyone grabbed a hold of their seat and Monstro swallowed them up.
~ "It's true! I saw it with my own eyes!" said Sora excitedly.
" You sure you didn't just hear it this time?" Riku asked.
Sora shrugged,
"What difference does it make? There's a huge monster in there, I tell you!"
Riku smiled slightly,
"All right. Suppose there really is a monster... Think we can beat it by ourselves, Sora?" he asked.
Sora nodded his head,
"No problem. Let's do it! Listen! There! Can you hear it growling?"
Riku put a finger to his lips,
"Shh, quiet. We've gotta be careful." Riku whispered as they crept around the corner of the tunnel.
The two boys looked around in disappointment,
"See that? It was just the wind making that noise." said Riku looking around.
Sora looked at the ground in defeat,
"Aw, man. I wish it was a monster! Hold on! What's that over there?" asked Sora looking at a door.
"A window, or maybe a door? It won't open." Riku replied.~
Sora woke up to see his companions were laying only a few feet from him, "
Is everyone in one piece?" he asked.
Donald and Goofy looked at him and nodded there head, but there was no reply from Yukara.
"Uhh...Yuka?" Sora called out.
"Sora! She's over there on that boat!" Donald quacked.
Sora looked towards the beat up boat, and sure enough she was sitting there talking to someone. They swam over to the boat and climbed up,
"Hey Yuka, who ya talking to?" Goofy asked.
"That old man over there." She replied pointing in front of her.
"Oh hello everybody, im guess the whale swallowed you too?" the man asked.
Sora nodded and Jiminy jumped onto his shoulder.
"Geppetto! Nice to see you again!" he chirped.
"Ah Jiminy, long time no see." he replied.
He looked over to Sora and his group,
"My name is Geppetto. I'm Pinocchio's father. When we got separated, I traveled all over, looking for him. Thank goodness we're together again." he said politely.
Pinoocchio looks over the edge of the ship, he notices a silver haired boy walking into the chamber. He looked back at his father to the chamber door, Pinocchio smiled slightly and jumped over the edge unnoticed. Geppetto rambled on and on about his adventure and his son, Yukara raised an eyebrow and looked over to where Pinoccio was. To her shock he wasn't there, she tugged on Goofy's sleeve,
"What is it Yukara?" he asked.
"Pinocchio's gone!" she replied.
His eyes widened slightly, Geppetto was still talking
"....isn't that right Pinocchio? uh....Pinocchio?"
Geppetto looks around the ship,
"Sora lets go find Pinoccio before he gets in more trouble." said Yukara.
Sora nodded and they jumped over the edge and went into the chamber.
"Hey there he is!" said Yukara.
"Oh hey guys." Pinoccio said happily.
"What are you doing? Come on, let's go back to your boat." said Sora.
Goofy nodded, "You know, Geppetto's awfully worried about you."
Sora looked at his group and then back to puppet,
"Pinocchio, stop fooling around! This is no time for games!"
The puppet did nothing, a voice spoke out,
"But, Sora, I thought you liked games. Or are you too cool to play them now that you have the Keyblade?"
Sora and Yukara looked up, It was Riku.
"Riku! Wh-What are you doing here?" Sora asked.
He laughed slightly,
"Just playing with Pinocchio."
Yukara stepped forwards but Goofy stopped her,
"You know what I mean! What about Kairi? Did you find her? Is she okay?" he asked.
Riku raised an eyebrow,
"Maybe. Catch us and maybe I'll tell you what I know."
Yukara broke away from Goofy's grip,
"Why don't you tell us now?" she asked.
Riku just laughed and grabbed Pinocchio and ran,
"Get back here!" yelled Yukara running after him.
"Yukara wait!" Donald called after her.
To late she had already gone through the chamber door.
~*~Later in Chamber Six~*~
(A/N: Sora and co. aren't there yet so its just Yukara and Riku oh and also im not gonna put the first boss fight in here okay?)
"Maleficent!?" Yukara snapped as the witch walked through the portal.
"What the hell is wrong with you Riku?" Yukara asked.
"Nothings wrong with me, its Sora. He wasn't the one who was looking for Kairi, was he? No I think not." Riku replied.
"Riku he's been looking for you and Kairi, if you just stopped listening to that witch...." she trailed off.
"She's helping me find Kairi, once I find her I'll leave Maleficent."
Yukara sighed sadly and Sora, Donald, and Goofy entered the room.
"Riku! What's the matter with you? What are you thinking? Don't you realize what you're doing?" Sora asked.
Riku smirked,
"I was about to ask you the same thing, Sora. You only seem interested in running around and showing off that Keyblade these days. Do you even want to save Kairi?" he asked.
Sora was hurt by this,
"I do but I'll need all the help I can get."
Riku smirked and picked up the motionless puppet and jumped down into a pit, Sora and Yukara jumped in after him. The pit lead all the way back into the mouth, Riku stood up on a ledge looking down at Geppetto,
"Pinocchio! Pinocchio! Please! Give me back my son!" he cried.
Riku shook his head,
"Sorry, old man. I have some unfinished business with this puppet." Riku replied coldly.
"He's no puppet! Pinocchio is my little boy!"
"He is unusual, I'll give you that. Not many puppets have hearts. I'm not sure, but maybe he can help someone who's lost theirs." said Riku looking at the puppet.
Both Yukara and Sora stepped forward,
"You know where Kairi is?" Yukara asked.
"Where is she Riku? We want to see her!" said Sora.
"What do you care about her Sora?" Riku asked harshly.
With that Riku walked off into the chamber.
Sora glared in Riku's direction, he then jumped up to the boats deck,
"Here take this Sora, it'll help you jump higher and farther."
Geppetto handed him the stone,
"Please save my son..."
Sora nodded once and jumped across to the ledge where Riku once stood, Yukara and the others soon followed. He looked at all his friends and then turned to enter the chamber door.
"Riku!" Yukara called out.
He turned to face her and smiled slightly,
"Hey, let Pinocchio go, Riku." said Sora.
Riku's smile turned into a smirk,
"A puppet that's lost its heart to the Heartless... Maybe it holds the key to helping Kairi. How about it, Sora? Let's join forces to save her. We can do it, together." said Riku, he gave a hopeful look at Yukara.
Sora pulled out his Keyblade and got in a fighting position.
"What? You'd rather fight me? Over a puppet that has no heart?" Riku asked.
"Heart or no heart, at least he still has a conscience." Sora replied.
Yukara looked at both of her friends, they wouldn't really fight with each other would they? They were best friends no matter what, why the sudden change? Riku laughed slightly,
"It's a piece of wood Sora, how could it cave a conscience?" Sora looked at him,
"All things have a heart and a conscience." said Sora.
"You might not hear it, but right now it's loud and clear. And it's telling me you're on the wrong side!" Sora continued.
Riku pulled out his blade,
"Then you leave me no choice." Riku said coldly.
Just as Sora was about to strike, a huge heartless appeared behind Riku. A portal also appeared behind Riku, he looked at Yukara and waited. She slowly started to walk over to him and Riku stretched out his hand, Sora looked over to Yukara.
"Huh Yukara! What are you doing?! Wait!" Sora yelled.
It was to late, Riku had already pulled her into the portal and they were gone.
~*~On a ship~*~
Riku and Yukara walk out of the portal to see Kairi laying down in front of them, Yukara smiled slightly.
"Kairi!" she said happily.
Kairi still remained where she was, Yukara was slightly confused.
"Ah I see you came back Yukara, truly is a surprise." said Maleficent.
Yukara paid no attention to her, she was worried about her friend at the moment.
"So, Kairi's like a lifeless puppet now?" Riku asked.
"Precisely." Was all Maleficent said.
To Yukara she seamed rather happy about it too.
"And her heart was..."
"Taken by the Heartless, no doubt."
They stood in silence for a minute,
"Tell me! What can we do to get our friends heart back?" Riku asked.
Maleficent grinned wickedly, she could get this boy to do her dirty work and that boy, Sora, wouldn't be able to stop her. She could easily keep the boy busy while Riku took them to her. A few deaths here and there were no biggy to her, she would gather all the princesses and open the door. She laughed to herself, 'I already have four of the princesses, and I also have the girl Ansem wants. Everything is finally coming into place.' Maleficent thought to herself.
"There are seven maidens of the purest heart. We call them the princesses of heart. Gather them together, and a door will open to the heart of all worlds. Within lies untold wisdom. There you will surely find a way to recover Kairi's heart. Now, I'll grant you a marvelous gift. The power to control the Heartless." she explained.
Yukara stared at Riku in horror, 'How could he do this, doesn't he know the darkness will use and destroy him like some little rag doll?' Yukara thought to herself. He closed his eyes as the green energy covered his body, 'The darkness...I...I feel great power in it...' Riku opened his eyes and looked to Yukara to Kairi,
"Soon, we'll have Kairi back and we can go home." said Riku.
"But what about Sora? Isn't he coming home with us too?" Yukara asked.
"Who cares if he does or not, he's not helping us get Kairi's heart back is he?"
Yukara sighed and walked passed him,
"Riku the next princess we need you to get is at these three star locations, the princess you will be kidnaping are Aurora, Snow White, and Cinderella. They shouldn't be to hard for they trust anyone, so they would have a hard time not trusting a couple of innocent children." said Maleficent.
Riku waved his hand and opened a portal, him and Yukara walked through and arrived at the first star Maleficent showed them, there they were to find Princess Aurora. Only thing they didn't know was were to find her and how to capture her. They walked up the trail that lead to the castle in silence, every now and then Riku summoned some heartless to search the area. As they got closer to the gate, they noticed some guards up at the top,
"Riku, can't we use the heartless to get us in there?" Yukara asked.
Riku nodded and summoned a group of heartless, "Now we must run to the gate and act like their chasing us okay?" Riku asked.
"Uh huh, lets do it." Yukara answered.
Riku held up his hand and put up one finger, a few seconds later he put up a second finger, and then finally he but up a third finger and swung his hand in front of him. They both started running and a guard noticed them,
"We order you to stop!" the guard yelled.
"Sorry I prefer to live at least another year!" Yukara replied.
The guards were confused, they still did nothing though,
"Ugh fine I'll do it the easy way..." Yukara mumbled.
Riku looked at her, easy way? There was an easier way then letting the heartless chase them? She put her hands out in front of her,
"Sincende!" she yelled.
A black and blue energy beam shot from her hand at slammed into the castle door. The door exploded and they continued to run towards the gate,
"Stop them! We cant let them reach the Queen and her visitors!" A guard yelled.
Both Riku and Yukara smirked as they pulled out there blades, a group of guards charge at them. Riku jumped out of the way and Yukara took two of the guards in front of her down,
"Firega!" Riku called out, as he took down the guards behind Yukara,
"Thanks!" said Yukara.
"You owe me one Yukara!" he replied.
She nodded and they continued up to the castle, knocking out any guards that got in their way. They opened the double doors at the entrance and ran inside, Riku looked around for a moment then took off towards the stairs to his left. Yukara followed him,
"Riku are you sure that the Princess will be up here?" she asked while running.
Riku nodded,
"She'll be up here, im sure of it!" he answered.
They continued to run up the stairs until they reached a single door, Riku grabbed the handle and pulled. The door didn't move,
"Here let me try." said Yukara.
She grabbed the door and pulled it, it opened as if it had never been locked. Riku was confused, why hadn't the door opened for him, yet it opened for her? Yukara walked in first, she looked around and saw just a glimpse of a person running out to the balcony. She slowly made her way towards the arch that lead outside, Riku came in after her and followed beside her. They peered out the arch to see three women standing near the edge,
"Excuse me? Would your names happen to be Aurora, Snow White, or Cinderella?" Yukara asked.
The three nodded,
"Yes that is us, do you need something?" Aurora asked.
"Yes, your world is about to be consumed by the Heartless, we need you to come with us so we can keep you safe." Yukara replied.
Aurora nodded, as did the others,
"Okay we will come with you."
Riku nodded and turned away, Yukara and the other princess followed him. Once they reached the thrown room each princess gasped. Bodies of soldiers laid motionless on the ground,
"The Heartless have been here, they'll be after you next. We must hurry!" Riku ordered.
They ran out to the world gates, there was a gummi ship already waiting for them there. Yukara opened the hatch and everyone walked in, Riku and Yukara walk up to the cockpit,
"Do you wanna fly it Yuka?" Riku asked. "Are you crazy? I cant drive this thing!" she answered in a squeaky voice.
"Why not? You've lived on a gummi for most of your life." he asked.
"Sapphire might have been cool, but she wasn't insane! She wouldn't let me drive if her life depended on it."
Riku was still puzzled,
"Again, can I ask why?"
"Do you really think if I knew how to fly a ship, I wouldn't of come back to the island?"
He shook his head, she had a point. She probably would of come back to the island, well no time to think of this. Riku shrugged and sat down in the pilots seat, he started the ship and flipped a few switches. The ship hovered above the ground and then took off, Riku set the ship to auto-pilot and walked back to where Yukara was.
"You okay? You look a bit tired."
She shook her head and looked up to him,
"Nah I'm fine, don't worry about it." She answered.
"Oh okay, so what was that magic you used on those guards back there? I've never seen anything like it." said Riku changing the subject.
"Oh that, I dunno it just kinda happens you know? Like when im angry or scared most of the time."
Riku nodded and looked around the ship, it wasn't much. There was mainly just the room where the princesses were and the ships main control room, one would expect more from Maleficent but they could really care less.
"Riku...Why did you accept the power to control the heartless? You've seen what they can do..." Yukara asked out of the blue.
He looked at her in confusion and then shrugged,
"I guess it was to help get Kairi's heart back and to....." Riku went silent.
"To what Riku? Come on you can tell me." said Yukara.
Riku looked at the floor with great interest now,
"Prove myself."
Yukara looked away and made a weird face, 'Prove himself? Why would he need to, he's perfect the way he is...' She shrugged it off and looked back to him, Riku's head turned to the ships controls.
"Ah we're almost there, I suppose Sora and his other friends will be there soon..." Riku said, almost whispering.
"Hey, I've been wondering, where did you find Kairi? Did she still have her heart or was it already..." Yukara asked trailing off.
"Gone, her heart was gone. I found her in Hallow Bastion shortly after you left to join Sora."
She sighed and walked over to one of the seats, she couldn't understand why Riku held such a grudge against Donald and Goofy. If he would spend just a few minutes with them, she was sure he would come to trust and like them. Of course, she had known them for quite some time, she was at their Kings palace after her mother had died. That was where she met Sapphire and they spent a lot of time together before they started traveling. The thing was, whenever she asked about her mother everyone changed the subject or just said when your older.
~"Sapphire why did we leave? There weren't any bad people on Destiny Island, Riku and my other friends told me." said Yukara, praying that this would change her guardians mind and go back to the Island.
Her guardian shook her head and turned to her,
"Yukara we couldn't stay there, that world will soon be consumed by the darkness. And your friend, Riku, his very soul craves to serve that darkness. Yuka, there will come a time where you wont be able to trust Riku anymore, he wont even remember you or the rest of your friends and may try to kill you."
The young girl was confused at this point, how could anyone say something so harsh about her best friend. He wouldn't hurt her or his friends even if his life depended on it, that's just not Riku.
"What do you mean I wont be able to trust him?" she asked.
"Because Yukara, you....You're a princess, your mother and father ruled over a kingdom that was bathed in the light. Any type of evil or darkness was a mere myth, everyone refused to believe that there were such things. Then when you were born though, that all changed. You were very special, you were born with sacred powers, powers only the purest of hearts can hold," explained Sapphire.
"People soon became jealous, you had powers that even your father and mother knew nothing about. That's when darkness came to be, it swallowed your world and transformed in into the heart of all worlds....it became known as Kingdom Hearts, The Door of Light if you would."
She paused for a second and continued,
"This child, is why Riku might trying killing you and your friends, the darkness feeds on the light. If Riku or any person who served the darkness was to ever capture you and take your heart, they could rule the world and not have to gather the seven Princesses of Heart."
Yukara was strangely hurt by these words, she was a princess and her world was changed because of her and her powers. It wasn't fair, she didn't want to be a princess, she just wanted to be with her friends.....
"Its not fair....I wont accept this....No! I'm not a princess!" She yelled running out of the room.~
Yukara remembered that day clearly, that's when she slow began to change. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and months into years....until finally she became what she is today. She decided it was best not to tell her friends, they'd probably get real weird around her. So her life remained a secret and only a few selected people knew about her being a princess. Yukara jerked her head up to see Riku staring at her,
"Um are you okay? You started spacing out and wouldn't reply to anything." said Riku.
"Yes, yes im fine, I was just thinking that's all..." She answered.
"Oh ok, that's good, you were almost acting like Kairi there for a sec, but anyways, we're just about to land. Maleficent called and said she would take them to Hallow Bastion where they'll be safe." he explained.
Yukara nodded and stood up, she wondered if maleficent knew anything about her being a princess. She remembered her saying she knew someone who knew her mother, but she never said who...
The ship slowly landed on the old pirates ship and Riku and Yukara stepped out, Maleficent walked over to them.
"Thank you for gathering the princesses for me you two, we are no a step closer to reviving you friend."
The sorceress turned from them and stepped into the ship, the hatch closed and the ship began to rise from the ship and take off.
"You boy! There's another ship heading our way and it has that blasted keyblader on it, should I destroy it?" the captain yelled.
Yukara Turned to Riku, he wouldn't really hurt Sora would he?
"No let them come, I'll handle them..." he said walking away.
She followed her friend up the stairs and into the room where Kairi sat silently, Riku walked over to her and put her arm on his shoulder. Yukara also walked over and took Kairi's other arm,
"What are we doing?" she asked.
"We're going to let Sora see Kairi, just like he wanted to earlier."
To Yukara this seemed wrong and sick, using Kairi's lifeless body to hurt Sora. She sighed to herself and continued on to the deck. Once out on the deck they sat Kairi down and leaned against the railing. Riku looked up to see Sora's ship being pulled in. Captain Hook had his men pull the boy and his followers pulled from the ship, Sora was knocked out and Donald and Goofy struggled to get to Sora. Goofy caught a glimpse of Yukara above him, he turned and she froze,
"Yukara! Please you gotta help us!" Goofy called.
Yukara closed her eyes slowly and turned from him,
"Take them to the cell..." she said in a choked up voice.
In all truth she didn't want to do that, but she had to or else Riku would get mad. She could still hear Goofy and Donald calling for both Sora and her, Yukara looked to Riku and he had a smirk on his face. He looked down upon the now stirring Sora. The younger boy shook his head and looked up to Riku,
"Riku! Riku, what's going on here? And Where's Kairi." Sora asked.
Riku stepped over to Yukara reveling Kairi, Sora gasped slightly and started to walk to Kairi,
"Stop where you are Sora!" Riku snapped.
Sora stopped and looked to his friend, Yukara looked to Sora and nodded her head to Kairi. Sora's face turned into a puzzled look, she then mouthed, 'I'll get Kairi, you keep Riku busy...' Sora nodded slightly and started talking to Riku,
"Riku, come on I have a right to see my friend you know!" he protested.
"Well you were to busy showing off your keyblade to find her so no you don't." Sora glared at Riku and looked to Yukara, she had Kairi in her and was giving the okay to Sora,
"Riku, come on, why don't you come with me? We'll get Kairi's heart back and go back to our world!"
Riku laughed slightly,
"You had your chance, now I don't need your help. I have the Heartless...."
He raised his hand and Sora turned around, A black heartless had appeared that looked just like Sora. He backed up slightly and turned back around,
"What's wrong with you? The heartless will swallow your heart if you keep this up!"
Riku smirked and waved his hand in a care-free manner,
"That'll never happen, you can go so your 'friends' now...."
Sora looked up to Yukara, she backed up a bit and took a running jump towards Sora, a secret hatch open and Sora fell through. Yukara and Kairi soon followed.
Riku's eyes widened as Yukara jumped through with Sora, not to mention she took Kairi with her. He didn't understand, why did she take Kairi and go with Sora? Last time he checked she was best friends with him, not Sora.....'Oh well, its not like they'll get off this ship without me seeing them.' he thought to himself. Riku turned back around to Hook,
"Make sure they don't get off this ship, kill them if you have to but don't harm Kairi or Yukara." he ordered.
Hook glared at the boy then looked to his crew,
"Well you heard the boy, FIND THEM!"
His crew nodded and ran bellow the deck to search for the group.
Sora looked around the room, he saw his friends sitting against the wall with there heads hanging.
"Goofy, Donald!" the boy said cheerfully.
His two friends looked up and smiled,
"Sora!" they said together.
"Yukara you're here too? And you have Kairi!" said Donald.
She nodded and walked over to them,
"I'm sorry I had to send you down here....if I would of let you stay, Riku would of known I was helping you and Kairi would still be up there."
Everyone nodded and forgave her, she looked around to find Sora and saw him stand over Kairi.
"Sora...." said Yukara.
"She's lost her heart hasn't she?" he asked turning around to face his friend.
Yukara nodded and walked over to Kairi, she bent down and picked her up.
"Come on, we need to get to your ship and leave this place." said Yukara walking into the center of the room and stopping.
She sat Kairi down and held her hands out in front of her,
"Katara!"
A golden circle had formed around everyone and they started to disappear,
"Yukara what are you doing?" Sora called.
"I'm teleporting us to the top!" she answered.
With that they had fully disappeared and just as Yukara had said, they had arrived at the top of the ship.
"Come on lets go!" called Donald.
They all nodded and ran towards their ship.
"What's this? Going so soon Sora?" someone said.
The whole group turned to see Riku right behind them,
"I can't let you leave and take Kairi as well, so I'll give you two choices. One, you can stay on the ship and do as I say or two, you can give Kairi back to me and leave. Now which is gonna be?"
Everyone glared at him, even Goofy who was not one to dislike people.
"Neither, we're taking Kairi with us." said Sora.
Riku laughed slightly,
"Then you'll just have to pay for your mistake!" he said pulling out his sword.
"Sora take Kairi!" yelled Yukara laying her down.
Yukara stretched her arm out and a small ball of energy started to form. Sora came behind his friend and picked Kairi up into his arms, he quickly ran back to his other friends,
"Yuka! We'll wait for you on the ship!" he said running on the ship with Donald and Goofy.
Riku started walking towards the ship and Yukara,
"Riku stop where you are! I'm not afraid to hurt you if you don't!" Yukara yelled.
The boy acted as if he didn't hear her, she closed her eyes,
"I'm sorry Riku...."
She brought her hand out in front of her,
"Sincende!"
The ball of energy flew from her hand and slammed into Riku, sending him flying into the ships cabin. The dust had settled and Riku was slumped next to the wall holding his sides, he looked up to her with a look of sadness on his face. Yukara turned and ran into the ship, the door closed and the ship lift from the deck and took off. Riku stood up slowly and cast cure on himself, he watched the ship disappear and then opened a portal and stepped through.
Riku exited the portal and fell onto the floor, he was breathing hard as he stood up to walk to his room.
"Its not wise to travel so far without a ship, Where's Kairi and your other friend?" Maleficent asked.
"Yukara took her and left with Sora..."
Maleficent eyes widened,
"Do you mean to tell me that the other Princess of Heart is gone!?"
Riku turned to face her,
"Kairi is Princess?"
The witch nodded,
"Without her we cannot open the final door, you must get her back Riku!" Maleficent demanded.
Riku waved his hand and started to walk away,
"Wait just a second Riku, its time to summon forth your true powers." Maleficent called to him.
"My true powers?" he asked.
"Yes my dear your true powers..."
She held her hand out and Riku started to glow and a green flame surrounded him........
A/N: WOOT WOOT!!!!!! Yay im finally done, I thought I'd never finish it. Oh well, I hope this will all make you happier, I dunno when the next chapter will be up. Soon I hope, I'm trying to make them all the same length. I dunno about you, but that really can fry ones brain. And in this heat it doesn't really help :'( Well buh-bye for now.
-Kairi-