Daenerys: Hello, all! I'm Daenerys, but you may call me Danny if you so
wish. I am here to introduce the creation of Kingdom Hearts 2: Return 2 the
Light. Mind you that I do not own anyone from the Kingdom Hearts game,
however Amaya O'Donell is my personal creation. This will take place five
years after the end of the game and guess who is one of the main
characters! The one, the only Riku! He's twenty now and he has changed
quite a bit. *Smiles* You'll find out.
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Chapter 1: The End
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"Take care of her," said Riku to Sora. The Keyblade Master nodded to him and together they closed the door to the Darkness and to the world of the Heartless.
* * *
In a run down bar in the middle of a bad section of town, sat a lonely, miserable figure. She didn't care about her life at all. No one in her family would even talk to her anymore. She was a lost soul.
Of course, she was quite an attractive girl. Her silky black hair was pulled up into a messy ponytail, with bits of her hair out of the band, giving her a sweet appearance. Parts of her hair were dyed red. The bangs were that way and some other red spots were traveling back into the ponytail. Her skin was milky white and smooth. She had a definite Oriental look about her, but the few freckles that spattered her cheeks gave away her Irish heritage.
She liked the way her hair was the color of blood in those dyed areas. She went so far as to get an outfit that matched it. She wore a red halter- top that was gauzy on top and solid down the rest of the way. Over that, she wore a black leather corset that pushed her chest up so her breasts would look better and fuller. Over the corset, she wore a black leather biker-type jacket that had all kinds of zippers and pockets on it. She wore a red and black plaid mini skirt with black tights and black biker boots as well. She looked awesome and she knew it.
Her name was Amaya O'Donell. Her mom was Japanese and her dad was Irish. An odd combo for a kid though. None of her Japanese family members liked her or her dad and the same went for the Irish side with her and her mom.
Amaya finished up her third and final Budweiser for the evening. She didn't want to have a hangover in the morning while working at the Otaku Kitchen on 3rd at Main. It paid pretty good money for someone who couldn't get a degree. She earns a fat ten dollars an hour for being the sub-manager of the Kitchen.
One day, she might even get to manager.
She paid the bartender and left the establishment. Walking slowly, as to not give away the fact that she was a little tipsy, she looked up at the sky. Normally, one couldn't see the stars for the factories belching out their smoke.
However, tonight, the stars showed through the smog with amazing clarity. They swirled around as Amaya stumbled a little.
Suddenly, there was a different star that she had never seen before. It seemed to be made of dark light. "Weird," she mumbled. She staggered a bit more and lost sight of the star.
Shrugging it off as a side effect of the beer, she went to her apartment. There, she took a shower, got into her bedclothes and went headfirst into sleep.
* * *
It has been five years since the portal was closed. Riku didn't care about anything other than to get to Sora. He knew that he couldn't leave now, but one day the door would open. This one or maybe a different one.
Who knew? Riku sure didn't.
The Heartless were weak from being cut off from the other worlds. But, for some reason, they seemed to be getting stronger. They weren't so timid of Riku anymore, and that wasn't a good thing.
"The door must be opening," Riku said to himself, "But, who could open it?"
"Riku, my boy, did you really think that we would be kept in the darkness forever?" King Mickey said, coming up behind him. "Someone that has great power over both Light and Dark must be coming. We will be free!"
"Yeah, but with the Heartless reacting as they are, will they escape as well? We can't have them running around and causing trouble." His blue eyes, paler after being here for so long, looked at Mickey icily.
"True, true. But still, the Heartless shouldn't get out as long as we are prepared to keep them here," Mickey said, fidgeting under Riku's gaze.
Riku, sensing Mickey's discomfort, shifted his head slightly and his eyes were shadowed once more. However, he still continued to look at the oversized mouse, thinking about Sora and Kairi. He even thought about Selphie, Tidus and Wakka. They were all friends, but Sora meant the most to him.
Looking back to the place where the door once was, he sighed heavily. "One day, I will leave this place and I will come to visit, Sora. We will laugh about the good old days and think about what a great adventure we all had. I just hope we can get over all that's happened." With that, he turned and lay down, trying to get some sleep.
* * *
"One minute, ma'am! I'll get your tea in a minute," Amaya said to the lady behind her while balancing the tray heavily laden with full platters of food on one hand and a jug of iced tea in the other. Sitting the pitcher down first on a nearby table being cleaned by a busboy, she placed the tray down on the table near the diners that was at the moment clean and empty.
"Here you go, sir. One chicken teriyaki with extra lemon sauce, two General Tao's chicken to you and you, and a bowl of rice," she said to the people at the table. "Here is a fill up on the tea and I will get you your Coke." She filled up the glasses and scooped up the third. She turned to the lady that had been demanding her attention and gave her some more tea.
Hurrying back to the kitchen, she glanced quickly around the Otaku Kitchen. Today was one of the busiest days and they were short handed. The waiters and waitresses were having trouble keeping up with the tide of people coming in, the busboys were being run ragged, and the sub-manager was having some serious trouble keeping the cooks from just running out of the kitchen, screaming from all the pressure.
Cari, Tom, Erriol, and Tonya were sick and couldn't come in. Gina was getting married. This was not one of the Otaku Kitchen's better days.
Finished at the soda dispenser, Amaya hurried to give the soda. "I sure wish we supplied sake," she mumbled to herself once she was out of earshot of the customers. Sub-manager sure was a trying spot for someone who really had no clue what to do at these moments except to push ahead.
Finally, the influx trickled down to manageable proportions and finally stopped after two o'clock in the afternoon. The entirety of the Kitchen sighed with relief. The final customers for today were thanking the hosts for such a good meal.
It was three days before Christmas and they were closing for a week. There was to be a special on New Year's Eve for the sake bar next door. Half of the profits were to go to the Kitchen for supplying the Usagi Yasu with a party hall. The owners already agreed and the entire Otaku Kitchen would be shut down two days before hand and decorated during that time.
It made Amaya even more tired thinking about it. She wished she could just escape into a fantasyland and do nothing. Sighing, she went back to the chaotic world of the Otaku Kitchen to deal with the cleaning that needed to be done so they could all go home and get some rest.
* * *
"Mickey, look out!" yelled Riku. The Heartless were finally stirring up against them. They had been attacking for some time and Riku felt that it was near time to open the door. Suddenly, a huge Heartless stood up. It was the huge Behemoth. Riku fought it with the twisted Keyblade that appeared whenever he held the King's Keyblade. He hacked and slashed at the monstrosity and finally beat it.
He turned back around to find that the King had disappeared under a pile of Soldiers and Shadows. "Hold on," he called out to Mickey. He brought down the Keyblade on top of the pile. Shock waves burst from the tip and the Shadows were destroyed. He swung it down again and the Soldiers were destroyed as well.
"Thanks, my boy!" Mickey chirruped. He had cuts and bruises on him where the Heartless had hurt him. Otherwise, he was none the worse for wear. Riku smiled, but it wasn't the reassuring grin that he intended but a sardonic one instead.
"No problem. We have to work together in order to survive. The door must be very close to opening," Riku said. Mickey nodded.
Suddenly, the Heartless started to shrink back. Surprised by this, Mickey and Riku stayed put. They weren't about to pick a fight and if the Heartless withdrew like that, there must be some good reason.
A beam of light shot up through the ground. It caused a ripple effect and suddenly there was a street that they were looking down on.
People were bustling along a snowy sidewalk. Most were carrying bags with various names on them, such as Macy's and JcPenny. Others were just in a hurry to get out of the snow. Cars drove past, headlights on and moving slowly through the icy road.
Mickey cried out in shock as a different figure appeared, with a hat pulled down low over her eyes. There was light and dark raging around her as she moved through the crowd. No one in the road seemed to see the waves of this energy around this girl. Riku couldn't even talk. He was seeing into a different world and he saw the key to opening theirs.
She passed out of their vision and the "window" into the other world closed.
"That was-" Riku began.
"-the key," Mickey finished. Both of them were gasping for air, shocked to see their way out. The Heartless attacked all at once and Riku and Mickey both stopped gawking and started to fight again.
* * *
Amaya shook loose the snow that had accumulated on her coat after her trip through the snow. She was sure glad that she was home. She stripped the cold wet silk outfit from the Otaku Kitchen off of her, happy to get the clingy stuff away from her skin. Amaya got into her "cool" outfit (A/N: That "cool" outfit is the one she wore at the beginning of the story) and strolled into the kitchen to get a can of sake out of the fridge. She chugged it down and, after a moment's thought, grabbed two more and went back out into her little living room. She flopped onto the couch, grabbed the remote, and flipped on the TV. She opened one of the cans and drank it slowly, savoring the taste.
She eventually drained it and by that time, anything interesting that could have been aired was over. She took the second can and went out onto the fire escape landing. She sat there in the cold, drinking sake and wishing upon the first star she saw for a better life.
The star she had been wishing upon suddenly turned dark and pulsed. Amaya didn't notice, because she had stood up and was stepping over to the railing to look down on those still hurrying home. She all of a sudden lost her footing. She fell forward, grabbing for the railing to stop her fall. Only one problem, as she grabbed for the railing, her hand passed right through it. Startled, she tried to scream, but nothing came out. Amaya fell through the fire escape and three others just like it. She watched her body pass through the black painted steel with horror. She looked down and the people below her seemed to be transparent. Creatures were scuttling through them and no one seemed to notice. Amaya suddenly plunged through the people around her, through the pavement, and passed by the sewers. After that, she lost consciousness.
"Ah!" Amaya yelled as she suddenly woke up. Gasping, she looked around. It was dark everywhere. There was no light at all. "That doesn't make sense," mumbled Amaya, "How can I see without any light?"
Whatever she was on seemed solid. It looked kinda like gray marshmallow and seemed to come in spatters here and there, but were close enough together to move across.
She turned and looked the other direction. That way was a huge set of cathedral-like doors. They were so big, they seemed to be more than five times her size.
"There is no way I can open those," Amaya said, but she felt like she should try to open them. Grabbing the bar that could only be a handle, she pulled and tugged on it until she was exhausted. "What am I doing? I should be looking for a way out, not trying to open that door." Amaya stepped back from the door.
//Knock once,// a voice came out of the darkness around her. "What?! Who's there?" Amaya yelled. //Knock twice, knock three times and the door will open.// "What the hell?" Amaya was confused by who was talking to her. There didn't seem to be a voice, but who knew?
Looking at the door, she thought about how heavy it was and what the voice said to her. "Why not?" she shrugged. She approached the door and knocked once, twice, three times on the huge cathedral doors.
The ground under her feet started to shake and slowly the doors swung out to Amaya. As they opened more, the ground shook more and she lost her balance and fell on the ground.
Wave upon wave of Darkness flowed from the door. The creatures she had seen scuttling in her world were crawling out to the terrified Amaya. Other more powerful looking creatures came out behind the 'Scuttlers.'
She screamed in terror. Amaya tried to back away, but she was still on the ground and her feet couldn't get any traction on the marshmallow surface.
Suddenly, two different people came out of the door while the other creatures were coming out. One was a human and the other was a huge mouse.
"Close that door!" the mouse yelled to the human. "Yeah! I'm working on it!" cried the human, pushing on the tidal wave of darkness and the heavy door. Amaya felt that she should help, after all she did open the door. She scrambled up and ran past the terrors around her. Finally, she was at the door. She braced herself for a heavy shove, but the door had become light under her touch and slammed shut. Amaya overbalanced and, inevitably, fell.
The human was still standing next to the door. His eyes were in shadow, but his hair was white and a little longer than shoulder length. His head shifted, and she was rather surprised to see the icy blue eyes that peered out at her. His outfit was black. Black knee-length trench coat covered black jeans and a plain white T-shirt. He also wore black boots and gloves.
"Hello," he said to her, "My name is Riku. Thanks for setting us free." He extended his gloved hand and helped her up.
"And my name is Mickey," said the over-grown mouse. Amaya shook hands with him as well.
"My name is Amaya O'Donell," Amaya told them, "Where are we?"
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Daenerys: Well that's the first part. But don't get mad at me! I will get on that second part immediately! Yes, I know you guys hate cliffhangers as much as I do, but it gave the nicest touch don't you think? *Dodges thrown garbage* Yeesh, you guys aren't very nice. *Pouts cutely* Oh, well. Bye for now!
Chapter 1: The End
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"Take care of her," said Riku to Sora. The Keyblade Master nodded to him and together they closed the door to the Darkness and to the world of the Heartless.
* * *
In a run down bar in the middle of a bad section of town, sat a lonely, miserable figure. She didn't care about her life at all. No one in her family would even talk to her anymore. She was a lost soul.
Of course, she was quite an attractive girl. Her silky black hair was pulled up into a messy ponytail, with bits of her hair out of the band, giving her a sweet appearance. Parts of her hair were dyed red. The bangs were that way and some other red spots were traveling back into the ponytail. Her skin was milky white and smooth. She had a definite Oriental look about her, but the few freckles that spattered her cheeks gave away her Irish heritage.
She liked the way her hair was the color of blood in those dyed areas. She went so far as to get an outfit that matched it. She wore a red halter- top that was gauzy on top and solid down the rest of the way. Over that, she wore a black leather corset that pushed her chest up so her breasts would look better and fuller. Over the corset, she wore a black leather biker-type jacket that had all kinds of zippers and pockets on it. She wore a red and black plaid mini skirt with black tights and black biker boots as well. She looked awesome and she knew it.
Her name was Amaya O'Donell. Her mom was Japanese and her dad was Irish. An odd combo for a kid though. None of her Japanese family members liked her or her dad and the same went for the Irish side with her and her mom.
Amaya finished up her third and final Budweiser for the evening. She didn't want to have a hangover in the morning while working at the Otaku Kitchen on 3rd at Main. It paid pretty good money for someone who couldn't get a degree. She earns a fat ten dollars an hour for being the sub-manager of the Kitchen.
One day, she might even get to manager.
She paid the bartender and left the establishment. Walking slowly, as to not give away the fact that she was a little tipsy, she looked up at the sky. Normally, one couldn't see the stars for the factories belching out their smoke.
However, tonight, the stars showed through the smog with amazing clarity. They swirled around as Amaya stumbled a little.
Suddenly, there was a different star that she had never seen before. It seemed to be made of dark light. "Weird," she mumbled. She staggered a bit more and lost sight of the star.
Shrugging it off as a side effect of the beer, she went to her apartment. There, she took a shower, got into her bedclothes and went headfirst into sleep.
* * *
It has been five years since the portal was closed. Riku didn't care about anything other than to get to Sora. He knew that he couldn't leave now, but one day the door would open. This one or maybe a different one.
Who knew? Riku sure didn't.
The Heartless were weak from being cut off from the other worlds. But, for some reason, they seemed to be getting stronger. They weren't so timid of Riku anymore, and that wasn't a good thing.
"The door must be opening," Riku said to himself, "But, who could open it?"
"Riku, my boy, did you really think that we would be kept in the darkness forever?" King Mickey said, coming up behind him. "Someone that has great power over both Light and Dark must be coming. We will be free!"
"Yeah, but with the Heartless reacting as they are, will they escape as well? We can't have them running around and causing trouble." His blue eyes, paler after being here for so long, looked at Mickey icily.
"True, true. But still, the Heartless shouldn't get out as long as we are prepared to keep them here," Mickey said, fidgeting under Riku's gaze.
Riku, sensing Mickey's discomfort, shifted his head slightly and his eyes were shadowed once more. However, he still continued to look at the oversized mouse, thinking about Sora and Kairi. He even thought about Selphie, Tidus and Wakka. They were all friends, but Sora meant the most to him.
Looking back to the place where the door once was, he sighed heavily. "One day, I will leave this place and I will come to visit, Sora. We will laugh about the good old days and think about what a great adventure we all had. I just hope we can get over all that's happened." With that, he turned and lay down, trying to get some sleep.
* * *
"One minute, ma'am! I'll get your tea in a minute," Amaya said to the lady behind her while balancing the tray heavily laden with full platters of food on one hand and a jug of iced tea in the other. Sitting the pitcher down first on a nearby table being cleaned by a busboy, she placed the tray down on the table near the diners that was at the moment clean and empty.
"Here you go, sir. One chicken teriyaki with extra lemon sauce, two General Tao's chicken to you and you, and a bowl of rice," she said to the people at the table. "Here is a fill up on the tea and I will get you your Coke." She filled up the glasses and scooped up the third. She turned to the lady that had been demanding her attention and gave her some more tea.
Hurrying back to the kitchen, she glanced quickly around the Otaku Kitchen. Today was one of the busiest days and they were short handed. The waiters and waitresses were having trouble keeping up with the tide of people coming in, the busboys were being run ragged, and the sub-manager was having some serious trouble keeping the cooks from just running out of the kitchen, screaming from all the pressure.
Cari, Tom, Erriol, and Tonya were sick and couldn't come in. Gina was getting married. This was not one of the Otaku Kitchen's better days.
Finished at the soda dispenser, Amaya hurried to give the soda. "I sure wish we supplied sake," she mumbled to herself once she was out of earshot of the customers. Sub-manager sure was a trying spot for someone who really had no clue what to do at these moments except to push ahead.
Finally, the influx trickled down to manageable proportions and finally stopped after two o'clock in the afternoon. The entirety of the Kitchen sighed with relief. The final customers for today were thanking the hosts for such a good meal.
It was three days before Christmas and they were closing for a week. There was to be a special on New Year's Eve for the sake bar next door. Half of the profits were to go to the Kitchen for supplying the Usagi Yasu with a party hall. The owners already agreed and the entire Otaku Kitchen would be shut down two days before hand and decorated during that time.
It made Amaya even more tired thinking about it. She wished she could just escape into a fantasyland and do nothing. Sighing, she went back to the chaotic world of the Otaku Kitchen to deal with the cleaning that needed to be done so they could all go home and get some rest.
* * *
"Mickey, look out!" yelled Riku. The Heartless were finally stirring up against them. They had been attacking for some time and Riku felt that it was near time to open the door. Suddenly, a huge Heartless stood up. It was the huge Behemoth. Riku fought it with the twisted Keyblade that appeared whenever he held the King's Keyblade. He hacked and slashed at the monstrosity and finally beat it.
He turned back around to find that the King had disappeared under a pile of Soldiers and Shadows. "Hold on," he called out to Mickey. He brought down the Keyblade on top of the pile. Shock waves burst from the tip and the Shadows were destroyed. He swung it down again and the Soldiers were destroyed as well.
"Thanks, my boy!" Mickey chirruped. He had cuts and bruises on him where the Heartless had hurt him. Otherwise, he was none the worse for wear. Riku smiled, but it wasn't the reassuring grin that he intended but a sardonic one instead.
"No problem. We have to work together in order to survive. The door must be very close to opening," Riku said. Mickey nodded.
Suddenly, the Heartless started to shrink back. Surprised by this, Mickey and Riku stayed put. They weren't about to pick a fight and if the Heartless withdrew like that, there must be some good reason.
A beam of light shot up through the ground. It caused a ripple effect and suddenly there was a street that they were looking down on.
People were bustling along a snowy sidewalk. Most were carrying bags with various names on them, such as Macy's and JcPenny. Others were just in a hurry to get out of the snow. Cars drove past, headlights on and moving slowly through the icy road.
Mickey cried out in shock as a different figure appeared, with a hat pulled down low over her eyes. There was light and dark raging around her as she moved through the crowd. No one in the road seemed to see the waves of this energy around this girl. Riku couldn't even talk. He was seeing into a different world and he saw the key to opening theirs.
She passed out of their vision and the "window" into the other world closed.
"That was-" Riku began.
"-the key," Mickey finished. Both of them were gasping for air, shocked to see their way out. The Heartless attacked all at once and Riku and Mickey both stopped gawking and started to fight again.
* * *
Amaya shook loose the snow that had accumulated on her coat after her trip through the snow. She was sure glad that she was home. She stripped the cold wet silk outfit from the Otaku Kitchen off of her, happy to get the clingy stuff away from her skin. Amaya got into her "cool" outfit (A/N: That "cool" outfit is the one she wore at the beginning of the story) and strolled into the kitchen to get a can of sake out of the fridge. She chugged it down and, after a moment's thought, grabbed two more and went back out into her little living room. She flopped onto the couch, grabbed the remote, and flipped on the TV. She opened one of the cans and drank it slowly, savoring the taste.
She eventually drained it and by that time, anything interesting that could have been aired was over. She took the second can and went out onto the fire escape landing. She sat there in the cold, drinking sake and wishing upon the first star she saw for a better life.
The star she had been wishing upon suddenly turned dark and pulsed. Amaya didn't notice, because she had stood up and was stepping over to the railing to look down on those still hurrying home. She all of a sudden lost her footing. She fell forward, grabbing for the railing to stop her fall. Only one problem, as she grabbed for the railing, her hand passed right through it. Startled, she tried to scream, but nothing came out. Amaya fell through the fire escape and three others just like it. She watched her body pass through the black painted steel with horror. She looked down and the people below her seemed to be transparent. Creatures were scuttling through them and no one seemed to notice. Amaya suddenly plunged through the people around her, through the pavement, and passed by the sewers. After that, she lost consciousness.
"Ah!" Amaya yelled as she suddenly woke up. Gasping, she looked around. It was dark everywhere. There was no light at all. "That doesn't make sense," mumbled Amaya, "How can I see without any light?"
Whatever she was on seemed solid. It looked kinda like gray marshmallow and seemed to come in spatters here and there, but were close enough together to move across.
She turned and looked the other direction. That way was a huge set of cathedral-like doors. They were so big, they seemed to be more than five times her size.
"There is no way I can open those," Amaya said, but she felt like she should try to open them. Grabbing the bar that could only be a handle, she pulled and tugged on it until she was exhausted. "What am I doing? I should be looking for a way out, not trying to open that door." Amaya stepped back from the door.
//Knock once,// a voice came out of the darkness around her. "What?! Who's there?" Amaya yelled. //Knock twice, knock three times and the door will open.// "What the hell?" Amaya was confused by who was talking to her. There didn't seem to be a voice, but who knew?
Looking at the door, she thought about how heavy it was and what the voice said to her. "Why not?" she shrugged. She approached the door and knocked once, twice, three times on the huge cathedral doors.
The ground under her feet started to shake and slowly the doors swung out to Amaya. As they opened more, the ground shook more and she lost her balance and fell on the ground.
Wave upon wave of Darkness flowed from the door. The creatures she had seen scuttling in her world were crawling out to the terrified Amaya. Other more powerful looking creatures came out behind the 'Scuttlers.'
She screamed in terror. Amaya tried to back away, but she was still on the ground and her feet couldn't get any traction on the marshmallow surface.
Suddenly, two different people came out of the door while the other creatures were coming out. One was a human and the other was a huge mouse.
"Close that door!" the mouse yelled to the human. "Yeah! I'm working on it!" cried the human, pushing on the tidal wave of darkness and the heavy door. Amaya felt that she should help, after all she did open the door. She scrambled up and ran past the terrors around her. Finally, she was at the door. She braced herself for a heavy shove, but the door had become light under her touch and slammed shut. Amaya overbalanced and, inevitably, fell.
The human was still standing next to the door. His eyes were in shadow, but his hair was white and a little longer than shoulder length. His head shifted, and she was rather surprised to see the icy blue eyes that peered out at her. His outfit was black. Black knee-length trench coat covered black jeans and a plain white T-shirt. He also wore black boots and gloves.
"Hello," he said to her, "My name is Riku. Thanks for setting us free." He extended his gloved hand and helped her up.
"And my name is Mickey," said the over-grown mouse. Amaya shook hands with him as well.
"My name is Amaya O'Donell," Amaya told them, "Where are we?"
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Daenerys: Well that's the first part. But don't get mad at me! I will get on that second part immediately! Yes, I know you guys hate cliffhangers as much as I do, but it gave the nicest touch don't you think? *Dodges thrown garbage* Yeesh, you guys aren't very nice. *Pouts cutely* Oh, well. Bye for now!