Here is Gone

"Don't worry this won't take very long, I promise"

"AW Phooey, This is such a stupid idea, looking for falling stars. GRR we should be looking for the king"

"Gawrsh you mean this isn't the way to Mickey's castle?"

Sora sighed as his yellow shows stood to a halt on the ground, rubbing his spiked up brown hair with a yellow zipper glove. The young boy turned to his weary companions Goofy, and Donald, trying to explain this trip. "Guys I'm really sorry for taking us off course but I have GOT to see this. I had a weird dream last night, and I've been having lots more since then. Also last night I saw a shooting star and I think it actually landed near us" Sora said.

Goofy smiled "Wow that sure would be neat meeting a real life fallen star, course we'd have to help him or her up". "Lunk head that's not the star were looking for" Donald grumped. Sora's blue eyes pleaded to his friends "Please you guys I know this is connected somehow, just let's find whatever it was that fell and we can go". Regretfully Donald sighed and nodded, growling and grumbling the whole way as he and Goofy followed Sora.

The trio continued to trudge on and on and on, amazingly still confident all this time. Sora's mind and heart still having fresh flashbacks of his final battle against the wicked Ansem, leader of the Heartless. Ever since that battle ended, nothing had been right. Sora, Donald, and Goofy have been following the trail Pluto left since they last saw him 2 weeks ago. Now the gang continues to search on, defeating any foe, in search of their lost home.

Sora smiled to himself "And maybe once we find King Mickey again, Riku will be with him, and then he and I can finally go home..to Kairi". After another 5 to ten minutes of walking the gang stopped and spotted what appeared to be a smashed black like mini crater in the center of a small green hill. The 3 travelers rushed up to see what it was. Sora was the first to lay his blue eyes on the object. "WOW" Sora gasped alongside Donald and Goofy.

Inside the dark hole is what appeared to be an oddly shaped, and/or designed shard of red crystal. Perhaps some sort of diamond or broken emerald. Slowly and carefully Sora bent down to pick it up, but Donald's feathered fingers stopped him. "Here allow me..Deep Freeze" Donald commanded as his magic wand blasted a gust of icy cold air onto the red ruby. A small puff of steam came from the red rock as the spell had cooled off its shell.

"Thanks Donald quick thinking there" Sora said thankfully to the duck wizard, as he once again reached for the rock but suddenly stopped. Rustling sounds in the trees, in the bushes, it was coming from all around them in fact. Goofy raised his shield, Donald flashed his wand, and Sora armed his keyblade without a single moment's second. The 3 boys stood there in total silence as they watched the eyes watching them know of their discovery.

Sora frowned "All right you can come out now we know your there. Don't worry guys we've beaten these Heartless creeps before I mean how different can they AH...be?". Suddenly the bravery and courage just sank down Sora's throat, along with a lump of fear. The beings hiding in the bushes were not the Heartless. Instead out came a huge group of multicolored ogre like monsters, with long ears, big jaws, furry Viking outfits, with a human.

The man stood like a general amongst the multi colored ogre monsters. Clearly he was a tall man, with a black moustache, a rather big nose, black goatee, a medieval style outfit, with a blue hood covering the top of his head. The man laughed with his sickeningly loud and annoying voice, "Very perceptive my young lad now quit while you still have your head and hand over the juice". Sora blinked oddly "The juice?", Donald & Goofy shrugged.

The man scowled hatefully "Don't play the duke for a dope you impudent little brats, you may not be bears but you still got the Gummi juice". A large green ogre raised his claw "I tell Dukie I saw big pretty red shiny thing last night, red like Gummi Juice". Goofy blinked "Gawrsh they must think the gem is that juice there talking about" he said while scratching his orange hat. The Duke screamed "I've had enough of this CRAP! GET THAT JUICE".

"Okie dokie Dukie" the dimwitted ogres announced in union as they charged the 3 traveling heroes. Raising his silvery shining keyblade high into the air, Sora jammed it into the ground and shouted "FIRE". Streaming seas of boiling flames and balls of fire erupt in front of the ogres as they stopped cold. Actually red hot, as in their feet were red hot as the ogres squealed trying to dance away the burning pains. Donald laughed "Good one Sora".

"Ahyuck and now it's my turn, Frisbee that is" Goofy chuckled as he reared back his shield and chucked it like a boomerang. Goofy's shield soared out and clonked into the head of a yellow ogre. The ogre groaned and collapsed, causing a domino effect that toppled the rest of the fire stalled ogres. But just as one batch was defeated, a second horde charged the retreating heroes. Donald ran towards a tree that immediately was split apart by a red ogre.

"ROOOAR" screamed the mighty red ogre as he crashed his claws at Donald's webbed feet, he squawked and leapt right into the ogre's bear hug. Donald growled and chanted "Deep Freeze", a gust of magical ice formed over the brute's face, and while he was stunned Donald bashed his skull in. Sora watched Donald batter the ogre's head with his magic wand, just as 3 ogres charged towards him. "Come on and get it uglies" Sora stated boldly.

BAM! OOF! CRASH! Such were the sounds heard as Sora swung his keyblade wildly at the ogres. Blow after blow the steel like shimmering metal of the keyblade crashed into the ogre's faces and hands, toppling them back. Suddenly a hulking purple ogre charged like a football player, Sora yipped and jumped off his yellow shoes to hop right over the ogres head. A loud clang echoed as Sora smashed his keyblade into the ogres purple ass.

The young boy then spotted 3 more monstrous sized ogres charging with swinging furious arms. "You guys can charge all you want but you're never catching this keyblade master or this prize" Sora said with a proud smirk. Sora leapt off his bare ankles towards the legs of the running ogres, as he tried to roll under their legs and out of their grasp. "Hey daft no fair" the ogre grunted as he bent down and grabbed Sora by his legs yanking back.

The ogre grinned as Sora was now dangling from his yellow shoes in the powerful paws of the bronze colored ogre, Sora sweat dropped. "Ha, ha well I guess a guy can be wrong and not wear it on his face.right?" Sora gulped. The ogres growled and started grasping their claws over his brown haired head, Sora screamed in pain as a blue ogre started to compact his young skull. "Oh gawrsh SORA I'm coming buddy" Goofy said with a shout.

Goofy armed his black and gold painted shield into a charging stance, he squinted his eyes shut as Goofy plowed through the ogres like bowling pins. Ogres flew into the sky and landed with a painful thud as Sora was released. "GAH geez thanks Goofy, I nearly popped there. Oh my gosh I just realized where's the stone?" Sora said frantically searching. Goofy chuckled and pulled the red ruby out of his pants with a white glove replying "Right here".

"I'll be talking that dog face" the Duke said with a sneer smile. Cold steel pressed against the black fur of Goofy's neck, it was the Duke pressing a sword at Goofy's neck. The Duke smirked "Game time is over brat and I'm sick of your lying, now either hand over the juice or I hand you his head". Both Sora and Goofy looked at each other with sweating eyes, this was a tough spot. Donald was still fighting other ogres, Sora had one option left.

"Sorry about this Goofy I really am" Sora said before bashing his keyblade into Goofy's big yellow shoes. Goofy's eyes bulged from their sockets before launching into the sky screaming "AHHHHOUHOUHOIEEE". The red gem dropped from his hands, both Duke and Sora immediately went for it. "The juice is MINE at last" Duke gleamed, Sora laughed "But unlike you I got a pilot's license". Sora's yellow shoes began to hover off the ground.

The Duke's jaw dropped as he raised his sword upward in fear, Sora grinned and sliced it in half with a single slash of his keyblade. Donald flashed Sora a thumbs up as he too took flight as he flew over the hapless ogres. "GOD DAMMIT I'm getting tired of this shit, AFTER THEM" The Duke screamed. The ogres could only shrug as they watched the duo fly away; soon Goofy landed from his sky high drop and as well joined the flighty duo.

Sora smiled "Goofy I just wanna say I'm really sorry about hitting your foot back there, it was the only way to get the Duke away from the gem". "Awe shucks twernt nothing old buddy old pal, say you still got that rocky thing?" Goofy asked. Nodding his brown spiky hair Sora smiled as he pulled the red rock from his blue shorts. Goofy replied "That was quite a stunt you pulled on the Duke there pal", Sora blushed a bit "Awe it was nothing really Goof".

"Tell me was it anything like..THIS" Goofy said with a wickedly devilish voice, suddenly Goofy tackled Sora and started yanking his brown hair. Donald gasped "Goofy what in the hell are you GAWK". Sora winced blue eyes in pain at Goofy's attack; he spotted Donald as well struggling. Quickly the gang struggled to slowly land their flying forms. Sora thought to himself "UGH what happened to Goofy, he's acting totally insane. I don't get it.

And on top of that I can't tell what's happening to Donald. I mean it looks like something is attacking him, but there's no one there at all". Sora and Donald grunted in pain at their rough landings, Goofy laughed wickedly and yanked the stone from Sora's hands. "Thanks for the Bellerium crystal snot bag" Goofy chuckled with a weasel like voice. Sora coughed up a few drops of blood, wiping it along with some dirt off his cheek as he glared at Goofy.

"Hey pal don't forget out end of the bargain, I helped you too ya know. So start forking over the greens greenie" a strange voice said from no where, Donald groaned "Who's there?". Colors started to form and emerge from Donald's blue sailor suit back, a form was appearing in the shape of a lizard. He was purple, glittering scales on his back, big choppers, beady eyes, and a creepy looking guy at that. "Randal Boggs to you bitch" Randal hissed out.

"Then that means your not Goofy" Sora managed to gasp out as he tried to raise to his scraped knees. Goofy's shape was suddenly contorted and green, it shrank down and reformed as well into another lizard form as well. This reptile was green and had beady red bulging eyes. He was wearing a green body suit with orange shoulder pads, long green tail, and dots on his skinny form. "Never ever trust a Chameleon kid specially me" the Chameleon said.

To make matters even worse Sora and Donald could hear the Duke and the ogres quickly catching up. "I want that frigging Gummi Juice right now" The Duke screamed. Both Randal and Chameleon looked at the Duke, then at the red gem shard, then at each other "What the hell is Gummi Juice?". "NOW" Sora screamed, both he and Donald leapt at their attacks fast. In seconds Donald had his wand at Randal, and Sora's keyblade at Chameleon.

"I don't know what's so special about this stone, but if creeps like you and those ogres want it then I have to hang onto it" Sora said boldly. Nervously trembling with his green throat under the blade, Chameleon nodded and handed the rock over. Suddenly a falling shape began to appear above the boy's heads, it was tall and dark and had a familiar sounding scream to it. "AHHHOUHOUHOIEEE" cried the figure, "IT'S GOOFY" everyone said.

OOF! A loud crash collapsed the whole gang of guys down to the ground, crushed by Goofy's amazing landing. Groans and moans were heard from under the clueless toon, suddenly the ogres were right at their doorsteps. Randal and Chameleon shrieked and jolted out of the tangled bunch of heroes. "Screw this shit I'm out of here and I mean now" Randal hissed. "But without the crystal my boss will kill me" Chameleon stammered out.

Randal's purple paws and legs were already digging a hole into the ground, the monster snorted "Forget you pal no green no scream SO LONG SUCKERS". Chameleon gasped as Randal burrowed into the ground like a scaly little mole, and that only left him with the ogres and his boss's rage. "GRAHHH" the ogres screamed out in rage. "GAH I'll take my chances with old dragon breath" Chameleon said before vanishing in a green light.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy slowly came to their feet finding the red gem still in Sora's hands. The boy stuffed the crystal into his blue shorts, hearing his zippers and keys jangle as he armed his keyblade for battle. Donald and Goofy as well prepared for the monstrous ogre onslaught, totally unaware of their surroundings. For during the course of this heated battle, the skies have been flashing from light to dark, thunder to sunny, and from good to bad.

No one was at all aware to the fact that the phantom strangers who are now searching for the lost gems, were in fact the cause for this shift. The realities dimensional barriers are breaking down, worlds are blending into each other. And just as the skies began to fill with clouds and lighting struck the darkening scene, none of the madly charging combatants noticed it. None of them realized they were about to experience a break in reality's existence.

The Duke and his ogres charged claws and fangs bared for battle, Sora along with Goofy and Donald marched on with their weapons held high. Getting closer, and closer, and closer, and closer and then...FLASH! In a blinding struck of magnificent lighting and energy flares, Sora, Goofy, and Donald found themselves no longer on a grassy road alongside the Duke and his ogres. Instead they were in what appeared to be a dark looking office room.

It was dark and very gloomy, yet it had a sense of power and wealth to it. Perhaps a type of royalty resided here. Sora blinked "Uh guys weren't we just on a grassy road a second ago?". "I told you I don't want to be disturbed Wendell" a booming dark mannered voice said. At the far end of the room, standing before a huge window vacating out over a large city, stood a single red velvet colored chair. It was that chair from which the voice came from.

Another sound caught the trio's attention, a door behind them opened up to reveal a skinny tiger like man. "Uh Mr. Kahn I assure I wasn't the one who AH never mind" the tiny voiced tiger man said before slamming the door. As the door slammed shut, a tiny white sign dropped down before the trio's eyes. Donald scratched his blue cap as he read it "Do not disturb or else". The chair spun around, Sora and the gang gasped at fear, this was or else.

Donald blinked "Uh I think I preferred the ogres".

Goofy hummed "Gawrsh you think he's a bad guy?".

Sora gulped "Well to be honest, I sure as hell hope not".

To be continued..