Akurei-Shinzo: I'm back! Thank you for the reviews! I hope you're enjoying this fic! I'll be adding more anime/manga in here soon so bear with me! Also I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any other anime/manga that appear in here, except for a few characters from some of my own series which I hope to get published! So please R&R!

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Kingdom Hearts II: Shadow of Hearts

Chapter 3: Search of the Keyhole

Riku and Yami walked the in rain, they were both drenched and very cold. There was still no sign of the Keyhole or the demon called Zeero. The rain began to come down harder on them, so they decided to postpone their search and take shelter in a nearby shop. The neon sing that blinked on and off in the rain read Tamers' Items Shop. So they opened the door and rushed inside.

Inside the bright room were three kids and three strange creatures. The boy near the store counter had blue eyes and yellow goggles in his messy brown hair. His badge read Takato. The other boy had dark blue/black hair and green eyes, his badge read Henry. The girl had light brown hair tied back into a high ponytail and her amethyst eyes shined in the light, her badge read Rika.

"Hey! It's about time we've got some customers!" chirped Takato. A red dinosaur with black marks approached them.

"They smell weird," it commented.

"That's not polite Guilmon!" shouted Takato.

"Sorry about him," said Henry gesturing to Guilmon. "Can we help you with anything?"

"Sorry, we're just here to get out of the rain," muttered Riku.

"Momentai!" said a little white bunny with small horns and green stripes. "Hey folks! I'm Terriermon! So you're not going to buy anything?"

"Well, if you need anything later you're free to come back," said Rika.

"What do you sell here?" asked Yami.

"We sell potions, ethers, and other items a fighter might need," said the fox creature standing by the wall. She had yellow and white fur with gloves, her sapphire eyes glowed in the shadows.

"We don't carry weapons though, but like Renamon said, we carry everything a fighter might need, except for weapons," said Rika.

"If you need weapons there is a shop not far from here," said Takato.

"How did you lose your world?" asked Yami.

"Well, I'm not really sure," said Takato trying to remember what had happened to them. "I remember now! We were fighting in the Digital World with our Digimon and then these shadows came and destroyed everything!"

"Shadows?" asked Yami.

"I think they were called Heartless," said Henry.

"What are Digimon?" asked Riku.

"We're Digimon," chirped Guilmon.

"Digital Monsters to be exact," concluded Renamon.

"Well, thanks for your help," said Riku as he and Yami prepared to leave the store. "We'll drop by again later."

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"This storm doesn't seem to want to stop," said Riku. The rain had continued on since their stop at the Digimon Tamers' store.

"Why don't we stop and take a look at that store," suggested Yami pointing to a weapons shop. The two rushed in soaked and cold, inside the room was a woman about twenty years old.

"Can I help you?" she asked. "My name is Presea."

"No we're just looking," said Riku checking out the store. Almost all of the walls were covered by weapons.

"Each of these weapons are a custom job," explained Presea. "So really, you don't choose the weapon, the weapon chooses you."

"What?" asked Riku, confused.

"I think she means that each person has a special type of weapon only they can use," said Yami.

"Bingo!" shouted Presea. "For that allow me to award you with a weapon of your choice. Go ahead you two, you can choose a weapon. It's on the house!"

Riku didn't really need a new weapon, but he looked around the store anyways. Yami got himself a pair of leather bracers. He had said something about focusing his magic because it came from, what was it? Some type of realm… Riku peered around the cluster of weapons and saw two doors in the back. 'Where did they lead to?' thought Riku.

"If you need anything else please feel free to come again!" chirped Presea in a happy tone.

"Thank you, we will," said Riku.

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"We've searched this whole town and still didn't find the Keyhole!" complained Riku. The rain had not stopped yet and the two boys were in the shade of a bus stop. They had searched the hotel and talked to several survivors, but they gave little information about themselves and the worlds they had come from. "At this rate I'll never find Sora or King Mickey!"

"Maybe you should use your Keyblade," suggested Yami. Yami didn't know who Sora or King Mickey were, but he figured he would learn later on.

"Huh?"

"Yuri said that your Keyblade should lead us to the Keyhole. Well I say it's a good time to try it out."

"Alright then, here goes nothing!"

Riku drew out both of his Keyblades, they glowed and eerie pale white color before beams of light came out of the ends. The lines zoomed through the alleyways and lead the way towards the Keyhole located in a rundown temple.

The two ran down the alleyways, following the light. It took them a good half-hour before they reached the temple. They saw the Keyhole, a hole of darkness with light outlining it. Before Riku could seal it up, something knocked him down. When he got up he saw a Heartless jump from shadow to shadow before materializing in front of him. Riku unsheathed his Keyblades and Yami pulled out a few cards. 'What are those cards for?' thought Riku. He was hoping they were useful because this Heartless seemed a lot more powerful then the one he had fought earlier when he meant the 'source of all heartless'.

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Meanwhile in a dark, dimly lighted room, the 'source of all Heartless' watched Riku on a screen. The boy smirked as he watched Riku and Yami prepare to face off against the Shadow Crawler, one of his favorite Heartless. The Shadow Crawler had many abilities other than fusing with shadows, but Riku may not live long enough to face them.

"Well, this will be interesting," he said. "A Keybearer who doesn't even trust his own heart fighting a Heartless." The boy turned to face another boy, who was lying on a table in a coma. "What makes you think that you can save your friends and the entire universe if you can't even trust your own heart? The worlds will all fall into the darkness and there's nothing you can do to stop it!"

Remember this advice, Keybearer. Sometimes to find the light, you must look within the deepest part of the darkness…

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Akurei-Shinzo: Hope you liked it! Wish, Yu-gi-oh!, Digimon 3, and Magic Knights Rayearth! More to come, so keep reading! You're about to see Zeero and learn who mysterious person from the prologue is! So keep the reviews coming and I'll keep the chapters coming! Please R&R!

P.S- I'll explain why Riku owns two Keyblades other than it was in the secret ending. I would try to play through the expert mode, but this girl is hooked on .hack//Infection! Not so good graphics but it's still fun to play!

P.P.S- Everyone must worship demons for they shall take over the world!

P.P.P.S- Sorry if this was a boring chapter! It'll get better! (Once my eight grade graduation is over! Then I can concentrate more on this!)