Chapter two

Sora, Donald and Goofy were well on their way to Fruba world. Sora slouched in his seat and looked at his two companions, "So…do you know anything about Fruba world?"

Donald shrugged, "Not much. They say that it holds the keychain, 'beads'."

"Beads…?" Sora asked confused.

Goofy smiled, "Guess we'll find out when we get thar"

Sora straightened up as the monitor began blinking and displayed a world. The words, 'Fruba' flashed across the screen and a planet that consisted of many lakes, houses, schools…it looked like the perfect place to spend your days, much like Destiny Island, Sora thought. Donald began to slow down and said, "Lets land now"

Sora, Donald and Goofy stepped off the Gunmi ship and onto solid land for the first time in five hours. Sora took in the surroundings of where they'd landed. A clear sky was above them and they had landed near a house, this would be the perfect place to live! Sora thought to himself. Goofy pointed to the house nearest them and said, "Should wes go and ask 'em?"

Donald shrugged, "I dobut they'd…."

Sora had already begun towards the house before Donald was able to complete his setence and motioned for Donald and Goofy to follow him, "Come on!"

Donald nad Goofy quickly raced after Sora and stopped with him in front of the house. Sora knocked on the door and heard footsteps coming towards the door. Goofy and Donald stepped back nad Sora followed suit as the door opened and a young woman smiled, "Hello, come in"

Sora looked at Donald and Goofy and nodded. The trio walked inside the house and the young woman invited them into the livingroom and introduced herself, "I'm Tohru Honda, this is the Sohma house…are you an editor fro Shigure-san?'

Sora looked at Donald then looked back at Tohru, "No…we're on our way from…out of town…and we're searching for the beads keychain, have you heard of them?"

"Bead keychain…?" Tohru asked confused.

Donald stood up, "It's a bead set that's very old with black and white beads…it's the bead keychain"

Tohru nodded, "Yes, I've heard of them…but, they belong to a dear friend of mine, someone who lives in this house, but he'd never part with it…"

Suddenly the door slammed open and a boy about Tohru's age walked in. His eyes were deep and fiery red, his hair a bright orange, "Who the heck are these weirdos?!" He shouted.

A boy about the same age sighed, "Stupid cat" and walked over to Tohru and sat down. Kyo followed and sat down on the opposite side of Tohru and another man entered, a few years older than the other two with black hair and a kimono, "Kyo, behave."

Yuki bowed, "Excuse us, we apolize for Kyo, I'm Yuki and that is Shigure. Are you friends of Miss Honda?"

Tohru smiled, "They just came and…."

"So…you don't even know if they're perverts and burgulars and you just invited them in?" Kyo said quietly.

Goofy noticed Kyo's arm and jumped up, "That thar is the keychain!"

Donald and Sora looked and saw that it was the keychain and Sora asked, "Can we see it…?"

Kyo's face scrunched up and he slammed his fist on the table, "You come in here, we have no idea who in the world you are, and ask to see my braclett, what're you guys, some kind of perverts?"

Sora shook his head, "Well…have you heard of things called heartless?"

Yuki and the others looked at them confused, "No…what're heartless?"

Donald looked at them, "They haven't come to this world yet…?"

Sora intreupted Donald, "You see, they're the things without hearts and they take others hearts and attack the keyhole of each world, until they reach the core, then they destroy the world."

Kyo shook his head, "Are you crazy..? The only things like that are those stupid fan club girls at school. Seriously, it sounds like you and your two friends have watched too many movies, take a break and leave."

Sora, Donald and Goofy shook their heads, "We're telling the truth, at any minute they could get here! We came to this world from Spirit World and are searching for the keychains to finally defeat the heartless once and for all!"

"Now I know you're lying, Tohru said you came from out of town, there's no such place as other worlds or any place called spirit world!" Kyo shouted.

Thoru looked at Kyo, "Kyo…it's…"

"No it's not okay! How can you be so gullible?" Kyo said calmly to Tohru then turned sharpley to Doandl, Goofy and Sora, "Now get out before we force you out!"

Donald and Goofy began to leave but Sora stayed behind, "Please.." Sora said, "You have to believe us, just lend us your…"

Kyo turned his head and Sora searched to Yuki's face, he said nothing and Sroa gave up, following Donald and Goofy outside.

"So…now what'd we do?" Goofy asked.

Donald shrugged, "We can't take it from them, they won't let us even see it. There's gotta be a way…"

Sora, Donald and Goofy thought for a while and were unable to come up with any answers. With a sigh the trio stood up and began walking away from the house and through the forest surrounding the house and began up the hill leading away from the house when Suddenly a scream shot through the air. Sora, Donald and goofy stopped in their tracks and turned to the forest beside the path and Sora said, "It sounded like a girls voice!" Sora began into the trees and Goofy and Donald chased after him. Branches and vines hit Sora's face sharply, but every time he heard the girls voice he was drawn closer. As Sora drew closer he thought he could understand the voice, it sounded like someone was yelling a magic attack, yes, it sounded like someone was saying Firaga! Sora jumped out into a small clearing and bumped right into a girl a little older than him. Her hair swung back and she tripped on his shoes and fell back into his arms. Sora looked in front of her to see the disappearing remains of a shadow heartless. Green HP balls fell to the ground and were absorbed into her body. Sora looked at her and she jumped up and bowed, "My name is Nakia" Her light brown hair hung to her shoulder blades. Her clothing consisted of a long white cape with Kanji written on the sides and black shorts with a light blue shirt. Sora nodded, "I'm Sora…"

Nakia nodded, "I come a city far to the west. I was traveling here in and happened to some across some heartless."

"So, you know about the heartless?"

Nakia nodded, "Yes, I have a copy of all the ansem reports. I'm a scholar and I've been studying up on them. I've always dreamed of traveling to other worlds," Nakai paused and noticed sora's keyblade, "You have the keyblade…? You must be the keyblade master then?"

Sora nodded, "Yeah, I'm here with two friends of mine, we're searching for keychains scattered throughout the worlds. Our quest has brought us here"

"So, you're from another world!" Nakia said.

Sora nodded, "I come from Destiyn Island, it's very, very far away…"

"SORA!!" Goofy and Donald called as they stumbled through the brush. Sora and Nakia looked over to Donald and Goofy and Nakia helped them up, "You must be Sora's friends"

Goofy nodded, "I'm Goofy, and this here is Donald"

Nakia bowed slightly, "I'm Nakia, a gunman by occupation"

"Gunman..?" goofy asked slightly confused.

Nakia nodded, "But, about the keychains…"

"Oh, yeah, we need them to complete our mission, we've already found one, and we've located the one here, but…we're unable to get it"

Nakia looked puzzled, "The keychains, why are you collecting them?"

Sora looked at Donald and Goofy who shook their heads and Donald pulled Sora to his side and whispered, "We can't let others know, she could be with Ansem…" Sora nodded but Donald continued, "Ask her if she knows of Ansem or King Mickey"

Sora walked back up to Nakia, "Ansem, you said you had a copy of all the ansem reports, do you know of 'the' Ansem?" Sora paused, "Or king Mickey?"

Nakia shook her head, "No, not really. I just know about him from the Ansem reports. However, I do know of King Mickey."

Doanld and Goofy jumped, "The king!"

Nakia nodded, "Yes, I encountered him a long time ago, he said he was searching for the door to the light and then he gave me this" Nakia put her staff out forth. It resembled the staff Sora had seen in his dream, his first encounter with a heartless on Destiny Island.

"He said, to keep fighting and to try and keep the heartless at bay, so they won't attack the core. He also mentioned of you Sora, the keyblade master and said that if I should ever meet you, help you in any way I can"

Donald and Goofy nodded to Sroa and Sora smiled, "Would you like to come with us?"

Nakia nodded, "I would love to help in any way I can to stop the heartless from destroying my world"

Sora, Donald and Goofy began back towards their Gunmi ship, along with their new ally, Nakia. The group sat down and thought about what to do next, "Kyo wont' give up his bead keychain, and we can't steal it" Sora said thoughtfully, "So we'll have to convince them that heartless exist, but how?"

Nakia looked around, "The heartless will come, then it'll be too late. I can feel them, their surrounding the house.."

Sora, Donald and Goofy looked around and agreed there was a sudden change in the way the wind felt, It must be the heartless, Sora thought. Nakia pulled out her staff and stood up, scanning the surroundings sharply. Suddenly Nakia fired a Firaga spell near where Sora was sitting nad Sora jumped back to see a burst of green balls be absorbed into Nakia. Sora pulled out his keyblade and watched carefully as the heartless began emerging from the woods. Donald gripped his staff neriviously and Goofy gripped his shield. Nakia looked at her comrades and shouted, "They come!" With that Donald, Sora, Goofy and Nakia plunged into battle.

Sora ripped through the shadow heartless and turned around to see Nakia taking down rows of shadow heartless with her Firaga spells. Donald cast a powerful thundaga spell and Donald finished off the remaining heartless with a aerial dive using his sheidl. Sora looked around and picked up a dropped tresure chest, inside was a thunder shard. Sora tossed it and as it hit the ground Sora noticed more heartless had begun appearing to replace the fallen shadow heartless, only these were soilder heartless. Sora nodded to his companiosn and together they raced into battle cutting down the heartless just as quickly as before. Sora shook his head, "I feel more coming…"

Donald nodded, "Yeah, this world isn't gonna last much longer…"

Nakia sighed, "Then, the heartless have found this worlds core…?"

Sora suddenly jumped up, "How could we forget! We can lock the keyhole before the heartless can get to the core!"

"But…where is that there keyhole?" Goofy asked.

Donald shrugged, "Who knows?"

"The keyhole has to be around here somewhere…if the heartless are gathering so densely around here," Sora said and looked towards the house wehre Tohru, Kyo, Shigure and Yuki lived and felt his face go pale, "The Heartless! The keyhole's in that house! Along with the bead keychain!" Donald, Sora, Nakia and Goofy began towards the house when they heard a high pitched scream coming from inside the house and ran even faster.

Sora was the first one inside and quickly saw Tohru backed into a corner while Yuki and Kyo fought the heartless with their bare hands and silverware, barley hurting the heartless at all. Sora quikly jumped in and took out the heartless attacking Tohur. Kyo turned sharpley towards Sora, "Why…what are these things?!"

'Heartless," Nakia said stepping over the glass on the floor, "These creatures are after the keyhole in your house, do you know where it is?"

"Then, they do exist…? Sorry for dobuting you…" Yuki said quietly.

Sora shrugged, "It's okay" Sora quickly turned to where the heartless were heading and told Goofy and Donald to stay below and protect Kyo, Yuki and Tohur while Nakia and him went upstairs to help Shigure and lock the keyhole. Sora slashed through the heartless in front of him and Nakia scanned each room searching for more heartless and anyone who might need help. Sroa stopped dead in his tracks as he saw a glow coming from a dresser in one of the bedrooms and several heartless swarming around it. "Nakia, cast Firaga and destroy the heartless around the dresser, then I'll lock the keyhole!" Nakia nodded and quickly cast a firaga spell on the heartless and Sora raised his keyblade and let the light collect around it and zapped it into the keyhole and held it there until a click sounded then Sora tossed his keyblade up into the air and caught it, "This world's safe for now"

Donald and Goofy did well in fighting off the heartless when more and more powerful heartless appeared, including the angel heartless, Donald's spells were nearly ineffective against the magic masters and was forced to wack at it, bareley injuring the high in defense heartless. Suddenly a loud crahs of glass was heard and Kyo spun around to see the glass in the nearby window had been broken by one of the angel heartless's gust attacks, sending the glass ahrads quickly towards Tohru. Without thinking Kyo lunched himself in front of the blast, taking glass shards into his body. Tohru looked up to see Kyo smiling over her, "You..okay?" Tohru noticed the blood dripping from Kyos mouth and her voice grew soft, "Kyo…"

"It's okay Tohru…you're not hurt" Kyo's face scrunched up in pain and his eyes closed and he collapsed onto Tohru's lap, Tohru began crying silent tears and Kyo looked up, his energy slowly draining, "Don't cry over me…I'm not worth it…"

Tohru's tears became heavier, "I…love you…I don't want you to go, I just want us to eat our meals together, to share our feelings, laugh together…"

Kyo laughed quickly, "you're so…predictable.." Kyo raised his wrist with the beads on it and slowly took it off an dflund it to the ground, "You…understand how I feel even though you'ver never experienced my curse, the cat's devilish spirit has taken its curse off me, now…I'm free…" Kyo's eyes began to close and Thoru shook her head, "Kyo!" Tohru brought Kyo's head to her and began to cry. As she cried Nakia placed her staff on Kyo's back and did some hand motions. Kyo was inveloped in a light sphere and glass shards emerged from his body and his wounds healed. Tohru dried her tears and looked up as Kyo slowly began to open his eyes. Tohru smiled nad hugged Kyo tighty. Sora, Donald and Goofy looked at Nakia and she nodded, "It's a very complex spell. You see, I spealize in the art of combo magic, by combinging two or three different types of spells I can cast some very powerful spells. What you just witnessed was a combotion of esuna, time and cure. By using time I was able to stop Kyo from dying and pinpoint where the glass shards had entered, using esuna I removed the glass shards and cure healed him."

Sora looked at Nakia, surprised, "Can I learn something like that?"

"Perhaps…" Nakia said slowly.

Sora, Donald and Goofy tended to Yuki, Kyo, Tohru and Shigure while Nakia kept watch for the apperance of more heartless. As Tohru wrapped a bandage on Kyo's arm, Kyo turned to Sora and tossed him his bead keychain, "Here! I don't need this anymore." Sora looked at the beads and put them on his keyblade, Two down,just seven more to go. Sora looked at Nakia, "Hey, would you like to come with us?"

Donald and Goofy looked at each other and nodded to Sora slowly. Nakia smiled, "Yeah."

Nakia, Sora, Donald and Goofy waved good-bye to Tohru and the others as they boarded the gunmi ship. Nakai looked around inside the Gunmi ship and sat down in one of the six seats in the front. Sora, Donald and Goofy sat down and Sora explained how the gunmi ship ran to Nakai. When the tutorial was finished Donald fired up the engine and Sora said, "Next stop…Tokyo!"