Story: Sora's Fate
Disclaimer: I don't own anything here besides some of the events that don't happen in the game. I made them up XP
By: TheBabs
"Do you accept the consequences?" King Mickey asked, serious in his high pitched voice. Riku nodded solemnly while Sora lifted up his chin and declared defiantly,
"I do!" Mickey nodded, and then faded into the background that flashed black and white. Sora and Riku looked around in confusion as they found themselves, and their other halves, in a shapeless world where the four seemed to be floating...
...well, the two of them.
The hooded 'Sora' and 'Riku' had unexpectedly turned into a grey vapor and had entered the two boys. Sora watched warily as the dense gray vapor came close to him, and noticed that Riku seemed to go to his light grey vapor. As soon as the vapors were in them, Sora noticed that his body felt heavy and that he was falling through the nonsensical world, with Riku falling besides him.
For no reason did they panic. Why? They were whole beings falling through a black and white splotched world with no ground to splatter on to. And there was a promise of everything being made right. But why were they there again? They no longer knew. The longer they slowly fell through the world, the more they forgot.
Then, before their eyes a scene began.
Two soldiers fell: one to keep the Door to Kingdom Hearts closed, then the other after his connection to his lifeblood, the Heartless were sealed off. Sora felt time slip by very quickly to not too far in the past.
A world, one both recognized as Hollow Bastion, began to fall apart well, ripped apart by a huge Heartless. As the Heartless spiraled away from Hollow Bastion, they sunk their claws in other worlds, tearing them apart from the inside out.
This was their first conquest in hundreds of years. The KeyBlade Bearer and the GateKeeper were either dead or in their enchanted sleep, it didn't matter to the Heartless much: they were gone and the Heartless were in control again.
Then Sora's childhood memory came up before them again, except he knew Riku could see it this time. Jecht, Sora and Tidus's father, as well as a world known Blitzer, had stopped in the middle of one of his fantastic moves, then jumped from the Sphere Pool into the audience. Floating above the stadium, Sora could clearly see a dark liquid coming from the bottom of the stadium and watched as Heartless jumped from the liquid to attack the people in the closer rows.
Riku and Sora watched as Jecht gave his wife and Auron orders to leave, and Sora watched as his father painfully died later. It must have been hours his father had fought, but it seemed too fast for Sora. A white Heartless Sora had never seen before picked up Jecht's weapon, the blitzball, and hurled it at Jecht's head. The man fell forward into the hands of a thousand Shadow Heartless, then had his Heart taken and his body dragged into their world.
"...Sora..." Riku began. Sora shook his head.
"No, I'm all right Riku." He looked over to Riku, who was genuinely concerned and smiled. "At least I knew he loved us enough to die for us. I'll have to tell Tidus."
The scene changed then, to Auron bringing Jecht's family to Besaid Island of the Destiny Islands. Sora smiled when he saw a dark haired LuLu being towed to the docks by a silver haired toddler named Riku. The two boys could only see the events as if they were seagulls flying overhead, but Sora remembered his first meeting with Riku and watched with amusement as the younger Riku and LuLu managed to pull Sora away from his mother so they could explore the beach.
Auron and Yuna's father, only known as Braska then, left on the ship to go back and help the countries fighting the Heartless. As the ship was out of sight many hours later, the earth below them rumbled, then shook violently. It wasn't until a week later when the ships that went out failed to return that they realized that the Destiny Islands were possibly the only surviving lands of the unknown attack.
The pull came again, which signaled a change in time. It wasn't a pleasant pull, nor was it something nauseating or painful. More like that of an unexpected drop that barely lasted a second. It was about three years later, when a small girl with red hair washed up on the beach. Just before, blue 'meteors' fell from the sky. The children weren't allowed to stay up too late to see the shower, but LuLu and Wakka had seen it the same. Sora looked at Riku, just as Riku looked at him. They had never seen Kairi's arrival to their world, so were these LuLu and Wakka's memories? No, they weren't memories at all, but the actual events. This thought appeared in their minds at the same time, and was accepted.
"I remember this," Riku said, as he watched himself and Sora leave their 'secret place' to meet Kairi. She was watching Wakka bounce his Blitzball on his head, feet and shoulders in his attempt to cheer her up.
'Heya!' Riku said, sitting on one side of Kairi. Sora sat on her other side and smiled at the small girl.
'Wat'cher name?' Sora asked. Kairi looked at both boys timidly and shook her head.
'Her name is Kairi,' Yuna said, running towards the others. She was followed by LuLu, who walked at her own, slow pace. 'She's really nice, but shy around boys,' she said, sitting between Riku and Kairi. Kairi smiled a bit at Yuna and scootched away from Sora. Sora pouted a bit and looked at the sand. Kairi giggled and smiled at Sora, so which Sora smiled back happily, making Kairi blush and hide her face.
-This was the first-
Sora and Riku jumped, well stiffened, at the voice and looked around as they fell. Its felt like King Mickey's voice, but sounded full of power and command, and not at all high-pitched like the King's. The scene changed again to Riku's training spot. Kairi was sitting on a palm tree that grew downwards after the base was bent in a storm that they had. Sora was sitting under it, half asleep while Riku was practicing his dodges and rolls and thrusts with his wooden sword. It was one of the days where Riku tried to get as much information from Kairi about her world as possible, but she never had the answers he wanted.
-This was the second-
Sora frowned. Was this each time their fates had changed? Yes, it must have been. If it weren't for Kairi, Sora had felt many times like he would explode from the pressure of trying to be as good as Riku. In front of them was a scene where Tidus had told Sora that he would never beat Riku in a fair fight, then it went forward to a year before their world had been destroyed. Sora, Wakka and Tidus ganged up on Riku for a surprise attack—and had still lost. Sora felt the burning in his chest when he saw this and remembered when he had felt it after their loss. It was of jealousy and humiliation. Humiliation that two brothers and their best friend could be bested by one boy...but it showed Kairi running to Sora after...just as he was about to vow to be Riku's rival...and soothed his temper and made him fall even harder for her.
Riku turned to Sora.
"You never told me this," he hissed. Sora blinked. "You knew she was meant for me and you took her!"
-This is the third-
"Shut up!" Riku roared. "I don't want to see any more! I was and always will be the opposite of Sora! And if that means following the Heartless, then so be it!" he spat. Sora yelped at Riku's vehemence and then yelped again as his feet touched the ground.
-This is the one-
The world was now a black and white version of Besaid Island. As if by some instruction they already knew, the boys got into their separate boats and rowed onto the training Island. Around them, everything was still. The oars made no noise against the water, the seagulls that flew made no cries, and the boys were silent as they dragged their small boats onto shore and walked to the 'secret place'.
Inside was vibrant with colors, the ground was covered with soft, springy moss and the cave dripped and trickled with sweet water. Riku and Sora looked at each other in confusion. This was the opposite of the real cave, just as the islands were different.
"The door! The door is....open!" Sora stuttered. Riku frowned and looked at the door, which was indeed open. Again, they stepped forward together through the door...
Sora smiled as Rikku ran to him and wrapped her arms around Sora tightly. Sora laughed and kissed Rikku on her forehead.
"What happened? I got the worst feeling ever a bit after you left!" Sora looked into Rikku's green spiral eyes for a moment, then to his old friends Donald and Goofy, then at Brother and Auron.
"I'm finally myself again---" he paused and looked into the Stadium. The others turned as well, and Donald and Goofy got ready for a fight.
Riku was standing on the edge of the curved stadium and glared at the group, then jumped in and disappeared into the Darkness. Rikku looked up at Sora, worried, but he held Rikku close and looked into the distance.