Hand in Hand
Disclaimer: No amount of fic-writing nor pleading with the gods will get me to own Kingdom Hearts. Still they are Square-Enix's and Disney's. I guess. What else… Title of fic is taken from one of the songs in the KH soundtrack. Pre-story note: Started this a few minutes after I posted the first chapter. Baah. -_-
Some hints of Final Fantasy 7 here, too. :)
Chapter II: Into the Abyss
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"Burp," Sora proclaimed to the whole 7th Heaven, rubbing his tummy. "That was good…"
"Ew! Sora, you're disgusting!" Kairi laughed out loud. Riku burped even louder.
"At least we know they enjoyed the meal," Tifa said, walking towards the table. "So, is everybody happy?"
"Tifa, as always, your cooking is superb," Aerith said. "Right everyone?"
"Yeah, Teef," Cloud said, and everybody else mumbled in approval.
"Well, I'm glad," Tifa said cheerfully. "So, do you guys still have the time to hang-out here? It's been a while since we talked."
"Yeah, been a while since I talked to that $%^#@!, Barret… he works with you, right?" asked Cid with a toothpick through his pearly whites.
"Ya foo'! I was the one who cooked that ferret ya ate!" said Barret, a very large black man with a gun on his arm.
"$#(%#*($(!!!" Cid screamed. Everybody laughed.
"Uh… Mom? Dad?" Cloud and Aerith looked over to Sora. "Can Kairi, Riku and me go out for a short walk, or something? Just to digest what we ate?" Then, without waiting for an answer, Sora grabbed Riku and Kairi's arms and dragged them towards the entrance/exit.
Riku nudged Sora. "Why, what's wrong with staying here?" he whispered.
"Cid and Barret are both here. You wanna hang around them?" Sora whispered back, pointing to the two grown-ups laughing and cussing at each other.
"Ooh. Ya gotta point," Kairi said, and the three of them went out.
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For some strange reason, none of them heard the rain from the inside of the restaurant.
"Geez, it's kinda hard. I wonder why we didn't hear it?" Riku said, putting on his jacket's hood. Sora did the same, while Kairi got an umbrella from somewhere.
"I guess none of us has any intention of going back there," Sora thought.
After walking some distance, Kairi stopped.
"I wonder why there aren't any people or anything here. The neon lights are pretty, though," Kairi said, staring up at the glowing neon signs all over the place.
"Yeah. Pretty…" Sora said, staring up, too.
The three of them stood there in silence for a while.
"Uh, you guys, I think we'd better get going before we drown here," Riku said, walking on the wet sidewalks.
Sora and Kairi made a move to follow him, until Riku stopped in his tracks.
"Riku? What's wrong?" Sora said, running towards him. Kairi followed.
Riku shook his head. "I just thought… I saw something weird. I think maybe it's a cat or something. It hid in the shadows over there…" he pointed towards an alley.
"Let it be. It was a stray, and it's wet so it went there to look for shelter," Sora said.
"Are you sure? I think I see something glowing there…" Kairi said, staring frighteningly at something in the alley.
Sure enough, when the two turned to look again, there were pairs of yellow, glowing eyes sprouting pair by pair, one by one. Before anybody could make a move, one of the pairs of eyes tackled Riku. Sora and Kairi tried to help him, but then more of the ant-like things started attacking them both.
"What ARE these?!" Kairi screamed. Sora shuddered, thinking how those things are similar to the Heartless in Kingdom Hearts…
But they're computer generated! Sora punched one away from him and Kairi. Definitely solid, he thought.
What's going on?
"What the hell?!" Riku screamed, pushing the black things off him. He wiped blood from the gash on his cheek, then grabbed Kairi's discarded umbrella and started whacking the black things away from the three of them. "We'd better run! Sora, go ahead and get your parents or Cid! Take Kairi with you! I'll hold these off!" he commanded.
"No! You're coming with us!!!" Kairi shouted at him.
Riku swatted another ant-thing away before shouting back, "All right!" and grabbing Sora's hand, dragging both of them.
The army of Heartless followed them in pursuit. Worse, more of them spawned from their left, their right, and they just barely avoided the ones that spawned in front of them.
"Running away from them's not working!!!" Sora screamed as he let himself flinch from a hit.
"What do we do?! They're leading us away from any kind of people!" Kairi screeched.
Riku frantically looked at all directions. "Uhhh… Over there!" he said, pointing to the alleyway they previously had walked through.
Running away is futile.
Sora, surprised by the voice, lost his concentration and tripped, rolling towards a wall.
Stay and fight. Protect them.
"SORA!" Kairi screamed when she saw the Heartless cornering him.
Riku stepped forward to help Sora out of the mess, but he was held back by more Heartless. "Sora! Hold on!"
Don't worry. Your heart is strong enough to take them on…
Sora saw Kairi and Riku being knocked out by the shadows…
"I can't take these on by myself! I… I need help…"
Unless you choose to give up and fall into the abyss…
Blinded by the darkness in the alley, and lack of strength, Sora used the last amount of his energy to let himself feel the shadows taking him in the darkness…
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Hmm… I couldn't make the 'action' part of this story to be more active… Oh well. How did I do in this one?
Truth be told, I don't have much faith in this story because it's too unorthodox. Here are some more notes:
1) In this chapter, Riku looked very much like that blind-folded dude in Another Side, Another Story. I made the setting to be just like in that clip. I hope somebody noticed!
2) Tifa and Barret, if you're unaware, are two more characters in Final Fantasy 7. It's a great game. Can't wait for Advent Children! (dies, because it's only a few months away)
3) Voice In Sora's Head isn't likely Ansem. But who knows…
Okay, thanks for those few people who reviewed! Oh yeah, P.S. means postscript. Just because somebody asked. =)
Please take some time and review; just so I'll know what kind of audience this fic has. Oh yeah, no one still knows where to get a KH script? ;) Bye!