K² ::Rise K to the Second Keyblade::
Once people prayed to Blue Sky for something.
The craving for power gave birth to the Heartless.
The Heartless drove people to the depths of ruin.
And then it has calmed down.
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Author's Notes: Welcome to the world of Square! Mwahahahahah. (pauses) (beams) Just kidding. o For those who happen to pick up the manga book, R² Rise R to the Next Power, you're in for some crazy D.N.A. mixing. For those who haven't, I'll warn you that there are spoilers plotted throughout this fic. that are somewhat related to R² (-nothing incredibly major though)............... BUT..........only for the first few chapters.
This isn't a cross-over if that's what you're thinking. Everything in this story is sort of an A.U. type theme. To put it in more specific terms----the experiment: Make KH characters and settings go through the R² storyline (in a not so quite similar fashion). It all began when I went crazy trying to think of ways of what to do with myself while waiting for CoM to come out. Awhile ago, I started a CoM fic. (which is still here), but I've decided now to put a halt to it since it might be similar to what the game's really about (--not to mention lots of writer's block). Since I'm also waiting for R²'s second volume to come out, everything began to fuse together the perfect plan. R² stars a character who eerily looks like Sora (-even one of the manga's reviewers mentioned it). Reason though is that the mangaka is a Square game character designer herself (so yes, this manga is sort of under S-E power). Despite R²'s low key reviews due to its storyline glares daggers at 'website' manga reviewers, I thought this manga had a pretty fascinating storyline since it took me several times to re-read it (-which a reviewer complained. Can't blame him though). It had that mysterious quality where it starts off slow and shows many flashbacks, which leaves the reader questions galore. I recommend it to anyone who likes these kind of 'hero gets stuck in an adventure for a long mysterious reason' stories.
Alright. Enough of me babbling! On with the 'altered' story. (coughs)
Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, its series, its characters, its settings, its everything else, S-E's FF characters, the R² storyline, and Disney characters. All rights (and rights alone) are owned by Disney, S-E, the great Tetsuya Nomura, and powerful Maki Hakoda with her cute whale pillow. Oh yes, and disclaimer even to the little short R² blurb that appears underneath the title found only on the Japanese and Taiwan R² mangas (-and English version is re-worded to make more sense). Yes, I changed 'NIGHTMARE' to 'HEARTLESS'. Now, don't chase me down for that...yet! Oh yeah, and I may add new settings to so keep a watch out for that.
Quotation Key:
"text"-quote
'text'-thoughts
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Chapter 0: Prologue
A short red hair teenage girl, covered in a big heavy coat and a long flapping scarf, was making her way toward some place. Her surroundings were very foggy therefore, it was hard to practically see anything within feet. It gave her a creepy feeling as if there could be strange creatures lurking around. Then again, there hasn't been any known activity in this particular area for ages. The path, she was walking on, suddenly turned from dirt to cobblestone. It definitely gave her a good sign that she was in the right direction. She stopped to take a quick break looking up to see if anything could easily come into vision. In fact, something did. Her eyes widened in delight to see the roofs of small houses and empty market stalls, coming out of the fog. She quickly made a straight dash in a direction, only her heart could tell her.Her feet halted to a stop right when she was in front of two large gates (and several yards away from other small clumps of houses). They had a pattern design of two hearts on each of its doors with two criss-crossed arrows going down their centers.
'This has to be it,' the girl could feel herself getting excited already. A small little button was easily found right next to the gate. Upon pressing it, there was a short rhythm of bells going on. She smiled pleasantly at its melody. Moments later, the sounds of running footsteps and a voice calling out to her, could be heard.
Creeks.
Groans.
The gate was slowly opening. Soon. Very soon. Everything was going according to plan.
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Under a night sky, a falling star could be seen.
A young boy was watching it from afar on a white sandy beach.
Was this the prediction of an incoming disaster?
Or even.....?
A.N.: As you can see, it's sort of different from R². I don't even have that manga book in my possession so I'm using the scenario from R² by memory, but changing it so it isn't like R². (Reading it over n' over in a bookstore helps somewhat.) Since Hakoda-san has some medical problem, R² vol. 3's release in Japan is pushed back. That means, its release in the US might not come out for quite some time (beyond vol. 2's anticipating release in the U.S. It's been 4 months already ADV!! Predicting it comes out within the next two months.) . (sighs) (suddenly grins again) Playing the pre-ordered CoM will definitely help with the wait.
-See ya in next Chapter!
-Tomogirl