A/N: Well, hello, and thank you for reading my story. This story is my current work, which is a joint of both of mine and a friend of mine. This story is prone to change very often. Just so you know. Well, enjoy the story!
The Adventures of Suzy and Lace in the Realm of
Kingdom Hearts
Prologue: A controller's history
For many days, weeks, and months after the release of Kingdom Hearts, there has been a lonely controller wandering to whoever needs it. Well, not to whomever needs it, but whoever gets it. This controller was first made by an undying fan of Kingdom Hearts, but Square-Enix found out about the project, and ordered it stopped. But the fan carried on, and placed a mystical curse on the controller.
This curse was to prevent Square-Enix from destroying the controller. Whoever touches the controller, plugs it into a Playstation 2, and plays Kingdom Hearts with it, they disappear, forever. The original fan is still missing; no one knows where he is.
About a month ago, there was a sale at Gamestop for used Playstation 2 controllers. Two for five bucks; a good deal. This cursed controller was among them. A great Kingdom Hearts fan, Andrew, bought a controller, his old one having worn out. He disappeared exactly a month ago. A friend of his, Colleen, picked it up and has disappeared, too. It was sent back to Gamestop, where an unsuspecting girl has bought this Special Edition Kingdom Hearts controller version .001. We will finally see... what this controller's curse is.
Episode 1: Beginnings
In a small apartment complex in the middle of Mesa, Arizona, there lives two girls. One, whom is calm and dignified, is named Suzy. The other, who is crazy, weird, and has a strange sense of humor, is named Lace. They both, who are extreme opposites, have one thing in common that keeps them friends. Their love for Kingdom Hearts.
This story begins in the game room of Suzy, where Lace is admiring Suzy's new controller. "Let's go! I wanna get further on my guy on Kingdom Hearts!" screamed Lace.
"But first, we must test out my Special Edition Kingdom Hearts controller version .001," said Suzy as she held up her new controller, making the anxiety in the room go higher.
"Wow, there's only .001?" asked Lace.
"No, you're an idiot. That is just the version number," sighed Suzy. Quickly Lace turned on the Playstation 2, despite Suzy's protests. The new controller glowed mysteriously as creepy music played through the television's speakers. The screen blinks out, while the music plays on.
"Man... It went dead!" said Lace, disappointment in her voice.
"You idiot. It doesn't have ---" Suzy was cut off by a weird swirling noise. They both slowly turned their heads toward the TV, which it's screen now had an eerie white glow on it. A vortex slowly turned in front of the television, and wind picked up within the room. "But the window isn't even open..." protested Suzy. The wind grew stronger, and stronger, and then the lights turned dark for a few moments, startling everyone out of their everyday activities. The sucking noise stopped. The lights went back on. All was quiet. And Suzy and Lace were no longer in the room.
Just then, Suzy's brother Mark walked into the room with a few Hershey bars and a whole bag of popcorn in his mouth. "Hey, Suzy, you mind if I eat your snacks?" he asked, his voice barely audible through the snacks. "Wait... she's gone..." His eyes went wide, his pupils small, he looked scared for a moment. Then a look of sheer joy covered his face. "SNACK RAID!"
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Sora, Riku, and Kairiwere just sitting around on the beach, nothing to do, when suddenly Sora blurted out, "Guess what, Riku?"
"What?" Riku asked sarcastically. He was obviously tired of Sora's countless attempts to get them up and doing something.
"Today is your one-eighth birthday!" Sora cheered, and Kairi smiled.
"Whoopee for me. Today is the ONLY time you've celebrated why...?" asked Riku, again sarcasm and now venom in his voice.
"We need something to do, and I've always forgotten."
"I should've guessed."
"And I baked a cake!" smiled Kairi as she walked back from her boat with a huge, overly decorated cake. A scream pierces the quiet, calm night, causing Kairi to trip carelessly and the cake to become airborne. The cake lands on Sora's gravity defying hair with a big splosh. "I'm so sorry!" cried Kairi.
"Crud," said Sora simply as he tried to scrape all of the frosting off his hair.
"Um, not to mess up this already messy moment, but shouldn't we investigate that scream we heard?" asked Riku, who is using all effort to keep from laughing. Sora glared at him. They look up to see a vortex appear in the sky, and two young teenage girls, actually around Sora's age, one who is relaxed and unworried and lands gracefully on her feet, the other screaming and flailing about like an angry cat. She lands with a noisy splash in the ocean.
"And these are dry-clean only," whined Lace. She stood up and started wringing out her shirt the best as she can.
"Did I see... what I just think I saw...?" asked Sora.
Suzy walked up to the dumbfounded trio and introduced herself, "Hello, I'm Suzy and – this idiot – is my friend, Lace."
"Um... It's a pleasure to meet you?" said Kairi, still confused.
"Wait, this place, and you, seem awfully familiar... Hmm..," Suzy started to examine the leaves and grass.
"Well, um, hi. I'm Sora, and this is Riku and Kairi," said Sora. The lightbulb seemed to light up above Suzy's head.
"Oh, yeah! I remember now! This is the world Destiny Islands from my favorite game that I've defeated..." Suzy calculates for a moment, then continues, "... about fifteen times, Kingdom Hearts! Cool! We're in the game!" Suzy shrieks for a moment, then regains her quiet and dignified self.
"So, does that mean you're from another world?" asked Riku, a tinge of excitement in his voice.
"Yeah. We're from Earth," answered Suzy.
"Are you sure that you aren't just delusional and making all this stuff up?" Riku asked, skepticism now creeping into his voice.
"I'm pretty sure... but not a hundred percent," Suzy said, and even she thought it sounded impossible.
"Do you guys have a hotel or something here?" asked Lace.
"Yeah. Here's a map," said Kairi, handing Lace a map. Lace and Suzy said thanks and took a random boat off of the dock and started rowing toward the big island.
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Riku, Kairi, and Sora were relaxing by the Paopu tree like they usually do before they leave the island. They all seemed in deep traces of thought. "You know, Riku, these girls popping out of nowhere is making me think of something," said Sora, coming out of his line of thought.
"What, that there are other worlds?" asked Riku, still engulfed in his thoughts.
"Well, yeah, but something else. It must be Spring Break!"
"Shut up, Sora," said Kairi with a laugh and hit him on the head.
"Well, those girls – and Kairi – are making me think that there really are other worlds out there. That's why we need to continue building our raft. We can get Suzy and Lace off our island, and we can go visit other worlds – beside theirs of course. I think that I can't handle millions of Suzys and Laces," said Riku with determination.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Sora said. Things were silent for a while.
"What about Suzy saying we're in 'Kingdom Hearts?'" asked Kairi.
"I told you, she's delusional," answered Riku.
"I don't know..." Kairi said with skepticism, "... she seems perfectly sane. But Lace, she is crazy."
"I agree," agreed Sora.
