The Adventures of Suzy and Lace in the Realm of Kingdom Hearts

Episode 3: Paradise Destruction

The wind whistled wildly as storm clouds gathered above the lone island, ignoring the others, singling it out like a wolf singles out a lone hurt deer. As Kairi struggled to row her boat to the island, she noticed that Sora's boat was drifting alone without anyone in it, right in the middle of the sea. As she reached the pier, she also noticed that Riku's boat was tied up, while he was nowhere to be found. Kairi rushed up to the tree house, expecting Suzy and Lace to be awake and shivering, only to see them in a peaceful slumber.

"Wake up!" she yelled.

"What...?" asked Suzy, getting up groggily.

"A huge storm has appeared in the sky; I think it's a hurricane! Why weren't you guys up? The roof is leaking, besides," said Kairi, dropping a canvas bag on the floor.

"I'm told I can sleep through anything," said Suzy simply.

"Well, wake up! I need you to find Riku!"

"Why did you come here?" asked Lace, who was now awake.

"I know it sounds crazy, but I sensed that Sora was here. I think he's in trouble," Kairi said sadly.

"It doesn't sound crazy at all," said Suzy.

"Thanks for believing me. Since your clothes are ruined and stuff, I brought you some spares from my house. They aren't mine, they're new, never been worn," said Kairi, then she ran out the door.

Suzy grabbed some clothing that was blue and Lace grabbed red. They both went into separate rooms to change. "She has good taste, I'll give her that," said Suzy as she changed into a pastel blue t-shirt, some navy blue cargo pants, and a midnight blue long overcoat. Suzy pulled her light brown hair into a ponytail and waited for Lace. Soon after, Lace walked in dressed in a pair of blue jeans, kinda reddish shirt on, and a bright red jacket.

"I spotted Riku on the paopu tree island. Since we've already changed the game so much, why not try to make Riku good?" asked Lace, pointing in the direction of the island.

"That's a good idea," said Suzy, and they ran in the direction of the island. When they arrived they expected Sora to appear or at least someone trying to stop him. But nobody was there.

"I guess it's up to us," Lace said confidently with a smile on her face. Facing the darkness didn't seem to scare her. Suzy, on the other hand, was terrified of the dark, afraid that it would consume her and place her against her friends. When Lace charged forward to face Riku, it was Suzy who hesitated.

"Riku!" called out Suzy once she made it onto the island. "Come on, Kairi's really worried about you!"

"The door... has opened."

This broke Suzy's line of thought, causing her to break. She had placed so much hope on being able to stop Riku that when everything went on as normal as it did in the game, she broke. "It's... too late... We arrived... to late...?"

"Come on, Riku!" yelled Lace over the howling wind.

"The Door has opened," Riku said, the wind seeming to join with his voice. "The door has opened, guys! Now we can take you to your home!"

"What makes you think we want to go!" yelled Lace.

Finally regaining her composure, Suzy said, "Riku, stop kidding around. We're leaving. You don't want to leave Kairi behind, do you?"

Riku hesitated for a moment, then replied angrily, "Kairi's coming with us!" startling Lace and Suzy. "Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. I may never see my parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" As Riku said these words, a dark pool of darkness appeared under him, and when he finished his sentence, tendrils of pitch blackness started to engulf him, entwining around his legs and arms.

"You may not, but we are!" yelled Lace.

The darkness slowed as Riku seemed to think about this for a while, but then it resumed consuming. "So be it," said Riku again in that howling voice. The darkness consumed its prey, and Riku was gone.

But the darkness remained, and reached for Lace, who, as I said before, was the more open to darkness of the two. It caught Lace for a moment, and darkness covered the deep blue of her eyes.

"Can you give me a moment?" asked Suzy to the darkness, the darkness froze for a moment. "You freakin' idiot!" Suzy smacked Lace smartly on the head. "Move when I say move!"

"But you didn't say move..." said Lace in a drunken way.

"My point exactly. Now move!" shouted Suzy, and the darkness released Lace.

"Where the heck's the Keyblade...?" asked Lace, still dizzily like.

A bright light filled the area, and a Keyblade appeared in Lace's hand. "What? What's the Keyblade doing in Lace's hand?" asked Suzy. "Dammit. I thought I would get the Keyblade! I'm the smart one!" Another brilliant light, and a Keyblade appeared in Suzy's hand. "All right!"

"Wait... I had the Keyblade!" she said to Suzy, and then, to the Keyblade, "Make up your mind already!"

"Lace, you have one too..."

"Oh, yeah..."

Then the darkness appeared, engulfing the island in it's icy blackness of doom. A dark form rose up from the shadows, the Darkside. Suzy and Lace stood nervously, staring at the shadowy creation. "Let's go!" yelled Lace as a battle cry, and she charged toward Darkside, Suzy close after. But at Lace's charge, the Darkside swung its hand at her, and knocked her aside. Suzy went over to where Lace lied.

"Lace, are you okay?"

"I think so," answered Lace.

"Just to make sure, I'm going to ask you a series of logical questions. First, why couldn't they build a plane out of little black boxes? Second, why couldn't they build a boat on Gilligan's Island? Last, which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

"First answer: black boxes are too heavy. Second answer: building a boat would end the series. Third: Of course the chicken came before the egg." Suzy looked at Lace, a strange expression on her face. "You see, the knock on my head has made my thinking quite logical."

"It has?" asked Suzy.

"What?"

"You're back." Suzy sighed in relief. After that catastrophe, the two Keyblade-wielding girls defeated the darkside, and were quickly sucked into the huge orb of darkness that laid above the island.

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Author's note: Okay, so I got lazy at the end of this chapter. Review and tell me of any errors or give me critique. If you feel like saying I suck, give me a reason or an example. If not, down the toilet you go with the dead fish.