Okay, I haven't updated this in a long time because no-one reviewed. But I had the next chapter ready and I thought, "why not?" and so I am finally updateing. Hopefully I'll get some reviews this time.

(I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Dark Cloud... though I wish I did.)


Sora woke up and found himself lying on solid ground. He stood up and looked around himself and saw that he was in what could have been a village, but was completely devoid of buildings. He would have wondered where all the people and building had gone, had he not been suddenly surrounded by Heartless!

"Oh Great!" Sora said to himself. "Just what I needed!" He prepared for battle and stared at the Heartless.

These Heartless were unlike any Sora had seen before. They were black and purple, and had the Heartless symbol on their chests, but their shapes were more like trolls than anything else. Sora was about to attack, as were the troll-Heartless, when someone suddenly came out of nowhere and sliced the monsters with just a few swipes of his sword.

The creatures fell and seemed to dissolve before Sora's eyes, as the mysterious swordsman put away his weapon and turned to Sora.

"Boy am I glad to see you!" he said, only confusing Sora further. "For a minute, I thought I was the only one left!"

"Uh…" Sora was really confused at this point. "…What are you talking about?"

"That flash of light. It came out of nowhere and swallowed everyone up."

"Flash of light?" Sora remembered everything that had happened up to that point. "(Gasp!) Kairi and the others! What happened to them!"

"They must have been sealed in the Atla, along with everyone else."

"Atla? You mean those orb things?"

"Yep. Atla, like that thing" Toan pointed at a red and green ball which hovered nearby. "Contain people and objects. They can only be opened by the Atlammilia." He held up his hand and showed Sora the red stone. "When all this happened once before, I used the Atlammilia to unseal the Atla and restore the world to its original state."

"Really? Well if you did it before then you can do it again and bring back my friends! Right?"

"… I wish it was that simple. But in order to open an Atla I must first find it, and that isn't easy. Besides," He walked over to the Atla and Sora followed. "This time there's something wrong with the Atla."

"What do you mean?"

"See for yourself." He pointed to the Atla again and Sora saw a tiny keyhole on the side of the orb. "Before everything was sealed away, our village was attacked by strange monsters which started taking people's hearts. Then everything and everyone but us and the monsters were put into these Atla which seem to have been locked so I can't open them without a key."

Sora realized what was happening and held up the Key-blade. "You mean… like this key?"

"Hey, what's that?"

"It's called the Key-blade. It was given to me so I could fight the Heartless, the creatures that attacked your world. It can also undo locks of all sorts, even these."

"Well then, by all means please do." Toan stepped back to give Sora room.

Sora pointed the Key-blade at the tiny Keyhole, but nothing happened. "What? Why didn't it work?"

"Because the Key-blade alone cannot undo these locks."

Sora turned to see an old man who seemed to have come out of nowhere. "You may have a key, but the Atla can still only be opened by the Atlammilia."

"Who are you?" Sora asked.

"I am the Fairy King. And if you want to find your friends, the two of you will have to work together." Sora and Toan looked at each other, and then looked at the Fairy King again. "You may think I'm crazy, but it's true. The Heartless seek the heart of this world. But it too has been sealed in an Atla. You two must work together to find your friends and the heart of this world, and stop the heartless and whoever has unleashed them."

Then, as suddenly as he had appeared, the Fairy King was gone.

"He certainly knows how to make an exit." Said Sora.

"But he has a point." Toan replied. "Maybe if we work together, we can find your friends as well as mine."

"Alright, let's give it a shot." Sora pointed the Key-blade at the tiny keyhole again, and Toan held up the Atlammilia. This time, the keyhole began to glow and the Atla opened up.

Something came out of the orb and went into the Atlammilia.

"What now?" Sora asked.

"Now I have to release whatever it was that was in the Atla." Toan replied.

He then held the Atlammilia up to the sky and a windmill appeared before them.

"It worked!" Sora shouted in triumph.

"Yeah, it really did!" Toan agreed. "So now that we know our mission, what say we get going?"

"Yeah, you said it!"

"The name's Toan." Toan held out his hand.

"And I'm Sora." Sora gave him his hand in return.

And so, two legends came together to search for their friends. But who or what was behind this evil plot? And will the combined powers of the Atlammilia and the Key-blade be enough to stop it?


Well, there it is. Please review this time. Bye.