Special Thanks to:
Yunastrife
Elric the White Wolf
Kiako Ornitier
Kuro Suzaku
Shine Avalon
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the titled games in this fic.
Chapter 1: The Adventures of a KeybladeMaster, Black mage and a Cat
Narrator: Fira
" Excuse me I believe that your in our way sir" The young girl dressed like a black mage said. I don't care what anyone says to me this little sprout looks like a mini version of Paine in the Blk Mage dressphere. But hey that's just me right?
" Huh? Oh well ladies what's up? I'm…" Before I could finish the smart ONE! Had to interrupt me.
" In our way! Now please step aside our mom told us about talking to strangers and you're pretty strange" She said walking pass me with her little kitten friend.
I still didn't like the way Kuro told me off like that… even NOW!YEA I STILL REMEMBER!
" Bye" The cat girl waved as they started to take their leave. I was pretty dumbfounded, here I was thinking I was about to be rescued by two girl scouts but so it turns out. I end up being told off… I watched them as they scurried their way through the bushes and was soon gone.
" Dammit I should tail them none the less they should lead me somewhere!" I said to myself while rubbing my chin. I tightened the straps on my gloves then took off running after them but beings sure to be silent. As soon as I caught up with them I jumped behind a tree fast. I couldn't tell if they were looking at me or not just felt necessary to hide.
" Did you just hear something?" One of the girls said to the other.
" Like what?" The other responded.
" Shhh… quiet" one of the girls said. 'Holy shit they found me!' I thought. For some strange reason my legs were shaking uncontrollably and I wasn't really all that scared of them. Okay just a little scared…All of a sudden I heard one of them scream. Immediately jumped out from my hiding space to find both of them surrounded by heartless viruses...
" Kiako I'm gonna need you to watch my back while I summon some magic, do you rememeber how to use the cards?" The black mage girl said.
" Yea" The cat girl replied.
Suddenly all at once the heartless viruses leaped in the air at them. The black mage stood in one place while holding three blue magic cards in her hand she was going for a high level magic. All of the heartless viruses was then thrown back by the cat girl as she held up one card. The cat girl then ran up to the heartless and started punching and kicking at them. Since she fought with her hand she had no use of cards. Man she kicks butt for a short little half cat half human. Although she was kicking ass and taking names the it took to long for her to eliminate one.
"KIAKO!" The black mage screamed as the heartless virus attack her scratching her on her back and sides.
" Sorry Kuro" The cat girl said as one of the heartless viruses tackled her.
" I'm through watching got dammit!" I said jumping out from the bushes. I hopped in the air with the keyblade high up. I fused the keyblade with five attack cards permitting me to attack five times. I dropped down on one of the heartless crushing it like Cloud's Braver attack then I spun around with one horizontal swing destroying about three at a time.
" Two" I said keeping count as I seen the cards pop off of the keyblades aura. " Three more swings" About five more heartless arose from nowhere which makes up about eleven of them now. The cat girl punched the heartless off of her then jump up behind me. We stood back to back as the heartless slowly closed in on us. Our only hope now is if miss stuck up over there blows these heartless to hell with whatever she has cooked up over there. I pulled out 5 attack cards and fused them with the power of the keyblade so that I would have eight swings. Right then the heartless jumped the cat girl and I split up I going north and she going south we struck down each heartless that stood before us. I took down about four heartless swinging as hard as I could. The second I ran out of cards to use a heartless kangaroo kicked me in the back sending me flying face first into a tree. The cat girl on the other hand was being dogpiled on by abunch of them.
"Hey mage girl hurry your ass UP!" I said as a heartless drop kicked me in the face.
" Kuro, hurry!" The cat girl said as the heartless started to try and bit her. I tried countless times to replenish the keyblade with more attack aura but the heartless kept interrupting me.
" Okay got it! Waterga!" The black mage girl said as she rose her staff with the three cards floating around it. With that a white light flashed and a blue tidal wave swept us and the heartless away! I found myself swimming in the ocean or what I thought was the ocean this girl, flooded the entire forest in water. When the water went down I went down with it slowly to the ground. I started coughing up water as I tried to get up.
" Shit…" I said rubbing my sore water logged head.
" Way to overdue it Kuro" The cat girl said.
" Shut up, I got rid of the heartless didn't I?" The girl said. " And you…" She said walking over to me and crossing her arms to her chest.
" Yea" I said coughing some more.
" If it weren't for you we'd be heartless bait" She said patting me on the back.
"Your welcome" I said.
" If I can return the favor…" She started to say.
"Yes you can…just take me with you" I said getting up and ringing out my dreads.
" Huh? Sorry but we're on a journey to get home" Kuro said. " So you can't come with us"
" So am I!" I said.
" Huh really? So you're stuck here too?" The cat girl said walking up.
"Yup, I came here from my computer" I said.
The girls looked at one another.
" Really? Wow…it's the same way we got here" the black mage girl said.
" For real?" I asked.
" Yes, for real" She responded.
" So what's your name?" The black mage asked.
" I'm Fira" I said.
" Well nice to meet you Fira, I'm Kuro and that's Kiako" She said placing her hand out for me to shake. I shook her hand and smiled.
That happy feeling, knowing you've got allies in a world like this is good news for anyone. I will never forget that feeling I felt knowing I'd have these two watch my back as I watch theirs.
"Sooo… where we headed?" I said pulling out a cure card and healing the entire party by raising it in the air. A green aura surround us all and all cuts, nicks and bruises went away like magic. LIKE MAGIC HELL IT WAS MAGIC.
" Thanks we're gonna need a cure person" Kiako said. For some reason their names sound so fimilair to me like I've met them before or something.
"Come on…Fira you're the new guy and your already being left behind" Kiako said from far up a path with Kuro. Damn they walk fast!
" WAIT UP!" I shouted running after them.
" So you guy figure out where we're headed?" I asked.
" No, we don't even have a map" Kuro said.
" damn so we're just aimlessly walking" I said.
" Yup…one two three four one two three four pick up those legs!" Kiako shouted marching with infinite youth energy.
" Kiako…geez shut up!" Kuro said.
" Yipes!" Kiako ran and hid behind me.
" What's wrong?" I whispered.
" It's Kuro, best not to upset her… she has a very low tolerance level" Kiako said trembling.
" Ah…Kuro's not that bad is she?" I asked.
" Yea she's a good friend but just don't piss her off and you'll hopefully see the age of thirty" Kiako said.
" Oh I see…" I said. " Hey Kuro!" I said walking up beside her. Instantly I was flying through the air with my pants on fire for no good reason.
" WHAT DID I DOOOOOO?" I shouted falling over a hill and rolling down the grassy plain. Got up and ran around in circles patting my flaming ass down.
" Ouch how can you be so cruel?" I asked as she passed me.
"Don't talk to me when I'm in deep thought or else…" Kuro said.
" Okay, okay you could have gave me a warning free let the new guy slide pass geez" I said.
" Where are we?" Kuro asked changing the subject. I hate it when people change the subject but I better not complain or else she'll probably freeze or drown me with her magic. We stood at the top of a ledge that looked over a vast open green plain, the earth was kinda cracked and had lots of ugly stalagmites sticking up from the ground.
" I know where we are! Kuro can't you tell? We're in the Calm Lands!" Kiako said.
"Hey your right for once… this is the Calm Lands we're in the final fantasy world after all!" Kuro said.
" No we can't be, we just left Traverse Town" Kiako said.
" Yea, what kinda twisted world is this?" Kuro asked scratching under her huge black mage had with the feather on it. Dammit I know what final fantasy is, they think we're in a final fantasy world? Well at this point it sounds believable!
At this point I'll believe just about anything anyone says to me, this worlds gets you like that. You can tell me pigs fly and I'll say WHERE!
"Fira come-on" Kiako said.
" Hustle" Kuro said as well they both we're already on their way down to the lands. Dammit why don't they let anyone know their going somewhere they could just say Moving On or Let's Go or something geez. I started running down the hill to join them.
"Man, your serious gonna have to keep up Fira we may forget to turn back and look for you" Kuro said.
" Yea okay I'll pay attention" I responded.
" Good now let's march!" Kiako said.
As soon as Kiako started to scout up ahead she was attacked by a huge yellow bird. I drew my keyblade as did Kuro with her rod. We rushed after her to dog on the ground laughing while the bird was tickling her with it's orange beak.
" A Chocobo!" I said. " Man these things are huge in real life"
" Yea! Wait how do you know about Chocobos?" Kuro asked.
"You guys aren't the only fans of Final Fantasy ya know" I walked over to the huge Chocobo, I put my keyblade away and started rubbing it's rough feathers on it's neck. It squealed in delight,
" Thanks I was laughing so hard I thought I was gonna wet my pants" Kiako said.
" No prob, hey Kuro can we take this Chocobo along with us!" I asked.
" YEA!" Kiako agreed.
" No" Kuro said.
" PLEASE!" Kiako and I said on our knees before Kuro while smiling.
" Why?" I asked.
" Because it's a Chocobo! It'll only get in the way! We'll have to feed it and take care of it and stuff leave it alone this is it's true environment anyway it'll survive longer here then with us" Kuro said.
"Awwww" I said kicking a pebble and biting my lip like alittle kid.
" Good bye little fella…well big fella!" Kiako said. The chocobo squeaked and ran off.
" Happy now!" Kiako said.
" Couldn't be happier now let's move" Kuro said. We kept up walking pass Stalagmites and more unusual stuff until we came up a door… A door that wasn't connected to anything! It was really long and funny looking. It was big and purple with a golden handle with stained glass windows at the top.
"Wow!" I said running over to it. I tried twisting the hand but it wouldn't budge an inch…
" Ahh… no use it's locked." I said.
" It's just a stupid door, even if you open it you'll only see air theirs nothing connected to it." Kuro said.
" So it seems" I said turning around and looking at the other side. The door just stood there…
" Wait asec" I pulled out my deck and searched through it to pull out one golden holographic card. Ya know the one with the seven hearts on it. I rose the card up and a light flashed like it did before in my room and the door slowly opened to reveal nothing but darkness on the inside.
" Whoa!" Kiako went.
" I know" I stuck my hand in it and pulled it out. Nothing happened… I then stuck my head inside, inside of this door was a huge chapel with lots of stained glass windows...
" What's in there!" Kiako asked from the outside.
" It's…it's…." Kiako then walked completely inside, then I followed her.
" You two are nuts, if your not out in ten minutes then I'm outta here" We heard Kuro say from outside her voice was abit faint from the inside of here.
" Ooooo this place scary!" Kiako said looking and touching everything. All of a sudden in the middle of the chapel appeared a man in a long black jack with a long zipper and a hood on that casted a shadow on his face.
" Whoa who are you?" I asked stepping back abit surprised of his sudden appearance."
" 7 hearts" The man said.
" Wha?" I asked. That's when Kuro and Kiako stepped up beside me.
" 7 Hearts, bound together by an endless chain of friendship… 7 Hearts, One burns with impeccable courage, one loves with everlasting affection towards others, one shines with extraordinary intelligence, one lingers in the depths of darkness, one gives with much kindness, one with strong belief and the final one which is a heart no longer. 7 Hearts, 7 Heroes, 1 Hope…" The man said.
" What do you mean!" I asked.
" 7Hearts" The man said.
" What!" I said.
" 7 Heroes" He said again.
" I don't understand!" I said.
" 1 Hope" With that he slowly disappeared. I ran up to the chapel he was really gone! Dammit why do all of the important things have to come in riddles?
"Let's go" Kuro said.
" Wait did any of that sink in to your brain?" Kiako asked.
" Sure it did I'm wondering about it right now let's just go, theirs no use in staying here wondering about it." Kuro said walking outside of the door. I walked outside to the bright light flashing in my eye. "Come on!" Kuro said. We continued walking until we got the small valley just before Mt.Gagazet or I think Gagazet? There's no telling?
We crossed the bridge to the small little island thing(Ya know on Final Fantasy X where you fight that huge heavy handed machina…just before going to Mt. Gagazet yea that place)
Just when we were about to cross another bridge Heartless arose from the ground blocking our path, I drew my keyblade and jumped backwards right along with Kuro and Kiako. We all stood back to back as more and more heartless surrounded us.
" Damn theres twice as many as there was last time" I said.
" Yea what are we gonna do?" Kiako asked.
" Unleash the Darkness within you!" A voice said. We all looked over by the bridge to see a man with dark skin and long fire orange hair, he wore the same long zipper black cloak but without the hood. He throw each of us one card that was completely black. On it had Dark in bold white letters.
" Darkness Card? I don't trust em" Kiako said.
" Kiako either use the Darkness Card and win or don't use it and get killed" Kuro said she pressed and on card and raised it up in the air. Suddenly a dark puddle off nothing grew under Kuro and abunch of Dark hands arose grabbing her everywhere on her body until Kuro was covered in a black smog. When the Darkness went away Kuro wasn't Kuro she was a… a walking talking black bird. With colorful transparent dark blue and purple wings. She seemed to be covered in fur everytime she would take a step the earth under her foot would catch flame with black fire.
" Whoa shit!" I said stepping back abit.
" Holy is this me? I can… I can feel the power of the Dark Phoenix coursing through my veins" With that Kuro placed up her right hand and she shot a blue fire ball at a crowd of heartless destroying all a good sum of them. Holy shit!
Kuro flew in the air and floated there for awhile then she started spinning around and a tornado of black fire came down sweeping up all o the heartless and destroying them inside.
" Holy shit AGAIN!" I said. In less than 3minutes all of the heartless that surrounded us were gone. Then all of a sudden the dark phoenix fell from the sky, as she fell she transformed back to herself.
" Kiako!" I shouted with that Kiako looked up and her eyes grew wide. Kuro was headed for the ground and she was already high up as it was. Kiako and I placed our hands out and caught her, we placed Kuro down slowly and carefully, she was really sweaty and she panting hard as if she had just had a heart attack.
" Kuro are you okay?" Kiako asked.
" Ye…yes" She said.
" Dammit you had me worried for asec there" I said. I looked at the Darkness Card that I had then looked at the man whom was still standing there.
" Good… you've done well, but you must not push yourself for the Door to Darkness is still new to you Kuro" The man said with that he sprouted black angel wings from his back and he flew off into the sky fading away.
" Man…is he an angel?" I said to myself. I found myself looking down at the Darkness card again, Kuro used this and her power increased 50times her normal strength plus she didn't have to use any cards at all. And it left her extremely tired…hmm I guess with these Darkness Cards you must sacrifice a lot.
" Kiako I'm gonna go and get some fire wood you stay here and guard Kuro we're camping for the night Kuro's too tired" I said placing the Darkness Card back in my deck With that took off running towards across the bridge right there instead of seeing the glorious mountain of Gagazet I seen wondrous forest of Macalania.
" What the hell? Macalania?" I shrugged and ran over to the nearest tree I could find. With that I took out my key blade attached 10 attack cards and chopped away at the branches making logs and twigs fall. When it was enough for me to carry I put my keyblade up and tried picking up the wood. Success now all I gotta do is find us some food next. I started walking back when all of a sudden all of my wood was thrown up when I was attacked by a Heartless that took the form of a chimera! I stood up on my feet and dodge rolled to the left dodging his snake tail. I drew my keyblade but was thrown aside by his mighty fist. I hit a tree and attempted to get back on my feet… Just as the huge heartless virus was about to finish me off a man in a red cloak came and a huge black blade showed up. He jumped in the path of the chimera heartless and used three cards on his blade with that he took out his keg and spat it on the blade. Then with mighty force he slung down the blade into the earth causing five dark balls of energy to arise from the earth and destroy the heartless.
" What the hell?" I said rubbing my chest in pain. He walked over to me and used a cure card to get me back on my feet.
" Who are you?" I asked.
" Is that how you thank someone who just saved your life?" The man asked tipping up his shades. He had a scar on one of his eyes and his hair was black with some strange of gray. He was old… old people are cool.
" I am Auron" The man said.
"Okay Auron, hey thanks for saving man" I said.
"Hmm" He only turned and started walking off.
"Hey wait!" I said running up behind him.
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" Do you know a place where my friend can rest she's really tired and stuff?" I asked. He turned his back to me.
"There's an Inn just north of here in a town called Lenoir your friend can rest there" Auron said. He then threw me a bag with some gold coins in it." Here money, to it costs 300gil" With that he walked away.
" Alright!" I turned around and ran back. For our campsite, there Kiako was sitting watching Kuro as she slept soundly in a bed of leaves.
" Kiako!" I said running over.
" Your back! Where's the fire would?" She asked.
" Uh I sorta ran into a problem about the fire wood, anyway look I've got money let's go and pay for someplace to rest Kuro here" I said.
"Okay…" Kiako said.
" Alright let's go you carry Kuro" I said.
"WHAT WHY DO I HAVE TO CARRY HER!" Kiako screamed.
"Because isn't she like your best friend or something, plus with your kitty powers picking up a human should be nothing!" I said.
"Whatever" She replied. Kiako walked over and picked Kuro up and carried her on her back. We walked all the way through Macalania and made it to the snow town of Lenoir, Kiako carried Kuro in first and I walked in second. I paid for two rooms and Kiako took Kuro in one while I had the other, I walked over to the bed and threw myself on it. I couldn't sleep anyway my stomach was growling louder than the chimera did that attacked me.
I was so hungry…